Arriving May 15 on Shudder is this 2018 found-footage chiller following a pair of priests investigating mysterious goings-on at one of Ireland’s notorious “Magdalene laundaries,” circa 1960. They discover that the female residents (including young unwed mothers) are being cruelty treated by the nuns in charge, which thanks to the tragic history of the real-life institutions isn’t entirely surprising. Far more alarming is their discovery that something more outrageously unholy is also afoot, as the film’s very title suggests.

Is sleeper sensation Skinamarink a daringly experimental exploration of the terrors of childhood, or a pretentious, patience-challenging misfire? If you missed Skinamarink when it was being majorly buzzed about (and argued about) last year, now’s the perfect time to settle in—preferably in the absolute darkest room you can wrangle—and judge for yourself. Streaming on Shudder.

You may think if you’ve seen one scary ventriloquist dummy, you’ve seen them all. But you haven’t traversed the outer limits of talking-doll frights until you’ve seen this 1978 Richard Attenborough film; it stars Anthony Hopkins as a struggling magician whose decades-long obsession with his high-school crush (Ann-Margret) gets exponentially weirder when his feisty wooden sidekick, “Fats,” seemingly takes on a life of his own. Magic is streaming on Shudder, as well as through Amazon Freevee (free with ads).

Set on a college campus where a random maniac springs into action right when most everyone’s trying to study hard at the end of the semester (some of the students are, naturally, far more committed to partying), this 1981 cheapie sticks pretty religiously to the standard slasher formula. Extra credit goes to the nerdy character—improbably named “Radish”—whose true-crime expertise foreshadows all the Scream-spawned “horror characters who love horror” that scary movies are so fond of these days. Streaming on Shudder.

After you watch Skinamarink on Shudder, head to Screambox to watch 2022's other much-discussed low-budget breakout, which similarly demands a lot of patience from its viewer. That said, though it’s nearly two and a half hours long, Terrifier 2 has a much livelier pace, and it’s brimming with some of the most knowingly gratuitous, gleefully staged gore effects in recent memory. Some of the acting is a bit uneven, but all is mostly forgiven thanks to David Howard Thornton’s ghoulishly charismatic performance as Art the Clown—a character so unnerving you’ll be asking “Pennywise who?” once you see him in action.

There are a lot of zombie movies—and that includes the top tier of the genre, which is clearly “schlocky Italian zombie movies of the ‘70s and ‘80s”—but 1981's Burial Ground, directed by the prolific Andrea Bianchi, distinguishes itself by just being delightfully extra in so many ways. An ancient crypt is disturbed, a curse is unleashed, and the undead rise to menace the various guests who’ve recently arrived at a nearby mansion, including a mommy-fixated youth who may actually be the creepiest part of the entire affair. Streaming on Screambox.

Amicus Productions was known for its anthology horror films—including this entertaining 1972 release featuring a script by Psycho author Robert Bloch and a cast including Peter Cushing, Charlotte Rampling, and Britt Ekland. The frame story sees a doctor arriving for his first day of work at a secluded psychiatric hospital. Instead of taking charge, however, he’s forced to interview each patient to see if he can ascertain who among them formerly held his job. Then, we get four unhinged tales that involve voodoo, reanimated limbs, clothing with magical powers, imaginary friends, and living mini-mannequins, plus (naturally) a final twist for good measure. Streaming on Screambox.

Screambox’s Lucio Fulci selection is decent—including standouts The Beyond and The Cat in the Brain—but Shudder’s is a bit more expansive, with those two titles as well as Zombi, The House by the Cemetery, and City of the Living Dead, and more. But both services carry 1988's Aenigma, a tale of boarding-school possession that sees a comatose prank victim take over the body of the new girl at school to get revenge. If you thought The Beyond’s “tarantula bookshelf” scene was the absolute worst, get ready for maybe only horror movie in existence to feature a slimy suffocation death involving way too many snails.

Not to be confused with the 1957 classic of the same name starring Dana Andrews and a whole lotta runes, or Night of the Demons, the 1988 cult classic about a party gone wrong at a funeral parlor. Streaming on Screambox, this Night of the Demon was released in 1980 and is just the thing to scratch your “gruesome backwoods exploitation, with bonus Bigfoot!” itch.