28 Best Horror Movies on Netflix to Stream Now
Based on the 2015 video game of the same name, Until Dawn follows a group of friends staying at a secluded cabin (classic!) who are trapped in a time loop and are forced to try and survive until morning every day. Dying resets the loop, which only increases the danger with each new trial. The film was helmed by Annabelle: Creation (2017) director David F. Sandberg, who just signed on to direct two more horror films for Netflix in the near future.
Living in Hawaii sounds like a dream, but There’s Someone Inside Your House is more of a nightmare. The film follows a teenage girl who moves in with her grandmother, then gets entangled in an eerie mystery when her classmates are randomly murdered.
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The Platform welcomes you to an experimental prison where inmates are stacked on top of one another. Every day, they are fed by a descending buffet, but the inmates on the bottom level never get their fair share—that is, until a new prisoner takes matters into his own hands.
Sandra Bullock, Sarah Paulson, Trevante Rhodes, and John Malkovich star in this dystopian thriller (and Netflix original film) about a woman who must travel blindfolded with her children to safety as an unseen force stalks them on their journey.
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Would you talk to the dead if you could? In Mr. Harrigan’s Phone, a kid named Craig befriends an elderly man who gifts him a cell phone. When the man dies, Craig realizes he can still talk to his unlikely bestie—but doing so comes with grave consequences.
Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder return for the comedy horror sequel to Beetlejuice packed with even wackier undead monsters, zombie clowns, and director Tim Burton's patented flair. It's not the scariest choice this Halloween season, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice a horror romp that the whole family can enjoy.
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This South Korean zombie film isn't just another great vehicle for Squid Game's Gong Yoo, it's also one of the best action-horror films of the last decade. The zombie outbreak in Train to Busan is held almost exclusively on one of South Korea's high-speed bullet trains, providing for a dangerous and claustrophobic story that doesn't let up.
Stephen Spielberg's original monster blockbuster, Jaws, is currently available to stream on Netflix. The shark thriller is celebrating its 50th anniversary, so there's no better time to watch for the first time (or revisit) this 70's classic.
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Lee Daniels's The Deliverance works a bit better when the Precious and The Butler director flexes his melodramatic muscles, but if you ever wanted to see an exorcism plot thrown in the mix then The Deliverance is your kind of film. The 2024 horror film also boasts a cast featuring Andra Day, Glenn Close, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, and Mo'Nique.
Netflix’s big reboot of a 70s classic stayed under the radar because the streamer released it during the notably not-scary month of February. Make it right by giving Texas Chainsaw Massacre a shot this Halloween season.
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And don't forget the original! If you're game to compare and contrast with the reboot, Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre from 1974 is still one of the greatest slashers of all time.
Dave Bautista and Zack Snyder team up for this no-holds-barred zombie heist flick that the former Justice League director stated was a "spiritual successor" to the popular Dawn of the Dead films.
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A Classic Horror Story, if the name didn’t tip you off, is the kind of scary movie you want to keep in your pocket for a rainy night during Halloween season. It’s spooky but not too spooky. It involves a cabin in the woods and some lost campers. You know, a classic horror story.
Slasher fans, rejoice: Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy is for you. Fun, fast-paced, and appropriately bloody, it might fill the Jason Voorhees-sized hole in your life. Plus, if you’re missing Stranger Things right about now, Fear Street features Sadie Sink and Maya Hawke in its ensemble.
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What’s a truly special camp-horror-slasher flick without a mysterious and insidious-sounding sequel? We can’t share too much more about Fear Street’s sequel without spoiling it for you, but rest assured—the terror continues.
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You’re missing out if you waltz into The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It without knowing all of the shit that the franchise’s leading demonologists got into beforehand. Here, Lorraine and Ed Warren go to north London to investigate—what else?—a haunted house. Never gets old.
Don’t let this one stay under the radar. One of Netflix’s best horror originals, His House is as terrifying as it is smart—telling a refugee story through a South Sudanese couple who find asylum in England.
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What’s a good scary-movie list without a Stephen King adaptation? Start your marathon of stories from the horror master with 1922, about a murderous rancher who gets his son in on the evildoing. Once you’re done, check out the novella it’s based on. Or read the novella before watching the movie. Can’t go wrong either way.
Friends, countrymen, Sandlerites: Hubie Halloween was pretty damn good. There’s a piss joke in the first five minutes, several vomit-inducing images will be burned into your brain, and Steve Buscemi plays a werewolf. But still. Pretty damn good.
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