The streaming era doesn’t always make it easy to view complete franchises in one place, but a near-complete long-running monster movie franchise just found a new streaming home. The creature feature genre has brought some of the most iconic characters to the screen, from Frankenstein’s Monster to Godzilla. The late ‘90s introduced fans to another terrifying spectacle that, a few decades later, crossed over with another iconic creature from the horror genre.
Videos by ComicBook.com
Tubi subscribers looking for a creature feature marathon can now stream almost the complete Lake Placid film series. Created by David E. Kelley, the movies center around massive man-eating crocodiles in Black Lake, Maine, and various groups’ efforts to defeat them. The first five movies – Lake Placid (1999), Lake Placid 2 (2007), Lake Placid 3 (2010), Lake Placid: The Final Chapter (2012), and Lake Placid vs. Anaconda (2015), a crossover film with the Anaconda franchise – started streaming on Tubi on September 1st. However, the free streaming platform is not streaming 2018’s sixth and most recent installment, Lake Placid: Legacy (2018). That film is available on Hulu with a Hulu + Live TV subscription.
Why You Should Watch the Lake Placid Movies
If you’re looking for a creature feature that reaches the same heights as Jaws, you won’t find it in the Lake Placid film series. In fact, all six movies in the franchise have rotten critics’ and audience scores on Rotten Tomatoes, the initial 1999 movie securing the highest ratings with 47% Tomatometer and 37% Popcornmeter scores. But that doesn’t mean the Lake Placid movies aren’t worth watching, especially now that they’re streaming for free.
The movies heavily lean into campy horror-comedy, delivering a goofy and fun watch packed with witty dialogue, over-the-top characters, and exaggerated and memorable moments all set squarely in a familiar monster-movie formula that itself is hilariously outlandish. The films, particularly the first, also feature memorable casts, with White’s performance as the foul-mouthed Delores Bickerman a highlight for the franchise. The quality of the movies drops from film to film, but the original Lake Placid maintains a cult classic status, and the sequels are well worth a watch for those looking for an easy-to-watch, absurd creature feature.
Other Horror Movies Now on Tubi
The Lake Placid movies were just a handful of dozens of horror films that began streaming on Tubi on September 1st. Tubi viewers can now also stream Evil Dead (2013), Fright Night (1985), Halloween (2018), I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997), Paranormal Activity, Scream 4, and The Cabin in the Woods.
Tubi’s horror catalog is set to grow even further next month, with the streamer’s October 2025 content lineup set to bring the arrivals of 30 Days of Night and 30 Days of Night: Dark Days, An American Werewolf In London, The Hills Have Eyes, Insidious: The Last Key, The Omen (1976), The Ring, and the first three Saw movies on October 1st. Additional horror tiles will be added later in the month.
The platform also offers family-friendly options such as Coraline, Monster House, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, and Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride.
What do you think? Leave a comment below and join the conversation now in the ComicBook Forum!
Most Viewed
-
Image courtesy of Stage 6 Films -
Image courtesy of Lucasfilm
