Complimentary Creepshows: The 11 Best Horror Movies on Tubi

• The Prowler (1981) and Intruder (1989)
• A Bay of Blood (1971)
• Ginger Snaps (2000)
• The Toxic Avenger (1984)

• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
• C.H.U.D. (1984)
• Chopping Mall (1986)
• Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)

• Elvira: Mistress of the Dark (1988)
• P2 (2007)

If you’ve got the guts, watch two of the ‘80s sickest slasher movies back-to-back. In Joseph Zito’s (Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter) The Prowler, a man dressed as a WWII soldier graphically slaughters graduating high-schoolers with kills executed by special-effects god Tom Savini. Evil Dead II writer Scott Spiegel’s directorial debut Intruder follows graveyard-shift supermarket employees (including Spiegel’s Evil Dead pals Sam Raimi and Ted Raimi) as they check out—with KNB EFX Group (in their debut) delivering the gross-eries. PSA: Keep a chuck-bucket handy. PSA 2: Bruce Campbell has a cameo. PSA 3: Evil Dead II is on Tubi, too.

Giallo films blend beautiful imagery with ugly, often eroticized, violence. A Bay of Blood (you might know it as Twitch of the Death Nerve, Blood Bath, or Carnage) is giallo auteur Mario Bava’s bloodiest—and one of his best. If you enjoy fine cinematography as much as practical gore (Bay features special effects by Carlo Rambaldi, who went on to work on Dario Argento’s masterful 1975 giallo, Deep Red), you’ll love this highly influential shocker.

Great werewolf movies are as elusive as real lycanthropes. Okay, maybe not that elusive. But sorting through the packs of mangy, corner-cutting, digital-’cause-it’s-cheap werewolf movies to find true standouts can be frustrating. How so? Well, most were-flick fans would settle for an intriguing, well-told story and competent, all-practical creature design and gore effects. Ginger Snaps far exceeds those low-ish expectations and, with two women protagonists (Katharine Isabelle and Emily Perkins), scores full marks on the Bechdel Test—a rarity in a horror subgenre dominated by alpha-males.

We’re excited to see Macon Blair’s remake of Troma’s infamous flagship film, The Toxic Avenger, too. But, like with most remakes, ya gotta see the original first (if you haven’t already). The Toxic Avenger went places few movies dared to go 50 years ago. It’s a gleefully gross, totally ‘80s romp you won’t soon forget—and that perspective is important when evaluating Blair’s remake. Toxie is also the best introduction to Troma movies, which should be their own horror subgenre. Now if we could just get concrete info on The Toxic Avenger remake release date.

Famed slasher flick The Texas Chain Saw Massacre has it all: good-looking young victims, deranged cannibals, and chainsaw-swinging icon Leatherface. The Tobe Hooper film’s gore and audacity are still shocking today, and it’s obvious why it was banned in several countries in the ’70s.

C.H.U.D. stands for “Cannibalistic Humanoid Underground Dwellers,” or radioactively mutated people-munchers living in the New York City sewer system—it’s even dumber than it sounds. Initially a bomb, C.H.U.D. has since become a cult favorite and pop-cultural reference point.

Of all the ’80s horror films set in shopping malls—there were more than you’d think—Chopping Mall is the worst/best. When a group of teens lock themselves in a mall for an overnight party, clunky chrome security robots (the mall cops of the future!) roll in for the kill. No wonder we just shop at home now.

Sure, 1982’s Slumber Party Massacre was a decent slasher flick—but the 1987 sequel Slumber Party Massacre II got weird with it. An all-girl rock band is sequestered in a weekend condo, only to be terrorized by the Driller Killer, a rockabilly maniac with an electric drill guitar (yes, really).

After years of hosting bad horror flicks on TV, Elvira (Cassandra Peterson) finally made her own in 1988—and it’s not actually bad at all. When Elvira travels to uptight Massachusetts to claim an inheritance, witchcraft and wackiness ensue. Mistress of the Dark is a lost horror-comedy gem.

A young Manhattan businesswoman (Rachel Nichols) working late on Christmas Eve is trapped in a parking garage by a psychopathic attendant (Wes Bentley) who’s obsessed with her—still want to go back to the office? P2 is a maybe-too-relatable take on survival terror that ups the tension with each scene, but it probably won’t replace Die Hard as your go-to holiday movie.