Netflix scaring up all sorts of horror offerings this April

If you're a horror fan of any age, Netflix has a movie or show for you to watch this April. Take the first day of the month for example. The streamer added the first two CGI Hotel Transylvania movies lead by Adam Sandler. Packed with a killer cast of comedians, the films follow Sandler's Dracula as his daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) starts dating normal human Jonathan (Andy Samberg) while also running the monster themed inn. Kids love these movies, but they can also be an excellent way to gauge interest in Frankenstein's Monster, werewolves, vampires and invisible folks.

That same day, Netflix also added M. Night Shyamalan's Split as well as its follow-up Glass). Both of these films take place in the same world established in his 2000 film Unbreakable. While all three of those films have more of a superhero bent to them, Split is an interesting film because it follows James McAvoy's character who has over two dozen personalities and one more on the way: a supervillain. He's also kidnapped three teen girls, including Anya Taylor-Joy, who are trying to escape before The Beast arrives.

This may come as a surprise but the writer-director of The Blind Side and Saving Mr. Banks made a serial killer movie with Jared Leto being hunted down by Denzel Washington and Rami Malek. That's right, the 2021 John Lee Hancock film The Little Things hit Netflix this month. The 90s-set thriller had a theatrical run and has played on Max.

As regular readers will know, the docuseries Files Of The Unexplained debuted on April 3 and has drawn in plenty of viewers with these episodic looks at potentially supernatural events. The following day also saw I Woke Up A Vampire's first season make its way to the streamer. This Canadian series follows a middle schooler who realizes she's equal parts human and vampire. For more hardcore horror fans, Parasyte: The Grey also premiered. This highly anticipated alien invasion/body horror series comes from Train To Busan engineer Yeon Sang-ho.

Finally, we're still very excited to see Dead Boy Detectives when the undead go live on April 25. This concept -- a pair of ghost boys who lived and died decades apart from each other, but solve crimes from the afterlife -- originated in Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, but has had several spin-offs since. The serious was originally being made for Max, but it appropriately shifted to Netflix, which also hosts the Sandman show.