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. The Others (2001)

Alone in an isolated Victorian house on the island of Jersey, Grace raises her children within rigid religious norms. Children suffer from a strange disease: they cannot receive direct daylight. But when three new servants join the family things will get beyond her control.

Genres: Horror, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 7.5 /10 IMDB Rating 7.6 /10

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)

When she wakes up, she is locked in a cell underground, kidnapped by a strange man who claims to have saved her from the day of final judgment.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.2 /10

7. 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

8. Timecrimes (2007)

Hector is an ordinary man who moves in with his wife when he sees a naked girl in the forest. He investigates and finds her on a rock. A man in a pink bandage stabs Hector with scissors.

Genres: Science fiction, Independent, Thriller, Horror, Mystery

IMDB Rating 7.1 /10

9. The Mist (2007)

In a small town in Maine, a violent storm suddenly breaks out, ending as abruptly as it began. Then a thick mist arises that gets into houses and supermarkets, trapping and killing everyone who is enveloped by darkness.

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

Filmaffinity Rating 6.4 /10 IMDB Rating 7.1 /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. 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

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. 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

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. 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

16. 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 5.9 /10 IMDB Rating 6.6 /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, Mystery

Filmaffinity Rating 5.6 /10 IMDB Rating 6.5 /10

20. Red Eye (2005)

Lisa Reisert flies to Miami. Shortly after takeoff, Jackson, her seatmate, reveals the reason for her presence on board: he is the architect of a plot to kill the Commissioner of Homeland Security, and Lisa is the key to make it happen. If she refuses to cooperate, Jackson will order her father killed.

Genres: Horror, Thriller

Filmaffinity Rating 5.4 /10 IMDB Rating 6.5 /10