Free classic horror movies to stream
33 titles on the air now, made between 1913 and 2025 - about 41 hours of viewing in all. 30 are feature-length (40 minutes or more) and 3 are shorts. 18 are silent films presented with a public-domain (CC0) piano score.
This is the complete list of horror films on the air at Starlite TV right now. Every one is in the U.S. public domain - mostly because it was published before 1931 or because its copyright was never renewed - and each title page shows the rights evidence we checked.
They air around the clock on Graveyard Shift, our 24/7 horror channel, with the biggest names in prime time (7-11pm Pacific). Starlite TV works like broadcast TV: pick the channel and you join whatever is already playing, or open a title to see when it airs next in your time zone.
See also 31 Nights of Horror for this October's nightly featured film and its airtime.
Where to start
Prime-time headliners and titles with full background guides.
- The Little Shop of Horrors (1960) 73 min · Graveyard Shift
Roger Corman was famous for making films fast and cheap, and The Little Shop of Horrors may be his most famous example. - The Man Who Laughs (1928) 111 min · Graveyard Shift
Universal had scored huge hits with Lon Chaney in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera, and studio head Carl Laemmle wanted another lavish Gothic melodrama from a classic novel. - The Most Dangerous Game (1932) 63 min · Graveyard Shift
Richard Connell's 1924 short story "The Most Dangerous Game" has one of the most famous premises in fiction: a big-game hunter is shipwrecked on a remote island, where a cultured Russian aristocrat reveals that he has grown bored of hunting animals and now hunts the most dangerous game of all — human beings. - Night of the Living Dead (1968) 95 min · Graveyard Shift
Night of the Living Dead was made by a group of friends in and around Pittsburgh who had been producing TV commercials and industrial films through their company, The Latent Image. George A. Romero, John Russo and Russell Streiner decided a horror movie was the most realistic way to break into features. - Nosferatu (1922) 92 min · Graveyard Shift
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror was made in Germany in 1921 and released in 1922 by Prana Film, a short-lived studio co-founded in 1921 by Enrico Dieckmann and the occult-minded artist Albin Grau. Director F. W. Murnau and screenwriter Henrik Galeen based it, without permission, on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula. - The Phantom of the Opera (1925) 92 min · Graveyard Shift
Universal's The Phantom of the Opera adapts Gaston Leroux's 1910 French novel about a masked figure who haunts the Paris Opera House and secretly coaches a young singer, Christine Daaé, to stardom. - White Zombie (1932) 65 min · Graveyard Shift
White Zombie is generally considered the first feature-length zombie film. In the early 1930s, American readers were fascinated by Haiti and Vodou after William Seabrook's 1929 travel book The Magic Island, which described stories of the dead being raised to work in the fields. - The Unknown (1927) 50 min · Graveyard Shift
Lon Chaney as an armless knife-thrower in Tod Browning's circus melodrama, with Joan Crawford.
