{"id":189914,"date":"2025-06-16T20:56:12","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189914\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T20:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T20:56:12","slug":"viral-outbreak-horror-movies-to-stream-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189914\/","title":{"rendered":"Viral Outbreak Horror Movies to Stream This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

The rage virus is back \u2013 and evolved \u2013 this week with 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle<\/strong> and writer Alex Garland<\/strong>\u2018s 28 Years Later<\/strong>, releasing in theaters on Friday. It serves as a potent reminder of how intense and chilling viral outbreak horror movies can be; it\u2019s difficult to fight against, let alone evade, microscopic germs that spread with ease.<\/p>\n

Leave it to horror to exploit viral fears with monstrous contagions that wreak havoc on the human population. This week\u2019s streaming picks are dedicated to viral outbreak horror movies that bring the intensity but avoid heading down the familiar zombie path. These five horror titles unleash supernatural or bioweapon contagions that induce violence and leave you on edge.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s where you can stream them this week.<\/p>\n

For more\u00a0Stay Home, Watch Horror<\/strong>\u00a0picks, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

28 Weeks Later \u2013 Hulu, Tubi<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Six months after the rage virus ravaged Great Britain\u2019s population, the US Army helped to secure a small area of London for the survivors to resume a post-apocalyptic life. After a carrier of the highly infectious pathogen gets brought in for testing, however, the virus takes root in the quarantined city and threatens to destroy them all. Introducing a whole new set of characters, 28 Weeks Later frames an intense cat-and-mouse thrill ride around a family splintered by the initial outbreak. Robert Carlyle makes for an unnerving antagonist as a father whose guilt marks the impetus for this viral nightmare.<\/p>\n

The Crazies \u2013 Fandango at Home, Hoopla, Fawesome, Kanopy, Pluto TV, Roku Channel, Starz<\/strong><\/p>\n

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This update to George A. Romero\u2019s 1973 classic goes heavy on the suspense and dread. Set in small-town Iowa, residents start turning inexplicably violent. Sheriff David Dutton (Timothy Olyphant), his deputy Russell (Joe Anderson), David\u2019s wife Judy (Radha Mitchell), and her assistant Becca (Danielle Panabaker), band together to survive against the onslaught of crazed citizens and the military that\u2019s arrived to snuff out the outbreak. It\u2019s a harrowing race to escape for the foursome, dodging armed forces and infected alike.<\/p>\n

Invasion of the Body Snatchers \u2013 Kanopy, Max<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Invasion<\/p>\n

Strange pods land on Earth, grow, and invade San Francisco like a virus in this update on the 1956 sci-fi classic. They take over humans while they\u2019re asleep, creating emotionless duplicates to take over the world. It\u2019s a story that should feel quite familiar at this point, considering it\u2019s been remade so many times, but it\u2019s hard to shake the imagery from this version. The cast is stacked here, too: Donald Sutherland, Brooke Adams, Veronica Cartwright, Art Hindle, Leonard Nimoy, and Jeff Goldblum star. The viral nature of this alien invasion makes for a bleak journey.<\/p>\n

Pontypool <\/b>\u2013 AMC+, Shudder<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"Valentine's<\/p>\n

Stephen McHattie is a commanding presence in this atypical outbreak horror movie. The actor plays shock jock DJ Grant Mazzy piecing together an outbreak in Pontypool, Ontario, from his radio station booth as events play out in real-time on air. That means much of the action happens via audio, with reports and town residents calling into the station. Yet, none of that detracts from the suspense. It\u2019s an unusual yet effective take on an outbreak, and winter serves as an excuse to keep its main character trapped inside and feeling secluded.<\/p>\n

[REC] \u2013 Tubi<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"REC\"<\/p>\n

Jaume Balaguer\u00f3 and Paco Plaza\u2019s outbreak horror film follows reporter \u00c1ngela Vidal (Manuela Velasco) and her cameraman Pablo, played by unseen actor\u00a0<\/strong>Pablo Rosso, as they cover the night shift of a local fire station for their television series \u201cWhile You\u2019re Sleeping.\u201d It begins as a quiet evening but spirals into abject terror when they become trapped in quarantine with a deadly outbreak.\u00a0[REC] gives the subgenre a new, bone-chilling twist, making for a non-stop horror assault that puts the viewer right in the thick of the terror.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The rage virus is back \u2013 and evolved \u2013 this week with 28 Days Later director Danny Boyle…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3935],"tags":[77825,77,1123,77826,3943,77827,77828,37948,77829,13803,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189914","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-28-weeks-later","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-featured","11":"tag-invasion-of-the-body-snatchers","12":"tag-movies","13":"tag-pontypool","14":"tag-rec","15":"tag-stay-home-watch-horror","16":"tag-the-crazies","17":"tag-topnews","18":"tag-uk","19":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114695045032917963","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}