Every Horror & Dark Thriller Movie New to Netflix in July 2025

July features a good mix of new originals and older favorites.

How effective is Muay Thai when fighting against zombies? Find out in the Netflix Original Ziam streaming this month!

July’s new-to-Netflix offerings include a few exiting Netflix Originals, a classic shark-attack franchise, a great Wes Craven thriller, and more. Take a look below at all of the horror and horror-adjacent thrillers joining Netflix in July 2025. Streaming dates are listed in the link beneath each image/trailer.

Red Eye (2005)

Red Eye (2005)
Rachel McAdams and Cillian Murphy star in Red Eye.

Directed by Wes Craven, Red Eye is a tense thriller about a hotel manager, Lisa, who is ensnared in an assassination plot when she is taken hostage in plain view of everyone on a red-eye flight from Dallas to Miami. If she alerts anyone to her captor’s plans or if she disobeys his orders, then her father will be killed.

Ziam (2025)

Netflix Original
Ziam boasts plenty of practical makeup effects for its zombies.

During a zombie outbreak in Thailand, a Muay Thai fighter utilizes his expertise in the Art of Eight Limbs to battle through a horde of zombies in hand-to-hand fashion. His goal: save his love from a terrible fate.

Brick (2025)

Netflix Original

When an apartment building is mysteriously surrounded by a brick wall, the inhabitants must work together to try to find a way out.

Jaws 1-4 (1975-1987)

Jaws (1975)
Netflix has a decent number of shark movies, but none of them are better than Jaws.

The Jaws franchise returns to Netflix just in time for Shark Week! All four Jaws movies will begin streaming on the same day, July 15th, 2025.

Krampus (2015)

Krampus (2015)
Krampus was directed by Michael Dougherty (Godzilla: King of the Monsters, Trick ‘r Treat).

It’s Christmas in July when Krampus lands on Netflix in the middle of the month. This horror-comedy tells the story of a boy who has lost the spirit of the season, which invokes the ire of the monstrous Krampus.

Wall to Wall (2025)

Netflix Original
Kang Ha-neul stars in Wall to Wall. He played Kang Dae-ho, player 388, in Squid Game seasons 2 and 3.

Woo-seong has finally saved enough to buy an apartment of his own. Soon after moving in, strange noises can be heard between the floors of the building. Woo-seong’s neighbors blame him for the disturbances, and his search for the source of the noise is fraught with danger.

The Cursed (2021)

The Cursed (2021)
The Cursed was originally screened in festivals under the title Eight for Silver.

The Cursed is a Gothic horror movie set in late-1800s France. The story involves a Romani curse that plays out as a unique spin on a werewolf narrative.

Meet The Author

Chris has a degree in film studies at Temple University’s campus in Tokyo, Japan. He is a renowned expert on horror cinema.