The Best Modern Horror Movies on Shudder Right Now

Availability last updated October 12, 2026. Streaming libraries change monthly, so this list gets updated regularly.

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Shudder is the only major streamer built entirely around horror, so the problem isn’t finding something to watch. It’s choosing. These are the best modern horror movies on Shudder right now, all released from 2010 on and pulled straight from my rankings of the best horror movies of the 2020s and the best horror movies of the 2010s. You’ll find favorites like Speak No Evil, The Babadook and The Innocents, plus a handful of deeper cuts worth adding to your watchlist. Every pick is streaming in the U.S. right now, and I’ll keep the list updated as titles come and go.

SPEAK NO EVIL (2022)

A Danish family accepts a weekend invitation from the Dutch couple they met on holiday and won’t leave no matter how bad it gets. Every instinctual alarm goes off and nobody listens. They play into societal expectation, and then they are exploited. A vicious film. ▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

THE BABADOOK (2014)

Childrearing has never been so horrifying in this Australian import that might actually just all be a mental breakdown. Star Essie Davis is phenomenal.▶ Watch on Shudder

THE INNOCENTS (2021)

Four kids in a Norwegian apartment block discover telekinetic powers over one summer, and one of them has no reason not to use them. Vogt’s direction is taut and the child performances are great. Empathy and psychopathy in children too young to understand either term.▶ Watch on Shudder

THE GUEST (2014)

An out-of-towner isn’t the nice guy facade he first presents in Adam Wingard’s explosively misanthropic redux of the Bourne formula.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

KILL LIST (2011)

Spanning a multitude of subgenres (crime, cult, killers, etc.) this twisty hell-ride from Ben Wheatley (his best film yet) is intensely unpredictable and all the more horrifying for it. Close your eyes if you dare.▶ Watch on Shudder

WHEN EVIL LURKS (2023)

Possession works like communicable disease here, with a rulebook everyone knows and nobody follows in time.▶ Watch on Shudder

WATCHER (2022)

An American trails her husband to Bucharest, doesn’t speak the language, and every night the man across the courtyard is watching back. Her sanity and her marriage unfurl as the specter grows.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

THE SADNESS (2022)

A mysterious virus turns the people of Taipei into giggling, sadistic killers who act out their darkest urges, while a young couple tries to find each other across a city coming apart. Maximum depravity: achieved.▶ Watch on Shudder

RELIC (2020)

Three generations of women in a house that grows corridors as the grandmother’s dementia advances. The script complicates the dynamic with implied unpleasant histories without severing that unbreakable bond of family.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

THE UGLY STEPSISTER (2025)

A confident, stomach-churning debut that cements Emilie Blichfeldt as a thrilling new voice in horror. Fairytale whimsy and grotesque body horror collide in a nightmarish fable about the violence of beauty standards, anchored by a breakout performance from Lea Myren.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

THE DEVIL’S CANDY (2015)

Heavy metal is evil again as a father/artist falls into a productive (but costly) trance when he moves into a home with a killer history in this steely-eyed creeper from the director of The Loved Ones.▶ Watch on Shudder

RED ROOMS (2023)

A model with money and no visible interior attends every day of a child-killer’s trial for reasons she will not explain.▶ Watch on Shudder

MADS (2024)

One unbroken take that starts with a teenager driving home from a dealer and ends somewhere far worse, handing off between characters as it goes.▶ Watch on Shudder

HUESERA: THE BONE WOMAN (2022)

A woman gets the pregnancy she was supposed to want and a bone-cracking figure starts appearing to take it back.▶ Watch on Shudder

SWALLOW (2020)

A pregnant housewife in a glass house starts swallowing marbles, thumbtacks and batteries, the one appetite nobody gets to manage for her. A flesh and blood femme-bot who powers on when her husband walks in. It reeks of tragedy.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

COME TRUE (2020)

A runaway joins a university sleep study, and every subject turns out to be dreaming the same shadow figure standing in the same doorway. Sarah gets driven further from everyone and closer to the cusp of sanity.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

HOST (2020)

A lockdown Zoom séance with six friends, shot in real time on the actual call, running fifty-seven minutes. Way better than it has any right to be.▶ Watch on Shudder

STARRY EYES (2014)

Low-budge indie horror tracks the disintegration of a wanna-be Hollywood starlet, complete with a Kafka-esque transformation that’ll have even the hardest of horror fans squirming.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

THE DARK AND THE WICKED (2020)

Two siblings return to the family goat farm for their father’s last days and find something already in the house with their mother.▶ Watch on Shudder

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.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

JAKOB’S WIFE (2021)

A minister’s wife of thirty years gets bitten, and vampirism is the best thing that ever happened to her marriage. Goretastic and laugh out loud hilarious, a ’90s throwback openly in love with Nosferatu.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

SPUTNIK (2020)

A cosmonaut returns to a 1983 Soviet facility with something living in his throat that only comes out at night.▶ Watch on Shudder

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.▶ Watch on Shudder

REVENGE (2017)

Coralie Fargeat’s feminist rape-revenge fantasy is a brutal takedown of male-gaze exploitation cinema and a bloody beat-em-up fighter flick to boot. The blood comes in buckets here.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

WEREWOLVES WITHIN (2021)

A forest ranger and a mail carrier lock a Vermont town’s worth of feuding neighbors in one inn while something outside eats the generators. Clue with lycanthropy.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

VIOLATION (2020)

A woman assaulted by her sister’s husband during a lake weekend takes her revenge, and the film makes you sit in every minute of the aftermath. Grounded entirely in consequence, and still the best of Sundance’s narrative midnighters.▶ Watch on Shudder

SEW TORN (2024)

A seamstress finds a suitcase of cash and two dying bikers on a Swiss roadside, and the film runs her three possible choices in full. Choose your own adventure where every road ends badly.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

MANDY (2018)

Nicholas Cage. Murder cults. Biker gangs from hell. Mandy is a balls-out acid-trip that’s kinda artsy and totally cheeseball and fully worth your attention. Cage goes gonzo.▶ Watch on Shudder · Read the full review

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