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. 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

2. 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

3. Death Note (2006)

Top student Light Yagami finds a notebook that kills anyone whose name is written in it and starts eliminating criminals to build a utopia. Brilliant detective L opposes him in a tense, escalating battle of wits over justice.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 5.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.5 /10

4. 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

5. [REC] (2007)

Reporter Ángela Vidal and cameraman Pablo join firefighters in a Barcelona apartment, then become sealed inside as an unseen contagion spreads. Filmed from Pablo’s camera, REC is a claustrophobic found-footage horror of panic, infection and survival.

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

IMDB Rating 7.4 /10

6. 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

7. 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

8. From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

After a Texas bank robbery, brothers Seth and Richie Gecko flee to Mexico with ex-preacher Jacob Fuller and his children. A stop at a roadside bar turns nightmarish when patrons are vampires, forcing them to fight to survive until sunrise.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.6 /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. A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

Two sisters return from psychiatric care to live with their father and cruel new stepmother in the country. Supernatural visions and family secrets tied to their mother's death escalate, leading to a tragic climax.

Genres: Drama, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 5.9 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

11. The Host (2006)

Toxic chemicals in Seoul's Han River create a giant mutant that kidnaps Hyun-seo. Her snack-bar worker father, his father, archer sister and estranged brother mount a desperate, darkly comic rescue as the military falters.

Genres: Horror, Science fiction, Action/Adventure, Drama, Animation

Filmaffinity Rating 6.0 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

12. Sick of Myself (2022)

Set in Oslo’s art world, Sick of Myself follows Signe, who, jealous of her boyfriend’s rise as an artist, fabricates a needy persona and resorts to deceit and drug misuse to reclaim fame.

Genre: Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

13. Thirst (2009)

Devout priest Sang-hyun volunteers for a trial, is transformed by a transfusion into a blood-thirsty creature. Hailed as a miracle, he and childhood friend Tae-ju succumb to desire, violence and moral collapse.

Genre: Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.2 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

14. Bring Her Back (2025)

After a tragic accident, teen step-siblings Andy and Piper are placed with a reclusive woman in the woods. Her mourning and odd rituals mask a dangerous supernatural plot to bring back her child.

Genre: Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.7 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

15. 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

16. 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

17. Exhuma (2024)

A renowned shaman and her apprentice, with an embalmer and a feng shui master, exhume an ancestral tomb for a wealthy family—awakening a darker supernatural force in the mountains that threatens them all.

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 6.0 /10 IMDB Rating 6.9 /10

18. 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

19. 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

20. Stoker (2013)

On her eighteenth birthday India Stoker's father dies in a crash. Alone with her fragile mother, their lives change when enigmatic uncle Charlie arrives, bringing secrets, disappearances and a dangerous attraction.

Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Filmaffinity Rating 6.5 /10 IMDB Rating 6.7 /10