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. Jaws (1975)

A shark attack ends with the life of a bather. When terror seizes everyone, a veteran shark hunter, an oceanographer and the head of the local police come together to capture the squalus.

Genres: Horror, Action/Adventure

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /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. Monster (2024)

In a house in the middle of the Alana nowhere, a kidnapped girl, risks trying to rescue her friend Rabin, also kidnapped, to try to escape together from her perverse captor.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 4.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

4. The Skin I Live In (2011)

Ledgard's wife suffered burns all over her body as a result of a car accident. He developed a new skin with which he could have saved her. But, moreover, he needs a human guinea pig and an accomplice.

Genres: Thriller, Drama, Horror, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.6 /10

5. The Orphanage (2007)

Laura moves back to the orphanage where she grew up with her family to start a residence for disabled children. Her son's imagination is sparked by the old, mysterious atmosphere, leading to strange occurrences that unsettle Laura and make her fear for her family's safety.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror, Documentary

Filmaffinity Rating 6.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.4 /10

6. 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

7. 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, Horror, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 6.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.2 /10

8. I Am Legend (2007)

Robert Neville is the last living man on earth, but he is not alone. Other human beings have become vampires and they all crave his blood. He has survived because he's immune to the virus; every day he sends messages.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.5 /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. Orphan (2009)

When Kate and John Coleman lose the baby they were waiting for, everything collapses around them. To try to get normal again, the couple goes to a local orphanage with the intention of adopting a child. They are strangely attracted to Esther, a girl with an angelic face.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.1 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

12. World War Z (2013)

When the world begins to be invaded by a legion of the waiting, Gerry Lane, a United Nations research expert, will try to avoid the end of civilization in a career against time and destiny. The destruction to which the human race is subjected leads to travel the entire world looking for the solution to stop that horrible epidemic.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.1 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

13. Last Night in Soho (2021)

Eloise, a young fashion student, slips into vivid nocturnal visions of 1960s London and becomes obsessed with Sandie, a glamorous aspiring singer. The intoxicating nostalgia turns menacing as past and present bleed together, and the dream unravels into a disturbing, dangerous reality.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

14. 28 Weeks Later (2007)

Six months after the Rage Virus devastated Britain, US forces secure London and escort survivors to rebuild. As families reunite and recovery begins, an infected returnee unknowingly reignites the outbreak, and the city is plunged back into fast-spreading, violent chaos. The nightmare returns again.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 6.9 /10

15. The Trip (2021)

A dysfunctional couple heads to a remote cabin to reconnect, but each has intentions to kill the other. Before they can carry out their plans, unexpected visitors arrive and they face greater danger.

Genres: Comedy, Horror

IMDB Rating 6.9 /10

16. 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

17. 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

18. Life (2017)

Six members of The International Space Station crew are about to discover the first evidence of extraterrestrial life on Mars. As the team begins to investigate and their methods have unexpected consequences, the living form will prove to be more intelligent than anyone expected.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 5.8 /10 IMDB Rating 6.6 /10

19. Gerald's Game (2017)

Jessie and Gerald are a mature couple who travel to a remote cabin hoping to revitalize their deteriorating relationship. When he dies of a heart attack, Jessie will have to fight for her survival.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Drama

Filmaffinity Rating 5.6 /10 IMDB Rating 6.5 /10

20. I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020)

An unforeseen shortcut causes a woman, in search of a way to break up with her boyfriend, to have to reconsider her whole life.

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 5.8 /10 IMDB Rating 6.5 /10