One of last year's best thrillers arrives on Shudder this week, along with 2025's first big theatrical horror release!
Anyone not tired of all the public domain-based horror movies about evil Mickey Mouse, Winnie-the-Pooh, and others will get to see what the Twisted Childhood Universe (TCU) plans to do with Peter Pan as Neverland Nightmare hits theaters for a limited run.
After instilling fear in us all with his take on The Invisible Man, Leigh Whannell's latest project, which he directed and co-wrote with Corbett Tuck, will soon be available to watch at the cinema.
Additionally, Prime Video has an exciting psychological thriller film and Netflix adds an A24 favorites.
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare (Limited, Jan. 13)
The latest addition to the TCU, started by the slasher film Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey, continues with a dark and disturbing take on Peter Pan, based on J.M. Barrie's original novel. In this version of the story, Peter Pan and Tinkerbell abduct children to take to the nightmarish world of Neverland. Tinkerbell is hooked on "pixie dust," which is actually heroin. A sequel has already been greenlit, and characters from this movie, like Peter and Wendy Darling (and Mary Poppins), will appear in the upcoming TCU crossover film Poohniverse: Monsters Assemble.
Bloody Axe Wound (VOD, Jan. 14)
A coming-of-age/slasher film about a girl whose father is, well, a horror slasher akin to Jason Voorhees or Michael Myers. Set in the fictional town of Clover Falls, Bloody Axe Wound follows Abbie (Sari Arambulo). Her dad, Roger Bladecut (Billy Burke), is known for selling tapes featuring real killings and he expects his daughter to take a more hands-on approach in the family business. Also starring Dexter: Original Sin star Molly Brown and Jeffrey Dean Morgan.
Red Rooms (Shudder, Jan. 14)
A troubling and whip-smart look into our culture's exploitative obsession with true crime, Red Rooms was one of last year's most underrated films and finally starts streaming on Shudder this week. This French-Canadian film centers on a woman obsessed with an accused serial killer, to the point she attends his trial every day and seems to hold little regard for his victims. But Kelly-Anne is more than your average groupie. Her fascination has led her to the worst places of the dark web, and she's desperate to get her hands on one of the killer's missing videos, showing him torturing and killing one of his teenage victims.
Hereditary (Netflix, Jan. 15)
Ari Aster's iconic horror movie starring Toni Collette is coming to Netflix this week! I'm sure most diehard horror fans have already seen Hereditary, but those who missed out have a real treat incoming. Many feel that Hereditary is one of the scariest horror movies of all time and that Collette delivers an Oscar-worthy performance as a woman attempting to unravel her family's most sinister secrets in the wake of her mother's passing.
The Calendar Killer (Prime Video, Jan. 16)
Amazon releases this compelling psychological thriller based on Sebastian Fitzek's best-selling German novel. The Calendar Killer is about a woman targeted by a killer who gives her an impossible choice: she must kill her husband or get murdered herself. Desperate for help, Klara contacts a helpline for lonely women and tells the employee, Jules, about her plight. Soon, it becomes apparent that Jules might be her only chance at survival.
Wolf Man (Theaters, Jan. 17)
Leigh Whannell (The Invisible Man) is back with his take on this classic tale of the formidable Universal monster, the Wolf Man. A reboot of the 1941 film Wolf Man follows a man named Blake (Christopher Abbott), his wife (Julia Garner), and their daughter after they are ambushed by a prowling creature on the road that manages to injure Blake. He and his family take refuge in a farmhouse, but Blake slowly starts acting uncharacteristic and frightening his loved ones.