{"id":378712,"date":"2025-12-29T18:19:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378712\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T18:19:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T18:19:11","slug":"five-new-years-eve-horror-movies-to-stream-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/378712\/","title":{"rendered":"Five New Year’s Eve Horror Movies to Stream This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Show of hands if you\u2019re ready to leave 2025 in the dust. It\u2019s time to make way for 2026 in style: with themed horror, of course. Who needs crowds or overpriced food and beverage when you can stay comfortable on the couch with horror movies that remind you why that\u2019s the safer plan anyhow. This week, we\u2019re celebrating the holidays with New Year\u2019s Eve horror movies that highlight how scary fresh starts and change can really be.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where you can stream them this week.<\/p>\n

For more\u00a0Stay Home, Watch Horror\u00a0picks, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Cronos \u2013 Criterion Channel, HBO Max<\/p>\n

\"Cronos<\/p>\n

The holidays, and New Year\u2019s Eve, play a role in Guillermo del Toro\u2019s unique vampire tale. Antique dealer Jes\u00fas Gris (Frederico Luppi) finds a 450-year-old mechanized scarab hidden within a statue in his shop. It stings him, injecting him with a mysterious substance, and he soon finds himself growing young again. Albeit with a thirst for blood. Gris\u2019 new-found hunger for blood creates a path of destruction, and really rears its ugly head at a New Year\u2019s ball that he attends with his wife, when he finds a man bleeding from an injury and loses control. You can also check out this gem on the big screen on NYE<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Signal \u2013 Fandango at Home, Hoopla, Kanopy, Prime Video, Roku Channel<\/p>\n

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Set over New Year\u2019s Eve into New Year\u2019s Day, a mysterious signal that invades radio, TV, and cell phone transmission turns anyone who hears it into rage-fueled killers. What makes\u00a0The Signal\u00a0so much fun and special is that it\u2019s one cohesive story with central characters, but it\u2019s told in three parts by three difference directors. This gives it varying tones, from serious to black comedy, and an anthology feel despite not actually being an anthology. A.J. Bowen plays Lewis, the infected husband to lead character Mya (Anessa Ramsey), who spends most of the film chasing her down as she attempts to escape him with her lover Ben (Justin Welborn).<\/p>\n

The Substance \u2013 HBO Max<\/p>\n

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Coralie Fargeat\u2019s body horror movie takes the \u201cNew Year, new you\u201d concept to wild new levels, with a blood-soaked finale set over New Year\u2019s Eve. Demi Moore stars as Elisabeth Sparkle, an aging starlet facing forced retirement. The pressure spurns her to try a secret new treatment that gives her exactly what she wanted, a younger version of herself ready to take Hollywood by storm. Failure to abide by the treatment\u2019s new rules leads to disastrous consequences, though. Fargeat embraces absurdist humor, and The Substance is as funny as it is revolting. This is one raucous horror-comedy you can set your clocks too; ring in the New Year right as Monstro Elisasue takes the stage.<\/p>\n

V\/H\/S\/99 \u2013 Hoopla, Kanopy, Pluto TV, Shudder<\/p>\n

\"V\/H\/S\/99<\/p>\n

The fifth installment in this found footage anthology film series parties like it\u2019s 1999, including a segment centered on New Year\u2019s Eve that reimagines the Y2K scare. Deadstream writers\/directors Joseph and Vanessa Winter deliver a mischievous descent into Hell with the segment \u201cTo Hell and Back\u201d, featuring Deadstream scene stealer Melanie Stone as Mabel. That this segment plays last means another fun way to ring in the new year when the clock strikes midnight. Also watch for segments by Johannes Roberts, Maggie Levin, Tyler MacIntyre, and Flying Lotus.<\/p>\n

Y2K \u2013 HBO Max<\/p>\n

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Comedian and actor\u00a0Kyle Mooney makes his directorial debut here with an irreverent comedy-horror movie that imagines what would\u2019ve happened had the millennium bug actually crashed our infrastructure. What ensues is a nostalgic teen comedy that finds itself trapped in Maximum Overdrive as tech turns murderously against humankind. Weta Workshop brings the various murder bots to life via exquisite practical effects that choke, stab, maim, and set aflame their human prey. Be warned, though, the horror fares much stronger in the first half, with the comedy taking center stage (along with Fred Durst) in the back half. This is for those seeking a party vibe on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Show of hands if you\u2019re ready to leave 2025 in the dust. It\u2019s time to make way for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,203989,134,952,344,193073,203990,118149,42,203991,203992],"class_list":{"0":"post-378712","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cronos","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-featured","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-new-years-eve","15":"tag-the-signal","16":"tag-the-substance","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-v-h-s-99","19":"tag-y2k"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}