Gerald's Game
2017 · MovieJessie Burlingame is left in restraints when her husband dies during a game at their remote lakeside getaway. She has to survive the weekend alone.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated November 9, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2017
HorroRated has reviewed 20 horror movies released in 2017, ranked here best first. Gerald's Game, It and Annabelle: Creation lead the list, all rated Legendary.
Pennywise came back to Derry in Andy Muschietti's It, and Mike Flanagan's Gerald's Game left Jessie handcuffed and alone at a lake house, making 2017 a big year for Stephen King on screen. Jordan Peele's Get Out arrived too, turning a weekend with the girlfriend's parents into something much darker.
2017 horror movies, best first
20 films- Pick
PickIt
2017 · MovieBill Denbrough and the Losers Club spend a summer in 1989 Derry, Maine confronting Pennywise, a shape-shifting entity that has been working the town for centuries.
PickAnnabelle: Creation
2017 · MovieA group of orphaned girls is placed in the Mullins household in the 1950s, where the parents have been living with a tragedy and something attached to a doll.
PickGet Out
2017 · MovieChris meets his white girlfriend's family for the first time at their secluded estate. Everyone is warm, welcoming, and hiding something that goes far beyond ordinary awkwardness.
PickSplit
2017 · MovieKevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 23 distinct personalities, kidnaps three teenage girls and locks them underground, and a 24th personality is on its way. The film follows Kevin through his most dangerous personalities while exploring what was done to him.
Cult of Chucky
2017 · MovieChucky can now possess multiple dolls simultaneously. Nica Pierce is in a psychiatric facility where a new Good Guy doll arrives.
The Ritual
2017 · MovieFour men take a memorial hike through the Scandinavian wilderness and find a shortcut through forest that has been maintaining its own agenda.
Creep 2
2017 · MovieThe killer from Creep is back, now calling himself Aaron, and his newest videographer, Sara, is hoping he'll be the break her struggling web series needs. He says he's a serial killer. She doesn't believe him.
Alien: Covenant
2017 · MovieThe Covenant colony ship detours to investigate a signal and finds a world that David, the android from Prometheus, has been using as a laboratory.
The Blackcoat's Daughter
2017 · MovieKat and Rose are left behind at Bramford Academy when their parents fail to pick them up for winter break. Miles away, a young woman named Joan accepts a ride from a couple headed the same way.
Marrowbone
2017 · MovieIn 1968, a mother flees England with her four children for her childhood home in rural Maine. When she dies, the children start experiencing things they can't explain.
mother!
2017 · MovieA poet and his wife live in an isolated house she has been rebuilding. A series of uninvited guests disrupts the domestic order and the disruption escalates.
The Mummy
2017 · MovieSoldier of fortune Nick Morton accidentally frees Ahmanet, an ancient Egyptian princess sealed in a tomb in Iraq. She has plans for him, and Dr. Henry Jekyll's monster-hunting society has plans for them both.
Resident Evil: Vendetta
2017 · MovieA new bioweapon threatens the world and Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield have to reach it before it can be deployed.
47 Meters Down
2017 · MovieLisa and Kate agree to a shark cage dive off the Mexican coast. The winch fails at depth.
A Cure for Wellness
2017 · MovieLockhart arrives at a Swiss Alpine wellness clinic to retrieve an executive and ends up treated as a patient while the facility's history and methods reveal themselves.
Jigsaw
2017 · MovieJigsaw is dead. A new game begins and the investigation raises questions about how many disciples were working alongside John Kramer all along.
Jeepers Creepers 3
2017 · MovieThe Creeper returns to complete a specific cycle that ends with what it collected decades before.
Leatherface
2017 · MovieA teenage Leatherface escapes from a psychiatric facility in 1965 Texas with other patients and a hostage nurse, pursued by a vengeful sheriff.
Flatliners
2017 · MovieMedical students secretly flatline themselves to experience what lies beyond and find the blackout experiences they bring back are connected to events from their pasts.
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2017 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 20 films: 5 Legendary, 5 Highly Recommended, 6 Recommended, 3 Worth a Look and 1 If You're Curious
- Average score
- 3.5 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Isolation (9 films), Survival Horror (8)
- HorroRated Picks
- Gerald's Game, It, Annabelle: Creation and Get Out, plus 1 more
- Streaming in the US
- 16 of 20, 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 2017 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2017?
Five films from 2017 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: Gerald's Game, It, Annabelle: Creation and Get Out, plus 1 more. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with Gerald's Game.
Which 2017 horror movies are part of a franchise?
Six of the 20 films come from franchises with a HorroRated watch-order guide: Annabelle: Creation (The Conjuring Universe), Cult of Chucky, Alien: Covenant, Resident Evil: Vendetta and Jigsaw, plus 1 more.
How does 2017 compare with other horror years?
Among the 20 years with their own HorroRated list, 2017 ties for 7th by average score, 3.5 of 5 tapes, with five rated Legendary. The highest-rated year is 2022, at 3.9.