Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now
Netflix is streaming 59 horror movies and 16 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are Frankenstein, HIM and Until Dawn, all Legendary.
Netflix mixes its own horror originals with licensed films that rotate in and out, so this list moves more than most.
Horror movies on Netflix, best first
Frankenstein(2025)
Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein brings the weight of a director who has spent his entire career thinking about monsters and what they mean.
HIM(2025)
A protagonist's fixation on someone draws the attention of a presence that feeds on that particular kind of obsession.
Until Dawn(2025)
The Until Dawn film places a new group in the mountain setting from the game and uses the butterfly effect mechanic as narrative structure.
Don't Move(2024)
Sofia is injected with a paralyzing drug and must survive a night in a cabin with the man who abducted her, conscious but unable to move or speak.
M3GAN(2022)
Gemma 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.
Nope(2022)
OJ 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.
The Black Phone(2022)
Finney Shaw 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.
The Menu(2022)
Exclusive guests at a remote island restaurant discover that Chef Slowik's tasting menu involves a form of service they didn't agree to.
Gerald's Game(2017)
Jessie Burlingame is left in restraints when her husband dies during a game at their remote lakeside getaway. She has to survive the weekend alone.
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.
Creep(2014)
Aaron accepts a Craigslist job shooting footage for an unusual client who wants to document a transformative personal experience.
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.
Alien(1979)
The commercial towing vessel Nostromo answers a distress signal on a distant moon. What the crew brings back aboard doesn't intend to leave.
Jaws(1975)
Amity Island has a problem in the water and a mayor who won't close the beach. Three men eventually go out on a boat to solve it themselves.
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.
Psycho(1960)
Marion Crane stops at an empty motel on the run from her own bad decision, and the manager seems harmless. The house on the hill behind the office is another matter.
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple(2026)
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple is the second film in the trilogy, continuing the story of Britain's long adaptation to the rage virus.
28 Years Later(2025)
Spike wakes up twenty-eight years after the original outbreak to find a Britain that has partially adapted to the rage virus in ways neither previous film anticipated.
Black Phone 2(2025)
The supernatural telephone mythology extends into a new setting with a new Grabber while connecting back to the original film's characters.
A Quiet Place: Day One(2024)
Samira just wanted pizza and one last good day in New York. She got the invasion that started the whole franchise instead.
A Quiet Place Part II(2021)
Evelyn Abbott and her children emerge from their fortified property and encounter Emmett and other survivors navigating the same sound restrictions.
The House with a Clock in Its Walls(2018)
Lewis Barnavelt moves in with his eccentric uncle Jonathan after his parents die and finds a house full of magic, secrets, and a clock hidden in the walls.
Creep 2(2017)
Aaron returns to film Josef, who now wants documentation of a very different kind of personal evolution.
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.
The Ritual(2017)
Four men take a memorial hike through the Scandinavian wilderness and find a shortcut through forest that has been maintaining its own agenda.
Green Room(2016)
A broke punk band takes a gig at a backwoods skinhead bar and witnesses a murder in the green room afterward. The owner has a very specific plan for making sure nobody talks.
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.
Anaconda (2025)(2025)
A new group enters anaconda territory in the 2025 installment and the franchise's commitment to creature feature mechanics is maintained.
Smile 2(2024)
Rose Cotter returns under a different identity while a detective investigating a serial killer finds connections to the same smiling phenomenon.
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.
Saw X(2023)
John Kramer is receiving cancer treatment in Spain while a victim named Henry seeks revenge for a game from years earlier.
Day Shift(2022)
Bud Jablonski, a vampire slayer with a side business at a local car wash, is forced to partner with a crew of hunters for a single night's work in the San Fernando Valley.
Halloween Ends(2022)
Halloween Ends takes place three years after Halloween Kills and finds Laurie Strode closing out her story while a new character becomes the film's primary focus.
The Pale Blue Eye(2022)
Edgar Allan Poe is at West Point in 1830 when cadets start dying in ways that connect to a visitor's past.
Things Heard & Seen(2021)
Amanda and George Hall move into a Hudson Valley house and find the property's history involves their neighbors in ways that make the fresh start complicated.
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween(2018)
Slappy the ventriloquist dummy returns with a plan to ruin Halloween for the entire neighborhood.
Malevolent(2018)
Florence Ashmore travels to a remote Scottish estate where her brother is living with his fiancée and encounters a malevolent presence attached to the house.
Resident Evil: Vendetta(2017)
A new bioweapon threatens the world and Leon Kennedy and Chris Redfield have to reach it before it can be deployed.
Curse of Chucky(2013)
A Good Guy doll arrives at a grandmother's house as a gift and turns its attention to her granddaughter.
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.
Resident Evil: Damnation(2012)
A rogue scientist develops a new biological weapon that threatens a European city. Two Umbrella agents work to contain it.
The Strangers(2008)
Two masked figures knock on a door in the woods asking if Tamara is home, and when she isn't, they stay anyway.
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.
Gothika(2003)
Miranda Grey wakes up inside the psychiatric facility where she works, accused of killing her husband, with no memory of the crime.
The Ring(2002)
Rachel Keller investigates a videotape linked to four simultaneous deaths. Then she watches it herself.
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.
Anaconda (1997)(1997)
A documentary crew on the Amazon gets taken over by a hunter obsessed with capturing the largest anaconda ever recorded. He finds one.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (1997)(1997)
Four friends cover up a hit-and-run accident and spend a year not thinking about it. Then a note arrives proving that wasn't possible.
Child's Play 2(1990)
Andy Barclay is in foster care. Chucky has been rebuilt from salvaged material and knows exactly where Andy is.
Psycho III(1986)
A runaway nun checks into the Bates Motel looking for somewhere quiet. Norman is genuinely trying to keep things normal.
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.
The Platform 2(2024)
A new group occupies the vertical prison and the system has been modified in ways that the previous film's ending suggested.
Under Paris(2024)
Sophia and her daughter are visiting Paris when an oversized bull shark works its way through the Seine during a major athletic event.
Texas Chainsaw Massacre(2022)
A family driving through rural Texas encounters Leatherface on a remote property.
Brahms: The Boy II(2020)
Jude and his stepmother Liza move to an English cottage and find Brahms the doll in the attic. Jude forms an attachment to it that the film watches through installed camera feeds.
In the Tall Grass(2019)
Becky 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.
Resident Evil: Extinction(2007)
The T-virus has reached the American Southwest and a convoy of survivors is pushing toward a rumored safe zone in Alaska.
I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)(2025)
The 2025 I Know What You Did Last Summer continuation brings a new group and a new iteration of the hook killer premise into a contemporary setting.
Child's Play 3(1991)
Andy Barclay is older and enrolled in military school. Chucky has been shipped to the same campus.
Horror series on Netflix
Monster: The Ed Gein Story(2025)
Ed Gein was a quiet Wisconsin farmer and handyman whose crimes in the 1950s were so disturbing they became the blueprint for Norman Bates, Buffalo Bill, and Leatherface.
Guillermo del Toro's Cabinet of Curiosities(2022)
Guillermo del Toro personally selected eight horror stories from filmmakers he admires, each rendered in a completely different visual style.
Love, Death & Robots(2019)
Short animated films from different directors, different visual styles, different genres. Science fiction, horror, dark comedy, and things that are hard to categorize.
Stranger Things(2016)
Will Byers vanishes from Hawkins, Indiana and the investigation pulls his friends, his mother, and a local cop into something that shouldn't exist.
Black Mirror(2011)
Every episode is a self-contained story about what technology does to people when taken to its logical and usually devastating conclusion.
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.
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen(2026)
A bride can't shake an overwhelming dread that something terrible is going to happen at her wedding. The closer the day gets, the worse it becomes.
The Fall of the House of Usher(2023)
Two ruthless siblings build a pharmaceutical empire on a deal that gives them everything they wanted. When their children start dying one by one, the bill comes due.
Archive 81(2022)
An archivist restoring damaged 1990s videotapes is pulled into the story of the filmmaker who shot them and the demonic cult she was investigating.
The Haunting of Bly Manor(2020)
An American au pair arrives at a remote English estate in the 1980s to care for two orphaned children. The estate's centuries of secrets surface around her.
The Haunting of Hill House(2018)
A fractured family returns to the sprawling mansion where they spent a haunted childhood. Past and present unravel together across ten episodes.
Midnight Mass(2021)
A young priest arrives on a dying island community with what looks like a miracle. What he's actually brought with him is something the island isn't prepared for.
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.
Castle Rock(2018)
A death row inmate with a mysterious connection to Castle Rock sets off a chain of events pulling the town's darkest history to the surface.
Chilling Adventures of Sabrina(2018)
Half-human, half-witch Sabrina Spellman navigates high school, a dark church, and a war between her two worlds that keeps pulling her toward a side she's not sure she wants.
Santa Clarita Diet(2017)
Suburban realtors Sheila and Joel Hammond hit a rough patch when Sheila undergoes a dramatic transformation that leaves her craving raw meat and, eventually, human flesh.
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Streaming horror on Netflix: questions
What is the best horror movie on Netflix right now?
By HorroRated's scores, Frankenstein (2025) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on Netflix as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. HIM and Until Dawn are close behind.
How many horror movies are on Netflix?
From the HorroRated archive, 59 horror movies and 16 series are streaming on Netflix 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.