Roku UK: The best to stream this Halloween!

This week we’ve not been able to resist compiling a special Halloween blog for you guys. We have rounded up some of the scariest horror films on Roku! Ranging from the 1980’s to the present day, expect them all to have you quivering behind your cushion this Halloween weekend…

Good Luck…

• The Conjuring (Now TV)  – Before Amityville, there was Harrisville. The director of Saw and Insidious tells the horrifying tale of how world renowned paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren tried to help a family under attack within their quaint farmhouse – and found a terrible, demonic truth within. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga top the bill in this sharp, finely crafted and incredibly scary horror.
• Carrie (Netflix) – A misfit teenager gets back at the classmates who’ve bullied her by unleashing her newfound supernatural powers and creating havoc at the prom.
• The Shining (Now TV)  – Heeeeeeere’s Johnny! Stanley Kubrick’s terrifically creepy adaptation of the Stephen King novel finds novelist Jack Nicholson gradually losing the plot while spending a winter as the caretaker of a remote mountain hotel. The blood starts to run when his paranormally gifted son picks up on the opulent hideaway’s evil past, while distraught wife Shelley Duvall discovers there’s nowhere to hide from the madness.
• You’re Next (Netflix) – A shy girl goes to her new boyfriend’s family reunion and must join their bloody fight for survival when a gang of masked hooligans invades the party.
• The Silence of the Lambs (Sky Store) – To catch a seriously twisted serial killer, the FBI dispatches eager trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) to pick the brain of the brilliant Dr Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins), an incarcerated psychopath with a taste for human flesh. Starling is smart, but the doctor is smarter… as his captors are about to discover.
• Hannibal Rising (Netflix)  – Director Peter Webber takes on the myth of Hannibal Lecter in this terrifying prequel that traces the murderous roots of the cannibalistic killer.
• The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (Now TV) – Jessica Biel and her college mates are heading for a rock concert but find themselves facing the leather-faced frontman of an inbred cannibal family in this gory remake of Tobe Hooper’s 1974 scarefest. Think Slipknot at The Hire Shop as former music video director Marcus Nispel keeps the fear engine running, along with the panic-stricken Biel.
• Haunting of Cellblock 11 (Sky Store) – A group of ghost hunters – including husband and wife team Joel and Kate – are determined to keep their paranormal TV show on air. They find their spirits raised when they set up shop in an allegedly haunted prison – Freeling State Penitentiary. However, they get more than they bargained for when the brutal ghost of an inmate who died in the prison tries to stage a spectral break-out by inhabiting one of the team members. Derek Acorah would run a mile.
• The Wicker Man (Now TV) – Psychotic bees, pagan sacrifice and vengeful women are some of the nasties encountered by Californian traffic cop Nic Cage in his island search for a missing girl. The Hollywood remake of the British horror classic chooses to ditch the religious overtones that distinguished the original and pursue a largely conventional police procedural skewed with a feminist twist. Never did ritual slaughter look so much fun.
• Evil Dead (Sky Store) – A remake of Sam Raimi’s 1981 horror classic, this is a frightening and fast-paced effort. Five friends hole up in a cabin in the woods so that one of their number can kick her drug addiction. But when they find a Book of the Dead in the basement, the group unwittingly summon demonic spirits intent on possessing the youngsters and a horrifying battle for survival begins. Fede Alvarez has made a blood-soaked and relentless movie and fans of non-stop horror and outlandish gore are in for one hell of a night…
• Saw: The Final Chapter (Sky Store) – The gruesome Saw horror series goes out in a crimson wave of gore-rious, eye-popping and body gouging. As a deadly battle rages over serial killer Jigsaw’s brutal legacy, a group who survived the maniac?s clutches seek the support of a self-help guru and fellow victim (Sean Patrick Flanery), a man whose own dark secrets unleash a new torrent of terror.