The Best Modern Horror Movies on Paramount+ Right Now

Paramount+ doesn’t get much credit as a horror destination, but between Blumhouse-adjacent franchises, the A Quiet Place films and a few genuinely nasty deep cuts, there’s plenty here worth your night. These are the best modern horror movies on Paramount+ right now, all released from 2010 on, pulled from my obsessive watching of the genre, including picks from the best horror movies of the 2020s and the best horror movies of the 2010s. You’ll find favorites like Smile, It Follows and A Quiet Place: Day One, plus deeper cuts worth seeking out. Every pick is streaming in the U.S. right now, and I’ll keep the list updated as titles come and go.

In the mood for something other than horror? Here are the best movies on Paramount+ right now, all hand-picked from my reviews.

Availability last updated October 16, 2026.

SMILE (2022)

A trauma therapist watches a patient kill herself while grinning and inherits the curse, which passes by witness. It makes full use of its R-rating, going to extremes not often seen in a wide studio release.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

IT FOLLOWS (2014)

A demonic STD will not stop hunting Maika Monroe in this deliriously made, minimalist horror-thriller. David Robert Mitchell’s filmmaking is an intellectual puzzle that only gets more bewildering (and better) upon rewatches.▶ Watch on Paramount+

A QUIET PLACE: DAY ONE (2024)

Invasion day in Manhattan. A hospice patient and her cat walk out through it.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)

Scorsese’s foray into proper psychological horror boasts Leo, a topsy-turvy Dennis Lehane whodunnit, and whizkid technical elements. The ending is perfect (and not open to interpretation, despite what you may think.)▶ Watch on Paramount+

BLINK TWICE (2024)

A cocktail waitress gets invited to a tech billionaire’s private island for an undisclosed stretch of hard partying where days stop connecting. The only prescient question becomes, “are you having enough fun?”▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

A QUIET PLACE (2018)

A mom and dad sound proof their life from sonically-sensitive alien invaders in this thoughtful meditation on the difficulties of parenting, especially so in a world of unblinking 12-foot killing machines. STFU!
▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

CRIMES OF THE FUTURE (2022)

In a future without pain, a performance artist grows novel organs and has them removed in front of an audience. The surgery of Dead Ringers, the kink of Crash, the transformations of The Fly. All of Cronenberg’s favorite fetishes have come out to play.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

PIRANHA 3D (2010)

70’s sexploitation meets turn-of-the-century budget CGI in this tongue-in-cheek monster movie that unleashes bloodthirsty teeth-fish on bikini-clad spring breakers. A campy beer bong-able party movie if there ever was one. Spoiler alert: A piranha burps out a human penis.▶ Watch on Paramount+

A QUIET PLACE PART II (2020)

The Abbotts leave the farm with a newborn and a hearing aid that doubles as a weapon, and meet a survivor who has stopped helping people. It builds the emotional heart before throwing everything to chaos, knowing tension needs a vested interest first.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

THE AUTOPSY OF JANE DOE (2016)

Emile Hirsch and Brian Cox are father-son coroners who come across an enigmatic corpse that shows no obvious cause of death in this creepy, inventive, self-contained witch’s brew of nastiness.▶ Watch on Paramount+

SCREAM (2022)

A new Ghostface targets the relatives of the originals while the film coins the word “requel” for what it’s doing. Razor-sharp, bloody glorious, and most importantly a hell of a lot of fun.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

SMILE 2 (2024)

The grin-curse jumps to a pop star mid-comeback tour, where nobody can tell a breakdown from a haunting. Moving it onto a stage is smart; the mythology still develops in very similar ways.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

SOUND OF VIOLENCE (2021)

A composer who regained her hearing during a family massacre starts killing people to sample the sounds, rigging one victim as a human drum kit. Her music kills, and Noyer jams out to camp and slasher colliding.▶ Watch on Paramount+ · Read the full review

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: NEXT OF KIN (2021)

A documentary crew visits an Amish-adjacent commune that the franchise’s demon got to first. Proof that you can make a Paranormal Activity movie that doesn’t look like total shit.▶ Watch on Paramount+

SPONTANEOUS (2020)

High school seniors start exploding, wetly and without warning, in what is a weird mashup of horror and romantic comedy.▶ Watch on Paramount+