The 20 Best Horror Movies On Netflix Right Now, Ranked
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Last Updated: June 26th
If you want to find good scary movies on Netflix to watch, the streaming service is a great platform for a meat-cleaving marathon. From ghosts to vampires, zombies, and monsters, just about every morbid fantasy your demented mind can conjure has representation in the scariest films available. Forget Googling all the horror film choices in the overcrowded menu — we’ve already watched the best horror movies on Netflix right now, and here they are ranked from beastly to blood-curling. Now, sit back, heat up some pizza, and ignore the ghoul standing ominously at the end of your driveway.
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20) The Fury (1978)
Brian De Palma’s post-Carrie telekinesis film is far from the great achievement its predecessor was, but it is nonetheless pulpy good fun that delivers one of the most literally explosive climaxes in horror history. Be prepared for some very, very ’70s moments, including the sight of an orange-colored Kirk Douglas in short-shorts on a beach, firing a machine gun. Amy Irving’s giant eyes have never been put to better use.
19) Pontypool (2008)
This Canadian horror film traps several employees of a radio station at work as their broadcast shifts from entertaining the residents of a small Ontario town to trying to save them — and themselves. As a virus begins to spread through language itself, forcing the townspeople to commit horrific acts, host Grant Mazzy (Stephen McHattie) rushes to find a cure before everyone is consumed by it. Pontypool works as a clever low-budget film, a smart take on the zombie genre, and an allegory portraying the power of language and mass communication.
18) The Hallow (2015)
Corin Hardy made his feature directorial debut with this tale of a young married couple who move into a charming rural home in Ireland — only to be stalked by a race of vicious forest-dwelling creatures who have designs on their infant son.The Hallow is a gloomy tale punctuated by a series of brutally effective sequences of horror in the final 45 minutes, but there’s real feeling beneath the frights, making it clear why Hardy was chosen to direct Relativity’s continually delayed reboot of The Crow.
17) Honeymoon (2014)
Leigh Janiak (recently hired to co-write and direct a remake of The Craft) made her directorial debut with this low-budget film about a recently-married couple (Rose Leslie and Harry Treadaway) honeymooning in the woods who begin to unravel when the wife begins exhibiting increasingly-bizarre behavior. Leslie and Treadaway have great on-screen chemistry, and the central theme — “do you really know the person you’re sleeping next to?” — is smartly explored all the way up to the the film’s haunting conclusion.
16) Creep (2014)
One of the better found-footage movies to come down the pike in Paranormal Activity‘s wake is this creepy gem about a videographer (director Patrick Brice) who answers a strange Craigslist ad from a man (Mark Duplass) who requests to be followed around with a camera for 24 hours. There are a few points late in the narrative where suspension of disbelief becomes an issue (a not-atypical problem for the genre), but if you can look past that, you’ll be treated to a very scary turn by Duplass and a supremely-unnerving epilogue.
15) A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
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Wes Craven’s film about Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund), a boogeyman who invades the dreams of some unsuspecting small-town teenagers became a surprise hit in 1984 by giving horror fans a break from the slasher fare that had dominated the early ’80s. Instead, Craven offered a hallucinatory story that too full advantage of its central conceit via dream sequences that turned its dreamers’ everyday reality against them. Naps became deathtraps. High school hallways became portals to a hellish underworld. Falling asleep in the bathtub invited fates worse than drowning. Its many sequels featured more elaborate set pieces and made Freddy bigger and funnier. But he was never scarier than in this first visit to Elm Street.
14) V/H/S (2012) and V/H/S/2 (2013)
Found footage horror movies can be hit-or-miss, but when it works it really works. The anthology films V/H/S and V/H/S/2 pack several short films into each feature, drawing on a talent pool that includes everyone from Adam Wingard (You’re Next, The Guest) Ti West (House of the Devil) and Jason Eisener (Hobo With a Shotgun). Not all the entries are great, but the weak entries don’t last very long and the strong ones are tough to forget.
13) Trollhunter (2010)
Norwegian director Andre Ovredal’s 2010 horror-fantasy merges scrappy found-footage cinematography with truly astounding visual effects in this story about a group of university students who discover a race of giant, man-eating trolls while making a documentary about a suspected bear poacher. Think Blair Witch meetsJurassic Park, shot through with a liberal dose of sharp satire as the young city-dwellers come up against a rural world that’s far more alien than they ever could have imagined.
12) Starry Eyes (2014)
Word-of-mouth has been building on Starry Eyes since it was released two years ago, and it’s not just talk. Alex Essoe is excellent as the struggling Hollywood starlet who hides an increasingly disturbed lust for recognition beneath her girl-next-door exterior, and in the third act writer-directors Dennis Widmyer and Kevin Kolsch deliver several queasy moments of body horror that will satiate the bloodlust of slightly-more-discerning gorehounds.
11) The Invitation (2016)
After back-to-back big studio bombs, Karyn Kusama returned to her scrappy indie roots with this contained, brilliantly suspenseful study of the darkness that can arise when people don’t allow themselves to feel. The Invitation isn’t a perfect film, but Kusama does a lot with the scant resources she had to play with here, and you have to appreciate her willingness to tackle grief so directly in a genre that tends to have little time for genuine human emotion.
10) Scream (1996)
Horror wasn’t exactly experiencing a heyday in the mid-’90s when Wes Craven, working from a script by newcomer Kevin Williamson, released Scream, a send-up of slasher movie tropes that also doubled as an effective slasher movie. It’s a neat trick, and one of the sharpest films in Craven’s filmography, and a film that’s only been slightly overshadowed by the lesser sequels and the much lesser imitators that followed.
9) Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)
If Scream was Wes Craven’s exercise in meta-horror, New Nightmare was his warm-up. Freddy Krueger is back for one last outing in the long-running series that extends back to 1984. Heather Langenkamp — playing herself instead of Nancy — returns for her third appearance in the franchise, as Freddy gets loose of the celluloid and begins attacking the cast and crew of the Nightmare films.
8) The Fly (1958)
Vincent Price was usually the most difficult-to-ignore element in any film in which he appeared, but this 1958 film about a teleportation experiment gone horribly awry pretty much ensures he’ll be upstaged by its strange monster, a human with a fly’s head. David Cronenberg’s 1986 remake brought that director’s obsessions with bodies and identity to the same plot — both films adapt George Langelaan’s short story — but the original remains a chilling creature feature that’s similarly tuned into the idea that the reckless exploration of science has consequences.
7) The Host (2006)
Korea’s Bong Joon-ho directs this marvelous monster movie that combines elements of horror, sci-fi, action and political satire to tell the story of a giant monster terrorizing Seoul. Bong had already made waves with his first-rate police thriller Memories of Murder, but The Host found him working on a much larger scale and displaying a gift for spectacle that would serve him well a few years later when he directed Snowpiercer (also streaming on Netflix).
6) It Follows (2014)
Sometimes the best horror movies have the simplest of concepts: A nearly unkillable thing is on its way to kill you. It worked for The Terminator, Halloween, and so many others, but It Follows takes a novel approach to the concept. The story centers on a girl who catches a sexually transmitted monster (STM) that’s only goal is to slowly follow its current victim until it can brutally execute them. No one who hasn’t been the monster’s prey can see it, it can take any human form it wants, and the only way to escape it is to pass it along to another sexual partner. The eerie cinematography and retro score push this thriller into terrifying territory to the point where you might not trust anyone walking toward you for a few days after watching it.
5) An American Werewolf In London (1981)
Few directors mix comedy and horror quite so easily as John Landis — Joe Dante is his closest rival — and few movies mix laughs and scares quite so well as this 1981 chiller about Americans abroad, which works both as a fish out of water comedy and a traditional werewolf movie. But Landis also understands that at some point the horror has to take over, and once An American Werewolf in London kicks into full horror mode, it doesn’t let up. Its make-up and, especially, its transformation scene remain unrivaled.
4) The Nightmare (2015)
One of the scariest movies on this list also happens to be a documentary, albeit one that aims to frighten audiences in the way of a typical narrative horror film. Director Rodney Ascher’s (Room 237) rumination on the terrifying phenomenon known as sleep paralysis plays like a more artful and particularly unnerving episode of Unsolved Mysteries, but what makes it even scarier is that everything described by the film’s subjects happened in their in their own tortured minds.
3) Hellraiser (1987)
Barker’s directorial debut captures the nightmarish qualities of his literary efforts. Based on The Hellbound Heart (a novella so unsettling no film could do it justice), Hellraiser mixes disturbing imagery with sexual undertones, in the process introducing Pinhead and a panoply of sadistic, multidimensional beings who would return for several sequels.
2) The Babadook (2014)
Starring Essie Davis (Miss Fisher’s Murder Mystery) and directed by Jennifer Kent, The Babadook is a bracing psychological horror film grounded in the terrors and frustration of parenthood. Davis plays a mother who lost her husband in a car accident on their way to the delivery room. She loves and resents her troubled 6-year-old son, feelings that seem to take supernatural form when a creepy pop-up book, Mister Babadook, mysteriously shows up on his shelf. Kent’s stylish film makes excellent uses of its creepy interiors. but it’s Davis’ committed performance that drives the horror home.
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1) The Shining (1980)
Almost 20 years after his death, Stanley Kubrick still owns a style of filmmaking that no one else can (or should) match. Whether it’s monoliths floating through space or aristocratic Brits talking by candlelight, Kubrick leaves his viewers with striking, often haunting images. And it doesn’t get any more haunting than his take on Stephen King’s The Shining. Despite Kubrick’s habit of adapting existing works, he makes every film his own, and The Shining is a prime example of an adaptation that improves on his source material. The film follow a slow descent into madness as Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) becomes increasingly crazed while maintaining an isolated hotel with his wife and son. With only a few significant characters, The Shining relies on Nicholson’s startling performance and Kubrick’s trademark style. While King wasn’t exactly thrilled with Kubrick’s interpretation (to the point where he produced his own TV version), theories and conversations around the film have continued into the present and even led to its own documentary titled Room 237. The Shining is just as powerful and looming as when it debuted, remaining stuck in time much like the Overlook Hotel it presents.
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