Best Horror Movies on Paramount+ Right Now
Paramount+ is streaming 44 horror movies and 5 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are Blink Twice, Smile and A Quiet Place, all Legendary.
Paramount+ pairs the Paramount studio library with its own original series.
Horror movies on Paramount+, best first
Blink Twice(2024)
Frida accepts tech billionaire Slater King's invitation to his private island for a personal development retreat. The program's combination of neuroscience and interpersonal pressure affects her perception of what's real.
Smile(2022)
Dr. Rose Cotter encounters a patient mid-psychotic episode involving a smiling figure and after the patient's suicide, the same experience transfers to her.
A Quiet Place(2018)
The Abbott family survives in a world where making any sound will get you killed. The film follows a crucial period in that survival.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
28 Weeks Later(2007)
The rage virus has spread to continental Europe twenty-eight weeks after Britain was declared safe enough to repopulate.
Apartment 7A(2024)
Noa Peretz is hired as a personal assistant to a wealthy older woman in 1979 New York and finds her pregnancy has been arranged as part of a plan connected to events from Rosemary's Baby.
Smile 2(2024)
Rose Cotter returns under a different identity while a detective investigating a serial killer finds connections to the same smiling phenomenon.
Orphan: First Kill(2022)
Orphan: First Kill explains how Leena Klammer became Esther Coleman, set in 2007 before the events of the original.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Paranormal Activity 3(2011)
Home movies from 1988 reveal the origin of what has been haunting the household from the second film.
Paranormal Activity 2(2010)
Something followed the Rey family home from a previous location, and this time it has a specific interest in the baby.
Paranormal Activity(2007)
A couple in San Diego sets up cameras after unexplained sounds begin in the house at night. The footage becomes the film.
Resident Evil(2002)
A special ops team enters a sealed underground laboratory after a viral outbreak and finds out that what's inside is still very active.
The Ring(2002)
Rachel Keller investigates a videotape linked to four simultaneous deaths. Then she watches it herself.
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.
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.
Mimic(1997)
Dr. Susan Tyler engineered an insect to wipe out a disease killing New York children, but years later the species has been surviving and changing in the subway system.
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.
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 Last Exorcism Part II(2013)
Nell Sweetzer recovers from the events of the first film in a New Orleans halfway house. The same presence finds her there.
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.
The Ring Two(2005)
Rachel moves to a small Oregon town hoping to leave Samara behind. Samara isn't finished.
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.
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.
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.
Friday the 13th Part 2(1981)
A new counselor training camp opens near Crystal Lake. Jason has been there the whole time.
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones(2014)
Jesse, marked for demonic possession, investigates what's been happening to people in his Los Angeles neighborhood.
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.
Horror series on Paramount+
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.
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.
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.
Evil(2019)
A forensic psychologist, a priest-in-training, and a tech expert investigate demonic possession and miracles for the Catholic Church. The line between science and faith keeps moving.
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Streaming horror on Paramount+: questions
What is the best horror movie on Paramount+ right now?
By HorroRated's scores, Blink Twice (2024) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on Paramount+ as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. Smile and A Quiet Place are close behind.
How many horror movies are on Paramount+?
From the HorroRated archive, 44 horror movies and 5 series are streaming on Paramount+ 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.