Haunt Index
An indie horror discovery app that tracks streaming availability for new horror releases, alerts you when titles are leaving a platform, and curates by subgenre like folk horror, cosmic dread, and slasher.
Horror movie fans hunting for indie and theatrical horror across streaming platforms
- Cross-platform streaming tracker showing where to watch new horror releases on Peacock, Shudder, Prime, Apple TV
- Leaving-soon alerts for horror titles about to drop off your subscribed services
- Subgenre filters for folk horror, cosmic dread, body horror, psychological, and slasher with curated lists per bucket
- Community ratings weighted toward horror-specific metrics like jump-scares-per-minute, gore level, dread quotient, and slow-burn pacing
Curry Barker's Obsession is streaming on Peacock while still in theaters — horror fans are actively searching for streaming info on indie horror that changes week to week.
Multiple existing products in this exact niche (Autopsy horror tracker, Screamify streaming, Creepy Catalog release tracker) plus Shudder's established horror subscription prove an active audience willing to build tools around indie horror discovery.Autopsy: Horror Tracker App - App Store ↗New/Upcoming Horror Movies - Creepy Catalog ↗
Autopsy already combines subgenre tagging (Cosmic, Folk Horror, Slasher, Body Horror), streaming-platform logging, watchlists and alerts; Screamify and Creepy Catalog cover indie discovery, so Haunt Index would have to differentiate sharply on streaming-availability-tracking alone.Autopsy: Horror Tracker App - App Store ↗Screamify: First Impressions of the New Indie Horror Streaming App ↗
Autopsy monetizes via a $3.99 'Directors Cut' IAP and Shudder runs a paid horror subscription, but indie horror is a niche audience and Autopsy shows 'not enough ratings' so willingness-to-pay at scale is unproven.Autopsy: Horror Tracker App - App Store ↗Shudder Subscription: The Plans, The Price And What's Included ↗
Horror as a genre is evergreen (Shudder has run since 2015, subgenre micro-categories like folk horror/cosmic dread continue to trend), giving the app multi-year relevance rather than a one-season spike.Shudder - Review 2025 - PCMag Canada ↗
Doable but non-trivial: requires aggregating streaming availability across Netflix/Peacock/Prime/Shudder which typically means licensing JustWatch/TMDB data or scraping, plus push-notification infra; no horror-specific APIs exist.WhereToWatch - Search Where to Watch Any Movie or Show Worldwide ↗