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Are you looking for the best scary movies on Netflix? We took reviews of all the horror movies that had at least ten reviews and listed them below.
Netflix has a strong rotating library of scary movies for its audiences, who are always in the mood for some spooky scares.
We’ve tracked down some of the must-watch horror movies titles that are currently available for you to stream on Netflix.
Here are the 15 best horror movies streaming on Netflix right now:
We Summon the Darkness (2019)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Director: Marc Meyers
Runtime: 1h 23m
Cast: Alexandra Daddario, Keean Johnson
In the hot summer of 1998, Indiana, three best friends, Alexis, Val, and Beverly drive on a road trip to a heavy metal show. Ivan and his friends are interested in girls, and after the show, Alexis invites the boys to her father’s empty mansion. They play a game, Never Have I Ever, during which girls drug the boy’s drinks and reveal they are going to murder them. Who shall live, who shall die after summoning the darkness?
The Exorcist (1973)
Genre: Horror
Director: William Friedkin
Runtime: 2h 2m
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Linda Blair
Actress Chris McNeil relocates to Washington DC, where she is filming a movie accompanied by her 12-year-old daughter, Regan. They had a good relationship, but as time passes, Chris starts to notice that her daughter is acting strangely. She goes through several medical tests, but doctors find nothing abnormal. Regan becomes increasingly violent and obscene, and Chris’s only hope rests on an inexperienced priest, Father Damien Karras. But can they confront the embodiment of evil?
Raw (2016)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Director: Julia Ducournau
Runtime: 1h 38m
Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf
Justline was raised as a rigorous vegetarian and joined a Veterinary School. She abruptly moves into a world of strange school traditions, where she will eventually have to leave her unshakable herbivorous beliefs. A morbid craving for meat is going to transform her into something she never expected. Is there a point in denying her hunger for raw flesh?
Creep (2014)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Director: Patrick Brice
Runtime: 1h 20m
Cast: Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice
A videographer answers an advert on the website for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. The job becomes strange as the last messages get darker. The videographer continues the job, but when he leaves, he is unable to find his keys. He receives a strange call and finds out that his client is not what he was actually assuming.
The Conjuring (2013)
Genre: Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Director: James Wan
Runtime: 1h 51m
Cast: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson
Carolyn and Roger move their families to Rhode Island, where strange things start to happen, escalating nightmarish terror. Carolyn calls the noted paranormal investigators to examine the house. To stop the evil, the investigators will have to use all the skills and spiritual strength involved to defeat the spectral menace that threatens to destroy everyone involved.
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The Babysitter (2017)
Genre: Horror, Comedy
Director: McG
Runtime: 1h 25m
Cast: Bella Thorne, Judah Lewis
Cole, who is an introverted 12-year-old boy who is always bullied by his next-door neighbor, has a crush on his hot babysitter, Bee. When Cole’s parents leave for the weekend, the young teenager is forced to take matters into his own hands to become the neighborhood’s hero.
Let Me In (2010)
Genre: Horror
Director: Matt Reeves
Runtime: 1h 55m
Cast: Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloë Grace Moretz
Owen is a 12-year-old lonely and outcast boy who is bullied in school by Kenny and two other classmates. He becomes friends with his neighbor, Abby. Abby’s father is a wanted serial killer who drains blood to supply Abby. Soon, Owen discovers that Abby is a vampire and feels fear and love for the girl.
Interview with The Vampire (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Horror
Director: Neil Jordan
Runtime: 2h 2m
Cast: Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt
A young journalist starts to interview a stranger who tells him that he is a vampire. He tells the journalist that he is over 200 years old. While he was destroying himself by drinking and other things, he was found by Lestat, a vampire who bit him. One night he met a little girl named Claudia, who changed his existence forever.
1BR (2019):
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Director: David Marmor
Runtime: 1h 30m
Cast: Nicole Brydon Bloom, Alan Blumenfeld
Sarah finds a sweet one-bedroom Asilo Del Mar Apartments and thinks she has found the best one. The apartment has plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs, and good neighbors. But strange things start to happen, as her cat goes missing, loud noises keep her awake at night, and soon she finds out that she didn’t choose this apartment, but the apartment chose her.
Apostle (2018)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Director: Gareth Evans
Runtime: 2h 9m
Cast: Dan Stevens, Lucy Boynton
In 1905, Thomas Richardson traveled to a remote island to rescue his kidnapped sister by a mysterious religious cult demanding a ransom for her safe return. He digs deeper and deeper into the secrets and lies upon which the commune is built.
Hush (2016)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Director: Mike Flanagan
Runtime: 1h 27m
Cast: John Gallagher, Kate Siegel
Maddie Young is a deaf novelist who lives alone in the middle of the woods and is stalked by a masked killer, who has killed Maddie’s neighbor, Sarah. When the masked killer realizes Maddie is deaf, he stalks her by stealing her phone and sending texts and pictures while remaining in the house. Maddie realizes that she can only survive by finding a way to outsmart the killer before she becomes the next victim.
The Ritual (2017)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Bruckner
Runtime: 1h 34m
Cast: Rafe Spall, Rob James-Collier
A group of friends reunite and go on a hiking trip to Sweden, where one of them is injured. They spent a night in a spooky, abandoned house, and they came across things that they never expected out of the supposedly bonding trip.
The Conjuring 2 (2016)
Genre: Mystery & Thriller, Horror
Director: James Wan
Runtime: 2h 13m
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Vera Farmiga
In 1977, paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren traveled to London to help the Hodgson family. Peggy Hodgson’s daughter is possessed along with her four children, who are haunted by supernatural happenings. A malicious entity takes possession of the second eldest child, Janet. However, there’s something more threatening for the investigating couple that they couldn’t even imagine.
Veronica (2017)
Genre: Horror
Director: Paco Plaza
Runtime: 1h 45m
Cast: Sandra Escacena, Bruna Gonzalez
A teenage girl and her friends try using an Ouija board to contact the father’s spirit during a solar eclipse. However, during the session she loses consciousness, and it becomes clear that evil demons have arrived.
Friday the 13th (2009):
Genre: Horror
Director: Marcus Nispel
Runtime: 1h 37m
Cast: Jared Padalecki, Danielle Panabaker
In 1980, a group of young people set up a tent near an abandoned summer camp where a series of grisly murders allegedly occurred. A mother who had been driven insane by the drowning of her child, Jason, believed he had been neglected by the camp counselors. According to legend, the last survivor of the ordeal beheaded her. Jason, now a vengeful and unstoppable killer, wields crossbows, swords, axes, and other sharp weapons. These campers quickly discover this legend to be true.
His House (2020):
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Director: Remi Weekes
Runtime: 1h 33m
Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, Sope Dirisu, Matt Smith
Nothing kills the lifeblood of a horror film like films that tone down the terror. There are many ways for a movie to scare its audience, but it should at least be scary. In His House, by Remi Weekes, there is no nonsense. The film opens with a tragedy and, within the first ten minutes, easily out grudges The Grudge by leaving spirits scattered about the floor and the stairs for his heroes to trip over. This film is a companion piece to modern independent films like Jonas Carpignano’s Mediterranea, which shows the dangers immigrants face on the journey and at their destinations with ruthless neorealist clarity. At the end of the day, this film is about the pain that comes with being an immigrant. Weekes cares a great deal about Bol and Rial as individuals and is interested in their backstory, motivations, and actions surrounding their departure from their own country. However, Weeks is just as dedicated to having his audience scream with excitement.
Midnight Mass (2021):
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Horror
Director: Mike Flanagan
Runtime: 1h 30m
Cast: Zach Gilford, Kate Siegel, Kristin Lehman, Samantha Sloyan, Henry Thomas, Hamish Linklater
Everyone on Midnight Mass’s Crockett Island is miserable. Recent oil disasters virtually wiped out fish supplies, destroying the fishing industry on the island. Due to their carelessness, the ocean has caused their houses to rot and peel. Due to limited resources, most islanders have left, taking their hopes and dreams with them. They had to catch one of two ferries to the mainland. A massive storm is brewing on the horizon, and supplies of hope are running low.
Everything beyond that is a major spoiler for the rest of the seven episodes in this series, but it can be said that despite its forays into the supernatural, Midnight Mass (created by The Haunting’s Mike Flanagan in his latest collaboration with Netflix) is a show that digs deeper within itself rather than exploring the world around it. Midnight Mass focuses on the horrors inside, such as addictive tendencies, hidden histories, and issues of forgiveness and belief, while also focusing on the physical claustrophobia of Crockett’s environment. On the surface, it seems to be a series that has profited off of Catholic shame. In another sense, it’s a sobering examination of group dynamics, the value of religion in times of loss, and the responsibilities of a leader to a group of people who are so easily influenced.
“Blessed are the blind because they shall see.” At Midnight Mass, everyone has the option of being a skeptic or a real believer. What sets a miracle apart from a supernatural
occurrence?
Fear Street Part 1: 1994 (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director: Leigh Janiak
Runtime: 1h 47m
Cast: Kiana Madeira, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Julia Rehwald, Fred Hechinger, Maya Hawke
Netflix’s first adaptation of R.L. Stine’s Fear Street series is a lot more violent and brutal than any of the family-friendly Goosebumps books from the past few years. It has its own place in the current meta-slasher canon and hints at an interesting ending. 1994 references both well-known slasher movies like Scream and less well-known ones like Intruder, but it also cleverly distracts the audience from some of the movie’s deeper mysteries, which are then explored in Fear Street: 1978 and Fear Street: 1666. Now we have a movie that tells its story in a clear way and has interesting side characters and a lot more bloody violence than most people would expect. It’s safe to assume that the murderers on Fear Street don’t pull any punches and that your jaw will drop when the bread slicer makes an appearance. But the second and third books, which take place in 1978 and 1666, have just enough energy to finish the ambitious trilogy.
Things Heard & Seen (2021):
Genre: drama, horror, mystery
Director: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini
Runtime: 2h 1m
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, James Norton, Natalia Dyer
Things Heard and Seen, based on Elizabeth Brundage’s book All Things Cease to Appear, is a terrifying tale about a young couple who move into a rural mansion with a terrible past. In Amanda Seyfried’s Jennifer’s Body, the protagonist takes the viewer along as she discovers the hidden dangers of her new residence, community, and marital situation. Seyfried plays Catherine, an innocent and restless girl, and James Norton plays George, her skeptical husband, in a chilling way. Things Seen and Heard, which Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini both directed, is a scary modern classic that mixes classic elements of the psychosexual thriller genre with new ways of making horror movies.
Choose or Die (2022):
Genre: drama, horror, Thriller
Director: Toby Meakins
Runtime: 1h 24m
Cast: Iola Evans, Asa Butterfield, Robert Englund
Iola Evans plays Kayla, a window-cleaning college dropout who stumbles into a world of digitized doom when she accidentally enters herself and her friend, Issac (Asa Butterfield), into the wicked world of Curse of the O.C.R., an ’80s survival horror game that meshes into reality and forces its “players” to make life or death decisions in order to reach the end of the terrifying campaign. Choose or Die was co-written and directed by Toby Choose or Die delivers Pandora’s box of twisted tropes, and while it may be too much for some viewers, it’s hard not to at least appreciate the imaginative world-building of Meakins and his fellow creatives. Choose or Die pokes a lot of fun at the gaming subculture, and it does so by delivering Pandora’s box of twisted tropes.
Incantation (2022):
Genre: drama, horror, Thriller
Director: Eric Gibson
Runtime: 1h 50m
Cast: Elise Berggreen, Kellan Rhude, Dylan Pierce
Take a look at this excellent example of found-footage insanity. Kevin Ko co-wrote and directed the movie Incantation, in which Tsai Hsuan-yen played Li Ronan, a mother who is in despair because her son accidentally defiled himself. Li had broken a holy Chen ceremony when she gave birth to her daughter, which angered an old god and placed a curse on her. Time is of the essence, and if the deity does not swallow the little girl soon, Li will have to do everything in her power to remove the jinx. While there are a few moments when the story goes in a different direction, on the whole, “Incantation is a tightly wound, fast-paced example of shaky-camera frights that we think most viewers will like.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022):
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Director: David Blue Garcia
Runtime: 1h 21m
Cast: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham, and Moe Dunford
In Netflix’s 2022 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, the eighth film in the series, a group of young businesspeople go to Texas to sell off old houses and build a fashionable region, 50 years after Leatherface’s (Mark Burnham’s) 1973 murdering rampage. While investigating what they thought was an abandoned orphanage, they encounter an old lady called Ginny (Alice Krige), who lives there with the infamous serial murderer, setting off a deadly and scary game of cat and mouse. Texas Chainsaw Massacre doesn’t try anything new with the slasher film, but it gives fans of the genre everything they could want.
Umma (2022):
Genre: Dram, Horror, Mystery
Director: Iris K. Shim
Runtime: 1h 23m
Cast: Sandra Oh, Fivel Stewart, Dermot Mulroney, Odeya Rush
Sandra Oh has shown over and again on Grey’s Anatomy, The Chair, and Killing Eve that she can do anything. She does this once again in Umma, as Amanda, a Korean immigrant who removes her daughter Chrissy (Fivel Stewart) from the modern world to educate her in the countryside. Chrissy wanting to go away to college isn’t the only source of worry for Amanda; after receiving her mother’s ashes, she’s also struggling with disturbing memories of her own traumatic past, and the presence of a malicious ghost who seems determined to take up residence in her body. Even while there are otherworldly shocks in the picture, the real horror comes from its exploration of generational trauma and the nature of individual identity.
Cam (2018):
Genre: Dram, Horror, Mystery
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Runtime: 1h 23m
Cast: Madeline Brewer, Patch Darragh, Melora Walters, Devin Druid, Imani Hakim, and Michael Dempsey
So many movies this year have shown us that the digital selves we cultivate and develop online will eventually outshine us, regardless of how successful we are in real life. The horror of Daniel Goldhaber’s Cam, adapted from a script by Isa Mazzei (which was inspired by her own experiences as a sex worker), lies in this loss: the realization that no one is ever fully in charge of these constructed personae, and that the more real they become, the less they belong to the person most affected by them. Here we have Alice (Madeline Brewer), a driven camgirl who makes up for the tiring demands of online fame (and, by extension, financial viability) by doing horrible stunts and adhering to a strict code of ethics for what she will and will not do in her role as female fantasy. Her success is shown by the fact that she can give money to her mother and brother without being completely honest about what she does for a living. However, she could be even more successful if she did everything she could to move up in the rankings set by the site she uses to broadcast her shows. Mazzei’s writing does a good job of showing how hard it is to be a camgirl without criticizing Alice’s choice of job. She frames Alice’s eventual confession to her family not as embarrassing but as an insurmountable barrier of shame that every sex worker must fight to overcome in order to be taken seriously. In fact, Goldhaber and Mazzei find less tension in the explanation and discovery of what’s really going on than in the harsh truth of just how vulnerable Alice is—and we all are—to the cold, brutal, indifferent violence of this online world we’ve built for ourselves when someone who looks exactly like Alice, who operates under her screen name but is willing to do the things Alice once refused, gains leaps and bounds in the camgirl charts.
Fear Street Part Three: 1666
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director: Leigh Janiak
Runtime: 1h 54m
Cast: Kiana Madeira, Ashley Zukerman, Gillian Jacobs, Olivia Scott Welch, Benjamin Flores Jr., Darrell Britt-Gibson
The first two films in Netflix’s Fear Street trilogy, directed by Leigh Janiak, have been called “popcorn entertainment” and “simple fun”—words that are usually reserved for slasher movies. This is a welcome change from the more serious arthouse horror we’ve been seeing lately. Even if none of the three films in the Fear Street franchise are particularly “elevated” or pompous, labeling them all as slasher movies despite their violent flair would be a disservice. They’re not even meta-slashers in the vein of Scream, which reviewers kept bringing up while evaluating the first film, Fear Street: 1994. The real meat of this trilogy is a metaphysical, supernatural mystery that spans lives and decades. It is told in the style of slasher movies from the 1990s and 1970s to explore bigger ideas like scapegoating, privilege, and tainted histories. This is the overarching message that Fear Street Part Three: 1666 tries to convey, although in a clumsier way than its last time leap and in a more challenging context to really represent. The series’ little oddities are piling up after three films, but it’s still fast-paced, amusing, and rather gory.
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