The House That Jack Built
2018 · MovieJack, a methodical intellectual killer, narrates his crimes across a twelve-year span and asks the audience to follow his logic.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated November 9, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2018
HorroRated has reviewed 16 horror movies released in 2018, ranked here best first. The House That Jack Built, Hereditary and A Quiet Place lead the list, all rated Legendary.
Silence became a survival skill in John Krasinski's A Quiet Place, and grief became something far worse in Ari Aster's Hereditary. The same year gave Art the Clown a film all his own in Terrifier and sent Luca Guadagnino's Suspiria inside a Berlin dance academy during the political turmoil of 1977.
2018 horror movies, best first
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PickHereditary
2018 · MovieAnnie's mother has just died, and the grief in the Graham household turns out to be the least of what's coming for this family. Something has been arranged for them long before anyone realized it.
PickA Quiet Place
2018 · MovieThe Abbott family survives in a world where making any sound will get you killed. The film follows a crucial period in that survival.
PickTerrifier
2018 · MovieArt the Clown works through Miles County on Halloween night with complete commitment. The film has no interest in anything other than that.
Suspiria (2018)
2018 · MovieSusie Bannion arrives at the Markos Dance Company in 1977 Berlin during a period of political upheaval and rises through the ranks.
Halloween (2018)
2018 · MovieLaurie Strode has spent forty years preparing for Michael Myers to return. He does.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls
2018 · MovieLewis Barnavelt moves in with his eccentric uncle Jonathan after his parents die and finds a house full of magic, secrets, and a clock hidden in the walls.
Malevolent
2018 · MovieAngela and her brother Jackson make a living faking ghost cleansings in 1986 Scotland. Then a job at an old house where foster girls were murdered puts Angela face to face with spirits she can't fake.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
2018 · MovieSlappy the ventriloquist dummy returns with a plan to ruin Halloween for the entire neighborhood.
The Nun
2018 · MovieSister Irene and Father Burke investigate the suicide of a young nun at a remote Romanian monastery and encounter what the cloistered community has been containing.
The Predator
2018 · MovieAn Army sniper mails home pieces of alien armor as proof of what he saw in the jungle. Then his young son starts tinkering with them, and Earth gets a second, much larger visitor who wants that gear back.
The First Purge
2018 · MovieResidents of Staten Island are paid $5,000 to stay put for a government trial of twelve lawless hours, and a neighborhood drug boss and a young activist each have to decide how they will get through the night.
Insidious: The Last Key
2018 · MovieElise Rainier returns to her childhood home in Five Keys, New Mexico to investigate a haunting connected to her past.
The Strangers: Prey at Night
2018 · MovieA family stops at their uncle's secluded trailer park before teenage Kinsey leaves for boarding school, and three masked figures begin a campaign of harassment and violence with no apparent motivation.
Slender Man
2018 · MovieHallie and her friends call on the Slender Man through an online ritual and start losing members of their group.
Hellraiser: Judgment
2018 · MovieDetective brothers Sean and David Carter investigate a serial killer called the Preceptor whose murders follow the Ten Commandments. The trail leads them somewhere far worse than a killer's hideout.
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2018 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 16 films: 4 Legendary, 3 Highly Recommended, 6 Recommended, 1 Worth a Look and 2 If You're Curious
- Average score
- 3.4 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Supernatural (8 films), Demons (6)
- HorroRated Picks
- The House That Jack Built, Hereditary, A Quiet Place and Terrifier
- Made outside the US
- The House That Jack Built (Denmark, France, Germany, Sweden); Malevolent (United Kingdom)
- Streaming in the US
- 16 of 16, 7 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 2018 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2018?
Four films from 2018 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: The House That Jack Built, Hereditary, A Quiet Place and Terrifier. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with The House That Jack Built.
What's the best ghost story of 2018?
The House with a Clock in Its Walls (Highly Recommended) is HorroRated's top-rated ghost story of 2018, ahead of Malevolent. Compared with the rest of the archive, 2018 leaned hardest on ghost stories: 5 of the 16 films on the list. The most common kind that year is supernatural horror, with 8.
Which 2018 horror movies are part of a franchise?
Nine of the 16 films come from franchises with a HorroRated watch-order guide, a bigger share than in most years: A Quiet Place, Terrifier, Halloween (2018), The Nun (The Conjuring Universe) and The Predator, plus 4 more.
Which 2018 horror movies can you watch for free?
The House That Jack Built (Tubi), Hereditary (YouTube) and Terrifier (Tubi), plus 4 more: they stream free in the US as of November 10, 2026, with ads or a library card.