The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor returns to Long Beach for its 13th season, running select nights September 18 through November 1, 2026, aboard the historic ocean liner itself. This year’s lineup includes six mazes — Shipwrecked: Brace for Impact, Lullaby: Teddy’s Revenge, Infirmary: The Siren Song, Voodoo: The Queen’s Curse, Big Top Terror: Carnival of Chaos, and Breakout! Maximum Security — plus rides like the new Alien Abduction and Sinister Swings/Rampage Double Wheel, live shows including Lady Mabel Presents: Scary Mary’s Dark Séance and Gale’s Requiem, and the ship’s five secret speakeasies.
Since the Queen Mary’s own haunted reputation does a lot of the work here, this list leans into that “already-haunted vessel” energy — one film for every maze, ride, and show on the ship this year.
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1. Below (2002) — for Shipwrecked: Brace for Impact
Shipwrecked: Brace for Impact traps guests inside the wreckage of a doomed vessel, and there’s no better nautical dread primer than Below — a WWII submarine crew slowly realizing their ship is carrying something that shouldn’t be aboard. Claustrophobic, waterlogged, and quietly terrifying, it’s the perfect mood-setter before you brace for impact yourself.
Watch it: Plex (free) · Netflix
2. Child’s Play (1988) — for Lullaby: Teddy’s Revenge
Lullaby: Teddy’s Revenge turns a nursery keepsake into a stalking nightmare, which makes the original Child’s Play required viewing — the film that proved a stitched-together toy with something evil inside is scarier than almost anything with teeth. Chucky wrote the rulebook this maze is clearly still reading from.
Watch it: Tubi (free) · Prime Video
3. Session 9 (2001) — for Infirmary: The Siren Song
Infirmary: The Siren Song wanders guests through decaying medical wards and the voices that linger there, so pair it with Session 9 — a slow-burn psychological horror film set in an abandoned asylum that gets under your skin without ever raising its voice. It’s the gold standard for “the building itself is the threat.”
Watch it: The Roku Channel (free) · Prime Video
4. The Skeleton Key (2005) — for Voodoo: The Queen’s Curse
Voodoo: The Queen’s Curse steeps guests in Southern hoodoo and generations-old vengeance, matching up nicely with The Skeleton Key — a New Orleans-set thriller built entirely around Hoodoo folklore, soul-swapping curses, and a mansion with more secrets than doors. Watch it for the atmosphere; stay for the ending that recontextualizes everything.
Watch it: Tubi (free) · Prime Video
5. 31 (2016) — for Big Top Terror: Carnival of Chaos
Big Top Terror: Carnival of Chaos throws guests into a demented circus midway, so cue up Rob Zombie’s 31 — a group of carnival workers hunted for sport by face-painted killers in an abandoned compound. It’s grimy, garish, and exactly the kind of carnival horror this maze is chasing.
Watch it: Tubi (free) · Prime Video
6. Prison (1987) — for Breakout! Maximum Security
Breakout! Maximum Security locks guests inside a decaying correctional facility with something worse than the guards, which lines up with Prison — a supernatural horror film where a long-dead inmate’s vengeful spirit starts picking off everyone still behind bars. Old cellblocks, restless ghosts, no way out.
Watch it: The Roku Channel (free) · Plex (free)
7. Fire in the Sky (1993) — for Alien Abduction
The Queen Mary’s new spinning ride, Alien Abduction, has one obvious cinematic companion: Fire in the Sky, the based-on-a-true-story account of a logger’s terrifying, hazy-memoried abduction aboard a UFO. Its infamous medical-exam sequence remains one of horror’s most unsettling extraterrestrial scenes — watch it before you get pulled up yourself.
Watch it: Tubi (free) · Netflix
8. The Funhouse (1981) — for Sinister Swings & Rampage Double Wheel
Before you climb aboard Sinister Swings or the Rampage Double Wheel, revisit Tobe Hooper’s The Funhouse — teenagers trapped overnight at a traveling carnival with a masked killer loose among the rides. It’s the definitive “the fair isn’t safe after dark” movie, and this deck full of spinning attractions is basically daring you to remember that.
Watch it: Plex (free) · Prime Video
9. Insidious (2010) — for Lady Mabel Presents: Scary Mary’s Dark Séance & Gale’s Requiem
The ship’s séance shows — Scary Mary’s Dark Séance and Gale’s Requiem — both center on communing with the dead in ways that don’t stay contained, which is the entire premise of Insidious. A family’s attempt to reach a lost loved one opens a door to something that follows them home. Watch it before you sit down for your own séance on the water.
Watch it: Plex (free) · Prime Video
10. Dracula (1931) — for the Five Secret Speakeasies
Dark Harbor’s five hidden speakeasies trade in old-world glamour and something dangerous just beneath the surface, so round out the night with the original Dracula — Bela Lugosi’s velvet-cloaked, impeccably mannered count who invented “elegant and lethal” for an entire genre. Find your way into a speakeasy the same way you’d find your way into his parlor: carefully.
Watch it: Tubi (free) · Netflix
Ten films, six mazes, one very haunted ocean liner. The Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor runs select nights September 18 through November 1, 2026, in Long Beach — work through this list before you board, because the ship’s own history means you’re never entirely watching fiction.
