10 Cult Horror and Sci-Fi Movies to Stream on Peacock Tonight

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Chopping Mall

As io9 has noted before, Peacock has an excellent array of horror films. While you can find recent releases like Five Nights at Freddy’s, The Exorcist: Believer, and Sick, why not dig a little deeper into the vault? Here are 10 to get you started, and there’s a lot more to discover once you’re ready for more.

The Endless

Filmmaking team Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead are now best-known for Marvel Disney+ shows—Moon Knight, Loki season two, and current project Daredevil: Born Again. But their own feature films tend to be a bit more experimental and boundary-pushing, including 2022's Something in the Dirt and 2017's The Endless. The latter is an eerie, lo-fi oddity that creeps under your skin; Benson wrote and co-directed with Moorhead, and they both star as brothers who decide to revisit the desert-based UFO doomsday cult that dominated their childhoods. Watch on Peacock.

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While Robert Eggers puts the finishing touches on his own Nosferatu, featuring Bill “Pennywise” Skarsgård as the ancient vampire, there’s no better time to revisit this take on the Dracula-inspired tale from the famously chaotic writer-director and star combo Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. Watch on Peacock.

Curtains

The ice-skating scene alone is enough to make 1983's Curtains a mighty strong contender for “strangest movie on Peacock,” and that’s saying something. Bodies start piling up when a group of actresses gather at a director’s isolated mansion, hoping to be cast in his latest project—which would seem to be a straightforward plot, until you start watching the movie and realize you may often have no idea what’s going on. Watch on Peacock.

The Exorcist III

We’ve said it before, and so has Jeffrey Dahmer: this is the only Exorcist sequel you need to concern yourself with. Genuinely scary, genuinely unsettling, and blessed with one of the most terrifying shock deaths of all time. Watch on Peacock.

Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum

This 2018 found-footage horror, a huge hit in South Korea, follows a film crew that decides to check out a purportedly haunted abandoned psychiatric hospital. You can guess what happens next... but you won’t anticipate just how alarming things get. The cast includes future Squid Game star Wi Ha-joon. Watch on Peacock.

Q: The Winged Serpent

Made by the late B-movie auteur Larry Cohen, 1982's Q: The Winged Serpent begins with a hell of a premise—what if the ancient Aztec deity Quetzalcoatl made a nest atop the Chrysler Building and started picking off New Yorkers from the sky?—and adds in other fun elements, like a cult performing brutal ritual murders, some absolutely over-it cops, and a petty criminal who’s also a failed jazz pianist who thinks maybe a winged-serpent egg could be his ticket to easy street. In short, this movie rules. Watch on Peacock.

American Psycho

Somehow, Mary Harron’s adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’ horror novel was released 24 years ago—but its cultural satire is still razor-sharp, as is Christian Bale’s instantly iconic performance as Patrick Bateman. Watch on Peacock.

Piranha

Speaking of razor-sharp, but in a more literal sense here, this 1978 creature feature kicked off a mini-franchise and still holds up as one of the more memorable Jaws rip-offs of its day. Gremlins’ Joe Dante directs, Roger Corman produces, and the cast (which features Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ Kevin McCarthy and Black Sunday’s Barbara Steele) is surprisingly star-studded. And it goes without saying any time you can unleash a school of mutant piranhas, good times are guaranteed to follow. Watch on Peacock.

Chopping Mall

Released in 1986 at the height of mall culture, this techno-slasher from prolific schlockmeister Jim Wynorski is an absolute riot. A gang of teens decide an after-hours party in the mall where they work is a totally rad idea—until they meet the killer robot security guards hellbent on patrolling for intruders. Watch on Peacock.

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