The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in September 2023
A small sampling of what promises to be a great month of streaming titles.
Let’s get streaming! Welcome to io9's latest edition of the Nerd’s Watch, where we pare down the enormous lists of new films and television shows arriving on all your favorite streaming services into the sci-fi, fantasy, and horror titles we think you’ll like most. (And sometimes, just the ones that we like most.)
As always, we’re including the best new films and TV coming to Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, Disney+, and Max—as well as Paramount+, Shudder, and Peacock. Peacock, in particular, is just jam-packed with awesome this month.
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What’s coming to Netflix in September 2023?
Amy Adams in Arrival
What’s available on Netflix September 1?
Arrival
Disenchantment: Part 5
Field of Dreams
Jaws
Jaws 2
Jaws 3
Jaws: The Revenge
Kung Fu Panda 2
Land of the Lost
Matilda
One Piece Adventure of Nebulandia
One Piece Episode of East Blue - Luffy and His Four Crewmates’ Great Adventure
One Piece Episode of Skypiea
One Piece Film: Gold
One Piece Heart of Gold
One Piece: 3D2Y - Overcome Ace’s Death! Luffy’s Vow to His Friends
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
What’s available on Netflix September 3?
Crank
Crank 2: High Voltage
What’s available on Netflix September 5?
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues
What’s available on Netflix September 7?
Kung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight: Season 3
What’s available on Netflix September 22?
Spy Kids: Armageddon
What’s available on Netflix September 28?
Castlevania: Nocturne
What’s available on Netflix September 29?
Power Rangers Cosmic Fury
What’s coming to Prime Video in September 2023?
Masters of the Universe
What’s available on Prime Video September 1?
Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
American Ninja (1985)
American Ninja 2: The Confrontation (1987)
American Ninja 3: Blood Hunt (1989)
American Ninja 4: The Annihilation (1991)
Anaconda (1997)
Army of Darkness (1993)
Bewitched (2005)
The Bourne Identity (2002)
The Bourne Legacy (2012)
The Bourne Supremacy (2004)
Children Of Men (2007)
Child’s Play (2019)
The Chronicles of Riddick (2004)
Conan The Barbarian (2011)
Deep Blue Sea (1999)
Desperado (1995)
Dracula (1931)
Drag Me To Hell (2009)
Europa Report (2013)
Evil Dead (2013)
Face/Off (1997)
Fanboys (2009)
Finders Keepers (2014)
Ghost Story (1981)
Here Comes the Devil (2012)
Hugo (2011)
I Saw the Devil (2010)
The Invisible Man (1933)
Juan Of The Dead (2012)
The Little Vampire (2017)
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Masters Of The Universe (1987)
The Mummy (1932)
Red Riding Hood (1988)
Riddick (2013)
The Ring (2002)
Roxanne (1987)
Sin Nombre (2009)
Sinister (2012)
Son of Dracula (1943)
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
Stardust (2007)
Stigmata (1999)
Trollhunter (2011)
2001: A Space Odyssey (1970)
V/H/S (2012)
The Wheel of Time Season 2 (2023)
The Wolf Man (1941)
What’s available on Prime Video September 29?
Gen V (2023)
What’s coming to Hulu in September 2023?
Mad Max: Fury Road
What’s available on Hulu September 1?
A Knight’s Tale, 2001
Chronicle, 2012
Conan the Barbarian, 2011
Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark, 2011
Dragonball: Evolution, 2009
Evil Dead, 2013
The Grudge 2, 2006
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, 2009
The Lego Movie, 2014
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part, 2019
The Lego Ninjago Movie, 2017
Melancholia, 2011
The Omen, 2006
Once Upon a Time: Complete Series
One Piece: Complete Seasons 9-10 (DUBBED)
The Possession, 2012
Seven, 1995
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, 2014
True Lies, 1994
What’s available on Hulu September 3?
The Menu
Ready Player One
What’s available on Hulu September 9?
Mad Max: Fury Road
What’s available on Hulu September 15?
Europa Report
Maze Runner: The Death Cure
What’s available on Hulu September 18?
Men in Black: International
What’s coming to Disney+ in September 2023?
The Little Mermaid
What’s available on Disney+ September 6?
I Am Groot (Season 2)
The Little Mermaid
What’s available on Disney+ September 13?
Marvel Studios’ Assembled: The Making of the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
What’s available on Disney+ September 15?
Master & Apprentice: A Special Look at Ahsoka
What’s available on Disney+ September 20?
Marvel Studios’ Assembled: The Making of Secret Invasion
What’s available on Disney+ September 29?
Marvel Studios Legends: Loki
What’s coming to Max in September 2023?
The Friday the 13th movies are coming to Max.
What’s available on Max September 1?
A Discovery of Witches, Seasons 1-3 (AMC+)
Aliens in the Attic (2009)
Annabelle (2014)
Annabelle: Creation (2017)
Annabelle Comes Home (2019)
Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire, Season 1 (AMC+)
Be Kind Rewind (2008)
Blade (1998)
Blade II (2002)
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Carrie (1976)
Carrie (2013)
Children of the Corn II: The Final Sacrifice (1993)
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest (1995)
Children of the Corn IV: The Gathering (1996)
Children of the Corn V: Fields of Terror (1998)
Children of the Corn 666: Isaac’s Return (1999)
Children of the Corn: Revelation (2001)
A Cinderella Story (2004)
Critters (1986)
The Curse of La Llorona (2019)
Doctor Sleep (2019)
The Exorcist (1973)
Exorcist II: The Heretic (1977)
Fear the Walking Dead, Seasons 1-7 (AMC+)
Fire in the Sky (1993)
Friday the 13th (1980)
Friday the 13th Part II (1981)
Friday the 13th Part III (1982)
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
Friday the 13th Part VII: The New Blood (1988)
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)
It (2017)
It: Chapter Two (2019)
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
The Mask (1994)
Philomena (2013)
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1992)
Scooby-Doo (2002)
Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2004)
Source Code (2011)
THX 1138 (1971)
XXX (2002)
XXX: State of the Union (2005)
What’s coming to Paramount+ in September 2023?
The Monster Squad
What’s available on Paramount+ September 1?
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Annihilation
Arrival
Beastly
The Blair Witch Project
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Cursed
The Devil Inside
Dragonslayer
Elf
Event Horizon
Ghost Team One
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters
Hugo
I Married a Monster from Outer Space
The Last Exorcism Part II
Mimic
Mimic 2
Mimic 3: Sentinel
The Monster Squad
Mother!
Overlord
Phantoms
Prophecy
The Prophecy
The Prophecy II
The Prophecy 3: The Ascent
The Prophecy: Uprising
The Prophecy: Forsaken
Road to Perdition
The Ruins
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse
Sherlock Gnomes
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Stardust
Super 8
10 Cloverfield Lane
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Terminator Genisys
The Three Amigos
The Woman in Black
World War Z
World War Z (Extended Domestic Cut)
What’s available on Paramount+ September 20?
Pet Sematary (2019)
What’s coming to Shudder in September 2023?
Kill List
What’s available on Shudder September 1?
Perpetrator
What’s available on Shudder September 4?
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
Relic
What’s available on Shudder September 8?
Blood Flower
What’s available on Shudder September 11?
Come True
The Hallow
What’s available on Shudder September 15?
Elevator Game
What’s available on Shudder September 18?
The Crescent
Kill List
What’s available on Shudder September 22?
The Angry Black Girl and Her Monster
What’s available on Shudder September 25?
The Djinn
The Vigil
What’s available on Shudder September 29?
Nightmare
What’s coming to Peacock in September 2023?
Frankenstein
What’s available on Peacock September 1?
Amityville II: The Possession, 1982
Amityville 3-D, 1983
The Amityville Harvest, 2020
The Amityville Moon, 2021
Amityville: The Awakening, 2022
Amityville Uprising, 2022
The Bad Guys, 2022
Billy Madison, 1995
The Birds, 1963
The Bone Collector, 1998
Bride of Chucky, 1998
Bruce Almighty, 2003
Candyman, 1992
Casper, 1995
Casper: A Spirited Beginning, 1997
Casper’s Scare School, 2006
Chicken Run, 2000
Child’s Play 2, 1990
Child’s Play 3, 1991
Conan the Barbarian, 2011
Cult of Chucky, 2017
Curse of Chucky, 2013
Dawn of the Dead, 2004
The Dead Don’t Die, 2019
Dead Silence, 2007
Desperado, 1995
Despicable Me 3, 2017
Dracula, 1979
The Expendables, 2010
The Expendables 2, 2012
The Expendables 3, 2014
The Frighteners, 1996
Get Out, 2017
Ghostbusters, 1984
Ghostbusters II, 1989
The Grudge 2, 2006
The Grudge 3, 2009
Halloween II, 1981
Halloween III: Season of the Witch, 1982
Halloween, 2018
Happy Death Day 2U, 2019
Hollow Man, 2000
Hollow Man 2, 2006
Hypnotic, 2023
Insidious: Chapter 3, 2015
John Wick, 2014
John Wick: Chapter 2, 2017
John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, 2019
Land of the Dead, 2005
The Last Exorcism, 2010
The Legend of Zorro, 2005
Machete, 2010
Madagascar, 2005
Marnie, 1964
The Mask of Zorro, 1998
The Matrix, 1999
The Matrix Reloaded, 2003
The Matrix Revolutions, 2003
The Matrix Resurrections, 2021
The Mummy, 1999
The Mummy Returns, 2001
Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 2008
The Mummy, 2017
The Other Guys, 2010
The People Under the Stairs, 1991
Prince of Darkness, 1987
Psycho, 1960
Psycho II, 1983
Psycho III, 1986
Psycho, 1998
The Purge: Anarchy, 2014
The Rundown, 2003
Salt, 2010
Saw, 2004
Saw 2, 2005
Saw 3, 2006
Saw 4, 2007
Saw 5, 2008
Saw 6, 2009
Saw: The Final Chapter, 2010
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, 2019
The Scorpion King, 2002
The Serpent and the Rainbow, 1987
Seed of Chucky, 2004
Shadow of a Doubt, 1943
Shocker, 1989
The Skeleton Key, 2005
Slither, 2006
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight, 1995
Tales from the Crypt: Bordello of Blood, 1996
Tales From the Hood, 1995
Tales From the Hood 2, 2018
The Tale of Despereaux, 2008
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation, 1995
They Live, 1988
The Thing, 2011
The Thing, 1982
Us, 2019
Videodrome, 1983
The Visit, 2015
Village of the Damned, 1995
The Wolfman, 2010
What’s available on Peacock September 15?
Bride of Frankenstein, 1935
The Creature Walks Among Us, 1956
Curse of the Werewolf, 1961
Dr. Cyclops, 1940
Dracula’s Daughter, 1936
The Evil of Frankenstein, 1964
Fast & Furious 6, 2013
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw, 2019
Fast X, 2023
The Fate of the Furious, 2017
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman, 1943
Frankenstein, 1931
The Invisible Man Returns, 1940
The Invisible Man’s Revenge, 1944
The Invisible Woman, 1940
It Came from Outer Space, 1953
The Mummy’s Curse, 1944
The Mummy’s Ghost, 1944
The Mummy’s Hand, 1940
The Mummy’s Tomb, 1942
Night Monster, 1942
Phantom of the Opera, 1943
Phantom of the Opera, 1962
The Raven, 1935
What’s available on Peacock September 17?
Sing, 2016
What’s available on Peacock September 19?
The Lego Batman Movie, 2017
What’s available on Peacock September 22?
The Continental: From the World of John Wick, Night 1 (Peacock Original)
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