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Five Horror Movies to Stream Now

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Joel Potrykus and Joshua Burge in ‘Vulcanizadora.”

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By

Erik Piepenburg

April 24, 2026,

11:00 a.m. ET

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‘Vulcanizadora’

Stream it on Shudder.

Joel Potrykus’s darkly comic slow-burn

buddy movie

is streaming on Shudder, but it’s not a conventional horror movie. Most of it is about two friends who spend a walk in the woods talking smack, shooting off bottle rockets and

fighting over debts

. But once their destination is revealed, the film’s horrors are too, and that’s when this slacker meditation on aging and death squares up and delivers its blows.

The film opens as Marty (Joshua Burge) and his best friend, Derek (Potrykus, who also wrote and edited) traipse through the forest somewhere in Michigan, searching for something Derek seems to have misplaced before they set up a tent for the night. Derek is a goofball who talks a mile a minute and playfully bickers with Marty like they’re still 13. Marty seems like he’s moved on from their friendship, as if his day with Derek is an act of charity. When Marty says it’s time to say goodbye, Derek stalls. But it’s no use, because the plan Marty set in motion has no easy off button.

Burge and Potrykus are exceptional as longtime friends coming face to face with horrifying stakes. Potrykus is my kind of weirdo for using Maria Callas singing

“Casta Diva”

to sinister ends.

Vulcanizadora

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