Every slasher movie streaming on Criterion Channel in the US right now — 9 films ranked by rating, checked against Criterion Channel’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Criterion Channel US
Directed by Michael Haneke
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-slasher brilliance: Haneke deconstructs viewer complicity by having killers acknowledge the camera, forcing us into uncomfortable participation.
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAtmospheric dread through methodical detective work; the killer's ritualistic X-carved victims create psychological terror beyond gore.
A detective starts spiraling out of control when a wave of gruesome murders with seemingly similar bizarre circumstances is sweeping Tokyo.
Directed by David Lynch
✦ MovieMuse AI takePrequel horror that weaponizes Twin Peaks' mythology; Laura's murder becomes ritualistic sacrifice, elevating slasher to cosmic terror.
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisceral body-horror replaces traditional kill scenes; the killer's grotesque transformation into monster subverts the genre's physical violence expectations.
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
Directed by William Lustig
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRelentless POV immersion forces viewers into the killer's fractured psyche—the genre's most visceral psychological descent.
A psychotic man, troubled by his childhood abuse, kills and mutilates young women and local models on the streets of New York City.
Directed by William Lustig
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUniform as weapon: the killer exploits institutional trust, making authority itself the slasher's camouflage—paranoia becomes the real killer.
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
Directed by William Lustig
✦ MovieMuse AI takeResurrects the unstoppable-killer archetype through voodoo resurrection; undead cop mythology transforms revenge into supernatural inevitability.
Undead cop Matt Cordell rises from the grave, and is after the criminals who murdered him in prison.
Directed by David Jacobson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSerial killer docudrama restraint; Dahmer's mundane horror—absence of melodrama—makes quiet domestic scenes more unsettling than any jump scare.
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his life.
Directed by Alan Smithee
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVoodoo resurrection perfects the immortal-killer formula; supernatural resurrection justifies the slasher's relentless return trope.
A priest practicing the Voodoo arts resurrects Matt Cordell, who takes his badge and returns from the dead...again...to do his bidding.
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