By WILLIAM J. WRIGHT
April is a notoriously rainy month, but thanks to VOD, there’s no need for horror fans to leave the comfort of their nice, dry sofas. Pluto TV and premium cult movie streamer Arrow Player are bringing springtime thrills and chills to the masses with a month packed with monsters, madness and mayhem.
As incredible as it seems, we are nearly halfway to the witching season, and with just over six months left until Halloween, streaming platform Pluto TV is unleashing a frightening horde of horror favorites, paranormal programming and special events, beginning April 1.
The free streaming network’s fearsome April Ghouls celebration spans multiple Pluto channels, including Pluto TV Horror, Pluto TV Paranormal, The Walking Dead, Ghost Hunters and many others. Check out the complete lineup of new-to-Pluto genre titles below:
- 30 Days of Night & 30 Days of Night: Dark Days
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula
- Deliver Us from Evil
- The Evil Dead (1983)
- Fright Night
- Grace: The Possession
- Idle Hands
- Oculus
- Only Lovers Left Alive
- Paranormal Activity 1-4
- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones
- Pet
- Pet Sematary II
- Quarantine
- The Ring, The Ring Two & Rings
- Silent Hill
- Skinwalkers
- Urban Legend, Urban Legends: Bloody Mary & Urban Legends: Final Cut
- Wolf
More horror movies on Pluto TV:
- Bats
- The Blob (1988)
- The Craft & The Craft Legacy
- Cujo
- The Dead Zone
- Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark
- The Exorcism of Emily Rose
- Faceless After Dark
- The Final Girls
- Friday the 13th (1980) & Friday the 13th Parts II-VIII
- Halloween H20, Halloween VI: The Curse of Michael Myers & Halloween VIII: Resurrection
- Insidious
- The Lazarus Effect
- A Message from Brianna
- The Reading
- Rise: Blood Hunter
- Stephen King’s Graveyard Shift
- Stephen King’s Silver Bullet
- Stephen King’s Thinner
- Succubus
- When a Stranger Calls
- Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey
Pluto TV fans can find more scares throughout April across these channels and others:
- Cine Terror
- Ghost Hunters
- Pluto TV Horror
- Pluto TV Paranormal
- Pluto TV Terror
- Universal Monsters
- Supernatural Drama
- The Twilight Zone
- The Walking Dead
- The Walking Dead en Español
Even more special genre programming and events on Pluto TV:
- Pluto TV Cult Films: Franchise Friday: Children of the Corn on 4/11
- Pluto TV Horror: Franchise Friday the 13th (airing 8 films) on 4/11
- Pluto TV Spotlight: Monsters of Literature on 4/23, airing Bram Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein
April brings new terrors to Arrow Video‘s premium VOD service, Arrow Player, available to subscribers in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Ireland, including the 4K launch of Anthony Waller’s debut feature Mute Witness on the 25th. The cult movie streamer is also highlighting creepy found footage flicks with the shaky-cam supernatural shockers Ghost Light, Kolobos, Grave Encounters and Grave Encounters 2.
Arrow gives horror shorts get some much-needed attention with Rejected, a genre parody featuring three macabre tales linked by an “antiquated digital camera from 1997”; 2023 Méliès D’or winner FROM.BEYOND, a practical FX extravaganza chronicling mankind’s first encounter with aliens; and They Called Me David, the emotional story of an artificially created being with incredible powers.
Beginning April 11, Arrow Player demonstrates that actions can have dire consequences in Capsules, The Cold, The Demons of Ludlow and The Visitants.
Award-winning film critic and author Alexandra Heller-Nicholas combs the Arrow archives to present a selection of underseen cult, horror and Giallo masterpieces, including Mirror, Mirror, Female Prisoner #701 Scorpion and The Red Queen Kills Seven Times.
On April 18, Arrow Player warns against the dangers of straying too far from the beaten path with three films about what happens when you venture into places you shouldn’t: Squeal, Xtro 3, Hide and Go Shriek and Hide & Seek.
