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 Exorcist (1973)

Regan, a twelve-year-old girl, is the victim of paranormal phenomena such as levitation or the manifestation of superhuman strength. Her mother, terrified after submitting her daughter to multiple medical tests that yield no results, turns to a priest with psychiatric studies. Probably the most popular horror movie of all time.

Genre: Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 7.7 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /10

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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 4.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.8 /10

5. 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

6. A Quiet Place (2018)

In this story, a family lives in a forest house and must remain completely silent to avoid being hunted. The consequences of making noise are explored through the family's experiences.

Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller, Science fiction

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.5 /10

7. Thesis (1996)

Angela, image student, is preparing a thesis on audiovisual violence. As a complement to her work, its thesis director undertakes to search the video library of the material faculty for it, but the next day it is found dead. Angela meets Chema, an expert in gore and pornographic cinema, and Bosco, a strange boy, intimate friend of a young woman killed in a snuff movie.

Genres: Crime, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 7.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.4 /10

8. 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

9. Hereditary (2018)

Annie Graham, a married gallery owner with two children, believes that the death of her mother can make her move on. But things get complicated when her youngest daughter begins to see ghostly figures, which also begin to appear before her brother.

Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /10 IMDB Rating 7.3 /10

10. 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

11. Midsommar (2019)

An American couple experiences a nightmare when they visit a remote Swedish village for a summer festival. Initially, it seems like a dream vacation, but the villagers' disturbing activities turn it into a dark nightmare. Midsommar is celebrated every 90 years in this sunlit village.

Genres: Horror, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.3 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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

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. Annihilation (2018)

Biologist Lena joins an expedition to a mysterious region cordoned off by the U.S. government. The group investigates zone X, controlled by a powerful alien force.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.0 /10 IMDB Rating 6.8 /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. Happy Death Day (2017)

A young university student reconstructs the day of her murder reviving both everyday and terrifying details, until trying to discover the identity of her murderer.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Comedy

Filmaffinity Rating 5.5 /10 IMDB Rating 6.6 /10

20. 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