The Golden Glove
2019 · MovieFritz Honka picks up lonely, aging women at his favorite Hamburg bar and takes them home. The women who leave with him rarely leave again.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated October 19, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2019
HorroRated has reviewed 15 horror movies released in 2019, ranked here best first. The Golden Glove, Vivarium and Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark lead the list, all rated Legendary.
Who knew daylight could be this unsettling? Ari Aster's Midsommar plays out under the endless Swedish summer sun, and Jordan Peele's Us gives a Santa Cruz family doubles of their own. Further afield, Fatih Akin's The Golden Glove pulls up a stool in a grim Hamburg tavern, and Vivarium traps Gemma and Tom on an estate where every house looks the same.
2019 horror movies, best first
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PickVivarium
2019 · MovieGemma and Tom follow an estate agent to a development of identical houses and can't find their way back out. The house they can't leave contains a child that isn't theirs.
PickScary Stories to Tell in the Dark
2019 · MovieStella and her friends find Sarah Bellows's book of horror stories. The creatures from the illustrations start manifesting.
PickMidsommar
2019 · MovieDani follows her boyfriend and his friends to a remote Harga commune in Sweden months after a personal tragedy. The midsummer festival they attend becomes increasingly difficult to classify as merely cultural.
PickUs
2019 · MovieAdelaide Wilson and her family encounter perfect doppelgangers of themselves at their Santa Cruz vacation home. The confrontation that follows opens into a larger mystery.
Villains
2019 · MovieTwo lovestruck small-time robbers are on their way to a new life in Florida when their getaway car dies, so they break into the nearest house for another, and find their hosts are far more dangerous than they are.
It Chapter Two
2019 · MovieThe Losers Club reunites in Derry twenty-seven years after their childhood encounter with Pennywise.
Come to Daddy
2019 · MovieNorval, a fragile would-be music producer, travels to a remote seaside house after a letter from the father who left him as a boy, and the reunion turns strange from the very first drink.
47 Meters Down: Uncaged
2019 · MovieFour teenage girls sneak off to dive a sunken Mayan city hidden in the Mexican jungle. The flooded ruins turn out to be home to blind great white sharks.
Annabelle Comes Home
2019 · MovieEd and Lorraine Warren lock the Annabelle doll away in their occult museum. Their daughter's babysitter and a curious friend accidentally set every other cursed object in the room loose in a single night.
Child's Play (2019)
2019 · MovieA lonely boy in a new Chicago apartment unwraps a high-tech Buddi companion as a birthday present, and the toy's eagerness to be his one true friend soon turns murderous.
Ma
2019 · MovieSue Ann, a veterinary assistant, befriends a group of teenagers and hosts parties in her basement. The situation's imbalance becomes clear gradually.
The Curse of La Llorona
2019 · MovieAnna Garcia investigates a custody case connected to La Llorona and finds herself and her children targeted by the weeping figure.
Escape Room
2019 · MovieSix strangers are placed in elaborate escape rooms that turn out not to be a game.
In the Tall Grass
2019 · MovieBecky and Cal stop at a field in rural Kansas after hearing a child calling from the grass and find that entering it displaces them from normal space and time.
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2019 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 15 films: 5 Legendary, 3 Highly Recommended, 6 Recommended and 1 Worth a Look
- Average score
- 3.8 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Psychological (6 films), Family Horror (4)
- HorroRated Picks
- The Golden Glove, Vivarium, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Midsommar, plus 1 more
- Made outside the US
- The Golden Glove (Germany)
- Streaming in the US
- 15 of 15, 6 of them free, as of November 10, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions About 2019 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2019?
Five films from 2019 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: The Golden Glove, Vivarium, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Midsommar, plus 1 more. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with The Golden Glove.
What's the best haunted house movie of 2019?
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (Legendary) is HorroRated's top-rated haunted house movie of 2019, ahead of It Chapter Two. Compared with the rest of the archive, 2019 leaned hardest on haunted houses: 3 of the 15 films on the list. The most common kind that year is psychological horror, with 6.
Which 2019 horror movies can you watch for free?
The Golden Glove (Tubi), Vivarium (Tubi) and Villains (Tubi), plus 3 more: they stream free in the US as of November 10, 2026, with ads or a library card.
How does 2019 compare with other horror years?
Among the 20 years with their own HorroRated list, 2019 ties for 2nd by average score, 3.8 of 5 tapes, with five rated Legendary. The highest-rated year is 2022, at 3.9.