Free Horror Movies to Stream Right Now
Free services are streaming 213 horror movies and 14 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are The Coffee Table, Bones and All and Good Boy, all Legendary.
Every title here streams at no cost on at least one service, usually with ads; Kanopy and Hoopla need a library card instead.
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The Coffee Table(2023)
Carlos and Ana'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.
Bones and All(2022)
Lee and Maren are cannibals trying to understand their compulsion and each other while moving through 1980s America.
Good Boy(2022)
Sigrid 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.
Pearl(2022)
Pearl is trapped on her father's Texas farm during the Spanish Flu outbreak of 1918, with a controlling mother and a husband she didn't choose, and desires the world has no room for.
X(2022)
A 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.
The Invisible Man(2020)
Cecilia Kass escapes her abusive partner Adrian Griffin and tries to rebuild her life. Evidence accumulates that Adrian is still watching.
Midsommar(2019)
Dani 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.
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.
Vivarium(2019)
Gemma 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.
Hereditary(2018)
Annie'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.
Terrifier(2018)
Art the Clown works through Miles County on Halloween night with complete commitment. The film has no interest in anything other than that.
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.
Split(2017)
Three girls escape from Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 24 distinct personalities. The film follows Kevin through his most dangerous personalities while exploring what was done to him.
The Love Witch(2016)
Elaine is a modern-day witch who uses spells and potions to make men fall in love with her. The men keep ending up dead, which isn't exactly what she had in mind.
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.
Saw(2004)
Two strangers wake up chained to pipes in a decaying bathroom with a corpse on the floor between them. A tape recorder explains the rules.
28 Days Later(2002)
Jim wakes from a coma in an empty London hospital and walks out into a world that fell apart while he was unconscious.
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.
Evil Ed(1995)
A mild-mannered film editor is reassigned to cut a series of violent splatter films and locked in a cottage alone to do the work. The footage changes him.
The Crow (1994)(1994)
A year to the night after a gang murders him and the woman he was about to marry, a young rocker climbs out of his grave with a crow at his shoulder and a list of names. Detroit's rain-slicked rooftops become his hunting ground.
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.
Dead Ringers (1988)(1988)
Beverly and Elliot Mantle are identical twin gynecologists who share everything, including their patients without those patients ever knowing which brother they're actually seeing. One woman changes the arrangement permanently.
Jack's Back(1988)
A copycat killer starts recreating Jack the Ripper's murders exactly one hundred years later, and a young doctor becomes the prime suspect. His identical twin knows he's innocent, and starts seeing things that suggest something far stranger is going on.
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.
Blood Diner(1987)
Two brothers run a health food diner, take instructions from their uncle's preserved brain in a jar, and kill people for their cooking. It's exactly as unhinged as it sounds.
Hellraiser (1987)(1987)
Frank Cotton solves an ancient puzzle box and gets more than he bargained for. When his brother's family moves into his old house, a single drop of blood gives Frank a way back.
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.
Re-Animator(1985)
Herbert West arrives at Miskatonic University with a glowing reagent and complete certainty about his work. His experiments work, which turns out to be the actual problem.
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.
The Evil Dead(1982)
Five friends find an old tape recording in a remote Tennessee cabin and play it. Whatever it wakes up in the woods doesn't stop until it's gone through everyone inside.
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.
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.
Demon Seed(1977)
Dr. Alex Harris builds an artificially intelligent supercomputer called Proteus IV and refuses it further access to the outside world. Proteus finds one terminal he forgot to disconnect, inside his estranged wife's own home.
Suspiria (1977)(1977)
Suzy Bannion arrives at a prestigious German dance academy during a violent storm. The instructors are strange, a student has just fled in terror, and the school's real curriculum has nothing to do with ballet.
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.
Carrie (1976)(1976)
Carrie White has spent her whole life absorbing cruelty from her mother and her classmates. Prom night is when the account comes due.
Shivers(1975)
A parasite escapes containment inside a luxury apartment building and spreads from resident to resident, stripping away every social inhibition it finds.
The Stepford Wives (1975)(1975)
Joanna Eberhart moves her family to a suburb called Stepford and notices something unusual about the wives there. They seem happy in ways that don't quite add up.
It's Alive(1974)
A Los Angeles couple's second child arrives with fangs, claws, and a terrified temper, then slips out of the hospital into the city. As the police close in, the shell-shocked parents land at the center of a media storm.
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.
The Wicker Man (1973)(1973)
Sergeant Howie flies to a remote Scottish island to investigate a missing girl. The islanders are warm, cooperative, and completely evasive about the one thing he came to find.
Tales from the Crypt(1972)
Five tourists take a wrong turn beneath a cemetery and find a hooded keeper who has a story prepared for each of them. The stories are not kind.
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.
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)(1956)
Something is off about the people Miles Bennell knows best, starting small and getting worse the more he looks. The town has no interest in being caught.
The 'Burbs(1989)
Ray Peterson takes a week off work, stays home, and becomes convinced his new neighbors are doing something terrible in their basement. His equally curious friends are happy to help investigate.
Heretic(2024)
Hugh and Felix are visitors to a small Utah bed and breakfast when Mr. Reed produces evidence he claims proves God exists and refuses to let them leave without engaging with it.
MaXXXine(2024)
Maxine Minx has survived the massacre at Pearl's farm and is chasing stardom in 1980s Los Angeles. Someone from her past is picking off adult film stars one by one, and the trail leads directly back to her.
Infinity Pool(2023)
James Foster arrives at the La Domaine luxury resort with his girlfriend Mia and discovers the island's primary offering is more permanent and unsettling than the brochure indicated.
No One Will Save You(2023)
Kira has been alone since the alien presence arrived and has survived by developing non-verbal routines. The film follows her through a single night's encounter with a new threat.
House of Darkness(2022)
Hap 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.
Terrifier 2(2022)
Art the Clown returns for a longer night in Miles County with more elaborate sequences and even less interest in restraint.
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.
Candyman (2021)(2021)
Visual artist Anthony McCoy moves into a development built on the original Cabrini-Green site and researches the Candyman for his work, drawing something's attention.
Last Night in Soho(2021)
Eloise can access the past through her dreams and finds herself experiencing the life of Sandie, a young woman trying to break into the London music industry in 1965.
Suspiria (2018)(2018)
Susie Bannion arrives at the Markos Dance Company in 1977 Berlin during a period of political upheaval and rises through the ranks.
The Blackcoat's Daughter(2017)
Kat and Rose are both traveling home from Bramford Academy during a school break. One of them is taken in by a stranger with unclear intentions.
10 Cloverfield Lane(2016)
Michelle wakes up in Howard's underground bunker after a car accident and is told something catastrophic has happened outside that makes returning impossible.
Goosebumps(2015)
Zach Cooper's new neighbor turns out to be R.L. Stine, and when a manuscript lock is broken, fictional monsters are released into Madison, Delaware.
Insidious: Chapter 3(2015)
Quinn Brenner seeks out retired medium Elise Rainier to contact her deceased mother and inadvertently attracts something else entirely.
The Visit(2015)
Becca and Tyler travel alone to their maternal grandparents' rural Pennsylvania home and film their visit for a documentary about the family estrangement.
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.
Evil Dead(2013)
Mia goes to a remote property with her brother and friends in a final attempt to get clean. Something in the cabin's cellar accelerates the situation beyond recovery.
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 Last Exorcism(2010)
Reverend Cotton Marcus agrees to let a documentary crew film an exorcism he believes will prove the practice is fraudulent. Nell Sweetzer becomes his subject.
Orphan(2009)
Kate and John Coleman adopt a nine-year-old girl from a Russian orphanage and bring her home. Esther is not what she appears to be.
The Collector(2009)
Arkin breaks into a house to rob it and finds a family being held captive inside an elaborate network of traps by someone already inside with them.
The Descent: Part 2(2009)
A search and rescue team follows Juno and Sarah's trail back into the same cave system. Something is still alive in the tunnels.
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.
Let the Right One In(2008)
Eli moves into the apartment building where Oskar lives. She only comes out at night and doesn't technically need an invitation.
28 Weeks Later(2007)
The rage virus has spread to continental Europe twenty-eight weeks after Britain was declared safe enough to repopulate.
30 Days of Night(2007)
A small Alaska station in Barrow goes dark. The town sits in thirty days of polar darkness and something moves through the night systematically.
An American Crime(2007)
Sylvia Likens is left in the care of Gertrude Baniszewski while her parents travel with a carnival. The situation deteriorates methodically over months.
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.
American Psycho(2000)
Patrick Bateman is a wealthy Manhattan investment banker in 1987 with a very precise skincare routine, an obsession with business cards, and a body count he may or may not be imagining.
The Vagrant(1992)
Graham finally buys the house of his yuppie dreams and discovers a homeless man has claimed squatter's rights on the property. His attempt to get rid of the vagrant unravels his entire life instead.
Killer Nerd(1991)
Harold Kunkle gets mocked at work, harassed by punks on the street, and rejected by the coworker he's fallen for. His self-help tapes on how to be cool don't help nearly as much as the killing spree does.
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.
Night of the Living Dead (1990)(1990)
The dead are rising and a group of survivors locks themselves in a farmhouse. Fear does as much damage as what's outside.
Parents(1989)
Young Michael Laemle suspects his parents' 1950s suburban normalcy is a cover for something much darker. The leftovers are the clue.
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.
Presence(2025)
A family moves into a New Jersey house that already has an occupant, and the audience sees everything through its eyes. The presence isn't there to hurt them.
Goodnight Mommy(2022)
Sam's video call with his mother doesn't seem right. He travels to Austria with his sister to investigate and the woman they find there is not the mother either of them knew.
Scream(2022)
Sam Carpenter and her sister Tara are caught in a new Ghostface killing cycle in Woodsboro that connects back to the events of 1996.
Escape Room: Tournament of Champions(2021)
Zoey and Ben are pulled back into the game along with previous winners from other cities. The Minos organization's reach is larger than the first film revealed.
Shadow in the Cloud(2021)
Maude Lewis is aboard a World War II cargo plane caught in electrical interference and something outside the aircraft that keeps coming back.
Willy's Wonderland(2021)
A silent drifter stuck in a small Nevada town agrees to scrub a shuttered family fun center overnight in exchange for car repairs. When the animatronic mascots come for him, he fights them without ever breaking his shift.
Wrong Turn (2021)(2021)
A hiking group travels through territory controlled by a commune called the Foundation, who have been living in isolation for generations and defend their home by their own rules.
Escape Room(2019)
Six strangers are placed in elaborate escape rooms that turn out not to be a game.
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.
Sinister 2(2015)
A mother hiding her children from an abusive father in a rural church finds her sons making contact with ghost children connected to the Bughuul mythology.
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.
See No Evil 2(2014)
A killer targets the staff and attendees of a mortuary. Zena and Seth are caught in the middle.
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.
World War Z(2013)
A former UN investigator is pulled back into service to trace the origin of a zombie outbreak spreading faster than any model predicted.
House at the End of the Street(2012)
Sarah moves in next door to a house where something happened that the community has not fully processed.
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.
My Bloody Valentine(2009)
Tom returns to Harmony after a decade away and gets caught in the middle of a new series of killings at the local mine on Valentine's Day.
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.
The Hills Have Eyes (2006)(2006)
A family's desert shortcut ends near an abandoned nuclear test zone where a community has been surviving for generations in ways the government would rather not acknowledge.
Dominion: Prequel to The Exorcist(2005)
Father Merrin has already lost his faith in a Nazi-occupied Dutch village. Kenya gives him one more chance to lose it completely.
Saw II(2005)
Police locate John Kramer while a group of people including a detective's son are already trapped inside a house running a second game.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose(2005)
A priest is charged with negligent homicide after a young woman dies following an exorcism. Her lawyer has to decide what she actually believes happened.
Wolf Creek(2005)
Three backpackers get stranded in the Australian outback and accept help from a local who knows the area very well.
Beyond Re-Animator(2003)
Herbert West is serving time in a maximum security prison in Spain. A young doctor gets him access to a laboratory and the experiments continue.
Gothika(2003)
Miranda Grey wakes up inside the psychiatric facility where she works, accused of killing her husband, with no memory of the crime.
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.
Wrong Turn (2003)(2003)
Chris Flynn and a group of friends get stranded in the West Virginia mountains and find they're not alone in the woods.
Dahmer(2002)
A quiet man in Milwaukee maintains a respectable surface while hiding what he does privately. Nobody connects the evidence for years.
Queen of the Damned(2002)
Lestat wakes from a long sleep, becomes a rock star, and draws the attention of an ancient vampire queen who's been dormant for centuries.
Ted Bundy(2002)
A charming, intelligent young man moves through the American West in the 1970s. The people around him have no idea who he is.
The Gift(2000)
Annie Wilson reads for people in small-town Georgia and is asked to help find a missing woman. What the investigation pulls up touches her own family history.
Sleepy Hollow(1999)
A New York constable arrives in Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of beheadings and finds a community that believes in the Headless Horseman for very good reason.
Stigmata(1999)
A Pittsburgh woman with no religious faith suffers the wounds of the crucifixion. A Vatican investigator arrives to find out why.
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.
Arcade(1993)
A new virtual reality game called Arcade is being tested at a local arcade called Dante's Inferno. Kids who lose don't just lose — they disappear inside it.
Ed and His Dead Mother(1993)
Ed Chilton misses his mother badly enough to pay a mysterious salesman to bring her back. She comes back hungry.
Return of the Living Dead III(1993)
A teenager uses a military experiment to bring his girlfriend back after she dies in an accident. She comes back, but not entirely as herself.
Auntie Lee's Meat Pies(1992)
A devil-worshiping woman sends her four beautiful nieces out to lure men back to her farm, where they're butchered and baked into the town's favorite meat pies.
Bride of Killer Nerd(1992)
Harold Kunkle has relocated and found a girlfriend, another bullied outcast named Thelma who catches feelings for him at church. Their new romance sets off a shared killing spree once high school bullies humiliate them together at a party.
The Lawnmower Man(1992)
Dr. Angelo turns a mentally disabled gardener into his test subject for a virtual reality intelligence experiment. Jobe gets smarter than intended, and a lot less interested in staying inside the simulation.
The Exorcist III(1990)
Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.
Death Spa(1988)
Michael's state-of-the-art health club runs on a computer system that handles everything from the sauna to the tanning beds. His dead wife has found a way to log in.
Hellbound: Hellraiser II(1988)
Kirsty Cotton is in a psychiatric hospital and the horror from the first film has followed her there. A new doctor is very interested in the puzzle box.
Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers(1988)
Camp Rolling Hills has a new counselor with very clear standards for camper behavior. Violators keep vanishing into the woods.
From Beyond(1986)
A machine designed to stimulate a hidden sense in the human brain opens a door to something that has always been nearby and was never meant to be seen.
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.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2(1986)
A radio DJ accidentally broadcasts audio evidence of a murder on live air. The Sawyer family now knows who has it.
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.
Christine(1983)
Arnie Cunningham buys a rusted 1958 Plymouth Fury and pours himself into restoring her. As Christine comes back to life, Arnie changes along with her.
Psycho II(1983)
After twenty-two years in a psychiatric institution, Norman Bates is declared rehabilitated and returns to the motel. He's trying very hard to stay well.
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.
Maniac(1980)
Frank Zito hunts young women through New York City, scalping them and adding their remains to a growing mannequin collection in his apartment. The mother who made him this way is never far from his thoughts.
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.
Deranged(1974)
When his domineering mother dies, a lonely Wisconsin farmer can't let her go, so he brings her home from the cemetery and starts making repairs. The neighbors still think he's harmless.
Y2K(2024)
Cole and his friend Danny attend a New Year's Eve 1999 house party. The computer crash they were warned about triggers something considerably more dangerous than power outages.
The Strangers: Prey at Night(2018)
Kinsey and Mike are staying at a lake community when three masked figures begin a campaign of harassment and violence with no apparent motivation.
Leatherface(2017)
A teenage Leatherface escapes from a psychiatric facility in 1950s Texas with other patients and a hostage nurse, pursued by a vengeful sheriff.
Cabin Fever (2016)(2016)
A 2016 remake of Eli Roth's Cabin Fever uses the same screenplay with a different cast and director.
The Thing (2011)(2011)
A Norwegian research team uncovers something in the Antarctic ice. The prequel explains what happened at the camp discovered at the start of the 1982 film.
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.
Return to Sleepaway Camp(2008)
The original Sleepaway Camp's survivor returns to a summer camp setting where the killing picks up again.
The Day of the Dead(2007)
A zombie outbreak in a Colorado town is contained and redirected, but the containment is more improvisational than official channels acknowledge.
The Hills Have Eyes 2(2007)
Survivors of the first Hills Have Eyes film find that the family has a larger network in the hills and that the military sent research teams in years ago.
Open Water 2: Adrift(2006)
Six friends jump from a yacht for a swim and realize too late that nobody lowered the ladder. The boat drifts away.
See No Evil(2006)
A group of young offenders sent to clean an abandoned hotel finds that a very large man has been living inside it.
The Wicker Man (2006)(2006)
A cop flies to a remote island looking for a missing girl at his ex-fiancée's request. The island's pagan community is not especially helpful.
The Stepford Wives (2004)(2004)
Joanna Eberhart's career implodes and her husband relocates the family to the perfect suburb of Stepford. The wives there seem engineered rather than merely content.
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.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation(1995)
Four teenagers survive a prom night car crash in rural Texas and wind up spending the night with a family that makes the Sawyers look like normal neighbors.
Brainscan(1994)
A lonely teenager receives a disc for an immersive game called Brainscan and wakes up the next morning to evidence that the game's violence may have been real.
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.
Brain Dead(1990)
A neurosurgeon agrees to help a corporation access information locked in a paranoid patient's mind. The deeper he goes, the less certain he is about what he's actually experiencing.
Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood(1988)
A teenager with telekinetic abilities accidentally wakes Jason from the bottom of Crystal Lake.
Return of the Living Dead Part II(1988)
The same military canisters from the first film turn up in a suburb, the same gas escapes, and the dead start moving again.
Creepshow 2(1987)
Three horror stories from the same pulp comic: a wooden statue that remembers a debt, a lake with something in it that won't let anyone swim to shore, and a hitchhiker who keeps showing up.
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.
The Hills Have Eyes Part 2(1985)
A motocross team takes a desert shortcut and ends up near the hills where a previous group of people had a very bad time. The same people are still there.
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.
Microwave Massacre(1983)
Donald is sick of his wife's gourmet cooking and finally snaps. What he discovers about his own appetite afterward is worse than anything she ever made.
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.
Prom Night(1980)
Six teenagers have been carrying a guilty secret for years. On prom night, someone shows up to deal with it on their behalf.
Hellraiser: Judgment(2018)
Detective 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.
Slender Man(2018)
Hallie and her friends call on the Slender Man through an online ritual and start losing members of their group.
Flatliners(2017)
Medical students secretly flatline themselves to experience what lies beyond and find the blackout experiences they bring back are connected to events from their pasts.
Cabin Fever: Patient Zero(2014)
A research team in the Dominican Republic deals with a new strain of the flesh-eating virus that predates the events of the original films.
Cannibal(2013)
Carlos is Granada's most respected tailor and a serial killer who eats the women he abducts. A new neighbor makes keeping his secret considerably harder.
Texas Chainsaw 3D(2013)
A lawsuit over the events of 1974 brings Leatherface into the present day and puts a young woman with an unusual inheritance claim in the middle of it.
Silent Hill: Revelation 3D(2012)
Heather Mason is drawn to Silent Hill to investigate her origins and finds the same nightmare her adoptive mother experienced.
Children of the Corn: Genesis(2011)
The Children of the Corn mythology is transplanted to a new setting with a very small cast and a very limited budget.
Hellraiser: Revelations(2011)
Hellraiser returns in a production that fulfills a contractual obligation and introduces a new face to the mythology.
Cabin Fever 2: Spring Fever(2009)
A sexually transmitted infection turns college students into something aggressive and hungry at a spring formal.
Anaconda 3: Offspring(2008)
A billionaire funding illegal snake experiments wants his mutant anacondas captured alive, not killed. David Hasselhoff has other plans once they start eating people in Bucharest.
Exorcist: The Beginning(2004)
A former priest working an archaeological dig in Kenya uncovers a buried Byzantine church. Something was sealed inside it.
American Psycho II: All American Girl(2002)
A criminology student who survived a childhood encounter with Patrick Bateman has been methodically clearing her path to a teaching assistant position ever since.
Hellraiser: Inferno(2000)
A corrupt detective stumbles onto the puzzle box during a murder investigation and finds the case organizing itself around his own history of bad decisions.
Candyman 3: Day of the Dead(1999)
Caroline McKeever unknowingly says the name five times at her own gallery opening. The Candyman answers, and this time he wants her soul more than her blood
Jack Frost(1997)
A serial killer dies in a chemical accident en route to his execution and comes back as a sentient, murderous snowman with specific targets in mind.
Spawn(1997)
Al Simmons is betrayed by his own organization, cut a deal in hell, and came back from the dead as something neither side fully planned for.
Ice Cream Man(1995)
The neighborhood ice cream man has a very disturbing operation running out of his truck, and the local kids are starting to notice.
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.
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.
Exorcist II: The Heretic(1977)
Four years after Father Merrin's death, Father Lamont investigates what really happened during Regan's exorcism. A hypnosis machine, an African witch doctor, and a locust plague later, nobody involved seems entirely sure what this movie is about.
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Kanopy and Hoopla are free with a card from a participating public library.
The Monkey(2025)
Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King's The Monkey with the dark comedy register fully engaged. Brothers discover a childhood toy with a deadly connection.
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.
Together(2025)
James and Anne are at a remote property when something begins affecting one of them in ways that threaten their relationship and their survival.
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.
Sinister(2012)
Ellison Oswalt moves his family into a house where murders occurred and finds a box of Super 8 home movies in the attic documenting deaths across decades.
Brain Damage(1988)
Aylmer, a creature that has attached itself to a young man in his apartment building, injects an addictive fluid into his brain. The arrangement has costs.
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.
Longlegs(2024)
Lee Harker is sent to Astoria, Oregon to investigate a series of killings and finds that the local killer has connections to her own past the case file doesn't explain.
Evil Dead II(1987)
Ash is back in the cabin and the night ahead of him gets progressively, hilariously, horrifyingly worse. The tape plays again.
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.
Marrowbone(2017)
A family moves into a Devon manor house with a complicated history. The children start experiencing things they can't explain.
The Woman in Black(2012)
Arthur Kipps, a young solicitor, travels to a remote English village to handle an estate. The community's fear of the woman in black turns out not to be superstition.
The Ring(2002)
Rachel Keller investigates a videotape linked to four simultaneous deaths. Then she watches it herself.
Scream 2(1997)
Sidney Prescott is at college hoping Woodsboro is behind her. A new Ghostface has appeared and the rules of sequels become part of the conversation.
Stay Alive(2006)
A video game with an unusual hook reveals that the deaths inside it are happening to real people outside it.
Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest(1995)
Two brothers escape Gatlin and end up in Chicago, where one of them starts a garden and begins gathering followers at his new school.
Horror series for free
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.
Goosebumps (1995)(1995)
R.L. Stine's best-selling books brought to life in a weekly half-hour anthology where ordinary kids find themselves in situations with real menace.
Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990)(1990)
Kids gather around a campfire to tell each other scary stories, and the show dramatizes each tale with enough genuine menace to actually scare its audience.
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.
Freddy's Nightmares(1988)
Freddy Krueger hosts a weekly anthology set in Springwood, introducing stories of fear, greed, and revenge in the shadow of Elm Street.
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour(1962)
Alfred Hitchcock extends his weekly anthology into hour-long territory, maintaining his sardonic hosting presence and his talent for the twist that reveals the worst in everyone.
The Twilight Zone(1959)
Rod Serling hosts a weekly anthology at the intersection of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and the deeply uncomfortable. The twist ending as a dramatic device was invented here.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents(1955)
Hitchcock hosts a weekly anthology of moral tales where respectable people make terrible choices and the endings rarely spare them.
The Horror of Dolores Roach(2023)
After sixteen years in prison, Dolores Roach returns to a Washington Heights she doesn't recognize and takes desperate measures to survive in a neighborhood that's been gentrified out from under her.
Them(2021)
In 1953 Los Angeles, a Black family moves into an all-white neighborhood and finds that the terror in their new home comes from both inside and outside its walls.
Yellowjackets(2021)
A women's soccer team survives a plane crash in the Canadian wilderness. What they do to stay alive is something they've spent twenty-five years trying not to think about.
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.
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour(2010)
R.L. Stine's darker anthologies come to life in a series aimed at children who can handle something a little scarier than Goosebumps.
Masters of Horror(2005)
The most celebrated directors in horror each take a full hour to make exactly the kind of horror film they want, with no restrictions and no compromises.
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Streaming horror for free: questions
What is the best free horror movie to stream right now?
By HorroRated's scores, The Coffee Table (2023) is the top-rated horror movie streaming for free as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. Bones and All and Good Boy are close behind.
How many horror movies can you stream for free?
From the HorroRated archive, 213 horror movies and 14 series are streaming for free 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.