Every slasher movie streaming on MGM+ in the US right now — 23 films ranked by rating, checked against MGM+’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from MGM+ US
Directed by Tom Holland
✦ MovieMuse AI takePossessed doll weaponizes childhood innocence itself, making the familiar utterly sinister and inescapable.
After being shot in a toy store, a serial killer transfers his soul into a Good Guy doll. A mother then gifts it to her 6-year old son Andy, which unleashes terror upon the city.
Directed by Sean S. Cunningham
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablished slasher blueprint: faceless killer, isolated setting, methodical body count, and unreliable killer identity reveal.
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Directed by J. Lee Thompson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe nude killer device strips away visual distraction, making violence feel disturbingly intimate and psychologically destabilizing.
Warren Stacy, an office equipment repairman, begins murdering women after they reject his advances. To minimize the evidence, Stacy always kills while naked, wearing nothing but gloves, and further evades the law with his strong alibis. Veteran detective Leo Kessler is convinced of Stacy's guilt and begins using questionable methods to catch him.
Directed by Jeff Gillen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeProto-slasher prototype weaponizes maternal toxicity as motive, establishing the genre's psychology-of-damage blueprint before the template solidified.
A man living in rural Wisconsin takes care of his bed-ridden mother, who is very domineering and teaches him that all women are evil. After she dies, he misses her, and a year later digs her up and takes her home. He learns about taxidermy and begins robbing graves to get materials to patch her up, and inevitably begins looking for fresher sources of materials. Based loosely on the true story of Ed Gein.
Directed by Victor Salva
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe creature's design—grotesque, unstoppable, timeless—transcends human killer limitations, expanding slasher mythology beyond the masked psychopath archetype.
On a desolate country highway, two homeward-bound teens are nearly run off the road by a maniac in a beat-up truck, and later spot him shoving what appears to be a body down a sewer pipe.
Directed by Tony Maylam
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSummer camp setting and burn-scarred avenger create the ur-text formula; Cropsy is slasher iconography distilled to pure primal dread.
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the caretaker making his way back to his old stomping ground to confront one of the youths that accidentally burned him.
Directed by Hugo Fregonese
✦ MovieMuse AI takeRipper-period thriller; historical setting and genteel-lodging premise distance it from contemporary slasher conventions and masked-killer archetypes.
London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Directed by Steve Miner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJason becomes unkillable icon through Part 2's resurrection—establishing unstoppable killer as franchise cornerstone.
Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.
Directed by Kevin Connor
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDarkly comedic rural grotesquerie—buried victims as livestock—transforms the farmland into a stomach, making the setting itself monstrous and complicit.
Farmer Vincent Smith and his sister Ida run a motel attached to a farm where they capture unsuspecting travelers, bury them alive, fatten them up and then harvest their bodies as ingredients for his famous brand of "smoked meats."
Directed by John Hough
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolated island forces claustrophobic proximity; inbred family killers personify primitive evil lurking beneath civilization's thin facade.
When six friends fly off on a weekend getaway and are suddenly plagued by engine trouble, they're forced to land on a remote island. Looking for shelter, they're grateful to encounter Ma and Pa and their children - an eccentric family living in the island's backwoods. But what begins as simple hospitality turns into a terrifying race for survival as the friends start disappearing one by one ... and turning up dead.
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGothic atmosphere and inheritance-plot misdirection prove early slashers weaponized class anxiety and family secrets alongside the ax.
A scheming widow hatches a bold plan to acquire her late husband's inheritance, unaware that she is being targeted by an ax murderer who lurks in the family's estate.
Directed by Steve Miner
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablishes Jason's unstoppable momentum and geographic fixation—villain becomes landscape's supernatural embodiment.
An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...
Directed by Bill Condon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUrban legend summoning ritual transforms folklore into slasher logic; Candyman operates as both supernatural and socially constructed killer.
Annie, a young schoolteacher struggling to solve the brutal murder of her father, unwittingly summons the "Candyman" to New Orleans, where she learns the secret of his power, and discovers the link that connects them.
Directed by Charles B. Pierce
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDocumentarian procedural approach legitimizes the Phantom as historical boogeyman, grounding slasher terror in real criminal mythology.
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
Directed by Chris Walas
✦ MovieMuse AI takeParanoid home-invasion reversal—victim and killer blur—destabilizes the safety zone slashers promise to violate.
A business man buys a house, but he has a hard time trying to get rid of its previous tenant, a dirty bum.
Directed by David Paulsen
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGiallo-influenced black-gloved killer and psychiatric patient pool make psychology itself the slasher's hunting ground and weapon.
When Dr. Pieter Fales' patients start receiving ominous letters and getting murdered by an unknown black-clad assailant, he and his daughter both come under suspicion.
Directed by Peter Masterson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeBaseball-game synchronized murders weaponize sports spectacle as kill clock, turning Americana into slasher scheduling mechanism.
A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.
Directed by Emmett Alston
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-zone countdown creates literal ticking clock; Evil's cross-country killing spree turns the nation into hunting ground.
During a live punk-rock New Year's Eve TV programme, the presenter gets a phone call from a psycho calling himself "Evil" saying that when New Year's strikes in each US time zone, he will murder someone.
Directed by Boaz Davidson
✦ MovieMuse AI takeChildhood rejection trauma manifesting decades later fuses slasher revenge with deep psychological scarring as origin story.
When Susan was a little girl, she rejected the Valentine of a lovestruck classmate. Decades later, she’s come to the hospital for a routine medical examination, and finds herself trapped in a bizarre nightmare, made all the worse as her vengeful childhood valentine, disguised among the hospital staff, begins murdering everyone in his path as a means of proving his undying ‘romantic’ obsession…
Directed by Tyler Perry
✦ MovieMuse AI takeThis is not a slasher film; it's comedy. Exclude from consideration.
Madea winds up in the middle of mayhem when she spends a hilarious, haunted Halloween fending off killers, paranormal poltergeists, ghosts, ghouls, and zombies while keeping a watchful eye on a group of misbehaving teens.
Directed by David Hess
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSanta Claus killer reclaims Christmas imagery as terror weapon; holiday joy becomes the slasher's darkest camouflage.
A group of teenagers at a party find themselves being stalked by a maniacal killer in a Santa Claus costume.
Directed by Peter Medak
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAlien impregnation obsession mutates slasher sexual anxiety into cosmic body-horror; the killer becomes biological destiny.
Having just returned from a mission to Mars, Commander Ross isn't exactly himself. He's slowly becoming a terrifying alien entity with one goal -- to procreate with human women! When countless women suffer gruesome deaths after bearing half-alien offspring, scientist Laura Baker and hired assassin Press Lennox use Eve, a more tempered alien clone, to find Ross and his brood. Before long Eve escapes to mate with Ross.
Directed by Stu Segall
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDrive-in setting makes entertainment itself the trap; sword-wielding killer transforms nostalgia into abattoir.
Two police detectives try to catch a serial killer who is stalking a rural California drive-in theater, randomly killing people with a sword.
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