The Best Horror Movies to Stream

Streaming on Netflix

I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997). Official synopsis: “Four young friends bound by a tragic accident are reunited when they find themselves being stalked by a hook-wielding maniac in their small seaside town.”

Genres: slasher movies, high school horror movies, summer, best horror movies of the 90s

The Platform 2 (2024). Official synopsis: “After a mysterious leader imposes his law in a brutal system of vertical cells, a new arrival battles against a dubious food distribution method.”

Genres: Spanish horror movies, class warfare, starvation, prison movies

Fear Street (2021). Official synopsis: “A circle of teenage friends accidentally encounter the ancient evil responsible for a series of brutal murders that have plagued their town for over 300 years. Welcome to Shadyside.”

Genres: slasher movies, high school horror movies, queer horror

47 Meters Down: Uncaged (2019). Official synopsis: “Women diving in a ruined underwater city quickly learn they’ve entered the territory of the deadliest shark species in the claustrophobic labyrinth of submerged caves.”

Genres: shark attack movies, underwater horror, claustrophobia

Creep (2014). Official synopsis: “A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man’s odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.”

Genres: found footage horror movies, isolation, serial killers

Thanksgiving (2023). Official synopsis: “After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts – the birthplace of the infamous holiday.”

Genres: slasher movies, high school horror movies, the horrors of shopping, Thanksgiving horror movies, dinner parties from hell

Coming Jan 15:

Hereditary (2018). Official synopsis: “A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.”

Genres: psychological horror, horror movies about grief, dysfunctional families, Ari Aster, scariest movies of all time

Streaming on Prime Video

Apocalypse Z (2024). Official synopsis: “Manel is sheltering from a rabies-like disease which sweeps the planet, until he is forced to leave and meet unlikely but essential traveling companions.”

Genres: zombie movies, Spanish horror, pandemic/outbreak movies, societal collapse, survival horror

Abigail (2024). Official synopsis: “After a group of criminals kidnap the ballerina daughter of a powerful underworld figure, they retreat to an isolated mansion, unaware that they’re locked inside with no normal little girl.”

Genres: horror movies with creepy kids, female villains, heist movies, best of 2024

Coming Jan 16:

The Calendar Killer (2025). Official synopsis: “Klara is going to die today unless she kills her husband instead. The Calendar Killer has given her that impossible choice.”

Genres: German horror movies, serial killer movies

Coming Jan 21:

Blink Twice (2024). Official synopsis: “When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. As strange things start to happen, Frida questions her reality.”

Genres: psychological thriller, isolation horror movies, nightmare travel, horror movies directed by women, twist-ending

Streaming on Paramount+

Smile 2 (2024). Official synopsis: About to embark on a world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events. Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and the pressures of fame, Skye is forced to face her past.

Genres: psychological horror, musicians in horror, curses

Apartment 7A (2024). Official synopsis: “A struggling young dancer finds herself drawn in by dark forces when a peculiar, well-connected older couple promise her a shot at fame.”

Genres: psychological horror, urban frights, set in New York City

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024). Official synopsis: “A young woman named Sam finds herself trapped in New York City during the early stages of an invasion by alien creatures with ultra-sensitive hearing.”

Genres: alien invasion, societal collapse, set in New York City

Final Destination (2000). Official synopsis: “After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student, saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.”

Genres: high school horror movies, grim reaper, airplane horror movies, based on a true story

Streaming on Peacock

Speak No Evil (2024). Official synopsis: “A family is invited to spend a whole weekend in a lonely home in the countryside, but as the weekend progresses, they realize that a dark side lies within the family who invited them.”

Genres: psychological horror, nightmare travel, Nordic horror movies

The Wailing (2016). Official synopsis: “Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.”

Genres: Korean horror movies, folk horror, best horror movies of the 2010s

Streaming on Max

The Front Room (2024). Official synopsis: “A newly pregnant couple are forced to take in an ailing, estranged stepmother.”

Genres: psychological thriller, scary moms, funny horror movies, scary old people

MaXXXine (2024). Official synopsis: “Spicy film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break, but a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”

Genres: slasher movies, horror movies about making movies, Ti West, Mia Goth

Black Swan (2010). Official synopsis: “Obsession drives a devoted ballerina (Oscar-winner Natalie Portman) to the brink of madness in this compelling masterpiece.”

Genres: psychological horror, scary moms, split personalities, set in New York City

Annabelle: Creation (2017). Official synopsis: “Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a doll-maker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, where they become the target of the doll-maker’s possessed creation, Annabelle.”

Genres: doll horror movies, Ed and Lorraine Warren, demonic possession movies, based on a true story

Streaming on Hulu

Cuckoo (2024). Official synopsis: “A 17-year-old girl is forced to move with her family to a resort where things are not what they seem.”

Genres: hotel horror movies, nightmare travel, best of 2024

Immaculate (2024). Official synopsis: “Cecilia, a woman of devout faith, is warmly welcomed to the picture-perfect Italian countryside where she is offered a new role at an illustrious convent. But it becomes clear to Cecilia that her new home harbors dark and horrifying secrets.”

Genres: nunsploitation, female rage, best of 2024, horror movies about pregnancy

Fresh (2022). Official synopsis: “After quitting dating apps, a woman meets the supposedly perfect man and accepts his invitation to a romantic weekend getaway, only to find that her new paramour has been hiding some unusual appetites.”

Genres: anti-romcoms, horror movies directed by women, cannibalism, black comedy

Coming Jan 8:

Fall (2022). Official synopsis: “When a high-rise climb goes wrong, best friends Becky and Hunter find themselves stuck at the top of a 2,000-foot TV tower.”

Genres: horror movies about people trapped in strange places, survival horror, fear of heights

Coming Jan 21:

Sleep (2023). Official synopsis: “A young, expectant wife must figure out how to stop her husband’s nightmarish sleepwalking habits before he harms himself or his family.”

Genres: Korean horror movies, black comedy, sleepwalking horror movies

Coming Jan 28:

Humane (2024). Official synopsis: “In the wake of an environmental collapse that is forcing humanity to shed 20% of its population, a family dinner erupts into chaos when a father’s plan to enlist in the government’s new euthanasia program goes horribly awry.”

Genres: climate change horror movies, societal collapse, dysfunctional families, dinner parties from hell

Streaming on Shudder

Exhuma (2024). Official synopsis: “The process of excavating an ominous grave unleashes dreadful consequences buried underneath.”

Genres: Korean horror movies, folk horror, best of 2024

Watcher (2022). Official synopsis: “A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.”

Genres: voyeur movies, urban frights, horror movies directed by women, Maika Monroe, best of 2022

The Sadness (2021). Official synopsis: “A young couple trying to reunite amid a city ravaged by a plague that turns its victims into deranged, bloodthirsty sadists.”

Genres: zombie movies, Taiwanese horror, urban frights, horror movies with good love stories

Host (2020). Official synopsis: “Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.”

Genres: found footage horror movies, British horror, demonic possession movies

One Cut of the Dead (2017). Official synopsis: “Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.”

Genres: found footage horror movies, zombie movies, horror movies about making movies, Japanese horror movies

The Others (2001). Official synopsis: “In 1945, immediately following the end of Second World War, a woman who lives with her two photosensitive children on her darkened old family estate in the Channel Islands becomes convinced that the home is haunted.”

Genres: haunted house movies, isolation horror movies, period horror, horror movies about trauma, twist-ending

Coming Jan 10:

Get Away (2024). Official synopsis: “A family’s vacation to a remote getaway takes an unexpected turn when they discover the island they’re on is inhabited by a serial killer.”

Genres: nightmare travel, funny horror movies

Coming Jan 14:

Red Rooms (2023). Official synopsis: “A model becomes obsessed with a high-profile murder trial.”

Genres: psychological horror, serial killer movies, movies about snuff films, courtroom drama, horror movies about the internet

Coming Jan 24:

Grafted (2024). Official synopsis: “A bright but socially awkward exchange student takes her craving for popularity to horrifying heights.”

Genres: body horror movies, horror movies directed by women, high school horror

Coming Jan 27:

The Vourdalak (2023). Official synopsis: “Lost in a hostile forest, the Marquis d’Urfé, a noble emissary of the King of France, finds refuge in the home of a strange family.”

Genres: French horror, vampires, best of 2024

Coming Jan 31:

Dark Match (2024). Official synopsis: “A small-time wrestling company accepts a well-paying gig in a backwoods town only to learn, too late, that the community is run by a mysterious cult leader with devious plans for their match.”

Genres: backwoods horror, wrestling horror movies