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. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Clarice Starling, an FBI trainee, aids a hunt for 'Buffalo Bill,' who skins women. She consults imprisoned cannibal Dr. Hannibal Lecter, trading personal truths for clues to stop the killer.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 8.2 /10 IMDB Rating 8.6 /10

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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. Carrie (1976)

Carrie White, a shy high-school senior raised by a fanatically religious mother, is humiliated at prom with pig's blood; the trauma unleashes her latent telekinetic powers, leading to a devastating, deadly vengeance.

Genres: Horror, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.4 /10

8. Now You See Me (2013)

"The four riders" are a group of the best illusionists in the world. They rain the stolen money on the spectators, in the astonishing look of an elite FBI team.

Genres: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.2 /10

9. 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

10. 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

11. Shutter (2004)

Photographer by profession, perceives strange spectral figures in his photographs. When they return to crash site, there is no news of the victim or of his disappearance. But one by one, photographer’s closest friends are dying.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Fantasy

Filmaffinity Rating 6.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

12. 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

13. The Witches (1990)

Orphaned Luke holidays in England with his wary grandmother. Their seaside hotel hosts secret witches planning to turn children into mice. After being transformed, Luke and allies must thwart them.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Family, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.1 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /10

14. 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

15. 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

16. Child's Play (1988)

Single mother Karen gifts son Andy a "Good Guy" doll possessed by killer Charles Lee Ray. Chucky kills to escape the toy; only Andy, Karen and a detective can stop him.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 5.5 /10 IMDB Rating 6.7 /10

17. Zombieland: Double Tap (2019)

In this sequel and using the characteristic sense of humor that "Zombieland" showed Some years ago, as well as some lagging human survivors. But, above all, they will have to try to endure the inconveniences of living together.

Genres: Horror, Action/Adventure, Comedy

Filmaffinity Rating 5.6 /10 IMDB Rating 6.7 /10

18. 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

19. Event Horizon (1997)

In 2047, the rescue ship "Lewis and Clark" was sent to investigate the mysterious reappearance in Neptune's orbit of an experimental ship, the "Final Horizon", disappeared years earlier with its entire crew. While the rescue mission tries to find out what the fate of the disappeared has been, strange events take place on board the ship.

Genres: Horror, Science fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 5.9 /10 IMDB Rating 6.6 /10

20. Venom (2018)

As a journalist, Eddie Brock has been trying to unmask the creator of the Life Foundation, the famous scientific genius Carlton Drake, an obsession that has ruined his career and his relationship with his girlfriend, Anne. Researching one of Drake’s experiments, the alien entity Venom merges with Eddie’s body, and the reporter suddenly acquires new and incredible superpowers.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 5.4 /10 IMDB Rating 6.6 /10