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.
Availability last updated October 12, 2026. Netflix’s library changes monthly, so this list will get synced regularly.
GREEN ROOM (2015)
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.
UNDER THE SKIN (2013)
Scarlett Johansson is a sexy alien (and naked a lot) who comes around to empathizing with the humans she’s been consuming. I dare you to watch without subtitles.
28 YEARS LATER: THE BONE TEMPLE (2026)
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?
HIS HOUSE (2020)
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.
THE MENU (2022)
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.
EVIL DEAD (2013)
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.
GODZILLA MINUS ONE (2023)
A kamikaze pilot who refused to die has to face the thing that came out of the Pacific into a country that has nothing left.
UNDER THE SHADOW (2016)
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.
M3GAN (2022)
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.
GERALD’S GAME (2017)
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.
A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)
Invasion day in Manhattan. A hospice patient and her cat walk out through it.
THE HOUSE (2022)
The furry stop-motion animation is arrestingly eerie in this unsettling anthology.
OXYGEN (2021)
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.
THE PLATFORM (2020)
A vertical prison lowers one banquet table through hundreds of floors, and each level eats what the level above left.
28 YEARS LATER (2025)
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.
IN THE EARTH (2021)
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.
HUSH (2016)
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.
OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL (2016)
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.
CHRISTMAS BLOODY CHRISTMAS (2022)
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.
UPGRADE (2018)
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.
OCULUS (2013)
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.
SPLIT (2017)
Kevin Wendell Crumb has 20 personalities living inside him. But one too many of them are serial killers. Don’t unleash the Beast.
FRANKENSTEIN (2025)
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.
A CLASSIC HORROR STORY (2021)
Five strangers in an Italian rideshare crash into a clearing arranged like a folk-horror set, because it is one.
CRAWL (2019)
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.
CRIMSON PEAK (2015)
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.
THE PERFECTION (2019)
Body horror goes to unthinkable levels in this psychosexual thriller about a talented musician and her protégé, and it thrives on its strong performances.
THE BABYSITTER (2017)
Bee is the hot, cool, flirty babysitter every pre-teenage boy dreams of. Except when she brings her friends over. They might be into satanic worship.
Want more? See the full ranking of the best horror movies of the 2020s.
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By: Matt Oakes
Started blogging about film in college when the university paper wouldn’t have him. Dislikes your consensus film Twitter favorites. Devotee of horror movies that make him die a little inside. Catches films at festivals when he can. Proud SFCS and OFCS member and Tomatometer-approved critic. Editor-in-chief of Silver Screen Riot.
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