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The Best Horror Movies Streaming Right Now, Service by Service

By Matt Oakes · October 25, 2026

Every streaming service has a horror section, and most of them are a mess: a handful of modern classics buried under algorithm filler and forgettable direct-to-streaming junk. So I went through all nine of my horror guides and pulled the four best picks from each, service by service, so you can find something genuinely scary to watch tonight no matter what you subscribe to.

Each section links to that service’s full guide, where the rest of the lineup lives. If you don’t want to pay for anything, the free picks on Tubi and Kanopy are at the bottom.

Jump to: Netflix · Prime Video · HBO Max · Hulu · Shudder · Paramount+ · Peacock · Tubi · Kanopy

The Best Horror Movies on Netflix

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

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.▶ Streaming on Netflix · Read the full review

UNDER THE SKIN (2013)

84%Critics 55%Audience 6.3IMDb

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. Mica Levi’s eerie score is half the experience. Jonathan Glazer shot many of its street scenes with hidden cameras and real, unsuspecting Glasgow men.▶ Streaming 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.▶ Streaming 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.▶ Streaming on Netflix

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The Best Horror Movies on Prime Video

WEAPONS (2025)

93%Critics 85%Audience 7.4IMDb

Seventeen children in one class walk out of their homes at 2:17am, arms back, and never come home, told through the people left behind. A clear step up in craft, and Cregger may just be the horror prince the 2020s were promised.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

THE WITCH (2015)

91%Critics 61%Audience 7.0IMDb

Living off the land in Puritanical colonial New England goes horribly awry when Black Phillip seduces the youth of an outcast family with promises of delicious living. An ingenuously crafted, sublimely acted masterpiece.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

HEREDITARY (2018)

90%Critics 72%Audience 7.3IMDb

The death of a controlling matriarch sparks the implosion of a family unit in this horrifying study of grief amidst supernatural angst. Toni Collette was robbed. Heads should roll. Ari Aster’s debut is a grief-soaked nightmare, and Toni Collette’s ferocious performance is one of the great horror turns of all time.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

PEARL (2022)

93%Critics 83%Audience 7.0IMDb

A farm girl in 1918 auditions for a dance troupe as her escape and murders her way toward it. She thinks she can hide her budding psychopathy behind a Hollywood-worthy performance. The trouble is she’s not all that great an actor.▶ Streaming on Prime Video · Read the full review

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The Best Horror Movies on HBO Max

SINNERS (2025)

97%Critics 96%Audience 7.5IMDb

Twin brothers open a juke joint in Jim Crow Mississippi and the music they make there calls something older than the Klan outside. The real thrill is how it makes its deeper ideas textual rather than ornamental. Ryan Coogler’s vampire musical stars Michael B. Jordan as twin brothers opening a juke joint in 1932 Mississippi, and its centerpiece performance sequence is pure movie magic.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review

THE CONJURING (2013)

86%Critics 83%Audience 7.5IMDb

The possession subgenre is terrifying again in James Wan’s haunted house-exorcism hybrid. Rated R by virtue of being deemed “too scary” and for good reason. Good luck sleeping after this one. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga anchor the scares with genuine warmth.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review

TALK TO ME (2022)

94%Critics 83%Audience 7.1IMDb

Teens pass around an embalmed hand that lets a spirit ride you for ninety seconds, and film each other doing it. Shakes itself into your conscious and roots deeply. Without a doubt the horror movie of its year. Danny and Michael Philippou’s debut is a possession thriller about teens getting high on contact with the dead, and Sophie Wilde is fantastic.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · From my Top Ten of 2023

EVIL DEAD RISE (2023)

85%Critics 76%Audience 6.5IMDb

The Book of the Dead turns up in an LA apartment building’s parking garage and a mother of three opens it. Not only is there an elevator full of blood, characters come flooding out with it. I could watch one of these every decade.▶ Streaming on HBO Max · Read the full review

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The Best Horror Movies on Hulu

THE SUBSTANCE (2024)

89%Critics 76%Audience 7.2IMDb

A fired aerobics star injects a black-market serum that spawns a younger self, and the two have to split every week between them. She doesn’t just regain her glow, she loses herself piece by horrifying piece to the version she thought she wanted. Demi Moore and Margaret Qualley are phenomenal, and their fearless performances are the film’s highlight.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

NOSFERATU (2024)

85%Critics 73%Audience 7.1IMDb

With Nosferatu, Robert Eggers conjures a gothic horror that feels both timeless and daringly fresh. A masterful blend of craft, performance, and atmosphere, it’s a haunting reimagining that lingers like a shadow you can’t escape, an instant horror classic.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

BARBARIAN (2022)

92%Critics 70%Audience 7.0IMDb

A woman arrives at a double-booked Detroit rental at night, and the man already inside offers her the only bedroom with a lock and opens the wine in front of her to prove nothing’s in it. Part Don’t Breathe, part Wrong Turn, and it rules.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

TOGETHER (2025)

89%Critics 75%Audience 6.7IMDb

A twisted, tactile meditation on love, compromise, and the bodily cost of staying too close for too long, brought to life by Michael Shanks’ sharp direction and a pair of knockout performances from Alison Brie and Dave Franco. Together, they make the film’s grotesque intimacy feel oddly, disturbingly relatable.▶ Streaming on Hulu · Read the full review

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The Best Horror Movies on Shudder

SPEAK NO EVIL (2022)

83%Critics 60%Audience 6.7IMDb

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. ▶ Streaming on Shudder · Read the full review

THE BABADOOK (2014)

98%Critics 72%Audience 6.8IMDb

A widowed mother and her troubled son are menaced by a creature from a pop-up storybook that should never have been opened. Jennifer Kent’s debut is the rare monster movie that is really about grief, and Essie Davis’ performance is devastating.▶ Streaming on Shudder

THE INNOCENTS (2021)

97%Critics 72%Audience 7.0IMDb

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.▶ Streaming on Shudder

THE GUEST (2014)

92%Critics 69%Audience 6.7IMDb

A polite soldier shows up claiming he served with the family’s late son, and he is a little too good to be true. Adam Wingard’s slick, synth-soaked thriller is an absolute blast, and Dan Stevens is magnetic and terrifying in equal measure.▶ Streaming on Shudder · Read the full review

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The Best Horror Movies on Paramount+

SMILE (2022)

79%Critics 77%Audience 6.5IMDb

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. Parker Finn expands his own short into a feature about a curse passed along by grinning victims, and Sosie Bacon’s unraveling therapist is a terrific lead.▶ Streaming on Paramount+ · Read the full review

IT FOLLOWS (2014)

95%Critics 66%Audience 6.8IMDb

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.▶ Streaming on Paramount+

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.▶ Streaming on Paramount+ · Read the full review

SHUTTER ISLAND (2010)

69%Critics 77%Audience 8.2IMDb

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.) Leonardo DiCaprio and Martin Scorsese turn a 1954 mental-hospital mystery into a twisty, atmospheric psychological thriller.▶ Streaming on Paramount+

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The Best Horror Movies on Peacock

GET OUT (2017)

98%Critics 86%Audience 7.8IMDb

Being black in America got even more scary in Jordan Peele’s genius socio-horror film, which mixes modern slavery with racist yuppies and impales it all on trophy antlers. Jordan Peele’s debut won him the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, and Daniel Kaluuya’s tear-streaked trip into the Sunken Place is unforgettable.▶ Streaming on Peacock

OBSESSION (2025)

93%Critics 94%Audience 7.8IMDb

A nice guy wishes his way out of the friend zone and gets a girlfriend who cannot be talked out of loving him. Curry Barker proves himself a genre craftsman with a wicked sense of humor, a mean visual streak, and an unnerving command of tone. Actually scary and actually funny.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN (2011)

74%Critics 78%Audience 7.4IMDb

Tilda Swinton plays a mother reckoning with her son’s horrific act and the years of warning signs that led to it. Lynne Ramsay’s fractured, blood-red drama is psychological horror in its purest form, and Ezra Miller is chilling as Kevin.▶ Streaming on Peacock

10 CLOVERFIELD LANE (2016)

91%Critics 79%Audience 7.2IMDb

An unexpected sequel that launched a mini-verse, 10 Cloverfield Lane isn’t necessarily better for its connection to the previous Cloverfield entry but succeeds by virtue of brutally tense filmmaking and great performances from Mary Elizabeth Winstead and John Goodman.▶ Streaming on Peacock · Read the full review

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The Best Horror Movies on Tubi

TITANE (2021)

90%Critics 85%Audience 6.4IMDb

A woman with a titanium plate in her skull kills, gets pregnant by a car, binds her body flat and passes herself off as a fire captain’s missing son. Ducournau’s Raw was my favorite film of 2017, and this one bites harder.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review

MIDSOMMAR (2019)

83%Critics 63%Audience 7.1IMDb

Ari Aster returns with this sun-drenched nightmare epic about a dysfunctional couple who become entangled with a sunny Swedish murder-cult. Florence Pugh is terrific in the lead role. Florence Pugh is devastating as a grieving woman whose relationship falls apart at a sunlit Swedish festival that gets darker by the day.▶ Streaming on Tubi

SANCTUARY (2022)

88%Critics 82%Audience 6.2IMDb

A hotel-suite two-hander between an heir and the dominatrix he’s trying to retire before taking over the family company. Qualley commands every scene with a gravitational pull as total as the domme she plays. Christopher Abbott and Margaret Qualley spar for control across one hotel suite, and Zachary Wigon keeps the power games unpredictable.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review

WRONG TURN (2021)

64%Critics 59%Audience 5.6IMDb

Hikers on the Appalachian Trail cross a self-governing mountain society that has been up there since before the Civil War. A franchise detour that pivots away from everything the series was built on, and is hugely enjoyable for exactly that reason.▶ Streaming on Tubi · Read the full review

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The Best Horror Movies on Kanopy

THE BEAST (2023)

86%Critics 56%Audience 5.6IMDb

Titane sees Julia Ducournau use expressive body horror and ostensibly insane plotting to explore the very-real transformative nature of childbearing. A startling and genuinely thrilling work of avant-garde brilliance. Léa Seydoux and George MacKay star across three timelines in Bertrand Bonello’s ambitious, unsettling meditation on love, fear, and artificial intelligence.▶ Streaming on Kanopy

KILL LIST (2011)

79%Critics 58%Audience 6.3IMDb

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. Ben Wheatley’s genre-shattering descent from kitchen-sink drama to folk-horror nightmare ends in one of the most disturbing finales in British horror.▶ Streaming on Kanopy

POSSESSOR (2020)

94%Critics 59%Audience 6.5IMDb

A corporate assassin drives other people’s bodies to commit murders, and one host starts driving back. Gore resides in Vos’s soul and on the screen, and Riseborough’s turn as the chilly killer is searing. Brandon Cronenberg’s body-swapping sci-fi horror is clinical and gory, with Andrea Riseborough and Christopher Abbott battling for control of the same mind.▶ Streaming on Kanopy · Read the full review

MOTHER! (2017)

68%Critics 51%Audience 6.6IMDb

Biblical myth meets anarchical atom bomb in Darren Aronofsky’s intensely provocative arthouse experiment that attempts to tell the modern history of the world through the lens of an enbattled couple. Darren Aronofsky’s biblical allegory is relentless and divisive, with Jennifer Lawrence enduring an escalating home invasion that becomes something far stranger.▶ Streaming on Kanopy · Read the full review

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FAQ

What are the best horror movies streaming right now?

Top picks right now include Sinners on HBO Max, Weapons on Prime Video, The Substance on Hulu, Green Room on Netflix, and Speak No Evil on Shudder. Every pick above links to the service it streams on.