It’s a nice feeling to look back at a time when content wasn’t coming out of every tech device in your house. When big studio horror movies were only available in theaters; the option to wait three weeks till streaming seemed so futuristic — it took a national disaster to prove that it could actually be done.
But thanks should be given, because if it weren’t for free streaming services like Tubi we would have to stretch our aching backs, get up off the couch, crack apart a 20-year-old DVD case, stick our forefinger into the leech-mouthed center of it, go to the player, switch through the correct input on the remote, go through the animated menu list and finally, finally play the movie. Exhausting.
Today’s streaming services save time and sore finger tips. If they are free, that’s even better. So what if you have to sit through a few trippy pharmaceutical commercials for Cymbalta, The payoff is that the movies are unedited! It may be the first time ever you get to see bare breasts one second and a real ad for laundry detergent the next. And we thought cable was cutting-edge.
We are giving you seven classic horror movies that you probably haven’t seen in a while. Some are good and some are so-so, but they are free and you won’t have to get up from the chaise part of your sectional to play them. In addition, the nostalgia factor is priceless.
The seven selections below range in date from the early to late 2000s. We included one from 2019 called Haunt. We did that because one, it was written and directed by Bryan Woods and Scott Beck (A Quiet Place), and two not many people have heard of it.
The synopses are taken from IMDb but the trip down memory lane is all yours. Catch all of these titles for free on Tubi.
Frailty (2001)
A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact “demons.”
Stir of Echoes (1999)
After being hypnotized by his sister-in-law, a man begins seeing haunting visions of a girl’s ghost and a mystery begins to unfold around him.
Frozen (2010)
Three skiers stranded on a chairlift are forced to make life-or-death choices, which prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
See No Evil (2006)
A group of delinquents are sent to clean the Blackwell Hotel. Little do they know reclusive psychopath Jacob Goodnight has holed away in the rotting hotel. When one of the teens is captured, those who remain – a group that includes the cop who put a bullet in Goodnight’s head four years ago – band together to survive against the brutal killer.
A New York City detective investigates mysterious deaths occurring 48 hours after users log onto a site named feardotcom.
Daybreakers (2010)
In the year 2019, a plague has transformed almost every human into vampires. Faced with a dwindling blood supply, the fractured dominant race plots their survival; meanwhile, a researcher works with a covert band of vamps on a way to save humankind.
Haunt (2019)
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an “extreme” haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realization that some nightmares are real.