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Pleasenote: This list pertains to U.S. Amazon subscribers. Some titles may not currently be available on international platforms. This article is frequently amended to remove films no longer on Amazon and to include more horror movies that are now available on the service.

Smile is a textbook definition horror movie that's scary, composed, and adheres to commen genre expectations. Sosie Bacon leads a film where seeing a haunting grin means you're about to become an evil entity's next victim. Storytelling lacks tightness as characters come and go from the absurd scenario, but the scares are all aces. Writer and director Parker Finn understands the bread and butter of most horror experiences: primetime chills. Finn's movie exists to make you scream and scream you shall. I'm not sure everything about the ending works for me personally? But it's still worth the stream for the adrenaline spikes alone.

Found footage fans already know why Adam Robitel's The Taking Of Deborah Logan is on this list. Deborah Logan (Jill Larson) permits a film crew to document her battle with Alzheimer's, but the production becomes more nightmare than informational research. Threads between mental illness and possession are pulled so delicately until jarring scares deliver thunderous horrors. Deborah's condition worsens as the camera rolls and evolves past medical explanations. Then we reach an open-wide finale moment that's been gif'ed a million times, assuring mass acclaim around Robitel's debut.

Haunted houses are part of any horror fan's comfort formula but can present storytelling problems. Why remain in an estate that aims to harm you? Or possess your family? Ted Geoghegan's We Are Still Here works as a New England ghost story because characters played by Barbara Crampton and Andrew Sensenig believe their new abode's strange occurrences are signs from their deceased son. A calmness keeps them settled until their assumptions are proven very, disastrously wrong. It's a third-act for the ages that pays off slower burns when Geoghegan unleashes more bloodshed in its closing remarks than some entire movies accomplish. Eat your hearts out, A24. Here's how you sustain elongated simmers with a proper climax.

So, which of the best movies on Amazon Prime can be considered the best in horror? We assume you came to this article looking for the answer to that question, and we are happy to provide you with this list of titles that you can watch instantly!

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime: Few modern horror films explore grief quite as intensely and with such exquisite nuance like The Descent, from writer and director Neil Marshall.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime: Amazon Prime also has an English-language remake of Goodnight Mommy, but the original from Austrian filmmaking duo Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala is the more creepily atmospheric and dread-inducingly brutal.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime: Before Bong Joon-ho won Best Director for his 2019 Best Picture Oscar winner, Parasite, he proved he was even a master of creature-features by crafting one of the best monster movies of its time with The Host.

Why it is one of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime: Chalamet reunites with Call Me By Your Name director Luca Guadagnino for another gripping period drama about forbidden love, but of a more viscerally shocking and grotesque sort, with Bones and All.

Interviews with surviving witnesses and raw footage captured by the victims exposes the mysteries surrounding a small-town haunted house attraction and chronicles the events leading to its ill-fated opening night.

A young woman (played by Ashley Laurence) discovers that her stepmother (played by Clare Higgins) and her uncle (played by Sean Chapman) are lovers who are part of a conspiracy involving murder, a strange puzzle box, and a group of sadomasochistic mutants from another dimension.

A young Welsh nurse (played by Morfydd Clark) desperately seeking redemption believes she has found her chance when she is assigned to care for a terminally ill dancer (played by Jennifer Ehle) and decides to pass her newfound religious beliefs onto her.

There are many great horror movies to be found on many different streaming platforms. However, the titles above might be enough to convince you to make Amazon Prime Video your prime location for a good scare.

The Cenobites are extra-dimensional beings who are mutilated and brainwashed into torturing humans for all eternity in the Labyrinth. All Cenobites were once human, with the exception of Angelique, the daughter of the demon god Leviathan.

When a person solves one of the many boxes (Carborro, the Lament Configuration, etc), a small group of Cenobites arrives. If Leviathan, god of Hell, believes the person is worthy to become a Cenobite, they are taken to Hell to be remade in a Transformation Chamber operated by the Engineer. The alteration is excruciatingly painful as the victim's body is excessively mutilated and their blood is siphoned out of their body, to be replaced with blue fluid. The procedure breaks the subject's mind completely to the point the transformed victim becomes completely devoid of their memories in their past life as human. When finished, what emerges is a twisted caricature of the original person, often tailored with perversions of aspects from their original persona (Dr. Channard's cenobite persona had surgical tools emerging from his hands and a giant lobotomy drill constantly vivisecting his brain, for example).

If the person is not deemed worthy, they will either still be taken into Hell, where they will spend all eternity in torment, or be destroyed on the spot. The destruction is not complete, however. On two separate occasions, destroying the human spirit left a "psychic tear" in the space and artifacts involved. It was proven during the events of the first two films that spilling blood upon this "tear" triggered a physical resurrection of the victim destroyed, who could then proceed to restore their humanity by consuming the blood and flesh of new victims, like a vampire.

Only by reversing the completion of a Lemarchand Box can a potential victim avoid being taken by the Cenobites, the most notable examples being Kirsty Cotton and Joey Sumerskill, who both were able to evade capture by the Cenobite Pinhead and complete the puzzle.

All Cenobites are bound to the Lemarchand boxes and subject to their rules: a box had to be opened for a Cenobite to attack, and only the one who had deliberately opened the box was a legitimate target (innocents tricked into opening the box, such as Tiffany, were not considered valid victims).

Despite being Leviathan's soldiers, they are not drones since some of them are capable of going rogue and even questioning Leviathan's authority. The prime example is the group of rebelling Cenobites led by Alastor or Doomsayer when he rallies his fellow Cenobites in questioning Leviathan's competency. Even Pinhead himself broke free of Hell at one point and began operating outside the rules until he was tricked into returning. However, these rebellions were short-lived since almost all the dissidents wound up being killed by their fellow Cenobites.

The Cenobites are immune to any kind of mortal weapon or attack used against them, unless the weapon is used by another Cenobite. The prime example is if humans try to shoot a Cenobite with a gun they are unfazed by the attack but the assault rifle used by the Cenobite Atkins can kill a Cenobite easily, in the case of Doomsayer. So far the only beings that can injure or kill a Cenobite are the Cenobites themselves, supernatural creatures, or a high-tier deity such as Leviathan's sister or Leviathan himself, in case any Cenobites upset him. In the movie version when a Cenobite dies, they return to their human form. Closing a puzzle box automatically forces all Cenobites summoned through it back into Hell.

Humans can actually kill and vanquish Cenobites if they possess holy, magical weapons or an artifact, like in the case of Dr Paul Merchant who permanently kills Pinhead and all his Cenobite cohorts using the Elysium Configuration.

Cenobite Pets are often grotesque beings created from the flesh of multiple souls, they are trained to be completely subserviant, but on occasion will express views harkening to their former identity.

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