20 Trippy Horror Films to Stream for 420!

On this, the holiest of days for all of you horror fans who like to partake in mind-altering movie condiments, we have a few suggestions for you...

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...It's 420, and while some of us have been at home getting high and watching horror movies anyway, we couldn't get through the day without providing you twenty streaming, trippy horror films you can watch right now!

Each film below (in no particular order), ranges from fun, nonsensical madness to the mind-blowingly colorful, the truly bizarre, and everything in-between. 

Check out the list below, and enjoy your hazy day of horror!

The Beyond (1981)

Directed by: Lucio Fulci
​Streaming on: Shudder

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010)

Directed by: Panos Cosmatos
Streaming on: Hoopla

Despite being under heavy sedation, a young woman tries to make her way out of the Arboria Institute, a secluded, quasifuturistic commune.

Black Swan (2010)

Directed by: Darren Aronofsky
Streaming on: DirecTV

A committed dancer struggles to maintain her sanity after winning the lead role in a production of Tchaikovsky's "Swan Lake".

Bliss (2019)

Directed by: Joe Begos
Streaming on: Shudder

​A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Brain Damage (1988)

Directed by: Frank Henenlotter
Streaming on: Shudder

​One morning, a young man wakes to find that a small, disgusting creature has attached itself to the base of his brain stem. The creature gives him a euphoric state of happiness but demands human victims in return.

Brain Dead (1990)

Directed by: Adam Simon
Streaming on: Amazon Prime

In a showdown of man versus machine, Martin plunges into a chaotic nightmare trying to save his mind from the megalomaniacal corporation.

Daniel Isn't Real (2019)

Directed by: Adam Egypt Mortimer
Streaming on: Shudder

​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.

Darling (2015)

Directed by: Mickey Keating
Streaming on: Shudder and Amazon Prime

​A lonely girl's violent descent into madness.

Donnie Darko (2001)

Directed by: Richard Kelly
Streaming on: Tubi and Pluto TV

A troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a man in a large rabbit suit who manipulates him to commit a series of crimes, after he narrowly escapes a bizarre accident.

Dude Bro Party Massacre III (2015)

Directed by: Tomm Jacobsen, Michael Rousselet and Jon Salmon
​Streaming on: Shudder

In the wake of two back-to-back mass murders on Chico's frat row, loner Brent Chirino must infiltrate the ranks of a popular fraternity to investigate his twin brother's murder at the hands of the serial killer known as "Motherface."

Evil Bong (2006)

Directed by: Charles Band
Streaming on: Tubi

​Straight-laced nerd Alistair moves into a college dorm with hardcore marijuana users Brett, Larnell, and Bachman. Larnell orders an old giant bong that proves to have strange magical powers. When smoked said bong sends a person to a bizarre drugged-out alternate realm from which there is no easy escape.

Jacob's Ladder (1990)

Directed by: Adrian Lyne
Streaming on: Amazon Prime and Pluto TV

​Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of death.

John Dies at the End (2012)

Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Streaming on: Tubi

​A new street drug that sends its users across time and dimensions has one drawback: some people return no longer human. Can two college drop-outs save humanity from this silent, otherworldly invasion?

The Love Witch (2016)

Directed by: Anna Biller
Streaming on: Shudder, Amazon Prime and Vudu

A modern-day witch uses spells and magic to get men to fall in love with her, with deadly consequences.

Mandy (2018)

Directed by: Panos Cosmatos and Casper Kelly
Streaming on: Shudder

​The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Midsommar (2019)

Directed by: Ari Aster
Streaming on: Amazon Prime

​A couple travels to Sweden to visit a rural hometown's fabled mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

In the Mouth of Madness (1994)

Directed by: John Carpenter
Streaming on: Shudder

​An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

Phantasm (1979)

Directed by: Don Coscarelli
Streaming on: Shudder, Vudu and Tubi

​A teenage boy and his friends face off against a mysterious grave robber known only as the Tall Man, who keeps a lethal arsenal of terrible weapons with him.

Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)

Directed by: Deborah Brock
Streaming on: Shudder and Amazon Prime

​Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to their condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.

The Velocipastor (2018)

Directed by: Brendan Steere
Streaming on: Amazon Prime and Vudu

​After losing his parents, a priest travels to China, where he inherits a mysterious ability that allows him to turn into a dinosaur. At first horrified by this new power, a hooker convinces him to use it to fight crime. And ninjas.

By Matt Konopka