Best Horror Movies on Prime Video Right Now
Prime Video is streaming 101 horror movies and 12 horror series from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are Weapons, Good Boy and Pearl, all Legendary.
Prime Video counts two ways here: titles included with a Prime membership and titles free with ads, each marked.
Horror movies on Prime Video, best first
Weapons(2025)
Multiple teenagers in a Connecticut suburb are each connected to a single act of violence in ways that unfold across the film.
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.
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.
Creep(2014)
Aaron accepts a Craigslist job shooting footage for an unusual client who wants to document a transformative personal experience.
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.
Army of Darkness(1992)
Ash Williams gets pulled through a time portal and ends up in medieval England, where he's expected to fight off an undead army with a chainsaw and a lot of attitude.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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 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.
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.
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.
Terrifier 3(2024)
Art the Clown returns for a Christmas setting this time, with an expanded mythology and a purpose connected to a woman from the previous film.
The First Omen(2024)
Sister Cecilia is at the Vatican in 1971 when unusual events around the papal succession begin. Her ability to see things others cannot makes her useful to forces working on both sides of what's coming.
Bodies Bodies Bodies(2022)
Bee hosts a birthday celebration for Sophie in a New York apartment. A party game escalates into accusations that turn lethal.
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.
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.
Creep 2(2017)
Aaron returns to film Josef, who now wants documentation of a very different kind of personal evolution.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Smile 2(2024)
Rose Cotter returns under a different identity while a detective investigating a serial killer finds connections to the same smiling phenomenon.
Trap(2024)
Josh Harmon, a serial killer attending his teenage daughter's favorite pop star's concert, discovers the event has been organized specifically around him.
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.
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.
A Cure for Wellness(2017)
Lockhart arrives at a Swiss Alpine wellness clinic to retrieve an executive and ends up treated as a patient while the facility's history and methods reveal themselves.
The Mummy(2017)
Dr. Jekyll's monster is discovered in ancient Egypt, brought to London, and things don't stay controlled.
The Purge(2013)
One night per year, all crime including murder is legal. The Sandin family locks down their home for the evening.
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.
Hostel: Part III(2011)
The third Hostel entry moves the setting to Las Vegas and the torture tourism business adapts to its new environment.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Return to Sleepaway Camp(2008)
The original Sleepaway Camp's survivor returns to a summer camp setting where the killing picks up again.
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 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.
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.
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.
The Good Son(1993)
Mark Evans is sent to stay with his aunt's family after his father's death and slowly realizes his charming, popular cousin is capable of things that go well beyond bad behavior.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hellraiser: Revelations(2011)
Hellraiser returns in a production that fulfills a contractual obligation and introduces a new face to the mythology.
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.
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.
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.
Horror series on Prime Video
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.
American Horror Story(2011)
Every season brings a new cast, a new horror setting, and a completely different story. Murder House, Asylum, Coven. No two seasons share anything but the ambition.
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.
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.
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.
Chucky(2021)
A vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale and a small American town starts coming apart at the seams.
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.
Scream Queens(2015)
Someone in a Red Devil costume is killing off the members of Kappa Kappa Tau sorority, and everyone at Wallace University is a suspect.
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 on Prime Video: questions
What is the best horror movie on Prime Video right now?
By HorroRated's scores, Weapons (2025) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on Prime Video as of October 10, 2026, rated Legendary. Good Boy and Pearl are close behind.
How many horror movies are on Prime Video?
From the HorroRated archive, 101 horror movies and 12 series are streaming on Prime Video 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.