It’s that time of year again. With Spooky Season in full swing, I’m once again counting down a collection of under-the-radar horror gems you can stream right now. Scrolling through all your streaming services for the perfect Halloween movie night can be a daunting task, especially if they’re spitting out the same recommendations time and time again. For this list, we’re skipping right past the old favorites, the classics, and the genre mainstays for some deeper cuts - truly scary and unnerving horror movies that just might have escaped your attention, all a click away.

The fourth installment of the found footage anthology series, V/H/S, hits Shudder today. A collection of four short horror vignettes sandwiched within a sinister frame narrative, V/H/S/94 continues the tradition of its predecessors delivering nasty - and uneven - chills. Running the gamut of sewer-dwelling cryptids, haunted wakes, and outrageous mad scientists, there’s a little something for everyone within the creepy walls of V/H/S/94. Minor spoilers ahead…

With a lovingly curated grimoire of genre films that range from under-appreciated gems to blockbuster hits, Shudder is quickly becoming my favorite streaming service. Recently reaching a milestone of one million subscribers, the AMC Networks platform has cultivated a deep library of horror and thrillers, doled out by a calendar of fun and clever programming. Its latest slate? The jam-packed 61 Days of Halloween: a two-month long celebration of horror with a stacked roster of new releases. From a new Lovecraftian Nicolas Cage joint to a haunted house mega-hit from Spain, Shudder’s 61 Days of Halloween is a lot of horror to digest, so here’s the Strange Harbors guide to navigating these new releases. Minor spoilers ahead…

Expanded from director Rob Savage’s two-minute viral video on Twitter, Host is a bite-sized horror treat that comes at the perfect time. While it doesn’t reinvent horror or even the “screenlife” subgenre, Host gets by with a bevy of unsettling, clever, and economical choices, all within the space of a single Zoom call. The film is now streaming on Shudder. Minor spoilers ahead…