Scream Your Heart Out: A Valentine’s Horror Movies List
Valentine’s Day is a time for romance, but for horror fans, it’s also the perfect excuse to indulge in some delightfully dark entertainment. This year, ditch the rom-coms and chocolates and dive into a watchlist of Valentine’s Day-themed horror movies that will make your heart race for all the wrong reasons. From slashers set against the backdrop of Cupid’s holiday to twisted tales of love gone wrong, we’ve got a little something for every kind of horror aficionado.
My Bloody Valentine (1981)
Available on Shudder
A decades-old folk tale surrounding a deranged murderer killing those who celebrate Valentine’s Day turns out to be true to legend when a group defies the killer’s order and people start turning up dead.
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My Bloody Valentine 3D (2009)
Available on Prime Video
Tom returns to his hometown on the tenth anniversary of the Valentine’s night massacre that claimed the lives of 22 people. Instead of a homecoming, Tom finds himself suspected of committing the murders, and it seems like his old flame is the only one that believes he’s innocent.
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Valentine
Available on Video On Demand
Five women are stalked by an unknown assailant while preparing for Valentine’s Day.
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Hospital Massacre (X-Ray)
Available on MGM+
While receiving a routine check-up, a woman finds herself stranded on the hospital’s eighth floor, while someone dressed as a doctor is intent on her never leaving, even if it means killing any staff member who comes into contact with her.
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Lovers Lane
Available on MGM+
A man who committed a series of murders thirteen years ago begins to hunt down his victims’ children.
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Heart Eyes
Available on Movie Theaters
For the past several years, the “Heart Eyes Killer” has wreaked havoc on Valentine’s Day by stalking and murdering romantic couples. This Valentine’s Day, no couple is safe.
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Corpse Bride
Available on Video On Demand
When a shy groom practices his wedding vows in the inadvertent presence of a deceased young woman, she rises from the grave assuming he has married her.
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Crimson Peak
Available on Peacock Tv
In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds – and remembers.
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Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Available on Video On Demand
The centuries old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker’s fiancée Mina Murray and inflict havoc in the foreign land.
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Let The Right One In
Available on Prime Video
Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.
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Let Me In
Available on Tubi
A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian.
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The Invitation
Available on Hulu
Evie’s long-lost cousin invites her to a swanky English wedding, where she uncovers a dark and twisted family secret that threatens to upend her life.
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Bones And All
Available on Peacock Tv
A young woman embarks on a 1000 mile odyssey through America where she meets a disenfranchised drifter. But all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and to a final stand that will determine whether love can survive their otherness.
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Red Riding Hood
Available on Video On Demand
Set in a medieval village that is haunted by a werewolf, a young girl falls for an orphaned woodcutter, much to her family’s displeasure.
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The Loved Ones
Available on Video On Demand
When Brent turns down his classmate Lola’s invitation to the prom, she concocts a wildly violent plan for revenge.
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The Love Witch
Available on Tubi
A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.
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Warm Bodies
Available on Prime Video
After a highly unusual zombie saves a still-living girl from an attack, the two form a relationship that sets in motion events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
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Bride of Chucky
Available on Video On Demand
Chucky, the doll possessed by a serial killer, discovers the perfect mate to kill and revive into the body of another doll.
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Your Monster
Available on HBO MAX
After her life falls apart, soft-spoken actress Laura Franco finds her voice again when she meets a terrifying, yet weirdly charming Monster living in her closet. A romantic-comedy-horror film about falling in love with your inner rage.
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Fresh
Available on Hulu
After quitting dating apps, a woman meets the supposedly perfect man and accepts his invitation to a romantic weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites.
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Lisa Frankenstein
Available on Prime Video
A coming of RAGE love story about a teenager and her crush, who happens to be a corpse. After a set of horrific circumstances bring him back to life, the two embark on a journey to find love, happiness – and a few missing body parts.
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