The Best Horror Movies to Stream

Streaming on Netflix

Watcher (2022). Official synopsis: “A young American woman moves with her husband to Bucharest, and begins to suspect that a stranger who watches her from an apartment window may be a serial killer.”

Genres:  voyeur movies, serial killer movies, feminist horror, 2022, Maika Monroe

Ma (2019). Official synopsis: “A lonely woman befriends a group of teenagers and decides to let them party at her house. Just when the kids think their luck couldn’t get any better, things start happening that make them question the intention of their host.”

Genres: small town horror movies, moms of horror, high school horror movies

Coming March 7:

Delicious (2025). Official synopsis: “A German family vacationing in a French villa encounters a mysterious injured woman and takes her in, leading to unforeseen consequences.”

Genres: dinner parties from hell, German horror, nightmare travel

Coming March 13-14:

Tebusan Dosa (Redemption of Sin, 2024). Official synopsis: “The twists and turns of Wening’s struggle, a mother who is willing to be haunted and atone for her sins in order to reunite with her lost daughter, Nirmala.”

Genres: Indonesian horror movies, horror movies about grief

Curse of the Seven Oceans (2024). Official synopsis: “Starting from trade competition in the market, people use supernatural things and perform black magic to bring down their rivals.”

Genres: Indonesian horror movies, curses

Wanita Ahli Neraka (2024). Official synopsis: “The life of a woman named Farah. After officially getting married and having the status of a wife, Farah was suddenly possessed by a dark power until she slowly lost control of herself.”

Genres: Indonesian horror movies, the horrors of marriage, demonic possession

Coming March 25:

Revelations (2025). Official synopsis: “A pastor and a detective, driven by their beliefs, pursue a missing person case, with the pastor seeking retribution after a divine revelation identifies the culprit who abducted his son.”

Genres: Korean horror movies, religious horror movies, missing people horror movies

Streaming on Prime Video

Coming March 27:

Holland (2025). Official synopsis: “A woman’s picture-perfect life in quaint Holland, Michigan crumbles, when she and a friend uncover a twisted secret in their midst.”

Genres: moms of horror, horror movies directed by women, small town horror movies

Streaming on Paramount+

Strange Darling (2024). Official synopsis: “The devil’s in the details when a twisted one-night stand spirals into a serial killer’s vicious murder spree.”

Genres: best of 2024, serial killer movies, anti-romcoms

Annihilation (2018). Official synopsis: “A biologist and former soldier (Natalie Portman) must lead a mission into a mysterious quarantine zone known as The Shimmer, a beautiful but deadly world of mutated landscapes and creatures that threatens all life on Earth.”

Genres: post-apocalyptic, isolation, survival horror

Crawl (2019). Official synopsis: “As a category 5 hurricane tears through Florida, Haley rushes to find her father, who is injured and trapped in the crawl space of their home. With the storm intensifying and water levels rising, the pair face an even more terrifying threat lurking below the surface.”

Genres: underwater horror, claustrophobia, survival horror, horror movies about people trapped in strange places

Streaming on Peacock

Nosferatu (2024). Official synopsis: “An ancient Transylvanian vampire becomes obsessed with a haunted young woman in 19th-century Germany, causing untold horror in its wake.”

Genres: best of 2024, gothic horror, curses, period horror

Leprechaun (1993). Official synopsis: “After being accidentally released, an evil Irish leprechaun goes on a murderous quest to retrieve 100 gold coins that were stolen from him.”

Genres: slasher movies, bad movies

Pulse (2001). Official synopsis: “Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.”

Genres: scary phones, scariest movies of all time

Streaming on Max

Maggie (2015). Official synopsis: “A zombie epidemic spreads terror across the globe as a father cares for his infected daughter while struggling to prepare her for the inevitable.”

Genres: zombie movies, post-apocalyptic, survival horror

Child’s Play (1988). Official synopsis: “A serial killer transfers his bloodthirsty soul into the body of a doll and terrorizes a little boy and his mother.”

Genres: doll horror movies, Chucky’s best looks, best of the 80s

The Strangers (2008). Official synopsis: “James Hoyt and Kristen McKay visit an isolated vacation home to enjoy some time together. However, they are in for a rude surprise when three masked assailants make their stay a nightmare.”

Genres: slasher movies, isolation, scariest movies of all time

Coming March 7:

Heretic (2024). Official synopsis: “A young couple becomes the unwitting victims of a horrific late-night home invasion.”

Genres: religious horror movies, dark academia

Coming March 13:

The Parenting (2025). Official synopsis: “A couple rents a countryside house for a weekend with their parents and then discover it’s inhabited by a 400-year-old poltergeist.”

Genres: funny horror movies, haunted houses, moms of horror

Streaming on Shudder

We Have Always Lived In The Castle (2018). Official synopsis: “Secrets are unraveled when a man returns to his family home.”

Genres: haunted houses, dysfunctional families

Coming March 7:

Starve Acre (2023). Official synopsis: “An idyllic rural family life of a couple is thrown into turmoil when their son starts acting out of character.”

Genres: isolation, dysfunctional families, horror movies with creepy kids, period horror

Coming March 21:

Bloody Axe Wound (2024). Official synopsis: “Abbie Bladecut’s family business, a video store, has thrived by disposing of teenagers to mimic horror movies. As the first female slasher, she battles gender bias while realizing the harsh realities behind the mass murders.”

Genres: funny horror movies, slasher movies, high school horror movies

Coming March 28:

The Rule of Jenny Pen (2024). Official synopsis: “Confined to a secluded rest home and trapped within his stroke-ridden body, a former Judge must stop an elderly psychopath who employs a child’s puppet to abuse the home’s residents with deadly consequences.”

Genres: geriatric horror, legal horror/thrillers

Streaming on Tubi

Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022). Official synopsis: “When a group of rich 20-somethings plan a hurricane party at a remote family mansion, a party game turns deadly.”

Genres: slasher movies, 2022, twist-ending, funny horror movies

Hush (2016). Official synopsis: “A deaf and mute writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears at her window.”

Genres: slasher movies, isolation

The Descent (2005). Official synopsis: “A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.”

Genres: anti-romcoms, horror movies about grief, scariest movies of all time

May (2002). Official synopsis: “A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.”

Genres: female rage, creepy dolls,

Idle Hands (1999). Official synopsis: “A teenage slacker’s right hand becomes possessed with murderous intent.”

Genres: funny horror movies, high school horror movies

The Call (2013). Official synopsis: “When a veteran 911 operator takes a life-altering call from a teenage girl who has just been abducted, she realizes that she must confront a killer from her past in order to save the girl’s life.”

Genres: scary phones, serial killers