Best Horror Movies on AMC+ Right Now
AMC+ is streaming 93 horror movies and 5 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are The Ugly Stepsister, Late Night with the Devil and The Golden Glove, all Legendary.
AMC+ includes Shudder's library along with AMC's own channels, so much of this list overlaps with Shudder's.
Horror movies on AMC+, best first
The Ugly Stepsister(2025)
Elvira lives in the shadow of her beautiful stepsister in a Norwegian Cinderella retelling where the fairy tale's embedded violence is treated as something real.
Late Night with the Devil(2024)
Jack Delroy's show Late Night with the Devil broadcasts from Studio 6B on Halloween night 1977. The special's escalating content is recovered on videotape years afterward.
The Golden Glove(2019)
Fritz Honka picks up lonely, aging women at his favorite Hamburg bar and takes them home. The women who leave with him rarely leave again.
The House That Jack Built(2018)
Jack, a methodical intellectual killer, narrates his crimes across a twelve-year span and asks the audience to follow his logic.
The Babadook(2014)
Amelia is still managing her grief over her husband's death when her son Samuel becomes obsessed with a picture book called Mister Babadook.
Jeepers Creepers(2001)
Two siblings on a long drive home spot someone dumping what looks like a body down a pipe off a rural highway. Stopping to investigate is where things go very wrong.
Body Bags(1993)
Three short horror stories hosted by a wisecracking coroner: a gas station night shift, a desperate hair transplant, and a transplanted eye with a troubling past.
Child's Play(1988)
Karen Barclay finds a way to get her son Andy the Good Guy doll he wants, not knowing what the seller was actually carrying.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space(1988)
Alien creatures shaped like circus clowns land in a small town and start harvesting the population using cotton candy cocoons. Two teenagers try to warn people.
Chopping Mall(1986)
Eight teenagers sneak into a mall after closing for a party. The new security robots have been programmed more aggressively than anyone anticipated.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)(1984)
Teenagers on Elm Street are sharing nightmares about a burned man with knives for fingers. When the deaths start, one of them has to stay awake long enough to figure out how to stop him.
Sleepaway Camp(1983)
Angela Baker barely speaks when she arrives at Camp Arawak with her cousin. Then campers start dying and the investigation circles back to the new arrivals.
Basket Case(1982)
Duane Bradley checks into a Times Square hotel with a locked wicker basket containing his brother Belial, and together they have a list of people to visit. What's inside the basket is the plan.
Friday the 13th (1980)(1980)
Camp Crystal Lake is reopening after years of deaths nobody fully explained and a new group of counselors has moved in to prepare for the season. Somebody's already there.
Motel Hell(1980)
Farmer Vincent runs a roadside motel and sells smoked meats locals swear by. The production process is what makes this a horror film.
Halloween (1978)(1978)
Michael Myers escapes a psychiatric institution fifteen years after murdering his sister and returns to Haddonfield on Halloween night. Laurie Strode has no idea she's about to become his target.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978)(1978)
San Francisco health inspector Matthew Bennell notices the people around him are changing, becoming subtly wrong in ways he can't quite name. He's running out of time to figure out who's still human.
Alice, Sweet Alice(1976)
On the morning of her First Communion, a little girl is murdered inside a New Jersey church, and suspicion settles on her sullen older sister. Meanwhile, a figure in a yellow raincoat and a translucent mask keeps striking.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)(1974)
Five friends on a road trip through rural Texas stop at a farmhouse that seems abandoned. It isn't.
The Crazies(1973)
Soldiers in white suits and gas masks seal off a sleepy Pennsylvania town after a secret germ weapon gets into the water supply. Neighbors start turning violent, and nobody can tell who's infected.
Night of the Living Dead (1968)(1968)
A visit to a country cemetery goes wrong, and by nightfall a handful of strangers are nailing boards over the windows of a lonely farmhouse. The dead outside are hungry, and the living inside can't agree on anything.
Rosemary's Baby(1968)
Rosemary and Guy Woodhouse move into a storied Manhattan apartment building and their charming elderly neighbors take an unusually strong interest in Rosemary's pregnancy.
The Thing (1982)(1982)
A research team in Antarctica takes in a stray dog from a neighboring camp. What comes out of that dog is a very different problem.
Watcher(2022)
Chloe moves to Bucharest for work and notices a man who seems to track her movements with a consistency that feels like threat.
Cult of Chucky(2017)
Chucky can now possess multiple dolls simultaneously. Nica Pierce is in a psychiatric facility where a new Good Guy doll arrives.
Insidious: Chapter 3(2015)
Quinn Brenner seeks out retired medium Elise Rainier to contact her deceased mother and inadvertently attracts something else entirely.
The Houses October Built(2014)
A group of friends tours a series of extreme haunted attractions during Halloween and documents the experience on camera.
Carrie (2013)(2013)
A shy, isolated teenager with telekinetic abilities faces her worst impulse at the worst possible moment.
Insidious(2011)
Josh and Renai Lambert's son falls into an unexplained coma. What's actually happening is worse than a medical condition, and it isn't confined to their house.
The Haunting in Connecticut(2009)
The Campbell family rents a Connecticut house to be closer to the hospital treating their teenage son's cancer. Matt has visions that his illness can't fully account for.
The Human Centipede (First Sequence)(2009)
A German surgeon connects several people surgically into a continuous human chain. The film's concept is its primary content.
Hostel(2006)
Three backpackers follow a tip to a hostel in Slovakia and find that the facility has a very different business operating in its lower levels.
Cabin Fever (2003)(2003)
Five friends rent a remote cabin to celebrate graduation. A flesh-eating illness moves through the group, and fear does the rest.
Frankenhooker(1990)
Jeffrey Franken loses his fiancée Elizabeth to a horrific lawnmower accident and decides to bring her back. Since he only saved her head, he goes shopping for the rest.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors(1987)
The last surviving kids of Elm Street are locked in a psychiatric hospital, dismissed as troubled teenagers. Nancy Thompson knows better, and she's come back to teach them how to fight Freddy in the only place he can actually be beaten.
The Return of the Living Dead(1985)
Two workers accidentally release a gas at a medical warehouse. By nightfall the cemetery next door has a problem.
Magic(1978)
Corky Withers builds his stage act around a foul-mouthed ventriloquist dummy named Fats. The success is real, but so is the fact that Corky can't seem to control what Fats says or does.
Black Sunday(1960)
A witch executed with a spiked mask in 1630 Moldavia vows revenge on her bloodline before she dies. Two centuries later, two travelers accidentally wake her.
Influencer(2023)
Cassidy becomes aware that a follower named Madison has inserted herself into a Thailand trip. The situation deteriorates beyond the social discomfort Cassidy initially expects.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe(2016)
Tommy and Austin Tilden perform an autopsy on an unidentified young woman with no visible cause of death. The examination reveals something not in any textbook.
The Human Centipede 3 (Final Sequence)(2015)
The Human Centipede trilogy concludes in a prison setting with a warden attempting to implement the procedure on his entire inmate population.
Curse of Chucky(2013)
A Good Guy doll arrives at a grandmother's house as a gift and turns its attention to her granddaughter.
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters(2013)
Hansel and Gretel have been killing witches professionally since childhood. They arrive in a new town with a witch problem during the buildup to a Blood Moon.
Insidious: Chapter 2(2013)
The Lambert family's haunting continues into a new location and the investigation into its history expands.
The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence)(2011)
Martin has watched the original Human Centipede so many times he's decided to build his own. He's not a surgeon, and that's very much the point.
The Last House on the Left(2009)
Mari Collingwood is attacked during a visit from a group she trusted and her parents' response fills the film's second half.
Halloween (2007)(2007)
Rob Zombie reimagines Michael Myers from the beginning, spending real time on his childhood before the events of the original film.
Hostel: Part II(2007)
The hostel's business model expands. This time the clientele and the merchandise are both different.
Seed of Chucky(2004)
Chucky and Tiffany's child tracks down its parents on a Hollywood movie set and wants to understand which of them it takes after.
Final Destination 2(2003)
Kimberly Corman pulls a line of cars out of traffic seconds before a massive highway pileup. The people she saved start dying anyway, in order.
House of 1000 Corpses(2003)
Two couples following a documentary about American roadside oddities stop at a rural Texas attraction and end up as guests of a family that doesn't let people leave.
Jeepers Creepers 2(2003)
A school bus breaks down on a rural highway after a championship game. Something circles the bus and selects passengers one at a time.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)(2003)
Five friends driving to a music festival pick up a traumatized hitchhiker and follow the situation into territory they should have driven past.
Bride of Chucky(1998)
Chucky gets reassembled by an old associate who ends up transferred into a matching doll. The two of them take over a road trip and leave a trail behind them.
The Faculty(1998)
A handful of outsiders at Herrington High start comparing notes on their teachers' behavior and arrive at an explanation that sounds impossible and turns out to be accurate.
The Dentist(1996)
Dr. Alan Feinstone has built a precise, controlled life and one morning's discovery destabilizes all of it, sending him to see rot and contamination everywhere, including in his patients.
Wes Craven's New Nightmare(1994)
Heather Langenkamp, who played Nancy in the original Elm Street, finds herself having experiences that suggest Freddy was never entirely fictional.
Child's Play 2(1990)
Andy Barclay is in foster care. Chucky has been rebuilt from salvaged material and knows exactly where Andy is.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master(1988)
Freddy has been pulled back through a new group of teenagers. One of them figures out she can take something from him when she returns from the dream.
Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers(1988)
Michael Myers wakes up after a decade and returns to Haddonfield, this time fixated on a small girl named Jamie Lloyd.
Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI(1986)
Tommy Jarvis tries to cremate Jason Voorhees's corpse to finally exorcise his own nightmares. A stray lightning bolt has other plans, and Camp Crystal Lake gets its killer back permanently.
Psycho III(1986)
A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge(1985)
Jesse Walsh moves into Nancy Thompson's old house five years after the original nightmare ended. Freddy Krueger wants inside him, not just inside his dreams.
Children of the Corn(1984)
Burt and Vicky get stranded near a small Nebraska town where every adult is gone and the children follow something that lives in the corn.
Twilight Zone: The Movie(1983)
Four directors, four very different approaches to the same source material. At least two of the segments are legitimately great.
Halloween III: Season of the Witch(1982)
No Michael Myers. Instead, a California coastal town is being targeted by a mask company with a very strange plan for Halloween night.
Halloween II (1981)(1981)
Michael Myers follows Laurie Strode to the hospital after Halloween night. He works through the empty halls with the same patience he had in Carpenter's film.
Tourist Trap(1979)
A group of stranded travelers finds shelter at Slausen's Lost Oasis, a rundown roadside wax museum. The mannequins there move on their own, and the man who runs the place has telekinetic powers he's not using kindly.
Cabin Fever (2016)(2016)
A 2016 remake of Eli Roth's Cabin Fever uses the same screenplay with a different cast and director.
Halloween II (2009)(2009)
Rob Zombie's sequel picks up where the remake left off and pushes further into his vision of what Michael Myers is and where he comes from.
The Final Destination(2009)
The survivors of the last premonition are still alive and death is working through the backlog starting with a racetrack disaster.
The Amityville Horror(2005)
The Lutz family buys a house on Long Island where a family was murdered, reasoning that it's cheap for a reason. They spend 28 days inside before leaving everything behind.
Resident Evil: Apocalypse(2004)
The T-virus has escaped Raccoon City and the corporation is planning to contain the situation by erasing the city entirely.
Freddy vs. Jason(2003)
Freddy Krueger has been using Jason Voorhees to reestablish fear in Springwood. Jason won't stop killing long enough for Freddy to reclaim what he needs.
Ghost Ship(2002)
A salvage crew boards a luxury ocean liner that vanished in 1962. The ship has been holding something the whole time.
The Dentist 2(1998)
Dr. Alan Feinstone resurfaces in a small town and sets up a new practice, trying to maintain the routine that holds his impulses in check.
Candyman: Farewell to the Flesh(1995)
A teacher investigating a family secret in New Orleans finds it connected to the same legend her brother died trying to debunk.
Dr. Giggles(1992)
Evan Rendell has grown up with his father's obsession and is now loose in a suburb where a teenager is dealing with a heart condition.
Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare(1991)
Freddy has killed every kid in Springwood except one. He needs an amnesiac stranger to lead him to the daughter he's been hiding for decades, the only person left who can finally end him.
Psycho IV: The Beginning(1990)
Norman Bates calls into a late-night radio show to talk about mothers. He has a lot to say.
A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child(1989)
Alice is pregnant and Freddy has found a route into the waking world through her unborn child. Another group of her friends begins dying.
Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood(1988)
A teenager with telekinetic abilities accidentally wakes Jason from the bottom of Crystal Lake.
Friday the 13th: A New Beginning(1985)
Tommy Jarvis is older now and living at a halfway house for troubled teens. A new series of killings breaks out almost immediately, and the question of who's doing it is the film's main trick.
Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter(1984)
Jason is back at Crystal Lake and the family renting a house next door is going to have a very bad weekend.
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker(1981)
Billy Lynch has grown up under the total control of the aunt who raised him and she has no intention of letting him leave. When she kills a man in their kitchen, the investigation that follows exposes something much darker than anyone expected.
Friday the 13th Part 2(1981)
A new counselor training camp opens near Crystal Lake. Jason has been there the whole time.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)(2010)
Freddy Krueger stalks a new group of Elm Street teenagers in a remake that revisits the original's premise without its invention.
Jason X(2001)
Jason Voorhees is cryogenically frozen and wakes up four centuries in the future aboard a spaceship. He does what Jason does.
Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday(1993)
The FBI finally blows Jason Voorhees apart in a hail of gunfire. What crawls out of his corpse and starts body-hopping toward his bloodline is a much bigger problem than anyone anticipated.
Child's Play 3(1991)
Andy Barclay is older and enrolled in military school. Chucky has been shipped to the same campus.
Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan(1989)
A senior class boards a ship for New York City. Jason ends up on the boat, and most of the film takes place on the boat.
Halloween 5: The Revenge of Michael Myers(1989)
Jamie survived last time but can't speak, and she seems to share some kind of psychic link with Michael. He comes back to Haddonfield.
Friday the 13th Part III(1982)
Jason is back at Crystal Lake with a new group to work through. This is the one where the hockey mask appears for the first time.
Horror series on AMC+
Creepshow(2019)
The Creep hosts short horror stories adapted from the comics, brought to life with practical effects and that same mean streak the original Creepshow films had.
Tales from the Crypt(1989)
The Crypt Keeper hosts weekly horror pulled from the EC Comics catalog, complete with outstanding practical effects and a very mean sense of humor.
Chucky(2021)
A vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale and a small American town starts coming apart at the seams.
The Terror(2018)
An anthology series where each season follows a group of people in terrifying historical situations where the horror is real and the hope of rescue is not.
Channel Zero(2016)
Each season adapts a different internet creepypasta into a full horror narrative, giving viral horror legends the long-form treatment they were designed for.
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Streaming horror on AMC+: questions
What is the best horror movie on AMC+ right now?
By HorroRated's scores, The Ugly Stepsister (2025) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on AMC+ as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. Late Night with the Devil and The Golden Glove are close behind.
How many horror movies are on AMC+?
From the HorroRated archive, 93 horror movies and 5 series are streaming on AMC+ in the US as of October 10, 2026. The archive is hand-curated, so this counts the titles HorroRated has reviewed, not every horror title on the service.
How often is this list updated?
Every week, and whenever the archive changes. Availability comes from JustWatch through TMDB and is checked every Monday, and titles that arrived since the previous check are marked new. Services add and drop titles without notice, so check the service before you settle in.
US availability from JustWatch via TMDB, checked October 10, 2026. Scores, verdicts and blurbs are HorroRated’s own; see how we rate.