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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now

In this month’s chilling picks, creepypasta and killer pasta, too.

 
A line of teenagers in hoodies, their faces painted with black and white patterns.
From left, Yubah Ortega, Valeria Lamm and Juan Pablo Ferreiro Soria in “The Hole in the Fence.”Credit…Alfonso Herrera Salcedo/Altered Innocence

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Creepypasta, for those unfamiliar with the term, describes online horror stories that depict uncanny nightmare realms; some go viral, like Momo and Slender Man.

This entertaining anthology compiles 10 creepypasta fictions from eight directors folded into a framing device about a man who finds a mysterious thumb drive in a house of horrors. The films vary in polish, fright and budget, but they’re generally eerie and all short, in some cases just a few minutes long — a nice departure from some of the bloatedness in the “V/H/S” franchise.

My favorite is Tony Morales’s “BEC,” a macabre meditation on mortality. Filmed in blue-tinted black and white (and told in Spanish), it’s about an older woman who wanders her home with her mouth covered in a filthy CPAP mask as a record player plays a warped rendition of “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” You don’t need me to tell you that a wolf isn’t what she should be afraid of.