Best Horror Movies on Peacock Right Now
Peacock is streaming 62 horror movies and 3 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are Obsession, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Terrifier, all Legendary.
Peacock draws on Universal's library, home of the classic movie monsters, and some titles stream free with ads.
Horror movies on Peacock, best first
Obsession(2026)
Two people's dynamic has moved past what either of them can manage. The film documents the escalation with an interest in the psychology of fixation rather than the mechanics of violence.
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark(2019)
Stella and her friends find Sarah Bellows's book of horror stories. The creatures from the illustrations start manifesting.
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.
Get Out(2017)
Chris meets his white girlfriend's family for the first time at their secluded estate. Everyone is warm, welcoming, and hiding something that goes far beyond ordinary awkwardness.
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.
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.
Silent Hill(2006)
Rose DaSilva follows her adopted daughter Sharon into a fog-covered town that was burned decades ago and hasn't been right since, where the streets shift and something is waiting.
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.
Shaun of the Dead(2004)
Shaun works at an electronics store and has been a disappointing partner long enough that his girlfriend ends their relationship on the same day the zombie apocalypse begins outside his window.
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.
Candyman (1992)(1992)
Helen Lyle is researching urban legends and decides to test one by saying a name into a mirror five times. The legend shows up.
Death Becomes Her(1992)
Two lifelong rivals competing over the same man both drink a potion that promises eternal youth. The side effects are not clearly disclosed.
The Witches(1990)
A boy on holiday with his grandmother stumbles into a hotel conference room full of witches and overhears exactly the wrong thing.
The Fly(1986)
Seth Brundle has built a working teleporter and decides to test it on himself. The machine doesn't account for a passenger.
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.
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.
The Omen (1976)(1976)
In a Rome hospital, a grieving American diplomat secretly accepts an orphaned newborn so his wife never learns their own baby died. Years later in London, death starts following the boy wherever he goes.
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.
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.
The Birds(1963)
Melanie Daniels follows a man she just met to the coastal town of Bodega Bay and the birds there begin attacking people without warning or explanation.
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.
Terrifier 2(2022)
Art the Clown returns for a longer night in Miles County with more elaborate sequences and even less interest in restraint.
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.
Halloween (2018)(2018)
Laurie Strode has spent forty years preparing for Michael Myers to return. He does.
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.
Krampus(2015)
Max's wish that his family disappear on Christmas Eve summons Krampus, and the creature and its companions work through the household through the night.
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.
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.
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.
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 Woman in the Yard(2025)
A woman's outdoor space becomes restricted by something that has appeared there and refuses to let her leave the property.
Five Nights at Freddy's(2023)
Mike 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.
Ma(2019)
Sue Ann, a veterinary assistant, befriends a group of teenagers and hosts parties in her basement. The situation's imbalance becomes clear gradually.
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 Purge(2013)
One night per year, all crime including murder is legal. The Sandin family locks down their home for the evening.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Halloween (2007)(2007)
Rob Zombie reimagines Michael Myers from the beginning, spending real time on his childhood before the events of the original film.
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.
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.
The Ring(2002)
Rachel Keller investigates a videotape linked to four simultaneous deaths. Then she watches it herself.
Blade(1998)
Blade is half-vampire and has spent his whole life using that against the species. The vampire underworld he moves through doesn't know what to do with him.
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.
The Exorcist III(1990)
Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.
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.
The Exorcist: Believer(2023)
Two 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.
Halloween Kills(2021)
Michael Myers works through Haddonfield on Halloween night while the town turns on itself.
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.
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.
The Skeleton Key(2005)
A hospice nurse takes a job at an old Louisiana plantation house and finds a locked room in the attic the family isn't eager to discuss.
The Grudge(2004)
An American care worker enters a house in Tokyo and disturbs something inside that then follows her.
Tales from the Crypt: Demon Knight(1995)
A stranger carrying something ancient and valuable is cornered in a boarding house, and the creature outside will destroy anyone to get it.
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.
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 Peacock
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.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents(1955)
Hitchcock hosts a weekly anthology of moral tales where respectable people make terrible choices and the endings rarely spare them.
Chucky(2021)
A vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale and a small American town starts coming apart at the seams.
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Streaming horror on Peacock: questions
What is the best horror movie on Peacock right now?
By HorroRated's scores, Obsession (2026) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on Peacock as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark and Terrifier are close behind.
How many horror movies are on Peacock?
From the HorroRated archive, 62 horror movies and 3 series are streaming on Peacock 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.