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

‘Creepypasta’

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.