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VIZIO WatchFree+ is Kicking Off 2025 with These Free Horror Titles

VIZIO WatchFree+ has thousands of free premium movies and shows that can be streamed on-demand on VIZIO TVs, or by anyone using the VIZIO mobile app. This month, the platform is offering up these 13 horror titles to kick off the new year.

Ghost Rider

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Nicolas Cage (โ€œMandyโ€) stars as motorcycle rider Johnny Blaze, who sells his soul to the Devil to save his fatherโ€™s life. But the deal transforms him into the Ghost Rider, the Devilโ€™s own bounty hunter, who is sent to hunt down sinners. Cage stars alongside Eva Mendes (โ€œHitchโ€) and Sam Elliott (โ€œRoadhouseโ€).

SAW

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It would go on to spawn nine sequels with a tenth in the works, โ€œSAWโ€ stars Cary Elwes (โ€œThe Princess Brideโ€) and Leigh Whannell (โ€œInsidiousโ€) as two men who awaken to find themselves on the opposite sides of a dead body, each with specific instructions to kill the other or face consequences. Danny Glover (โ€œLethal Weaponโ€) also stars.

Terrifier 2

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โ€œTerrifier 2โ€ is the follow-up to Damien Leoneโ€™s 2016 film that made Art the Clown a modern horror icon. After being resurrected by a sinister entity, Art the Clown returns to Miles County, where he begins to target a teenage girl (Lauren LaVera, โ€œIron Fistโ€) and her younger brother (Elliott Fullam, โ€œThe Callingโ€) on Halloween.

Secret Window

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Johnny Depp stars as a successful writer in the midst of a painful divorce who is stalked at his remote lake house by a would-be scribe who accuses him of plagiarism. Maria Bello (โ€œCoyote Uglyโ€) and John Turturro (โ€œBarton Finkโ€) also star.

Mary Shellyโ€™s Frankenstein

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Robert De Niro stars as the Creature in this 1994 telling of โ€œFrankenstein.โ€ When the brilliant but unorthodox scientist Dr. Victor Frankenstein rejects the artificial man that he has created, the Creature escapes and later swears revenge. Kenneth Branagh (โ€œDunkirkโ€) and Helena Bonham Carter (โ€œSweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Streetโ€) also star.

The Mist

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In this film adaptation of the Stephen King novella, a thick fog descends upon a rural community, killing anyone caught outside; survivors seek refuge in a local store. Trapped in a darkened cloud of pure horror, the frightened denizens of the town must fend off murderous monster waves.

The film stars Thomas Jane (โ€œThe Thin Red Lineโ€), Marcia Gay Harden (โ€œMystic Riverโ€), and Laurie Holden (โ€œThe Boysโ€)

Rob Zombieโ€™s Halloween

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Rob Zombieโ€™s take on the horror classic โ€œHalloweenโ€ tells of a grown Michael Myers who has escaped from a mental institution after being committed for 15 years, only to return to Haddonfield to find his baby sister, Laurie.

The film stars Scout Taylor-Compton (โ€œAn American Crimeโ€) as Laurie Strode, Malcolm McDowell (โ€œA Clockwork Orangeโ€) as Dr. Samuel Loomis, and Tyler Mane (โ€œX-Menโ€) as Michael Myers.

Hemlock Grove

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Previously a Netflix exclusive, โ€œHemlock Groveโ€ is a television series produced by Eli Roth (โ€œHostelโ€) that takes place in the small Pennsylvania town of Hemlock Grove where a teenage girl was brutally murdered. Here, secrets lie and the darkest evils hide in plain sight.

Open Water

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Blanchard Ryan (โ€œOrange is the New Blackโ€) and Daniel Travis (โ€œDexterโ€) star in this deep sea thriller based on a true story of two scuba divers accidentally stranded in shark-infested waters after their tour boat has left.

Hannibal

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Brian Fullerโ€™s NBC series about the early relationship between Hannibal Lecter and FBI profiler Will Graham pushed the boundaries of what a horror-thriller series could show on network television. Mads Mikkelsen (โ€œDoctor Strangeโ€) stars as the cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, opposite Hugh Dancy (โ€œHysteriaโ€) as Graham. As their twisted game of cat and mouse unfolds, the lines between hunter and hunted blur, and the true nature of their complex and dangerous bond is gradually revealed.

100 Days To Live

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When a serial killer abducts a young womanโ€™s fiancรฉ, she must race against the clock to discover the identity of the killer and, more importantly โ€“ his motive. Colin Egglesfield (โ€œThe Client Listโ€), stars along with Gideon Emery (โ€œDaredevilโ€) and Heidi Johanningmeier (โ€œShamelessโ€).

Mark of the Witch

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In โ€œMark of the Witch,โ€ a beautiful young woman is driven into a dark underworld of demonic possession, desire, and extreme indulgences when she learns she may be the devilโ€™s kin. The film stars Paulie Rojas (โ€œDrawn into the Nightโ€), Maria Olsen (โ€œBeneath Us Allโ€) and Nancy Wolfe (โ€œSteelโ€).

Candy Corn

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Rounding out Januaryโ€™s horror lineup is the 2019 horror โ€œCandy Corn.โ€ Itโ€™s Halloween weekend, and a group of bullies are planning their annual hazing on local outcast Jacob Atkins. When they take things too far, heโ€™s resurrected to seek revenge against those who wronged him. The film stars Courtney Gains (โ€œCriminal Mindsโ€) and Pancho Moler (โ€œ3 From Hellโ€) alongside horror icons โ€œHalloweenโ€ actress P.J. Soles and the late โ€œCandymanโ€ star Tony Todd.

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