The air is getting colder, the days are getting shorter, and the ghastly grins of jack-o’-lanterns are already beginning to rot and warp into twisted scowls and frightful frowns. Yes, November is now upon us, a treasured time to gather around the table for a warm, savory meal after the sugar rush of Halloween candy and before the winter’s chill comes lurking around the corner. This is a time to gather for companionship, conversation, and to sate those cravings for certain dishes and recipes that we look forward to all year long. And in the realm of horror films, those cravings can take on a whole new creepy meaning, especially when humans end up on the serving platter. No matter what you’re hungry for, don’t worry, because Terror on Tubi has you covered with a menu of more than 13,000 hours of horror content for a wide range of viewing appetites!
Welcome back to Terror on Tubi, in which we highlight 10 horror titles with similar themes streaming for free on the platform’s massive digital collection of films and TV series! Brought to you this month by Tubi’s Mixtapes, “a new feature that lets viewers create, curate, and share their own personalized list of movies and TV shows from across Tubi’s library,” this installment celebrates all kinds of creepy cravings in horror films, from bloodthirsty vampires and flesh-eating zombies to cannibalistic diets and a substance that can only be described as “The Stuff.”
So, grab a seat at the table (or the couch) and get ready for a killer 10-course meal of creepy cravings that you can enjoy for free from Terror on Tubi’s delectable (and deadly) viewing menu!
After taking hostages and fleeing through the desert, the bank-robbing Gecko Brothers are looking to get off the grid when they visit an isolated strip club to recharge near the southern border—a place not exactly known for its food, but a good hideaway nonetheless. Little do they know they could soon be wiped off the grid entirely when the establishment’s workers reveal their vampiric sides and begin feasting on the blood of customers in 1996’s From Dusk Till Dawn. A staple of ’90s horror directed with an infectious enthusiasm by Robert Rodriguez and featuring palpable practical effects from KNB EFX Group, From Dusk Till Dawn embraces the deadly duality of vampires, preserving their hypnotic sensuality before unveiling their ravenous hunger for human blood that splatters against the screen throughout the film’s second half. Don’t even bother wearing a bib for this messy, sexy, and unapologetically morbid meal of a movie.
“You can’t trust your mother, your best friend, the neighbor next door…” So intones the ominous voiceover in the trailer for David Cronenberg’s Rabid, which follows a rapidly spreading infection that turns its victims into salivating zombie-esque murderers seeking to sink their teeth into the nearest warm flesh. The source of the infection? A stinger with an insatiable thirst for human blood that emerges from the armpit of a motorcycle accident survivor. Rather than having the “rip the meat clean off the bone” palate of George A. Romero’s zombies, the infected in Cronenberg’s Rabid view people more like a light snack, looking to take a quick bite of one person before moving on to their next meal (kind of like a human taste test!). Brimming with eerie makeup effects and chilling social commentary, this entry in Cronenberg’s eclectic filmography is a thought-provoking look into how fear and panic can spread even faster than the bite marks of the infected in the early days of an epidemic.
Speaking of salivating and foaming at the mouth, that’s what happens to those who eat the title product in Larry Cohen’s The Stuff. A scathing and entertaining indictment of consumerism culture and mindless consumption, The Stuff is (unfortunately) as relevant now as it was when it first slithered onto the big screen in 1985. The film follows the growing popularity of a mysterious substance known as “The Stuff,” which looks like yogurt but is actually a mind-controlling parasite that takes over the bodies of those who eat it. Imagine if someone packaged and advertised the Blob and one of the side effects included what happens to human hosts of the extraterrestrial creature in John Carpenter’s The Thing, and you’ll start to get an idea of what gruesome fate awaits those who can’t resist the catchy advertising jingle of The Stuff: “enough is never enough, enough is never enough… of The Stuff!”
Although zombies existed in cinema before Night of the Living Dead first took a bite out of the big screen in 1968, the groundbreaking movie ushered in the modern zombie as we still know it nearly 60 years later. Originally titled Night of the Flesh Eaters, George A. Romero’s film (co-written with John Russo) introduced the concept of zombies driven by a voracious hunger for people, as evidenced by the living dead ripping meat right off the bone of charred victims after a gas pump explosion turns into a full-on human barbeque. Featuring a phenomenal cast led by Duane Jones and a gritty, realistic filmmaking style from Romero in his feature directorial debut, Night of the Living Dead is still essential, hair-raising viewing that might make you skip the chicken and just have the casseroles at your next cookout.
Looking to make connections and get on the fast track to Broadway by rubbing elbows with elite members of the theater world at an exclusive dinner, an ambitious playwright and his wife instead find themselves to be both the dinner and the show for their depraved hosts in The Dinner Party. Feeling like a cannibalistic cousin to Karyn Kusama’s The Invitation, this 2020 film from co-writer/director Miles Doleac slow-cooks tension to a perfect temperature before boiling over into blood-glazed mayhem. If you’ve ever had anxiety from going to a meal or function where you don’t really know anyone and you feel like everyone is watching you, then this may just be your worst nightmare come to life onscreen… and it may convince you to just stay in and order pizza the next time you’re invited to a dinner party.
Giving a whole new meaning to the term “farm-to-table,” Honeydew follows botanist Rylie (Malin Barr) and her boyfriend, Sam (Sawyer Spielberg), on a camping trip in the countryside as they strive to learn more about a perplexing fungus plaguing local farmers. Their investigative quest soon takes a deadly detour for the vegan couple when they’re forced to take refuge at an elderly woman’s farmhouse for the night: an eerie abode where the conversations are quirky, the sounds in the cellar are unsettling, and the taste of the meat served at dinner just seems to be a little… off. With Honeydew, writer/director Devereux Milburn makes a hallucinogenic horror stew that has a dash of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, a pinch of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, and a healthy dose of a secret ingredient that you’d only find in a cannibal’s cookbook.
A road-tripping family is forced to have dinner and spend the night at an ominous countryside home where the residents are eyeing them like their next meal. While this horror movie premise may seem familiar, trust me when I say there’s nothing ordinary about what happens—and who is eaten—in Lowlifes. A Tubi Original directed by Tesh Guttikonda and Mitch Oliver (from a clever screenplay by Al Kaplan), Lowlifes cuts into the cannibal subgenre, flaying it inside out with the deft hand of a butcher who knows what they’re doing. Similar to what The Cabin in the Woods did with slashers, Lowlifes pays homage to beloved horror tropes while simultaneously shoving them in a meat grinder to create a whole new cinematic meal all its own… one with a bold, spicy flavor that’s served extra rare!
“His parents think Michael’s problem is in his head, but Michael knows it’s on his plate.” In the seemingly idyllic setting of sun-soaked 1950s suburbia, an anxious boy begins to worry that his parents are secretly cannibals after hearing strange noises at night, leading him to question exactly where his family’s endless supply of meaty leftovers comes from. A darkly humorous horror movie that would be right at home on the same suburban street as The Stepford Wives, Serial Mom, and Edward Scissorhands, Parents brilliantly slices into a deceptively “perfect” nuclear family of the ’50s thanks to a scintillating script by Christopher Hawthorne, kinetic directing from Bob Balaban, and a game cast led by Bryan Madorsky, Mary Beth Hurt, and Randy Quaid (whose chilling performance as a fearful family patriarch makes Cousin Eddie look like a father of the year in comparison). Parents is like Leave It to Beaver meets The Texas Chain Saw Massacre: an unexpectedly delicious concoction.
The expression “you are what you eat” is the grim reality for a secluded religious family that practices what they consider to be the sacred ritual of cannibalism in We Are What We Are. This 2013 remake of Jorge Michel Grau’s 2010 film of the same name (aka Somos lo que hay, a sequel of sorts to Guillermo del Toro’s Cronos) examines how cannibalism goes from uniting a family to eating away at it from the inside following the untimely death of the mother, the disillusionment of the daughters, the stubbornness of the father, and the increasing suspicions from the outside world (suffice to say that if you like Bill Paxton’s Frailty, then you absolutely need to add this movie to your viewing menu). Directed by Jim Mickle from a script he co-wrote with frequent collaborator Nick Damici (Mulberry Street, Stake Land), We Are What We Are is a cannibal film with real bite, proving that sometimes the only way to sever the familial ties that bind is to chew right through them.
Dirt bikers, cannibals, and a vengeful dog named Beast converge in the desert for a deadly cat-and-mouse game of survival in Wes Craven’s sequel to his haunting 1977 fever dream that introduced viewers to a flesh-eating family with a sadistic streak. While the cannibalism is more implied than acted upon in the 1985 sequel (filmed before Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street, which forever changed the horror genre when it sliced into cinemas in 1984), the ultimate threat of human consumption is always onscreen thanks to terrifying performances by Michael Berryman reprising his role as Pluto and John Bloom as the towering Reaper. Neither one stands a chance against man’s best friend, however, as the dog Beast (in one of the greatest canine performances of all time in a role that is absolutely crucial to the plot of both films) also returns in the sequel to finish his revenge tour on the cannibalistic clan that dared to brutalize his family (including his fellow four-legged bestie Beauty). And if you’ve never seen the original Hills Have Eyes, Craven (cleverly working around a shortened production schedule) incorporates a hearty helping of flashback sequences from the first film, giving both newcomers and returning viewers a leftover side dish to dig into along with the sequel’s fresh main course of cannibals and motocross mayhem.
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Hopefully these tasty cinematic terrors will satisfy your hankering for horror this November. If you’re still hungry for more, a massive feast of frightful films and unsettling shows awaits in the Terror on Tubi catalog. Even better, you can now build your own horror marathon using Tubi’s new Mixtapes feature. It lets you curate and share custom watchlists packed with all your favorite creepy cravings. Until next time, enjoy these delectable recommendations and be sure to stream on Tubi until you scream for a second helping of savory scares!
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Managing Editor of Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Managing Editor of Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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