The Best Modern Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now (November 2026)

Availability last updated November 1, 2026. Netflix’s library changes monthly, so this list will get synced regularly.

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Netflix’s horror section is huge, and too much of it is crap or filler. So instead of scrolling for an hour throughout this Halloween season and beyond, take a look at this curated selection of the best of the best. These are the best modern horror movies on Netflix right now, all released from 2010 on, pulled from my obsessive watching of the genre, including pulls from the best horror movies of the 2020s and the best horror movies of the 2010s. You’ll find modern favorites like Green Room, His House and The Menu, plus a handful of deeper cuts the Netflix algorithm would probably never show you on its own. Every pick is streaming in the U.S. right now, and I’ll keep the list updated as titles come and go.

GREEN ROOM (2015)

🍅90%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐6.9IMDb

Hell is a Nazi-run punk show in this anarchical “trapped in a green room” antidote to the slasher genre. Accordion arm imagery hopefully won’t linger. Fear of Nazi dogs will. Patrick Stewart is chillingly calm as the neo-Nazi boss, and Anton Yelchin and Imogen Poots make the siege feel terrifyingly real.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026)

🍅91%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐7.2IMDb

Spike falls in with a death cult built from bone and finds membership isn’t much better than infection. What’s worse: dying, or losing a piece of your soul in order to survive? Nia DaCosta takes the baton from Danny Boyle, and Ralph Fiennes’ Dr. Kelson gives the franchise its strangest, most humane presence.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

HIS HOUSE (2020)

🍅100%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

A South Sudanese couple placed in a British council house are told not to move, and the walls hold the debt they crossed the water with. Remi Weekes’ debut uses haunted-house scares to tell a gutting refugee story, and it is frightening on both levels.▶ Watch on Netflix · See it in my Top Ten of 2020

THE MENU (2022)

🍅88%Critics🍿76%Audience⭐7.1IMDb

A riotous dark satire that uses the upper echelon of the food world to skewer class warfare, with Ralph Fiennes delivering an icy tour-de-force as a mesmerizing, disturbed chef at the end of his rope. Full of twists and full-bellied laughs, consider it a dish that should be consumed immediately.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

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EVIL DEAD (2013)

🍅63%Critics🍿64%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Bloodlets the humor from Sam Raimi’s game changing original and replaces with vicious spells of blood, guts, and mutilation. A gooey doozy of a coming out party for Fede Alvarez. Jane Levy is a powerhouse as a recovering addict, and the practical gore effects are as gnarly as anything in the franchise.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE BEAST (2023)

🍅86%Critics🍿56%Audience⭐5.6IMDb

Bonello runs one couple through three centuries and an AI process for purging emotion, with a Los Angeles incel chapter in the middle. A masterbeast.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023)

🍅99%Critics🍿98%Audience⭐7.6IMDb

A disgraced kamikaze pilot gets one more shot at redemption when Godzilla rises over a postwar Japan with nothing left to lose. Takashi Yamazaki made a monster movie with genuine human stakes, and effects that put Hollywood budgets to shame.▶ Watch on Netflix

UNDER THE SHADOW (2016)

🍅99%Critics🍿70%Audience⭐6.8IMDb

A human rights crisis meets an old-school haunting in Iranian director Babak Anvari’s emotionally and intellectually satisfying portrait of ragged feminism under strong-arm religious fundamentalism. Babak Anvari’s debut sets a djinn haunting in war-torn 1980s Tehran, turning a mother’s anxiety into dread that lingers.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

M3GAN (2022)

🍅93%Critics🍿78%Audience⭐6.3IMDb

A roboticist gives her orphaned niece a four-foot AI doll with a protection directive and no supervision. Malicious sentience isn’t fresh; what M3gan does well is approach it with an almost programmatic level of fun. Gerard Johnstone’s killer-doll romp is campy, clever, and much funnier than it has any right to be, and its dance scene is an all-timer.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

GERALD’S GAME (2017)

🍅91%Critics🍿69%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Only horror maestro Mike Flanagan could turn his “unfilmable” Steven King novel into an unflappable master work, reworking the trials of a woman handicuffed to her bed after her husband suddenly dies into a visually arresting collage of the horrors of sexual abuse.▶ Watch on Netflix · Mike Flanagan Movies and Shows, Ranked

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)

🍅86%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

Essentially an art film about a dying woman’s quest for a final slice of NYC pizza, trojan-horsed into a genre flick, A Quiet Place: Day One boasts an excellent performance by Lupita Nyong’o (Joseph Quinn is also outstanding), helping keep this franchise fresh, relevant, and true to form.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

THE HOUSE (2022)

⭐6.8IMDb

Three stop-motion stories set in the same house across different eras, each odder and more unsettling than the last. This felt-and-fabric anthology is made for adults, beautifully crafted, and its gentle dread lingers. The voice cast includes Helena Bonham Carter, Mia Goth, and Matthew Goode.▶ Watch on Netflix

OXYGEN (2021)

🍅90%Critics🍿74%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

A woman wakes in a sealed cryo-pod with no memory, falling oxygen, and only an AI to argue with. Buried meets 2001 in true Aja style. Loved this vibe, particularly in the post-lockdown blues era. Mélanie Laurent wakes up trapped in a cryogenic pod with no memory, and Alexandre Aja wrings maximum tension out of one actor and one box.▶ Watch on Netflix

THE PLATFORM (2020)

🍅81%Critics🍿72%Audience⭐7.0IMDb

Prisoners in a vertical prison eat whatever the floors above leave behind on a descending table. Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia’s Spanish allegory about class is blunt, brutal, and impossible to stop watching. Iván Massagué carries the film as a newcomer forced to choose between survival and solidarity.▶ Watch on Netflix

28 YEARS LATER (2025)

🍅88%Critics🍿63%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

Shifts midway from a rock-em-sock-em zombie movie into something far more meditative, and the jolt is jarring. The ending is straight up bonkers. But everything it builds toward gets paid off in The Bone Temple, a more complete and better film.▶ Watch on Netflix

IN THE EARTH (2021)

🍅79%Critics🍿24%Audience⭐5.1IMDb

A scientist and a ranger hike into a plague-era English wood to find a missing colleague and meet a man worshipping whatever is under the soil. An audio-visual blitz where Wheatley genre hops like a mad man. The squeamish body horror stuff is just aces.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

HUSH (2016)

🍅92%Critics🍿73%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

The “She’s deaf” equivalent of A Quiet Place and Don’t Breathe, this unsettling invasion thriller (also from Flanagan) boils down the essential ingredients of a horror movie and delivers them in ideally measured fashion.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Mike Flanagan Movies and Shows, Ranked

OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016)

🍅82%Critics🍿58%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

Perhaps the best sequel to a terrible movie ever, Mike Flanagan (who’s featured a whopping 4 times in this list) fills this studio horror with starkly unsettling imagery and bleak conclusions. Mike Flanagan’s prequel is a huge leap over the original, a 1967-set haunted-house story with real heart and one terrifying little girl.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Mike Flanagan Movies and Shows, Ranked

THE BOOGEYMAN (2023)

🍅60%Critics🍿65%Audience⭐5.9IMDb

A family in mourning gets a visitor that lives in closets and feeds on grief, which the surviving daughters can see and the therapist father cannot. Rob Savage tosses overcooked conventions in a blender and gets a fright fest that could fling you out of your seat.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS (2022)

🍅78%Critics🍿40%Audience⭐5.1IMDb

It’s Christmas Eve, and a foul-mouthed record store owner (Riley Dandy) just wants to get drunk and party, until the local toy store’s military-grade robot Santa goes haywire and starts carving through her small town. Joe Begos shoots it on grimy 16mm and drenches it in neon and synth, and Dandy makes for a charismatic, scrappy final girl. A loud, gory, gleefully mean holiday slasher.▶ Watch on Netflix

UPGRADE (2018)

🍅88%Critics🍿88%Audience⭐7.5IMDb

American fight choreography takes a bold step forward in this low-budget sci-fi actioner that wastes no time getting into the gritty, grimy beatdowns. A side dish spies the horrifying implications of nano-tech merging with Homo sapiens is also on full display.▶ Watch on Netflix · See it in my Top Ten of 2018

OCULUS (2013)

🍅75%Critics🍿54%Audience⭐6.6IMDb

The mirror mirror on the wall has never been so imposing in this striking, intelligent, and emotionally rich horror-thriller about a haunted mirror. Credit Mike Flanagan and sturdy leads for making it all work. Mike Flanagan’s breakout plays tricks with time and memory, and Karen Gillan is excellent as a sister determined to prove a haunted mirror is real.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Mike Flanagan Movies and Shows, Ranked

SPLIT (2017)

🍅79%Critics🍿79%Audience⭐7.3IMDb

In addition to being a platform for James McAvoy to display his considerable range in truly zany fashion, Split represents the once fallen M. Night Shyamalan solidifying his place as the king of twists in this unsettling and campy delight.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review

FRANKENSTEIN (2025)

🍅85%Critics🍿94%Audience⭐7.4IMDb

A gorgeous retelling of a classic tale about the monsters that dwell within us, Del Toro’s take on Frankenstein features a standout turn from Jacob Elordi but remains a middle of the pack effort from the beloved Gothic storyteller. Much like the creature in this story, desperately wanting to understand why it is here, the film lacks its own sense of purpose.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Guillermo del Toro Movies, Ranked

A CLASSIC HORROR STORY (2021)

🤢55%Critics🍿35%Audience⭐5.7IMDb

Five carpool strangers crash in the Calabrian woods and wake up in the middle of a folk-horror nightmare. This Italian shocker borrows liberally from Midsommar and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, then pulls a meta rug out from under all of it.▶ Watch on Netflix

CRAWL (2019)

🍅84%Critics🍿75%Audience⭐6.1IMDb

One of the best “real-life” creature features since Jaws, Crawl is a no-nonsense survival story that pits a former champion swimmer against bloodthirsty Florida gators in the middle of a hurricane. Alexandre Aja keeps the runtime lean and the alligators mean as Kaya Scodelario fights to save her father from a flooding Florida crawl space during a hurricane.▶ Watch on Netflix

CRIMSON PEAK (2015)

🍅72%Critics🍿56%Audience⭐6.5IMDb

Before he claimed an Academy Award, Guillermo del Toro made horror movies, such as this gothic ghost story as much about family and love as it is about smashing heads like pumpkins and CGI phantasms. Guillermo del Toro’s gothic romance is a feast of crimson snow, creaking halls, and Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain at their most deliciously sinister.▶ Watch on Netflix · Read the full review · Guillermo del Toro Movies, Ranked

THE PERFECTION (2019)

🍅71%Critics🍿57%Audience⭐6.2IMDb

A former cello prodigy reconnects with her mentor’s new star pupil, and the movie swerves from erotic thriller to body horror to revenge tale. Allison Williams and Logan Browning are excellent, and the twists are as audacious as they are gross.▶ Watch on Netflix

THE BABYSITTER (2017)

🍅70%Critics🍿62%Audience⭐6.4IMDb

A twelve-year-old discovers his babysitter is part of a satanic cult and has to survive the night. McG’s horror comedy is glossy and gleefully gory, with Samara Weaving clearly having a blast. Bella Thorne, Robbie Amell, and Hana Mae Lee round out a cult that is as funny as it is deadly.▶ Watch on Netflix

ALPHA (2025)

🤢26%Critics🍿46%Audience⭐3.7IMDb

Julia Ducournau’s third French body horror Alpha is a concussive portrait of a family strained by the specter of a deadly virus, equal parts formally ambitious and puzzle-box cerebral mania. It’s not her strongest film, but it continues her tradition of bold, esoteric art.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

Want more? See the full ranking of the best horror movies of the 2020s.

Critics and Audience scores from Rotten Tomatoes; ratings from IMDb. Scores as of November 2026.

Frequently asked questions

What’s the scariest movie on Netflix right now?

If you want pure terror, start with His House, followed by Under the Shadow and Hush. His House turns a refugee couple’s new home into a genuinely terrifying haunted house.

What are the best horror movies on Netflix?

By my ranking, the best modern horror movies on Netflix right now are Green Room (2015), Under the Skin (2013) and 28 Years Later: the Bone Temple (2026).

How often is this list updated?

Every couple of weeks. I re-check Netflix’s catalog regularly, adding new arrivals and removing anything that has left the service.

What are the best non-horror movies on Netflix?

For my picks across every genre, see The Best Movies on Netflix Right Now.