Last Updated on August 1, 2025 by Dolores Quintana
July is a bonanza of free horror movie streaming, especially if you love movies about sharks, the cheesier, the better. You have so many options and some really great and underappreciated films that are available to you for free, which is a great way to chill out in the summer heat.
Pluto TV, the “stream now, pay never” service, has another motto for summer 2025. Boom, free movies. Not only does Pluto TV have the hottest horror film on streaming, 28 Days Later, but they also have the premiere of a Jersey Shore alum's debut feature film, Devon. It's an excellent time to explore this found footage film from the mind of a reality TV star.
Final Destination fans can watch the films in the series to their heart's content on Tubi this month and catch a great but sadly underseen classic of romantic horror from Luca Guadagnino. Romance in scary movies is a wonderful thing, and the streamer also has hungry dinos, evil witches, and cannibals in the desert to put fear into your living room.
Vizio has really gone all out this month. Not only do they have their usual roster of new films, they also have 27 of the wildest and cheesiest shark films ever to escape from various bodies of water to thrill you and make you laugh with fright. No seriously, they have so many shark movies, you might not be able to watch them all, even in a month.
Free Horror Movies Streaming On Pluto
Pluto TV is bringing the heat with Barry Levinson's only horror film, The Bay, and the Vincent Price revenge classic Theater of Blood. David Cronenberg's dystopian nightmare with people wearing giant rat costumes and Robert Pattinson, Bill Paxton's haunting directorial debut, Frailty, and three Return of the Living Dead films that will keep you raving to the grave.
The Bay: Director Barry Levinson's first and only horror film is one that horror fans recommend to their friends when asked. A found footage experiment from the director known for The Addams Family, it breaks the mold. Chaos breaks out in a small Maryland town after an ecological disaster occurs.
Blue Velvet: David Lynch's classic tale of terror in modern-day suburbia. The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.
The Burning: Abusive former summer camp caretaker Cropsy, horribly burned from a prank gone wrong five years earlier, lurks around upstate NY summer Camp Stonewater with garden shears and is bent on killing the teenagers responsible for his disfigurement.
Cosmopolis: Master director David Cronenberg brings a wild tale of a 28-year-old billionaire who senses his empire collapsing around him as the city he knows succumbs to terror and violence. A fever dream of sex, drugs, and rats.
The Crow: The night before his wedding, musician Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally murdered by members of a violent gang. On the anniversary of their death, Eric rises from the grave and assumes the mantle of the Crow, a supernatural avenger.
Cujo: Lewis Teague directs this adaptation of the Stephen King novel, in which Cujo, a friendly St. Bernard, contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Devon: Devon is the directorial debut of Jenni “JWoww” Farley. In it, Devon's parents engage five explorers to investigate the abandoned site years later via a cryptic website, unaware of the sinister one-way journey and terrifying, deadly experience awaiting them, after their daughter disappears from an asylum.
Disturbia: A bored teenager under house arrest starts spying on his neighbors and discovers one of them might be a serial killer. Shia La Boeuf, David Morse and Carrie-Ann Moss star in this riff on the Hitchcock classic, Rear Window.
Down a Dark Hall: A troubled teen named Kit Gordy is forced to join the exclusive Blackwood Boarding School, just to find herself trapped by dark forces around its mysterious headmistress, Madame Duret.
Flatliners (1990): Five medical students experiment with “near-death” experiences, until the dark consequences of past tragedies begin to jeopardize their lives.
Frailty: A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to destroy people who were in fact “demons.”
Fresh: 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.
The Keep: Director Michael Mann's adaptation of the F. Paul Wilson novel. In it, Nazis are forced to turn to a Jewish historian for help in battling the ancient demon they have inadvertently freed from its prison.
Man-Thing: Agents of an oil tycoon vanish while exploring a swamp marked for drilling. The local sheriff investigates and faces a Seminole legend come to life: Man-Thing, a shambling swamp-monster whose touch burns those who feel fear.
Phantoms: In the peaceful town of Snowfield, Colorado, something evil has wiped out the community. And now, it's up to a group of people to stop it, or at least get out of Snowfield alive.
Prey (2007): An American family on holiday in Africa becomes lost in a game reserve and stalked by lions in this 2007 film starring Bridget Moynahan and Peter Weller.
The Raven (1963): Part of the Roger Corman series of Edgar Allen Poe adaptations for his studio, a magician, who has been turned into a raven, turns to a former sorcerer for help. This horror comedy stars Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, and Boris Karloff.
Return of the Living Dead III: Having recently witnessed the horrific results of a top-secret project to bring the dead back to life, a distraught youth performs the operation on his girlfriend after she's killed in a motorcycle accident.
Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis: A group of teenagers, in an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, end up inadvertently releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies.
Return of the Living Dead: Rave to the Grave: A college student creates a drug called “Z” and sells it on campus, inadvertently resurrecting the living dead, who wreak havoc at a Halloween rave.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Pennsylvania, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
The Signal: A horror film told in three parts, from three perspectives, in which a mysterious transmission that turns people into killers invades every cell phone, radio, and television.
Sleepy Hollow: Ichabod Crane is sent to Sleepy Hollow to investigate the decapitations of three people; the culprit is the legendary apparition, The Headless Horseman, in this scary fairy tale from director Tim Burton.
Tales of Terror: Three tales of terror involve a grieving widower and the daughter he abandoned; a drunkard and his wife's black cat; and a hypnotist who prolongs the moment of a man's death.
Teen Wolf Too: Todd Howard is a struggling college student. Nothing seems to be going very well for him until he turns into a wolf in this sequel to Teen Wolf.
Theater of Blood: A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition in this classic British horror comedy of revenge directed by Douglas Hickox. It has stellar and agonized performances from Vincent Price and Diana Rigg. If you want to see a film that had a great influence on The Menu and Ralph Fiennes' performance in the film, look no further.
Free Horror Movies Streaming On Tubi
Tubi's selections this month include the incredible and beautiful cannibal horror romance, Bones and All, directed by Luca Guadagnino. Don't let the romance part fool you; the cannibalism is gory, and the villain, Sully, played by Mark Rylance, is one of the most frightening bad guys in 21st-century horror. Don't miss out on a sadly slept-on film that will seduce you with eldritch terror.
If you have a desire to hold a Final Destination watch party with your friends, Tubi also has the goods. Alexander Aja's creepy remake of the Wes Craven classic, The Hills Have Eyes, is also ready to kick off your scary summer.
Blair Witch (2016): After discovering a video showing what he believes to be his vanished sister Heather, James and a group of friends head to the forest believed to be inhabited by the Blair Witch in the third film in the series, directed by Adam Wingard and starring James Allen McCune, Callie Hernandez, and Brandon Scott.
Bones and All: Italian director Luca Guadagnino's highly underrated romantic horror masterpiece that stars Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet as a pair of “eaters” or cannibals who can't survive without eating human flesh. Michael Stuhlbarg, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, David Gordon Green, Jessica Harper, and a terrifying Mark Rylance.
Final Destination: The first film in the series that set the mold. After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them after they survive.
Final Destination 2: The sequel with an unforgettable opening sequence that still has people avoiding logging trucks on the freeway to this day. A group of young friends finds that Death is stalking them, and multiple survivors of a deadly highway accident.
Final Destination 3: The director of the first film in the series, James Wong, returns in this tale of Wendy Christensen and a group of teens who escaped a fatal roller-coaster crash, face a bloody date with Death.
Final Destination 5: In the fifth installment, Death returns to claim the lucky survivors of a deadly bridge collapse, shot in 3D. Emma Bell, Miles Fisher, Arlen Escarpeta, David Koechner, and Tony Todd star as Death's potential victims.
Get Off My Lawn: A sweet suburban couple is terrorized by a deranged teenager and his friends after they purchase his grandfather’s sacred home.
The Hills Have Eyes: Alexandre Aja's remake of the Wes Craven original, which he made after Craven asked him to come up with a concept for a new version of the film. It stars Aaron Stanford, Kathleen Quinlan, Vinessa Shaw, Emilie de Ravin, Dan Byrd, Robert Joy, and Ted Levine.
The Invisible Raptor: An amusement park paleontologist and a hapless security guard team up to stop an invisible raptor from wreaking havoc on their small town. This comedy horror film stars Sean Astin, Mike Capes, and Sandy Martin.
Jinn: A man turns to a mysterious pair and a shackled mental patient for help in combating an ancient family curse. Dominic Rains, Ray Park, William Atherton, Faran Tahir, and Serinda Swan star in this action horror movie.
Jurassic World: A new theme park, built on the original site of Jurassic Park, creates a genetically modified hybrid dinosaur, the Indominus Rex, which escapes containment and goes on a killing spree. The film stars Chris Pratt, Bryce Dallas Howard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Ty Simpkins, Nick Robinson, Omar Sy, and BD Wong.
The Nun (2018): A priest with a haunted past and a novice on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate the death of a young nun in Romania and confront a malevolent force in the form of a demonic nun
Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension: Using a special camera that can see spirits, a family must protect their daughter from an evil entity with a sinister plan. The sixth installment in the series is directed by Gregory Plotkin in his feature debut
Pet Sematary (2019): The second adaptation of the Stephen King novel, in which Dr. Louis Creed and his wife, Rachel, relocate from Boston to rural Maine with their two young children. The couple soon discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near their new home.
Quarantine 2: Terminal: A plane is taken over by a mysterious virus. When the plane lands, it is placed under quarantine. Now, a group of survivors must band together to survive the quarantine.
Free Horror Movies Streaming On Vizio
#AMFAD: All My Friends Are Dead: A group of college friends rent an Airbnb for the biggest music festival of the year. A weekend of partying quickly takes a turn, as the group is murdered one by one. Cast: Jade Pettyjohn (Little Fires Everywhere), JoJo Siwa (School of Rock), Jennifer Ens (Chapelwaite)
And Soon the Darkness: A couple of American girls on a bike trip in a remote part of Argentina split, and one goes missing; the other must find her before her worst fears are realized. Cast: Amber Heard (Aquaman), Odette Annable (Cloverfield), Karl Urban (Star Trek)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Centuries-old vampire Count Dracula comes to England to seduce his barrister Jonathan Harker's fiancée, Mina Murray, and wreak havoc in the foreign land. Cast: Gary Oldman (The Professional), Winona Ryder (Heathers), Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
B'Twixt Now and Sunrise – Authentic Cut: A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V. Cast: Val Kilmer (Tombstone), Bruce Dern (The Hateful Eight), Elle Fanning (A Complete Unknown)
Crackcoon: A raccoon ingests a discarded synthetic drug and mutates into a vicious killer. It rampages through a mountain community, threatening campers, tourists, and residents. No one is safe from the monstrous raccoon's violent onslaught. Cast: Gary Lee Vincent (Midnight), Angel Nichole Bradford (Desperate Souls), Chris O’Brocki (Shriekshow)
Daniel Isn't Real: A troubled college freshman, Luke, suffers a violent family trauma. He then resurrects his charismatic childhood imaginary friend Daniel to help him cope, not realizing how dangerous Daniel is. Cast: Miles Robbins (Halloween), Patrick Schwarzenegger (The White Lotus), Sasha Lane (Utopia)
The Eye: Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people. Cast: Jessica Alba (Sin City), Alessandro Nivola (The Brutalist), Parker Posey (Waiting for Guffman)
The Lazarus Effect: A group of medical researchers discovers a way to bring dead patients back to life. Cast: Olivia Wilde (Babylon), Donald Glover (Community), Mark Duplass (The Morning Show)
The Monster Project: A recovering drug addict takes a job with a documentary crew that plans to interview three subjects who claim to be real-life monsters. Cast: Toby Hemingway (Black Swan), Justin Bruening (Grey’s Anatomy), Murielle Zuker (S.W.A.T.)
Scary Movie 2: Four teens are tricked by a professor into visiting a haunted house for a school project. Cast: Anna Faris (The House Bunny), Marlon Wayans (Bel-Air), Tori Spelling (Beverly Hills, 90210)
Tales Of Halloween: Ten stories are woven together by their shared theme of Halloween night in an American suburb, where ghouls, imps, aliens and axe murderers appear for one night only to terrorize unsuspecting residents. Cast: Adrienne Barbeau (Escape from New York), Hunter Smit (The Vampire Diaries), Caroline Williams (Renfield)
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw. Cast: Marilyn Burns (Helter Skelter), Edwin Neal (Future-Kill), Allen Danziger (Storage Locker)
Wish Upon: A teenage girl discovers a box that carries magic powers and a deadly price for using them. Cast: Joey King (Bullet Train), Ryan Phillippe (Crash), Ki Hong Lee (The Maze Runner)
But wait, there's more. The entertainment anglers at Vizio are chumming the warm seasonal waters with the best in campy shark terror titles! So dive into an ocean of cautionary tales and take a big bite out of these free, deliciously cheesy classics and check out the Shark Attack pop-up channel #598 launching Thursday, July 3rd, during Vizio's Hot Shark Summer.
Bull Shark: A hungry shark begins feeding on unsuspecting lake goers in a small Texas town. Cast: Thom Hallum (Copper Bill), Billy Blair (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), Lindsey Marie Wilson (America is Sinking)
Bull Shark 2: After the events of the first film, a second Bull Shark begins feasting on unsuspecting victims in a Texas lake. Cast: Thom Hallum (Copper Bill), Billy Blair (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), Andrea Cohen (Black Box)
Bull Shark 3: The finale to the Bull Shark trilogy, as a family of Bull Sharks faces off against a small Texas lake community. Cast: Thom Hallum (Copper Bill), Billy Blair (Sin City: A Dame to Kill For), Chad Ridgely (The Wire)
Empire of the Sharks: On a future earth where 98% of the surface is underwater, a Warlord who controls an army of sharks meets his match when he captures the daughter of a mysterious shark caller. Cast: John Savage (The Last Full Measure), Jack Armstrong (Patterns), Thandi Sebe (Viva Forever)
Ice Sharks: A group of scientists at a research facility based in the Arctic battle a breed of sharks that have invaded Arctic waters. Cast: Edward DeRuiter (Mega Shark Vs. Kolossus), Jenna Parker (Diablo Canyon), Kaiwi Lyman (Den of Thieves)
Megalodon: The Frenzy: When a frenzy of five Megalodons torments the open ocean, the stakes have never been higher. Cast: Caroline Williams (Renfield), Eric Roberts (The Dark Knight), Jessica Chancellor (Mystery Incorporated)
Megalodon Rising: When history's greatest aquatic predator returns, the armada of modern warships sent to destroy it has no chance at all. Cast: Tom Sizemore (Saving Private Ryan), Wynter Eddins (Motel California), O'Shay Neal (Snowfall)
Mississippi River Sharks: Sharks attack a fish rodeo on the Mississippi River, and it is up to a group of locals to stop them. Cast: Cassie Steele (Degrassi: The Next Generation), Jason London (Dazed and Confused), Miles Doleac (The Dinner Party)
Mountain Shark: A skilled group of hunters is sent out into the dark, mysterious mountains surrounding a weapons research base on a secret mission and soon learn the deadly truth that waits for them, as the hills are alive with the sound of screaming. Cast: Ema Ekaete (Tell No Lies), Emily Felicia Moore (Snap Shot), Julia Quayle (Beneath the Surface)
Open Water: Based on the true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark-infested waters after their tour boat has left. Cast: Blanchard Ryan (Beer Fest), Daniel Travis (Pretty Little Liars), Saul Stein (Money Train)
Open Water 2: Adrift: When a group of friends fail to lower the ladder of their boat, they find themselves stranded in the surrounding waters and struggle to survive. Cast: Susan May Pratt (10 Things I Hate About You), Richard Speight Jr. (Supernatural), Ali Hillis (Must Love Dogs)
Open Water 3: Cage Dive: Three friends filming an audition tape for an extreme reality-TV show find themselves stranded in shark-infested waters, turning their recording into a bloody diary of death. Do they have what it takes to survive the open water? Cast: Joel Hogan (Chameleon), Chris Bath (All Saints), Megan Peta Hill (The Flash)
Planet of the Sharks: In the near future, glacial melting has covered ninety-eight percent of Earth's landmass. Sharks have flourished and now dominate the planet, operating as one massive school led by a mutated alpha shark. Cast: Brandon Auret (District 9), Stephanie Beran (Big Kill), Christia Visser (Last Ones Out)
Red Water: A group of oil workers being held hostage by a group of gangsters on a small oil rig are attacked by a freshwater bull shark.
Cast: Lou Diamond Phillips (Young Guns), Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), Coolio (Daredevil)
Santa Jaws: Trying to survive his family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family. Cast: Reid Miller (Accused), Courtney Lauren Cummings (The Sex Lives of College Girls), Jim Klock (The Underground Railroad)
Shark Lake: A local sheriff, Meredith Hendricks, makes it her mission to capture the “animal” and bring the exotic animal collector to justice. Cast: Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV), Sara Malakul Lane (King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table), Lily Brooks O'Briant (The Young and the Restless)
Sharkansas Women’s Prison Massacre: When a fracking environmental accident rips apart the earth's crust, the resulting hole lets out prehistoric sharks from underground that target a group of women and trap them in a cabin. Cast: Dominique Swain (Face/Off), Traci Lords (Excision), Christine Nguyen (Get Him to the Greek)
Sharknado: When a freak hurricane swamps Los Angeles, nature's deadliest killer rules sea, land, and air as thousands of sharks terrorize the waterlogged populace. Cast: Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills, 90210), Tara Reid (American Pie), John Heard (Home Alone)
Sharknado 2: The Second One: Fin and April are on their way to New York City, until a category seven hurricane spawns heavy rain, storm surges, and deadly Sharknadoes. Cast: Ian Ziering (Beverly Hills, 90210), Tara Reid (American Pie), Vivica A. Fox (Independence Day)
Swamp Shark: An animal smuggling deal goes wrong, resulting in a large shark escaping into the swampy backwoods river. Cast: Kristy Swanson (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), D.B. Sweeney (Eight Men Out), Jason Rogel (NCIS)
Tsunami Sharks: A tsunami hits the city, and soon, sharks begin infesting the waters. Cast: Anna Albie (Varsity Punks), Mark Denham (Ghosted), Robin Kirwan (Scorched Earth)
2 Headed Shark Attack: Survivors escape to a deserted atoll after their boat, during a Semester at Sea ship, is sunk by a mutated two-headed shark. But when the atoll starts flooding, no one is safe from the double jaws of the monster. Cast: Carmen Electra (Scary Movie), Charlie O'Connell (Dude, Where’s My Car?), Brooke Hogan (GLOW)
3 Headed Shark Attack: As a mutated, three-headed, great white shark eats its way from one end of the ship to the next, the passengers have to fight the deadly predator using anything they can find. Cast: Karrueche Tran (The Bay), Jaason Simmons (Baywatch), Rob Van Dam (Wrong Side of Town)
5 Headed Shark Attack: Shaped like a demented starfish, a monster 5-headed shark terrorizes the open ocean before invading the beaches of Puerto Rico, endangering the once peaceful island paradise. Cast: Chris Bruno (The Dead Zone), Nikki Howard (Love Virtually), Lindsay Sawyer (Sinister Squad)
