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Looking for the best scary movies on Netflix? After a guided map of the most terrifying dingy dungeons, creaky manors, home-invaded houses, and deeply dark woods you can find on the streaming service? Then your search has led you to your glorious streaming doom: The Best Horror Movies on Netflix!
There are, conservatively, fourteen billion terrible horror movies out there. We sorted through them to find the best scary movies on Netflix. Ahead, discover horrors, thrillers, and slashers that we can, in all good conscience, recommend. Go get scared.
It's essential, obviously, to watch the first Creep before sitting down to Creep 2. But the sequel builds on and outdoes the original in every possible way, wringing new drama, laughs, and scares from a conceit most reasonably figured had been bled dry. It's a tiny modern masterpiece.
If Squid Games has you fiending for more Korean cinema, add Forgotten to the queue. Mashing mystery, horror, murder, and thriller into one film, this twisting tale of a brother trying to discover what happened to his seemingly amnesic sibling after having been kidnapped for 19 days has a little something for everyone.
After a veterinary school freshman is forced to eat meat for the first time in her life she develops a taste for flesh, leaving her meek vegetarian ways behind and indulging in all things carnal. Vibrant visual horror plus coming of age drama creates a French fusion that might just be the best new scare on streaming.
Scrapping the trash Exorcist 2 from the canon, original creator William Peter Blatty returns with a vengeance and a new thrilling case of possession. After local Boston cop William Kinderman (George C. Scott) notices a link between an ongoing string of murders and the cases of a serial killer that was executed fifteen years prior he reopens the investigation only to find demons waiting for him on the other side.
Based on a real-life case, the Enfield Poltergeist plastered U.K. newspapers between 1977 and 1979 with the story of two pre-teen sisters haunted by evil spirits. These spirits never met paranormal investigators/relationship goals couple Ed (Wilson) and Lorraine Warren (Farmiga) though. Armed with a whole new bag of tricks and ghosts sporting creepy British accents The Conjuring 2 manages to outdo its predecessor in both fun and fright.
A revolting story about a woman taken prisoner by her sick S.O.B. boyfriend in his apartment. There is no humor or fun-loving moments in this one. This is a terrifying dose of reality that is made more frightening by the fact that even while writing this there are thousands of human beings living it.
Period pieces always have the upper hand when it comes to horror, because the past just makes everything creepier. Dan Stevens and Michael Sheen bring this slow burn mind game of tweed and past traumas to a scorching boil when Christianity and cult religion clash on a desolate island located off the shores of 1905 England.
Horror films live and die by their concept, and The Call has one of the best in years. After answering an old landline, Kim Seo-yeon (Park Shin-Hye) discovers the woman on the other end, Young Sook (Jeon Jong-seo), is calling from 20-years earlier. Attempting to meddle with time to improve her own position, Seo-yeon sets off a string of events resulting in the murder of her father and her own imprisonment.
More of a gimmick than a fully fleshed-out film, this half-baked horror (and surprisingly huge hit) does manage to stir up some genuine jumps with sharp camera work and snappy use of audio. The biggest thrill comes from the wait for the monster reveal, which makes the viewing experience an overall enjoyable one. Is it worth a watch? Absolutely. Is it worth a re-watch? Maybe not so much.
The Lost Boys with an uptown vibe, Vampires vs. the Bronx brings 80s-style bloodsucking horror to the no nonsense streets of New York. Highly self-aware and packed full of jump-out screams, this supernatural spin on the very real issue of gentrification never loses sight of its message, or its purpose to entertain.
Guts, giggles, and girl power make this early 2000s-style teen horror as entertaining as it is frightening. Featuring a performance from Johnny Knoxville as a Bible Belt preacher, this time machine of terror about cult murders during a music festival party transports you back to an era when being terrified with friends was some of the best fun you could have.
Capping off the era of high-quality, low-budget horrors that dotted the 2010s, It Comes at Night tells the now all-too-familiar story of extreme isolation due to a pandemic. The fact this one hit as hard as it did before the world imploded only makes the prospect of a rewatch more terrifying.
A good enough thrill set in the Alaskan tundra, this man vs. nature turned man vs. man turned man vs. man with the help of nature film relies largely on the cast to carry the story. Good thing this cast is stacked with Jeffrey Wright, Alexander Skarsgrd, and James Badge Dale all supplying great performances that make this simple piece better than it has any right to be.
This major scare from Madrid brings adds contemporary twists to the terror of The Exorcist. When Catholic school girls start playing with Ouija boards, bad things are bound to happen: unleashed demons, soul-hungry blind nuns, and all types of religious guilt. Be forewarned, this one will hit especially hard for those that grew up a member of the Papal faith.
This creepy Netflix original follows the story of Angel, a paramedic (no surprise there) who is on a path to destroy everything in his life. When tragedy strikes, things only get worse. The film just keeps getting darker, and darker, and darker still. Prepare to shiver every time you hear an ambulance wail and think of this disturbing film.
Rounding out our list of the best scary movies on Netflix is Blumhouse's Truth or Dare. The age-old game that we've all been playing since childhood takes an insidious turn. The consequences of a dare are deadly, but opting for truth isn't safe either. And if you choose not to take a turn? You die immediately. Lucy Hale stars in this horror flick that you will not soon forget.
With the best horror movies on Netflix, every night can be fright night. We've combed through the streamer's sprawling library to round up the best of Netflix's scary movies that will unearth your deepest fears. This includes one of our favorite horror franchises as well as critically acclaimed entries in the genre like "It Follows" and "His House."
Horror movie fans may be drawn to the genre for wildly different reasons. Some love the adrenaline rush of getting the bejesus scared out of them, others the mystery of why that killer is out there hacking and slashing. Maybe you just want to watch unruly teens get terrorized because of some twisted karmic justice. We're not here to judge, and neither is Netflix.
Say what you will about "The Conjuring" universe and its many, many spin-offs, but "The Conjuring 2" is easily the series at its best. Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren are back at it again, this time hopping across the pond to help a single mother and her four children living in a house plagued by malevolent spirits.
Madison Wolfe steals the show as Janet, a young girl seemingly possessed by an angry old man who appears in the family's armchair, insisting the house is his. While the reoccurring paranormal events terrify the family enough to flee their home, their story is called into question as the Warrens dig deeper, which adds an interesting wrinkle to the haunted house trope. "The Conjuring 2" also introduced several recurring characters and elements the series would revisit in later installments.
Honestly, my biggest gripe with this movie is what came after it: The fact that the Nun inspired two mediocre prequels while the zoetrope-haunting Crooked Man hasn't gotten so much as a spin-off is nothing short of a tragedy. - AS
A24's critically acclaimed horror comedy "Bodies Bodies Bodies" is a Gen Z twist on the classic "whodunit?" Pete Davidson stars as David, a rich 20-something who invites his fellow rich friends to a night of debauchery at his family's mansion to wait out a hurricane. They soon decide to play a murder mystery game, but things take a turn when, after a heated argument, the power goes out and one of them ends up dead.
They start to turn on each other as they're forced to figure out who's behind the night's violent turn. Throughout the movie, the group is constantly taking verbal jabs at each other in a way that might make you think this is a satire of Gen Z. But rather than coming off as cringey and out-of-touch, "Bodies Bodies Bodies" has received praise for its biting observations, clever writing, and shrewd, class-aware humor. It's been hailed as the next generation's "Mean Girls" or "Heathers." - AS
Based on the book series of the same name by Alvin Schwartz, "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" is a smart horror film about the narratives we tell ourselves and, more importantly, how they make for great nightmare fodder. It's also filled to the brim with haunting set pieces, terrifying practical effects, and entirely too realistic monsters from the legend himself, Guillermo del Toro.
The shadow of the Bellows family has loomed large over the fictional town of Mill Valley for generations. When a group of teenagers chance sneaking into the family's supposedly haunted mansion, they uncover a book of horror stories written by the young Sarah Bellows. These terrifying tales soon have a way of becoming all too real as Sarah, now a ghost, starts writing new short stories, resulting in horrible fates for the unsuspecting teenagers. The friends must learn more about Sarah's tragic past to put an end to these hauntings once and for all. - AS
This Netflix original masterfully uses a monster movie framework to deconstruct moral dilemmas around fear, guilt and what we owe one another. While out drinking one night, two friends, Luke (Rafe Spall) and Robert (Paul Reid), break off from their group to stop by a convenience store. They walk in on a robbery gone awry, but Luke manages to hide and watches terrified as the burglars kill his friend.
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