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Spooky season is around the corner, but why wait for Halloween when horror movies can give you the same feel every night?
While some people find horror films to be therapeutic, others think that fear develops unpleasant feelings and beliefs. If you ask me, I like watching those horror corridors and guessing from where the ghostly sound is coming.
So, if you can relate with me, get ready to feel the shiver, as I have listed the best horror movies on streaming that will make you jump from the couch. Bear in mind, consider setting the streaming platform’s parental controls to keep your kids safe from the violence and terror-loaded graphics.
Disclaimer: The below-mentioned movies contain suspense, threatening visuals, violence and activities, so it is advisable not to watch for people who have low fear tolerance and related health issues.
Released in 1979, the Alien movie showcased something that you wouldn’t think even – a haunted house in space. Everything goes out of hand when a crew finds the unidentified nest of eggs inside the spaceship.
Where to Watch: Hulu and Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 8.5/10
Genre: Sci-fi/Horror
Director: Ridley Scott
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm, John Hurt, Michael Biehn
On a certain day, the famous actress and mother Chris realizes some behavioral and physical changes in her 12-year-old daughter. To find out what the matter is, she calls the priest and reveals the spirit has completely taken over the girl’s mind and body. Will the priest be able to uncoil the spirits from Regan’s body?
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 8.1/10
Genre: Horror, Eerie
Director: William Friedkin
Cast: Kitty Winn, Jason Miller, Linda Blair, Jack MacGowran
Directed by Drew Goddard, the story starts when five college friends travel to a secluded cabin of woods to enjoy the weekend fun. Soon after realizing that there is no sense of communication from the outside world, they start the journey to get out of the anonymous ghoulish creature trap.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 7/10
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Drew Goddard
Cast: Chris Hemsworth, Kristin Conolly, Fran Kranz, Bradley Whitford
The story starts when a freelance videographer gets a shooting project from one of the internet strangers for a one-day ad in a hilly mountain area. Through the interactions, he found out that his client had some unsettling intentions in his mind.
The best part is that the director himself played a suspicious role that you need to surely find out.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 6.3/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Patrick Brice
Cast: Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice
To venture into new worlds and experiences, six women go through North Carolina to adventure around the mysterious caves. While exploring, the women find out strange cave paintings and evidence of the presence of underground predators, and ultimately learn that they are not alone!
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
IMDB Ratings: 7.2/10
Genre: Suspense/Horror
Director: Neil Marshall
Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Jackson Mendoza, Alexa Raid
Deeply madly in love, Chris and Rose decided to go on a staycation to meet the parents of Rose to take a step forward in their relationship. Being nervous, Chris tries to decode the overly welcoming behavior and gets comfortable until he finds out something he has never imagined.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Hulu
IMDB Ratings: 7.8/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Jordan Peele
Cast: Allison Williams, Daniel Kaluuya, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Catherine Kenner
Two boys, who share an extremely loving bond, do everything together, whether it’s eating food or feeding the stray cats. On the way back to their home, they found their mother wrapped in bandages, and she alleged the reason to be cosmetic surgery. However, a few incidents let the boys notice that the person behind the bandage is not their mother.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
IMDB Ratings: 6.7/10
Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
Director: Matt Sobel
Cast: Cameron Crovetti, Nicholas Crovetti, Peter Hermann, Naomi Watts
A group of seven children join hands to destroy the mysterious shape-shifting monster who is roaming around in their town, Derry, in the thirst for blood.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 7.3/10
Genre: Horror, Frightening
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cast: Chosen Jacobs, Bill Skarsgard, Finn Wolfhard, Sophia Lillis, Jaeden Lieberher
The story includes a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, living with his mother in suburban Sweden. He makes a plan to take revenge on the people who bullied him but doesn’t have the courage until he gets introduced to her new neighbor, Eli. Forming a close bond slowly, he started finding out the hidden truth of the mysterious young girl.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
IMDB Ratings: 7.8/10
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Cast: Kare Hedebrant, Per Ragnar, Henrik Dahl, Lina Leandersson, Peter Carlberg
A family lives in a modern world that looks the same as us, but with one key difference: some monsters/creatures have ultra-sensitive hearing power. The alien creatures destroy anything that makes a sound. The parents fight back to protect their children’s lives.
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 7.5/10
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi
Director: John Krasinski
Cast: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe
Battling the trauma of her mother’s suicide at the age of 10, Dr Rose Cotter has been a compassionate psychiatrist who deals with unusual and dangerous people suffering from unnamed diseases. Delved into the therapist world, the woman starts losing her grip on herself. Will she lose her smile to death?
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.5/10
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director: Parker Fin
Cast: Sosie Bacon, Caitlin Stasey, Kyle Garner, Kal Penn, Jessie. T Usher, Robin Weigert
A young couple, Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor husband Guy, shift to New York’s Manhattan mysterious flat and strange neighbors. Soon after, Rosemary finds out that she is pregnant and near the due date, she begins to isolate as she suffers dark threats in the building and body as well.
Where to Watch: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video, Google Play
IMDB Ratings: 8/10
Genre: Horror, Drama
Director: Roman Polanski
Cast: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes, Ruth Gordon, Victoria Vetri
The family of three suffers a huge loss as the backbone, the mother, passes away in unconditional circumstances. While mourning her loss, Annie’s husband, daughter, and son come across supernatural and disturbing experiences that reveal the past secrets and mental trauma passed through the generations of their family.
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 7.3/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Ari Aster
Cast: Toni Collete, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro
A team-building conference turns out to be a deadly nightmare when the members start raising questions and allegations of corruption amongst them. During the war of words, a mysterious killer appears from nowhere and begins to kill the participants one by one.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 5.7 /10
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Patrik Eklund
Cast: Katia Winter, Adam Lundgreen, Maria Sid, Maria Agarhall, Christopher Northenrot
Released in 2024, the film will take you back to the 1860s, when a minister with his family traveled in a covered wagon in the American West. On their way, they come in contact with a mysterious sound that was misunderstood as a God’s presence, and they stop to pray until they find out the dark secrets behind it.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
IMDB Ratings: 6/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Ben Bigelow
Cast: Andrew Hovelson, Hannah Cabel, Duke Hoston, Lea Zawada
Exhuma is one of the new horror movies streaming on Prime Video that reveals a wealthy Korean family is on a mission to chase and identify the mysterious illness of the family’s newborn baby. A team of supernatural experts finds out that the mysterious spirit is haunting them, which is identified as one of the graves.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.9/10
Genre: Suspense, Horror
Director: Jae-hyun Jang
Cast: Choi-Min-sik, Kim-Go-eun, Yoo Hae-jin, Lee-Do hyun
Fighting their way out of the abduction, the woman reconnects with her husband. Unknowing the truth, a spirit follows her on the way back home and lets her experience the haunting visions and daunting nightmares that draw her to lose the sense of reality.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 4.7/10
Genre: Suspense, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Director: Olivia West Lloyd
Cast: Jennifer Kim, Marian Ireland, Kentucker Audley, Micheal Richardson,
This movie is the third installment, including the original A Quiet Place. The first two have performed impeccably, which filled the audience with hope to see the next part soon. On the way back to her home, Sam experiences the daunting moments of her life, struggling to save her cat and herself with a pin-drop silence.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV
IMDB Ratings: 6.3/10
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-fi, Suspense
Director: Michal Sarnoski
Cast: Djimon Hounsou, Alex Wolff, Joseph Quinn, Lupita Nyong O’
One of the new horror movies streaming, Immaculate, has been on the wish list of the audience. The storyline makes the audience scream out loud when the American nun moves to join a remote convent in the Italian countryside and begins to breathe in the welcome ceremony that something unexpected is going to happen ahead.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu
IMDB Ratings: 5.8/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Micheal Mohan
Cast: Sydney Sweeney, Simona Tabasco, Alvaro Morte
Pearl is an ordinary girl living an isolated life with her wheelchair-bound father and rude and unsupportive mother. Regardless of the support, the girl is all dedicated to living her dreams of becoming a great industry artist and dancer. To achieve all her goals and desires, an innocent girl becomes a brutal monster who kills people for no reason.
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 7/10
Genre: Suspense, Horror, Drama
Director: Ti West
Cast: David Corenwest, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro, Alistair Sewell
Throughout the movie, it will make you question whether the child is truly connected to the monster. Soon, her mother realised that the character described in her child’s book was lurking and haunting around their house.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.8/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Jennifer Kent
Cast: Daniel Henshall, Noah Wiseman, Essie Davis
One of the new horror movies streaming on the internet is Stopmotion. The concept of the movie has been something new and different in the horror category. The story plot covers an ace animator until his creations take the horrifying and deadly route of demons and become uncontrollable.
Where to Watch: Apple TV, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 5.6/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Robert Morgan
Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Stella Gonet, Tom York, Caoilinn Springall, Therica Wilson Road
When the matriarch of the family, Edna, vanishes, her daughter and granddaughter, Sam and Kyna, come back to the family home to find her. The moment she comes back, Sam begins to sense something fishy, unsettling, and a black mold-like substance on the home’s walls and her body. Edna’s mistrustful and horrifying behavior leads to something that you will not be able to forget.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6/10
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi, Dark
Director: Peter Hyams
Cast: Penelope Anu Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt, James Whitmore
Arrived in a town for a job interview, Tess Marshall rented an Airbnb for the night stay and discovered that another guest would share it with her. But as the night begins to darken, she finds out the home is not what it looks like; it has something else that is haunting their souls.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 7/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Zach Cregger
Cast: Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgard, Justin Long, Matthew Patrick Davis, Richard Brake, Jaymes Butler
Alexia experienced a car crash at a very young age, suffering a high skull injury and got a titanium plate fitted in her head for medical treatment. With time, she begins to become a cruel woman, murdering people who ever denied her words. On the other hand, Venice finds her 10-year-long lost son Adrien and later gets to know that the one he is assuming as his son is Alexia.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.5/10
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi, Drama
Director: Julia Ducournau
Cast: Vincent Lindon, Agathe Rousselle, Garance Marillier, Mara Cisse, Marin Judas
In one of her works to review the video, Enid finds something suspicious that indicates some proof against her lost sister Nina, who was declared dead by her parents a long time ago. In a quest to find her long-lost sister, she follows a path full of diabolical events.
Where to Watch: Hulu, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6/10
Genre: Horror, Drama
Director: Prano Bailey Bond
Cast: Jonathan Taylor, Bo Bragason, Niamh Algar, Michael Smiley, Nicholas Burns
Tasya Vos is an agent who works for a secretive organization that uses brain implant technology to inhabit other bodies. With time, she develops the neurological disorder; she starts losing control of herself and her mind and finds out a man controlling her and destroying things.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.5/10
Genre: Horror, Sci-fi, Suspense
Director: Brandon Cronenberg
Cast: Andrea Riseborough, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Abbott, Sean Bean
A young girl, Francisca, is unfazed by the death terror, as her mother, who is a surgeon, develops an understanding of human anatomy from her childhood. Unknown of her actions that are abnormal in human language, Francisca’s trauma awakens her curiosities after the tragedy that shattered her happy living country life.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.2/10
Genre: Drama, Horror, Suspense
Director: Nicolas Pesce
Cast: Clara Wong, Max Born, Antonio Campos, Julie Christeas, Sean Durkin
One day in the night of patrolling, the 5 unsuspected cops get a call from an unidentified caller directing them to the building in the middle of nowhere. After realizing that they are trapped in the door of hell and monstrous demons, they fight till the last breath. But did they survive?
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 5.8/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Can Evernol
Cast: Mehmet Cerrahoglu, Gorken Kasal, Ergun Kuyucu
For means of financial gains, Wilf tries to convince his son Henry to kill her mother, sell the land, and get settled somewhere in Omaha. Upon Henry’s agreement, they decide to dump the corpse of Arlette in an empty well in the vision that the rats will eat her. Wilf gets horrified by the rats and her wife’s ghost throughout his life.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 6.2/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Zak Hilditch
Cast: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid, Kaitlyn Bernard, Neal McDonough
With an essence of both horror and comedy, the movie will take you on a roller coaster ride of fear and laugh moments. The suspenseful scenes and the frequent shift of the character’s mood will leave you scratching your head till the last shot.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.2/10
Genre: Horror/Comedy
Director: Halina Reijn
Cast: Amandla Stanberg, Rachel Sennott, Maria Bakalova, Pete Davidson, Lee Pace
At a reunion, a group of friends decides to go on a trip and finalize the destination to hike in one of the most dangerous wildernesses, Sweden. During their path, one of the friends gets injured and takes her soon to lodge to make him rest. They take a wrong turn and begin to notice a threatening figure following their every move.
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.3/10
Genre: International Horror
Director: David Bruckner
Cast: Arsher Ali, Rafe Spall, Rob James Collier, Sam Troughton
Alice Ackerman, who is a camgirl on a website that broadcasts explicit content, is ambitious to reach the top rankings of the platform. She was happy and working with full dedication until one day she woke up and discovered that she had been replaced by the doppelganger on her show, channels, and real life.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 5.9/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Daniel Goldhaber
Cast: Madeline Brewer, Devin Druid, Patch Darragh, Samantha Robinson
On a mission to rescue her sister from the kidnapping by the mysterious sinister religious cults, Thomas travels to a remote, isolated Welsh island to save her sister’s life at any cost. On his way, he is crossed by all the things that he is not prepared for.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 6.3/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Dan Stevens, Lucy Boynton, Micheal Sheen, Bill Milner, Kristine Froseth,
After hearing a crying sound from behind the tall grass, the sibling duo, a pregnant Becky and Cal, move forward towards the grass to help out the young boy. Soon after stepping in, they realize that what is going to be more difficult, getting lost in the evil yard or being found by someone to save their lives.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 5.5/10
Genre: Drama, Horror
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Patrick Wilson, Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted
The sequel of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was much awaited and finally released in 2022. The young entrepreneurs travel to the ghost town in Texas, 48 years after the Leatherface killing spree, to sell the old properties and make the most out of the place. Unknowingly, what is coming their way, the group faces off with the infamous serial who wears the mask of the human skin.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 4.7/10
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director: David Blue Garcia
Cast: Sarah Yarkin, Elsie Fisher, Mark Burnham
A lethal curse that passes from one partner to another, Jay tries to escape from the clutches of the paranormal spirit that is taking her life slowly, leaving intense pain and trauma to her body.
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.8/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Lili Sepe, Keir Gilchrist
A normal and simple nurse who lives an ordinary life and is scared of dark and horrifying things is hired to take care of the elderly novelist at her home full-time. As soon as she enters the home, she begins to sense that this job will lead her to face something she is not ready for.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 4.6/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Osgood Perkins
Cast: Ruth Wilson, Bob Balaban, Paula Prentiss, Brad Milne
During the Iran-Iraq war chaos, the mother steps on a mission to protect her child ahead of every circumstance. Later, a missile hits their building and soon after that, they start feeling unusual happening in their home and find out when her neighbors tell her that it may be the missile that is carrying Middle-Eastern spirits.
Where to Watch: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.8/10
Genre: Horror
Director: Babak Anvari
Cast: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Nadari
By making the daunting escape from the war-torn South Sudan, seeking to start a new fresh settlement in England and trying to cope with things. They begin to notice suspicious happenings around them that may be another danger to their lives.
Where to Watch: Netflix
IMDB Ratings: 6.4/10
Genre: Horror, Mystery and Thriller
Director: Remi Weekes
Cast: Sope Dirisu, Wunmi Mosaku, Matt Smith
A group of filmmakers leaves for somewhere in rural Texas to shoot an adult film project. Their trip seemed to be amazing until the elderly hosts caught them in an act that became a life-and-death moment for their lives.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
IMDB Ratings: 6.5/10
Genre: Horror, Suspense
Director: Ti West
Cast: Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega, Martin Henderson, Brittany Snow, Owen Campbell
I hope this list has answered your instincts that keep on saying, not sure, what to watch in the horror movie genre. Keep in mind, that the content can add a lot of fun and fear-like feeling at the same time.
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| Movies | Where to Watch | IMDB Ratings |
| Things Heard and Seen | Netflix | 5.3/10 |
| Scream | Prime Video | 7.4/10 |
| The Entity | Prime Video | 6.7/10 |
| Jennifer’s Body | Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV | 5.5/10 |
| Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer | Prime Video | 7.0/10 |
| Communion | Prime Video | 5.5/10 |
| The Sacrament | Prime Video | 6.1/10 |
| Fire in the Sky | Hulu | 6.5/10 |
| The Conjuring (2013) | Prime Video, Netflix | 7.5/10 |
| The Conjuring 2 (2016) | Netflix, Apple TV | 7.3/10 |
| Zodiac (2007) | Apple TV, Prime Video | 7.7/10 |
| Annabelle (2014) | Netflix, Prime Video | 5.4/10 |
| The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005) | Prime Video, Netflix | 6.7/10 |
| Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) | Prime Video | 6.7/10 |
| The Black Dahlia (2006) | Prime Video | 5.6/10 |
| The Mothman Prophecies | Prime Video | 6.4/10 |
| The Strangers | Prime Video | 6.1/10 |
| The Hills Have Eyes | Prime Video | 6.3/10 |
| Open Water (2003) | Prime Video | 5.8/10 |
| The Girl Next Door (2007) | Prime Video | 6.5/10 |
| All Good Things (2010) | Prime Video | 6.3/10 |
| Watcher | Prime Video | 6.3/10 |
| The Amityville Horror | Hulu, Prime Video | 5.1/10 |
| Black Water (2007) | Tubi, Apple TV | 5.8/10 |
| Child’s Play (2019) | Prime Video, Apple TV | 5.7/10 |
In the section ahead, we have covered the best horror movies to stream anytime and anywhere, if you are ready for the frightful moments.
| Movies | Where to Watch | IMDB Ratings |
| Evil Dead 2 | Prime Video | 7.7/10 |
| The Purge | Prime Video | 5.7/10 |
| All the Boys Love Mandy Lane | Prime Video | 5.5/10 |
| Drag Me to Hell | Prime Video | 6.6/10 |
| Hostel | Netflix | 5.9/10 |
| Bad Milo | Prime Video | 5.7/10 |
| Children of the Corn | Prime Video, Apple TV | 5.6/10 |
| Beyond The Black Rainbow | Prime Video | 5.9/10 |
| Army of Darkness | Prime Video | 7.4/10 |
| Tucker and Dale vs Evil | Apple TV, Prime Video | 7.5/10 |
| The Woman in Black | Prime Video, Apple TV | 6.4/10 |
| Trick ‘r Treat | Prime Video, Apple TV | 6.7/10 |
| Halloween | Prime Video, | 6.0/10 |
| Sinister | Prime Video, Netflix | 6.8/10 |
| Saw | Prime Video | 7.6/10 |
| Sleepy Hollow | Prime Video | 7.3/10 |
| The Night of the Hunter | Prime Video | 8.0/10 |
| Carnival of Souls | Prime Video | 7.0/10 |
| Silent Hill | Prime Video | 6.5/10 |
| Paranormal Activity 4 | Prime Video | 4.6/10 |
| Evil Dead | Prime Video, Netflix | 6.5/10 |
| The Devil Inside | Prime Video | 4.2/10 |
| Ghost Team One | Prime Video | 4.2/10 |
| Human Centipede | Apple TV, Prime Video | 4.4/10 |
| Friday the 13th | Netflix, Prime Video | 5.5/10 |
As a human being, it is your call to decide whether you can tolerate fear or not. And if the case is yes, then the above-mentioned movies will take you on a tour of the horrifying streets and world that surrounds you.
Whatever you do, don’t go to sleep or get ready to encounter nightmares, or demon dreams after watching the movies.
Cam, Creep, and Under His House, are one of the best streaming horror movies on Netflix.
Most of the horror movies are streaming on subscription-based OTT platforms, but you can find some of them on free platforms like YouTube.
Released in 1979, Exorcist is one of the scariest movies in the horror film genre.
In some cases, the answer will be no, as it contains violence, scary scenes, blood, nudity and more that can harm the kid’s mind.
