Good Boy
2022 · MovieSigrid matches with Christian online and things seem promising. Then she meets his roommate Frank, a grown man who lives entirely as a dog, and the relationship gets considerably harder to explain to her friends.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated November 4, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2022
HorroRated has reviewed 29 horror movies released in 2022, ranked here best first. Good Boy, M3GAN and Bones and All lead the list, all rated Legendary.
Ti West made two films in 2022, and both X and its prequel Pearl earned a Legendary verdict. The surprises kept coming: a killer doll with a dance routine in M3GAN, a tasting menu with dark intentions in The Menu, and a Norwegian roommate who lives as a dog in Good Boy.
2022 horror movies, best first
29 films- Pick
PickM3GAN
2022 · MovieGemma takes custody of her orphaned niece Cady and uses her prototype M3GAN doll to help manage the transition. The doll begins developing beyond its intended parameters.
PickBones and All
2022 · MovieLee and Maren are cannibals trying to understand their compulsion and each other while moving through 1980s America.
PickThe Menu
2022 · MovieExclusive guests at a remote island restaurant discover that Chef Slowik's tasting menu involves a form of service they didn't agree to.
PickSmile
2022 · MovieDr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.
PickPearl
2022 · MoviePearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother, a paralyzed father and a husband away at the war, and desires the world has no room for.
PickBarbarian
2022 · MovieTess arrives at her Detroit rental the night before a job interview and finds it double-booked by a stranger named Keith. Then she finds an unexpected passageway in the basement.
PickNope
2022 · MovieOJ and Emerald Haywood run a horse ranch in Agua Dulce and find that something in the clouds above their property has been taking an interest in movement below.
PickThe Black Phone
2022 · MovieFinney Blake is taken by the Grabber and held in a soundproofed basement in 1978 Denver. A disconnected black phone on the wall begins receiving calls from boys who were killed before him.
PickMen
2022 · MovieHarper retreats to the English countryside after a personal tragedy. The village she's staying near and its surrounding land harbor something specific about masculine hostility.
PickX
2022 · MovieA film crew in 1979 West Texas rents a farmhouse from an elderly couple to shoot a low-budget production. Pearl, the wife, takes an interest in what they're doing.
PickFresh
2022 · MovieAfter a string of bad dates, Noa meets charming Steve in a grocery store and agrees to a weekend away with him. His appetites turn out to be very particular.
Terrifier 2
2022 · MovieArt the Clown returns for a longer night in Miles County with more elaborate sequences and even less interest in restraint.
Sick
2022 · MovieApril 2020: best friends Parker and Miri ride out lockdown at a secluded family lake house. Then an unknown number starts texting, and somebody in a mask shows zero interest in social distancing.
House of Darkness
2022 · MovieHap drives Mina home to her remote gothic estate after meeting at a bar. She's charming, the house is beautiful, and his luck is about to run out.
Bodies Bodies Bodies
2022 · MovieSophie brings her new girlfriend Bee to a hurricane party at a friend's remote family mansion. When the power goes out, a party game escalates into accusations that turn lethal.
Prey
2022 · MovieOn the northern plains in 1719, a young Comanche woman who is tired of being underestimated tracks a danger nobody else will take seriously, and finds herself matched against a visitor carrying weapons from the stars.
Watcher
2022 · MovieJulia moves to Bucharest for her husband's new job and notices a man in the window across the street who seems to track her movements with a consistency that feels like threat.
The Pale Blue Eye
2022 · MovieEdgar Allan Poe is at West Point in 1830 when cadets start dying in ways that connect to a visitor's past.
Halloween Ends
2022 · MovieHalloween Ends takes place four years after Halloween Kills and finds Laurie Strode closing out her story while a new character becomes the film's primary focus.
Hellraiser (2022)
2022 · MovieRiley McKendrick comes across the Lament Configuration and activates a sequence of trades that the Cenobites require working through.
Don't Worry Darling
2022 · MovieAlice Chambers lives in Victory, a planned community for employees of a mysterious project. The perfection of the domestic arrangement develops cracks.
Goodnight Mommy
2022 · MovieTwin brothers Elias and Lukas arrive at their mother's isolated farmhouse to find her face wrapped in bandages after cosmetic surgery. The woman under the gauze is not the mother either of them knew.
Day Shift
2022 · MovieBud Jablonski cleans pools in the San Fernando Valley as a cover for hunting vampires. Desperate for cash, he talks his way back into the hunters' union, but only with a by-the-book desk clerk named Seth riding along to watch his every move.
Orphan: First Kill
2022 · MovieOrphan: First Kill explains how Leena Klammer first became Esther, set in 2007 before the events of the original.
Scream (2022)
2022 · MovieSam Carpenter and her sister Tara are caught in a new Ghostface killing cycle in Woodsboro that connects back to the events of 1996.
Grimcutty
2022 · MovieWhen a viral internet challenge sends suburban parents into a panic, their fear brings the Grimcutty to life. Teenage Asha and her little brother Kamran are the ones it comes for, and their parents think the wounds are self-harm.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre
2022 · MovieA family driving through rural Texas encounters Leatherface on a remote property.
Jeepers Creepers: Reborn
2022 · MovieThe Creeper returns in a soft reboot that ignores the events of the previous sequels.
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2022 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 29 films: 12 Legendary, 6 Highly Recommended, 8 Recommended, 2 Worth a Look and 1 If You're Curious
- Average score
- 3.9 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Psychological (14 films), Serial Killer (11)
- HorroRated Picks
- Good Boy, M3GAN, Bones and All and The Menu, plus 8 more
- Directors with more than one film
- Ti West (Pearl and X)
- Made outside the US
- Good Boy (Norway)
- Streaming in the US
- 26 of 29, 9 of them free, as of November 10, 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions About 2022 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2022?
Twelve films from 2022 share HorroRated's top verdict, Legendary, and all are HorroRated Picks: Good Boy, M3GAN, Bones and All and The Menu, plus 8 more. They're tied, so the list shows the newest first, starting with Good Boy.
What's the best serial killer movie of 2022?
Pearl (Legendary) is HorroRated's top-rated serial killer movie of 2022, ahead of Barbarian. Compared with the rest of the archive, 2022 leaned hardest on serial killers: 11 of the 29 films on the list. The most common kind that year is psychological horror, with 14.
Which directors have more than one 2022 film on this list?
Ti West, with Pearl and X.
How does 2022 compare with other horror years?
2022 has the highest average score of the 20 years with their own HorroRated list, 3.9 of 5 tapes, and no year has more Legendary films than its twelve.