The Coffee Table
2023 · MovieJesús and María's ordinary life is permanently altered by a catastrophic domestic event. The film documents the aftermath and what that horror does to their domestic routines.
Ranked by HorroRated · Updated October 19, 2026
Best Horror Movies of 2023
HorroRated has reviewed 11 horror movies released in 2023, ranked here best first. The Coffee Table, No One Will Save You and Evil Dead Rise lead the list.
A new coffee table becomes the most frightening object of the year in Spain's The Coffee Table. Elsewhere, deadites run loose in a Los Angeles apartment block in Evil Dead Rise, an intruder from far beyond town comes for Brynn in No One Will Save You, and Brandon Cronenberg checks his guests into a resort nightmare, Infinity Pool.
2023 horror movies, best first
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No One Will Save You
2023 · MovieBrynn lives alone in her late mother's house, shunned by her small town for reasons the film takes its time to reveal. Then one night something breaks in, and it isn't from around here.
Evil Dead Rise
2023 · MovieBeth drops in on her estranged sister Ellie, a single mother of three, in her run-down Los Angeles apartment building on the night an earthquake uncovers the Naturom Demonto. The deadite infection moves through the building.
Infinity Pool
2023 · MovieStruggling novelist James Foster is on holiday with his wife Em at a luxury resort in the island nation of Li Tolqa when a fatal accident puts him at the mercy of local justice. For the right price, a rich tourist can have a clone executed instead, and James learns to like it.
Five Nights at Freddy's
2023 · MovieMike Schmidt takes the night shift at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria badly enough to ignore the warning signs. The five nights that follow reveal a history at the restaurant connected to his own past.
Saw X
2023 · MovieDesperate for a cure, John Kramer travels to Mexico for an experimental cancer treatment that turns out to be a scam. He and Amanda make the con artists pay the only way he knows.
The Nun II
2023 · MovieAn investigation into the Nun's activity in France brings Sister Irene back into contact with the entity first encountered in Romania.
Influencer
2023 · MovieInfluencer Madison is posting her dream trip to Thailand while feeling lonely behind the camera, until a fearless stranger named CW offers to show her the places tourists never see. CW's idea of off the grid goes further than Madison expects.
Scream VI
2023 · MovieHoping New York City will give them a clean slate, the four survivors of the last Woodsboro killings move to Manhattan, only to find a bolder Ghostface waiting in the Halloween crowds.
The Exorcist: Believer
2023 · MovieTwo Georgia schoolgirls vanish into the woods and walk back out three days later with no memory of where they went. A widowed father turns to Chris MacNeil, the one person who has seen this before.
Insidious: The Red Door
2023 · MovieDalton Lambert is now a college student and his childhood abilities haven't released him. Josh Lambert's final attempt to help his son requires going back into The Further.
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2023 in Horror, by the Numbers
- Reviewed
- 11 films: 1 Legendary, 3 Highly Recommended, 5 Recommended and 2 Worth a Look
- Average score
- 3.3 of 5 tapes, against 3.3 across all 519 movies in the archive
- Leading subgenres
- Supernatural (6 films), Demons (4)
- HorroRated Picks
- The Coffee Table
- Made outside the US
- The Coffee Table (Spain)
- Streaming in the US
- 11 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 2023 Horror Movies
What is the best horror movie of 2023?
By HorroRated's scores, The Coffee Table, directed by Caye Casas, is the best horror movie of 2023, rated Legendary. No One Will Save You and Evil Dead Rise are close behind.
What's the best demon movie of 2023?
Evil Dead Rise (Highly Recommended) is HorroRated's top-rated demon movie of 2023, ahead of The Nun II. Compared with the rest of the archive, 2023 leaned hardest on demons: 4 of the 11 films on the list. The most common kind that year is supernatural horror, with 6.
Which 2023 horror movies are part of a franchise?
Six of the 11 films come from franchises with a HorroRated watch-order guide, a bigger share than in most years: Evil Dead Rise, Saw X, The Nun II (The Conjuring Universe), Scream VI and The Exorcist: Believer, plus 1 more.