Looking for a spooky good time in April? Watch these five scary horror movies on Netflix and other streaming sites now, the best the streaming services have to offer this month.
Another month, another great excuse to watch some horror movies.
Horror movies are a yearlong pursuit for us here at Polygon. Sure, we’ve got our list of the best horror movies you can watch now, or the best horror movies of 2023 ranked by scariness. But each month, we also pull together a smaller list of five picks perfect for that time of year.
This month, we’ve picked movies that should go perfectly with the surprisingly great slate of theatrical horror. There’s the stellar Evil Dead Rise, the very fun The Pope’s Exorcist… and also Renfield, if that’s more your speed. To help get you ready for a terrifying trip to the theater, or keep the scary buzz going, we’ve picked out a few movies that fit those molds, and an all-time classic wild card for this month’s movies.
Without further ado, let’s dig into it.The Birds
Year: 1963
Run time: 1h 59m
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Perhaps Alfred Hitchcock’s most overtly supernatural movie, and certainly his most bleak, The Birds tells the story of a small town overrun by a swarm of inexplicably hostile, bloodthirsty, and terrifying birds, seemingly hell-bent on the destruction of humanity. The movie never once tries to explore or explain what’s made all the avian creatures (possibly in the whole world?) turn evil overnight, but the result is an unrelentingly strange movie that will make you at least a little uneasy the next time you see a flock circling overhead.
