Top 20 horror movies on Netflix

The horror genre is one with most passionate fans. There are a lot of imagination and creativity in this genre where the possibilities of creation are unlimited as is often mixed speculative fiction. Here there are the best horror movies you can watch today in Netflix. Aimed to frighten and scare you across all movie duration.

1. Get Out (2017)

Chris thinks that his girlfriend parents are nervous about their daughter's interracial relationship. But a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to discover an unimaginable truth.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.8 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

2. Train to Busan (2016)

A fast-moving virus traps passengers on a KTX train to Busan as travelers become violent carriers. A father and daughter fight through undead and desperate survivors to reach the rumored safe city.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.8 /10 IMDB Rating 7.6 /10

3. American Psycho (2000)

Patrick Bateman is a superbly crafted specimen that meets all the requirements of Master of the Universe. The more anonymous he becomes, the less control he has over his terrible instincts and his thirst for blood. He is practically perfect, like almost everyone in his world and desperately tries to fit into it.

Genres: Crime, Cult, Drama, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.6 /10

4. Upgrade (2018)

In a near-future, mechanic Grey Trace is paralyzed when a crash kills his wife. An experimental AI chip restores his body and strength, letting him hunt her killers — but it increasingly erases the line between man and machine.

Genres: Thriller, Science fiction, Action/Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.5 /10

5. Zombieland (2009)

In a world plagued by zombies, Columbus is a young man who lives in terror. But fear and cowardice have allowed him to survive. When he meets Tallahasse, a hooligan hunter, they will have to choose between trusting them or succumbing to zombies.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Horror, Fantasy, Science fiction

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.5 /10

6. Frankenstein (2025)

Obsession drives Victor Frankenstein to assemble and animate a being from corpses. Abandonment fuels the creature's rage; their clash of ambition, guilt and revenge leads to tragic ruin for both.

Genres: Science fiction, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.9 /10 IMDB Rating 7.5 /10

7. It (2017)

When children begin to disappear in the town of Derry, Maine, a gang of friends face their greatest fears as they take on an evil clown named Pennywise, whose history of murder and violence goes back centuries.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.3 /10

8. American Murder: The Family Next Door (2020)

With unedited real images, this documentary delves deeper into the disappearance of Shanann Watts and his children, and the events that followed.

Genres: Documentary, Mystery, Crime, Drama, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.2 /10

9. Don't Breathe (2016)

Young thieves believe they have found the opportunity to commit the perfect robbery. Their goal will be a lone blind man, possessing thousands of hidden dollars. But as soon as they enter their home they will be aware of their mistake.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Crime

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

10. Talk to Me (2022)

Teens find an embalmed hand that summons the dead, turning it into a dangerous party dare. As rules are broken, grief and obsession unleash vengeful spirits, fracturing the group.

Genre: Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

11. The Platform (2019)

The future, in a dystopia. Two people per level. An unknown number of levels. If you discover it too late, you will not come out alive from “The hole".

Genres: Drama, Science fiction, Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

12. Hotel Transylvania (2012)

Mavis lives in the luxurious Transylvania hotel, which was created to protect monsters. His father, Count Dracula, prepares a party to which the best friends of the family attend. It also attends a man who falls in love with Mavis.

Genres: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

13. Late Night with the Devil (2023)

In 1977, a struggling late‑night show stages a live stunt to avoid cancellation, but a demonic force hijacks the broadcast, turning the telecast into escalating terror that spills into viewers' homes.

Genres: Independent, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.5 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

14. Christine (1983)

Christine is a 1958 Plymouth Fury who came out of a Detroit auto assembly chain, but she is not an ordinary car. At the bottom of her chassis is the devil himself, who harbors an insatiable desire for revenge that freezes anyone's blood and destroys everything he finds on his way.

Genres: Horror, Action/Adventure, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 6.2 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /10

15. Under the Shadow (2016)

While a woman and her little daughter try to cope with the terror of Islamist Tehran in1980s, a mysterious being begins to appear at home.

Genres: Horror, Drama, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 5.8 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /10

16. Warm Bodies (2013)

A, a zombie with existential problems, establishes a strange friendship with the bride of one of his victims. This unusual relationship provokes a chain reaction that changes his life, that of his peers and, probably, that of the whole planet.

Genres: Comedy, Horror, Romance

Filmaffinity Rating 5.2 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /10

17. Us (2019)

Adelaide Wilson is a woman who returns to her childhood home on the coast next to her husband, Gabe, and her two children, for an idyllic summer. When the night falls, the Wilsons discover the silhouette of four figures looking like them.

Genres: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 5.7 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /10

18. Dream Scenario (2023)

Paul Matthews, a weary professor, becomes a global dream celebrity when strangers see him in their dreams. Fame gratifies him but grows dangerous as some dreams turn violent, forcing him to face dire consequences.

Genres: Comedy, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.5 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /10

19. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

When devout 19-year-old Emily suffers terrifying visions and violent episodes, medical care fails and an exorcism is performed. After Emily’s death, priest Moore faces trial; lawyer Erin Bruner defends him, forcing a clash of faith and science.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Crime

Filmaffinity Rating 5.9 /10 IMDB Rating 6.7 /10

20. Bird Box (2018)

A mysterious supernatural presence led to suicide a large part of society. One of the survivors, Malorie Hayes and her two sons, desperately seek a way to save themselves.

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Science fiction, Mystery, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 5.7 /10 IMDB Rating 6.6 /10