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. 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: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.1 /10 IMDB Rating 8.1 /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. Interview with the Vampire (1994)

In San Francisco a reporter records vampire Louis, who recounts being turned in 18th-century New Orleans by Lestat. Bound with child Claudia, he endures centuries of loneliness, passion, violence and the cost of immortality.

Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 7.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.5 /10

5. The Conjuring (2013)

It tells of the supernatural encounters that the Perron family lived in their home in Rhode Island in the early 1970s. The Warren marriage, renowned researchers in the world of paranormal phenomena, came to the call of this family terrified by the presence on their farm of an evil being.

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 6.8 /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. Scream (1996)

A year after her mother's murder, teen Sidney Prescott faces a masked killer targeting classmates, taunting them with horror trivia. As Deputy Dewey and reporter Gale investigate, Sidney fights to survive and unmask Ghostface.

Genres: Horror, Family

Filmaffinity Rating 5.8 /10 IMDB Rating 7.4 /10

8. The Conjuring 2 (2016)

Peggy Hodson, a mother of a family, calls for help when a malicious entity takes possession of her second oldest daughter, Janet.

Genres: Horror, Mystery

IMDB Rating 7.3 /10

9. Split (2017)

After a mall outing three teens are kidnapped by Kevin, a man with dissociative identity disorder and 23 personalities. Resourceful Casey studies the alters to survive as a feared 24th threatens to emerge.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

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. 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

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. The Kingdom (2007)

Ronald Fleury, a government special agent, is assigned to a team that must travel to Riyadh to capture the mastermind behind a terrorist attack. They have one week to infiltrate a terrorist cell planning a holy war against the West. Fleury discovers an ally in a local police captain who aids him in navigating Saudi politics and investigating the attack's origins.

Genres: Action/Adventure, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Crime, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /10

14. Underworld (2003)

A vampire warrior discovers a conspiracy by the Lycans to kidnap a young doctor. Selene, a Vampire Warrior, stands between them and the doctor when they attack. This project, if made reality, would favor the Wolfmen.

Genres: Fantasy, Horror, Action/Adventure

Filmaffinity Rating 5.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.0 /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. 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

17. 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

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. 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