Pluto TV Is Serving Black Horror, Cult Classics and Camp All October Long

Spooky season has officially taken over Pluto TV, and the streamer is leaning into a mix of Black horror, supernatural thrillers, cult favorites and movies that know exactly how ridiculous they are.

Throughout October, Pluto TV is offering a free lineup that ranges from genuine horror landmarks to full-blown horror comedy. That means viewers can go from William Marshall’s iconic turn in Blacula to Marlon Wayans screaming his way through A Haunted House without spending anything more than the time it takes to decide what kind of chaos they are in the mood for.

One of the biggest highlights is Vampire in Brooklyn, the 1995 Wes Craven horror-comedy starring Eddie Murphy and Angela Bassett. Murphy plays a Caribbean vampire searching for his destined mate in New York City, and the movie remains one of those wonderfully strange genre mashups that could only have come from the ‘90s.

Pluto is also digging deeper into Black horror history with Blacula and its sequel, Scream, Blacula, Scream!. William Marshall stars as Prince Mamuwalde, an African prince cursed into vampirism, while the sequel adds Pam Grier to the mix as a voodoo priestess who may be able to help him escape the curse. If you are building a Black horror watchlist, those two deserve a spot near the top.

For something darker and more modern, Bones and All brings Taylor Russell and Timothée Chalamet into a romantic horror story about two young outsiders with cannibalistic urges traveling across America. Meanwhile, Mo’Nique leads The Reading, a supernatural thriller involving grief, a séance and the kind of decision that should always come with the warning, “Maybe do not invite mysterious spirits into the house.”

Mary J. Blige also gets pulled into the supernatural side of things in Body Cam, where she plays a police officer investigating the disturbing death of another officer. The deeper she digs, the more the case starts looking like something no ordinary investigation is going to solve.

Then we get to the titles that understand Halloween does not always have to be serious.

Leprechaun V: In the Hood pairs the franchise’s gold-hungry menace with Ice-T and turns the whole thing into exactly the kind of wild horror-comedy experience that earned the movie its cult following. Pluto is also streaming A Haunted House and

A Haunted House 2, with Marlon Wayans taking aim at found-footage horror, possession movies and just about every scary-movie cliché he can get his hands on.

The Scary Movie franchise is part of the October lineup too, bringing back the Wayans-era parody madness alongside Regina Hall and Anna Faris. Those movies helped define an entire era of horror comedy, and honestly, some of those jokes have probably lived in people’s heads longer than the actual horror films they were spoofing.

For fans looking for another familiar horror name, Candyman: Day of the Dead also joins the collection, with Tony Todd returning as one of the genre’s most recognizable figures.

Pluto TV’s Halloween lineup gives viewers a little bit of everything this month: Black horror history, supernatural scares, cannibal romance, horror parody and a leprechaun loose in South Central Los Angeles. That is range.

The featured titles are available to stream free throughout October as part of Pluto TV’s Halloween programming and on-demand collection.