It’s the first important month of the year, fiends! We’ve made it to May! We’ll be celebrating Mayday and all the other spring festivals of blood and sacrifice with Folk Horror all month long, but sometimes you just need a break from dancing nude in the moonlight, the blood of a virgin dripping from your mouth. Sometimes you just want to unwind with an extremely tense and unsettling movie. Let’s see which of those are streaming on Netflix and Shudder this month!

NETFLIX

May 1st

Gremlins (1984)

Scream (1996)

Zombieland (2009)

May 9th

Insidious (2010)

May 18th

The Blackcoat’s Daughter (2015)

May 23

Slasher: Solstice (2019)

Now, I know what you’re thinking.”Gremlins is not only a Christmas movie, but the greatest Christmas movie. Why is it landing on Netflix in May?” Well, friends, it’s because May is my birthday month, and Netflix wants to remind you to give me presents. Thank you in advance.

SHUDDER

May 1st

Bad Dreams (1988)

Doomsday (2008)

Fear (1996)

The Other

Predestination (2014)

May 3

Eli Roth’s History of Horror: Uncut (2019)

May 6th

Bloody Birthday (1981)

May 9th

The Ranger (2018)

May 13th

V/H/S 2 (2013)

V/H/S: Viral (2014)

May 20th

100 Bloody Acres (2012)

May 23rd

The Nightshifter (2018)

Now, looking at that list you might be thinking, “why is Bloody Birthday landing on Shudder in May? That’s not even my birthday month.” To that, I would respond “Not everything’s about you. Like this thing, which is in fact about me. May is my birthday month.”

What are you excited to stream and scream at this month? I’m going to stream Gremlins and scream into the empty night sky, respectively. Let us know your plans on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and Reddit! For more horror news, reviews, and ghostly BOOs, stay tuned to Nightmare on Film Street.

P.S. May is my birthday month. If you’re afraid you’ll forget, take this time to mark it in your calendar.