Best Horror Movies on YouTube Right Now
YouTube is streaming 60 horror movies from the HorroRated archive in the US today. The highest rated are Hereditary, Split and Jeepers Creepers, all Legendary.
These are full movies and series YouTube streams free with ads; titles you can only rent or buy on YouTube are left off.
Horror movies on YouTube, best first
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.
Split(2017)
Kevin Wendell Crumb, a man with 23 distinct personalities, kidnaps three teenage girls and locks them underground, and a 24th personality is on its way. The film follows Kevin through his most dangerous personalities while exploring what was done to him.
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.
Scream (1996)(1996)
Still grieving her mother's murder, Sidney Prescott starts getting calls from a killer in a ghost mask who loves horror-movie trivia, and everyone around her in quiet Woodsboro becomes a suspect.
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.
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.
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.
Chopping Mall(1986)
Eight young mall employees stay behind after closing for a party in the furniture store. Then lightning fries the computer that runs the mall's new security robots, and the robots start treating everyone as an intruder.
The Stuff(1985)
America can't stop eating a creamy white dessert that bubbles up out of the ground, so a smooth-talking industrial spy is hired to find out what exactly is in it.
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.
Roadgames(1981)
Hauling a load of meat across Australia's empty highways, a chatty American trucker becomes convinced that the driver of a certain van is the killer the radio keeps talking about.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Changeling(1980)
Grieving composer John Russell rents an enormous, silent Seattle mansion to work in peace, until a pounding that starts at the same hour every morning tells him he isn't alone.
The Blackcoat's Daughter(2017)
Kat and Rose are left behind at Bramford Academy when their parents fail to pick them up for winter break. Miles away, a young woman named Joan accepts a ride from a couple headed the same way.
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 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.
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.
Let the Right One In(2008)
Eli moves into the apartment next door to twelve-year-old Oskar. She only comes out at night, and she can't come in unless he invites her.
Parents(1989)
Young Michael Laemle suspects his parents' 1950s suburban normalcy is a cover for something much darker. The leftovers are the clue.
Jaws 2(1978)
Summer is back on Amity Island, and so is the worry in Chief Brody's eyes when boats start vanishing and a crowd of local teenagers sails out past the safety of the shore.
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.
Escape Room(2019)
Six strangers are placed in elaborate escape rooms that turn out not to be a game.
Sinister 2(2015)
A mother hiding her children from an abusive father in a rural farmhouse beside an old church finds her sons making contact with ghost children connected to the Bughuul mythology.
The Purge: Anarchy(2014)
The sirens wail across Los Angeles, and strangers end up stranded on the open streets: a waitress and her daughter forced from home, a quarreling couple whose car dies at the worst moment, and an armed loner chasing a private revenge.
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.
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.
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.
The Exorcism of Emily Rose(2005)
A priest is charged with negligent homicide after a young woman dies following an exorcism. The priest's lawyer, an agnostic, has to decide what she actually believes happened.
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.
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 her visions pull up puts her in a killer's path.
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 Exorcist III(1990)
Lieutenant Kinderman investigates a series of ritualistic murders that keep leading him somewhere he doesn't want to go.
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.
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.
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.
The Gallows(2015)
Twenty years after an accident ended a high school's production of a play, the drama club stages it again, and a few students sneak into the theater the night before to wreck the set.
Paranormal Activity 4(2012)
A boy from across the street starts spending nights at the Nelson house, and Alex's laptop webcams catch things moving that nobody in the family can explain.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Horror on YouTube
What is the best horror movie on YouTube right now?
By HorroRated's scores, Hereditary (2018) is the top-rated horror movie streaming on YouTube as of October 27, 2026, rated Legendary. Split and Jeepers Creepers are close behind.
How many horror movies are on YouTube?
From the HorroRated archive, 60 horror movies are streaming on YouTube in the US as of October 27, 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 27, 2026. Scores, verdicts and blurbs are HorroRated’s own; see how we rate.