Silent Hill
2006 · MovieRose DaSilva follows her adopted daughter Sharon into a fog-covered town that was burned decades ago and hasn't been right since, where the streets shift and something is waiting.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated October 19, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2006
HorroRated has reviewed 11 horror movies released in 2006, ranked here best first. Silent Hill, Hostel and The Hills Have Eyes (2006) lead the list.
Fog, sirens and streets that shift: Christophe Gans brought Silent Hill to the screen with real devotion to the games. The same year sent backpackers to Slovakia in Eli Roth's Hostel and put a senior class on a doomed amusement-park ride in Final Destination 3.
2006 horror movies, best first
11 films- Pick
Hostel
2006 · MovieThree backpackers follow a tip to a hostel in Slovakia and find that the women there are bait for a very different business, run out of an old factory outside town.
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)
2006 · MovieA family's desert shortcut ends near an abandoned nuclear test zone where a community has been surviving for generations in ways the government would rather not acknowledge.
Final Destination 3
2006 · MovieWendy Christensen has a premonition that her senior class roller coaster is about to derail and pulls several friends off before it does. The photos she took that night hold clues to exactly how each survivor is going to die next.
Saw III
2006 · MovieJigsaw is dying, Amanda is running the games, and a doctor is kept alive to keep John breathing while a grieving father works through a test built around his loss.
The Wicker Man (2006)
2006 · MovieA cop flies to a remote island looking for a missing girl at his ex-fiancée's request. The island's pagan community is not especially helpful.
Open Water 2: Adrift
2006 · MovieSix friends go swimming off a yacht in open water and realize too late that nobody lowered the ladder. The boat is right there. Nobody can climb back aboard, and a baby is alone on deck.
The Omen (2006)
2006 · MovieAn American diplomat quietly swaps his stillborn child for an orphan at birth. The signs surrounding the boy begin accumulating.
See No Evil
2006 · MovieA group of young offenders sent to clean an abandoned hotel finds that a very large man has been living inside it.
Stay Alive
2006 · MovieA video game with an unusual hook reveals that the deaths inside it are happening to real people outside it.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning
2006 · MovieTwo brothers and their girlfriends are driving across the country in 1969 to enlist for Vietnam when a roadside ambush and a crash leave them at the mercy of a sheriff who isn't what he seems.
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2006 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 11 films: 1 Legendary, 1 Highly Recommended, 2 Recommended, 6 Worth a Look and 1 If You're Curious
- Average score
- 2.5 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Supernatural (4 films), Survival Horror (4)
- HorroRated Picks
- Silent Hill
- Made outside the US
- Silent Hill (Canada, France, Japan); Open Water 2: Adrift (Germany)
- Streaming in the US
- 8 of 11, 4 of them free, as of November 10, 2026
Ranked by HorroRated score, then Picks, then newest release. How the year lists work
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Frequently Asked Questions About 2006 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2006?
By HorroRated's scores, Silent Hill, directed by Christophe Gans, is the best horror movie of 2006, rated Legendary. Hostel and The Hills Have Eyes (2006) are close behind.
Which 2006 horror movies are part of a franchise?
Four of the 11 films come from franchises with a HorroRated watch-order guide: Final Destination 3, Saw III, The Omen (2006) and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Beginning.
Which 2006 horror movies can you watch for free?
The Wicker Man (2006) (YouTube), Open Water 2: Adrift (Tubi) and See No Evil (Tubi), plus 1 more: they stream free in the US as of November 10, 2026, with ads or a library card.