34 Best Horror Movies on Netflix to Stream Now
From prestige psychological scares to hilarious horror-comedy mishmashes, these are the best scary films the streaming giant has to offer.
I’ll never forget my first horror movie. When I was seven years old, my dad sat me down and showed me Wes Craven’s Scream. I’m not sure why he thought seven was the appropriate age to introduce me to Ghostface, but hey, I had a good time!
These days, I don’t have to scour my dad’s DVD case when I’m in the mood for a scary movie. Now I have Netflix—and the streamer is loaded on the horror front. Are you into ghosts and seances? Try watching Ouija: Origin of Evil or Malevolent. If historical horror is more your speed, check out the adaptation of Stephen King’s 1922, or even Fear Street Part Three: 1666—the plot is loosely based on the Salem witch trials. Don’t worry, there’s more.
Below, you’ll find the thirty-four best horror films on Netflix, featuring invasions, vampires, stalkers, and beyond. All you have to do is scroll through.
There’s Someone Inside Your House
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.
The Platform
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.
Mr. Harrigan’s Phone
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.
Berlin Syndrome
Berlin Syndrome is a thriller that will make you question the safety of a good meet-cute. When a young photographer and a handsome teacher unexpectedly hit it off, they decide to spend the night together. But their rendezvous takes a turn when the photographer discovers she’s been locked inside her lover’s apartment.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Netflix’s big reboot 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.
Day Shift
Want to see Jamie Foxx play a vampire hunter named...Bud Jablonski?!? In a horror-comedy that also stars Dave Franco and Snoop Dogg? Sure, why not!
Army of the Dead
If you’re one of Zack Snyder’s (probably literal!) zillions of fans, then you’ll certainly enjoy his no-holds-barred zombie heist flick.
The Babysitter: Killer Queen
Sure, The Babysitter: Killer Queen didn’t quite live up to the absolute joy ride that was its predecessor. But it’s still a fun, campy time, made even better by Judah Lewis, who’s reprising his pubescent-scaredy-cat portrayal of Cole.
Fear Street Part One: 1994
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.
Fear Street Part Two: 1978
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.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666
Well, you have to finish at this point, right?
A Classic Horror Story
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.
1922
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.
The Conjuring 2
Anotha one! 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.
Death Note
Okay, Netflix’s Death Note didn’t quite reach the greatness of the anime it's based on, which sees a kid inherit a book that gives him the ability to kill people. But the film adaptation stars Willem Dafoe as the towering, sniveling demon who haunts this boy. That alone makes it worth a watch.
Hubie Halloween
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.
His House
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.
The Babysitter
Nothing is scarier than a boy coming of age and realizing he’s got a crush on his babysitter. Unless said babysitter is in a demonic cult that sacrifices random dudes in his parents’ kitchen.
Malevolent
Florence Pugh is a must-watch in just about every role she takes on nowadays, but in a horror movie? After her tortured, weirder-than-hell turn in Midsommar, she has quickly turned into one of the genre’s best players. Catch Pugh in Malevolent, which follows a group of scam artists who stage hauntings just so they can get paid to exorcise the fake ghosts. Then they encounter the real deal.
In the Tall Grass
In The Tall Grass, from the mill of Stephen King’s story-to-screen adaptations, is basically everyone’s pumpkin-patch nightmare come to life. Two siblings dive into the titular grass to find a lost boy, and shady business ensues.
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