The Best Horror, Sci-Fi, and Fantasy Streaming in December 2022
Some of the titles come to streaming this month.
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Here’s the best of what’s streaming in December 2022. And it being the heart of the holiday season, there’s a lot of great new original content to go along with the catalog titles. If you’re only interested in the services you subscribe to, you can jump directly to that page with these links:
What’s coming to Netflix in November 2022?
What’s coming to Prime Video in November 2022?
What’s coming to Hulu in November 2022?
What’s coming to Disney+ in November 2022?
What’s coming to HBO Max in November 2022?
What’s coming to Paramount+ in November 2022?
What’s coming to Shudder in November 2022?
What’s coming to Peacock in November 2022?
What’s Coming to Netflix in December 2022?
What’s available on Netflix December 1?
21 Jump Street
The Happytime Murders
Troll
Troy
What’s available on Netflix December 2?
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
“Sr.”
Warriors of Future
What’s available on Netflix December 3?
Bullet Train
What’s available on Netflix December 9?
Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio
What’s available on Netflix December 15?
The Big 4
Sonic Prime
Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery
What’s available on Netflix December 19?
Trolls
What’s available on Netflix December 20?
A Not So Merry Christmas
The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh Part 1
What’s available on Netflix December 23?
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
What’s available on Netflix December 25?
Roald Dahl’s Matilda The Musical
Time Hustler
The Witcher: Blood Origin
What’s available on Netflix December 26?
No Escape
What’s Coming to Prime Video in December 2022?
What’s available on Prime Video December 1?
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
All Dogs Go To Heaven 2 (1996)
Cloverfield (2008)
Dead Again (2001)
Escape from L.A. (1996)
Head of State (2003)
Hotel Transylvania (2012)
Kingpin (1996)
Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (2004)
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)
Muppets From Space (1999)
Paranormal Activity (2009)
Pet Sematary (1989)
Push (2009)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Manchurian Candidate (2004)
The Muppets Take Manhattan (1984)
The Ring (2002)
The Smurfs (2011)
The Smurfs 2 (2013)
Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Zoolander (2001)
Zoolander No. 2: The Magnum Edition (2016)
What’s available on Prime Video December 13?
The Black Phone (2022)
Transformers: Age of Extinction (2014)
What’s available on Prime Video December 29?
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022)
What’s Coming to Hulu in December 2022?
What’s available on Hulu December 1?
Christine (1983)
The Da Vinci Code (2006)
Dawn Of The Dead (2004)
Epic Movie (2007)
Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
Final Destination (2000)
Final Destination 2 (2003)
Final Destination 3 (2006)
The Final Destination (2009)
Final Destination 5 (2011)
The Good Witch of Christmas (2022)
Hancock (2008)
The Happening (2008)
I, Frankenstein (2014)
I’m Glad It’s Christmas (2022)
Liar, Liar (1997)
The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004)
Rio (2011)
Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie (1997)
What’s available on Hulu December 12?
Batman Begins (2005)
Inception (2010)
The Dark Knight (2008)
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)
What’s available on Hulu December 26?
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (1982)
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
What’s Coming to Disney+ In December 2022?
What’s available on Disney+ December 9?
Night at the Museum: Kahmunrah Rises Again
What’s available on Disney+ December 14?
National Treasure: Edge of History
What’s available on Disney+ December 16?
Beauty and the Beast: A 30th Celebration
Muppets Most Wanted (Sing-Along Version)
Le Pupille
What’s available on Disney+ December 28?
Encanto at the Hollywood Bowl
What’s Coming to HBO Max in December 2022?
What’s available on HBO Max December 1?
10,000 B.C. (2008)
Cheech & Chong’s Nice Dreams (1981)
Cheech & Chong’s The Corsican Brothers (1984)
Cheech & Chong’s Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Green Room, 2015
Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth (1992)
Hellraiser IV: Bloodline (1996)
Hellraiser V: Inferno (2000)
Hellraiser VII: Deader (2005)
Hellraiser: Hellseeker (2002)
Hellraiser: Hellworld (2005)
Hook (1991)
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
The Maze Runner (2014)
The Purge: Anarchy (2014)
Sesame Street’s The Nutcracker, Max Original Special Premiere
The Tomorrow Man (2019)
What’s available on HBO Max December 5?
His Dark Materials, Season 3 Premiere
What’s available on HBO Max December 6?
Batwheels Holiday Special: Holidays on Ice
What’s available on HBO Max December 8?
Doom Patrol, Max Original Season 4 Premiere
What’s available on HBO Max December 9?
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies (2018)
What’s available on HBO Max December 13?
Meet the Batwheels: The Best Present in the World, Season 1
What’s available on HBO Max December 27?
The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
What’s Coming to Paramount+ in December 2022?
What’s available on HBO Max December 1?
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
All Dogs Go To Heaven 2
Cloverfield
Coyote Ugly
Dead Again
Footloose
Friday The 13th
Halloween H20: 20 Years Later
Halloween VI: The Curse Of Michael Myers
Head of State
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
Mission: Impossible III
Muppets from Space
Pet Sematary (1989)
Rosemary’s Baby
Scrooge
Sherlock Gnomes
Shutter Island
Small Soldiers
Terminator Genisys
The Expendables
The Expendables 2
The Expendables 3
The Forbidden Kingdom
The Legend Of Bagger Vance
The Muppets Take Manhattan
The Peacemaker
The Wiz
Wild Things
Young Sherlock Holmes
What’s available on HBO Max December 22?
Top Gun: Maverick
What’s Coming to Shudder in December 2022?
What’s available on Shudder December 1?
A Wounded Fawn
A Nightmare on Elm Street
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child
Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
Night of the Comet
What’s available on Shudder December 9?
Christmas Bloody Christmas
What’s available on Shudder December 12?
The Police Are Blundering in the Dark
The Killer Is One Of Thirteen
Girl in Room 2A
The French Sex Murders
My Dear Killer
Autopsy
Murder Mansion
Crazy Desires of a Murderer
Arabella Black Angel
The Killer is Still Among Us
The Sister of Ursula
What’s available on Shudder December 16?
The Apology
What’s available on Shudder December 22?
Scare Package II: Rad Chad’s Revenge
What’s Coming to Peacock in December 2022?
What’s available on Peacock December 1?
12 Dates of Christmas (2011)
Alvin and The Chipmunks: The Squeakquel (2009)
Annie (1982)
Bring it On (2000)
The Day After Tomorrow (2004)
The Goonies (1985)
Green Lantern (2011)
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
Kill Bill: Volume 2 (2004)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Monster Trucks (2016)
Night at the Museum (2006)
The Peanuts Movie (2015)
The Pirates! Band of the Misfits (2012)
Puss in Boots (2011)
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2014)
The Smurfs (2011)
The Smurfs 2 (2013)
Space Jam (1996)
Speed (1994)
Spy Game (2001)
True Lies (1994)
Unbreakable (2000)
XXX (2002)
XXX: State of the Union (2005)
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