We made a list of movies that are available on Netflix, looking for the most varied types of horror. There are films about spirits, ruthless assassins, supernatural phenomena, haunted places, and even zombies.
Best Horror Movies To Watch on Netflix
We’ve sorted the list of Best Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix by prioritizing the most recent. Now all you need to do is prepare the popcorn and check it out!
1. There’s Someone Inside Your House
Year: 2021
Direction: Patrick Brice
Cast: Sydney Park, Théodore Pellerin, Asjha Cooper
Genre: Serial Killer, Psychological Horror
For those who love classic 90s teen horror movies, Someone’s Home is a great option to scare yourself and relive the best clichés of the genre. Produced by the same producers of Stranger Things and based on the New York Times bestseller written by Stephanie Perkins, the film tells the story of a young Makani, who has just moved to a small town in the United States.
At the end of high school, several students begin to be murdered by a masked person. Makani will have to join forces to uncover the killer’s identity as secrets from her past begin to come to light.
2. Host
Year: 2020
Director: Rob Savage
Cast: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb
Genre: Mystery, Spirits
In times of a pandemic, video layering is a very common resource for a conversation between friends or even a spiritist session. However, have you ever thought about who might be on this call? Is there no risk of things going wrong? This film explores the current times bringing to a lot of terror to the scene when an evil spirit decides to take advantage of the so-called Zoom.
3. Away 2020
Year: 2020
Direction: Aneesh Chaganty
Cast: Sarah Paulson, Kiera Allen, Pat Healy
Genre: mystery, suspense
Chloe is a young woman in a wheelchair with some health issues. With a life of a lot of control and extreme maternal care, she begins to question herself about the great protection she receives. After finding some suspicious information about her mother, she becomes suspicious of everything that goes on in her house and of all her mother’s attitudes.
4. Apostle
Year: 2019
Director: Gareth Evans
Cast: Dan Stevens, Michael Sheen, Lucy Boynton
Genre: suspense, supernatural
In 1905, a man goes to a village far from the rest of the world to look for his missing sister. There is a religious cult there and, with the arrival of the intruder, many mysteries begin to occur and lies begin to be unraveled.
5. Game Over
Year: 2019
Director: Ashwin Saravanan
Cast: Taapsee Vaidyanathandhini Vaidynathan, Ramya Subramanian
Genre: suspense, psychological horror
A horror film in which a woman, a game designer, to face her own fears of going out on the street. However, she begins to be haunted by a strange presence.
6. The Perfection
Year: 2019
Director: Richard Shepard
Cast: Allison Williams, Logan Browning, Alaina Huffman
Genre: suspense, mystery
A successful violinist has to step away from her career to take care of her mother. When she decides to return, everything is different and there’s a new favorite on stage. However, with some secret plans, she decides to reconnect with all her old acquaintances in the music business.
7. Eli
Year: 2019
Direction: Ciarán Foy
Cast: Kelly Reilly; Sadie Sink; Lili Taylor
Genre: dark, supernatural
A boy suffers from a very limiting autoimmune disease. So, as a last resort, the family decides to take him to a treatment home. However, the boy begins to deteriorate and soon begins to see sinister things.
8. In the Tall Grass
Year: 2019
Direction: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Laysla De Oliveira, Patrick Wilson, Will Buie Jr.
Genre: psychological horror, suspense, supernatural
Two brothers decide to enter a field of tall grass, after hearing the desperate screams of a boy. In the midst of this, the brothers get lost from each other and soon realize that there are other scary presence films in that place. The film is based on a work by Stephen King.
9. The Silence
Year: 2019
Director: John R. Leonetti
Cast: Stanley Tucci, Kiernan Shipka, Miranda Otto
Genre: suspense, supernatural, fantasy
Scary flying creatures are everywhere and, with their sensitive ears, they can hear any noise. Now a family will have to figure out how to save themselves from this terrible nightmare.
10. Rattlesnake
Year: 2019
Direction: Zak Hilditch
Cast: Theo Rossi and Emma Greenwell
Genre: suspense, psychological horror
A woman is in the middle of the desert with her daughter, and soon the little girl suffers a snakebite. Then, a series of strange moments begin to occur. When the mother sees it, she has her daughter saved, but with people threatening her and saying that now she needs to kill someone in return. A horror movie that leaves your head in knots!
11. Suzzanna: Enterrada Viva
Year: 2018
Director: Rocky Soraya, Anggy Umbara
Cast: Luna Maya, Herjunot Ali, Teuku Rifnu Wikana
Genre: Horror
A woman seems to be possessed by some curse and, out of fear of her, people decide to murder her. However, those who believe they got rid of it are wrong. She will return to terrorize, now in the form of a ghost. A good Indonesian horror film.
12. The Third Eye
Year: 2018
Direction: Rocky Soraya
Cast: Jessica Mila, cDenny Sumargo, Citra Prima
Genre: supernatural, dark
Two sisters lose their entire family and are left alone in a big house. Then one of them starts seeing spirits and, in the search for answers, they discover they are evil spirits!
13. Cargo
Year: 2017
Director: Ben Howling, Yolanda Ramke
Cast: Martin Freeman, Anthony Hayes, Caren Pistorius
Genre: suspense, zombie horror
There is a zombie apocalypse in Australia. Among the few people alive, a man, after being infected, tries to save the life of his baby. A horror film that, at the same time, has an inspiring bond of humanity.
14. 1922
Year: 2017
Direction: Zak Hilditch
Cast: Thomas Jane, Molly Parker, Dylan Schmid
Genre: suspense, supernatural
Based on a Stephen King novel, 1922 is a rural horror film in which a man decides to kill his wife. However, this leads to sinister events, bringing many mysteries to the house that witnessed the murder.
15. Things Heard & Seen
Year: 2021
Director: Robert Pulcini
Cast: Amanda Seyfried, Alex Neustaedter, James Norton
Genre: psychological horror, supernatural phenomena
A young couple moves into a house in a small town. However, the village’s tranquility does not last long, as dark events begin to occur. Between supernatural events and moments of tension, the couple’s marriage is also put into question, leading to suspicions of something dark behind the relationship.
16. Dangerous Game
Year: 2017
Direction: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Carla Gugino, Bruce Greenwood, Henry Thomas
Genre: psychological horror, suspense, mystery
Based on a work by Stephen King. A couple tries to have a more daring romantic moment, but plans turn out very differently than planned. In the end, the couple’s wife is isolated in the middle of nowhere, with handcuffs locking her to a bed. How to get out of this?
17. Death Note
Year: 2017
Director: Adam Wingard
Cast: Nat Wolff, Margaret Qualley, Lakeith Stanfield
Genre: supernatural
Based on a famous Japanese manga, a young man finds a powerful notebook. When he writes a name in that notebook, the person ends up dead. Using the notebook’s powers, the young man decides to write the names of all those who do some harm to society.
18. Clinical
Year: 2017
Director: Alistair Legrand
Cast: Vinessa Shaw, William Atherton, Aaron Stanford
Genre: suspense, psychological horror
A psychologist, tormented by a traumatic experience with a patient, now finds it difficult to move forward. She starts to have frequent memories of the past, wondering what is real and what is the force of her imagination.
19. Under the Shadow
Year: 2016
Director: Babak Anvari
Cast: Narges Rashidi, Avin Manshadi, Bobby Naderi
Genre: Supernatural
An Anglo-Jordanian-Qatarian horror film that takes a strong and scary approach: mother and daughter haunted by the mysteries that surround a war. Some spirits seem to be present.
20. Hush – Death Hears
Year: 2016
Direction: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Kate Siegel, John Gallagher Jr., Michael Trucco
Genre: suspense, mystery
A mute woman lives in an all-glass wooden house in the middle of a forest. She’s home alone when she realizes that a killer has decided to join in. Now she will have to fight for her life. One of the best horror movies available on Netflix!
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21. Veronica
Year: 2017
Direction: Paco Plaza
Cast: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer
Genre: based on real events, spirits
Based on a supernatural case that took place in Spain in the 1990s, the movie “Verónica” is a great option available on Netflix to take a lot of scares. In the story, after a young woman “anlays” with a ouija board with her school friends, her life begins to be marked by strange events.
22. The Doll
Year: 2016
Direction: Rocky Soraya
Cast: Shandy Aulia, Denny Sumargo, Sara Wijayanto
Genre: dark, psychological horror
A film that brings a classic and scary theme: a killer doll. She ends up at a family’s home and promises to terrorize anyone.
23. Red Dragon
Year: 2002
Director: Brett Ratner
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Edward Norton, Emily Watson
Genre: suspense, terror investigative
Former FBI agent Will Graham has long been trying to capture Dr. Hannibal Lecter. However, after a few attempts that put his life at risk, he left the mission. But with new gruesome murders, he realizes he needs to get inside the Tooth Fairy’s mind to stop him.
24. Secret Obsession
Year: 2019
Director: Peter Sullivan
Cast: Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, Dennis Haysbert
Genre: psychological thriller
When Jennifer Williams is attacked, she wakes up in the hospital with no memories. Her husband Russell wants to take her home and get back to normal. However, Detective Page is after Jennifer’s real attacker and she will find out that her husband may not be the person she says he is.
25. Before I Wake
Year: 2016
Direction: Mike Flanagan
Cast: Kate Bosworth, Thomas Jane, Jacob Tremblay
Genre: supernatural horror, suspense
A couple lost a young child, so they decided to adopt a child of the same age. The boy seems to be adjusting well to the family, but when he sleeps he has some strange nightmares. Soon the couple begins to notice that the nightmares can become real. Fearful, they begin to investigate the boy’s past and discover sinister events.
26. Priest
Year: 2011
Director: Scott Charles Stewart
Cast: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, Cam Gigandet
Genre: horror with vampires
A post-apocalypse scenario, where humans and vampires faced off. Now, the priests have a mission to protect the cities with those who survived, but the niece of one of them is kidnapped by a vampire and he will have to go and save her.
27. Case 39
Year: 2010
Direction: Christian Alvart
Cast: Renée Zellweger, Jodelle Ferland, Bradley Cooper
Genre: suspense, horror
Emily Jenkins is a social worker engaged with her work and is moved by her new case: it is about a girl, Lilith Sullivan, who was in danger with her parents, at the risk of being injured. Emily decides to invite the girl to live with her until a permanent home is found. The problem is that the girl is not as sweet as she thinks. A psychological horror movie!
28. His House
Year: 2020
Director: Remi Weekes
Cast: Wunmi Mosaku, Sope Dirisu, Matt Smith
Genre: terror
A refugee couple from South Sudan decides to settle in a city in England, after leaving a country in the context of civil war. To reach the country, a long and dangerous crossing was necessary. However, they don’t find the peace they were hoping for when they arrive at their new home. Hauntings and nightmares will haunt them, tormenting them. A psychological horror film that also brings some reflections on the places of belonging in society.
29. It: The Thing
Date: 2017
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Martell, Finn Wolfhard
Genre: suspense, terror
Story adapted from a work by Stephen King. Children begin to disappear in a small town and only their remains are found. One day, a group of kids who call themselves the “Losers Club” come face to face with the person responsible for the crimes: the clown Pennywise. A really scary movie, which features a clown who knows very well how to cause good psychological pressure and identify the victims’ fears.
30. Silent Hill
Year: 2006
Direction: Christophe Gans
Cast: Radha Mitchell, Sean Bean, Jodelle Ferland
Genre: suspense, horror, supernatural
Rose believes her daughter Sharon is suffering from an illness. In many of the girl’s nightmares, she mentions the name of a city. One day, Rose decides to take her there. However, when they arrive, Sharon disappears and it is soon discovered that the city has many creatures from the supernatural world. It’s chilling! Special for those who like movies with demons.
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