100 Best Horror Movies of All Time to Watch Now

Best Horror Movies of All Time

Horror movies uniquely captivate audiences, combining suspense, mystery, and fear to create unforgettable cinematic experiences. From classic scares that have stood the test of time to modern masterpieces pushing the boundaries of terror, our guide covers the most iconic films that have left viewers sleeping with the lights on. Whether you’re a fan of ghost stories, slasher films, or psychological thrillers, there’s something in our collection to make your spine tingle. These films have not only scared generations of viewers but have also become pivotal in shaping the genre’s future.

These movies are not just about scares; they’re about storytelling that explores the depths of human fear and curiosity. Each film on our list has been selected for its ability to haunt the imagination and its contribution to the world of horror cinema. Whether you’re a seasoned horror enthusiast or a casual viewer looking for a good scare, these best horror movies of all time are sure to deliver thrills, screams, and a hauntingly good time. So dim the lights, grab your popcorn, and get ready for a spine-chilling journey through some of the most terrifying tales ever told on screen!

List of Top Horror Movies of All Time to Watch Now:

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M3GAN (2022)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Gerard Johnstone
Starring: Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, Ronny Chieng, Jenna Davis, Amie Donald
Storyline: A robotics engineer at a toy company builds a life-like doll that begins to take on a life of its own.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


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Split (2016)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: James McAvoy, Anya Taylor-Joy, Betty Buckley
Storyline: Three girls are kidnapped by a man with diagnosed 23 distinct personalities. They must try to escape before the apparent emergence of a frightful new 24th.

Available on: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video (rent)


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The Exorcist (1973)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: William Friedkin
Starring: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb, Kitty Winn, Jack MacGowran, Jason Miller
Storyline: When a young girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Netflix (rent)


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Hereditary (2018)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Ari Aster
Starring: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Gabriel Byrne
Storyline: A grieving family is haunted by tragic and disturbing occurrences.

Available on: Hulu, Amazon Prime Video (rent)


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The Ring (2002)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Gore Verbinski
Starring: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, Daveigh Chase, Brian Cox
Storyline: A journalist must investigate a mysterious videotape that seems to cause the death of anyone one week to the day after they view it.
Seque: The Ring Two (2005) and Rings (2017)

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


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The Conjuring (2013)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: James Wan
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, Lili Taylor
Storyline: Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse.

Available on: Max, Amazon Prime Video


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Don’t Breathe (2016)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Fede Álvarez
Starring: Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang
Storyline: Hoping to walk away with a massive fortune, a trio of thieves break into the house of a blind man who isn’t as helpless as he seems.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Apple TV


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Train to Busan (2016)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Yeon Sang-ho
Starring: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, Kim Eui-sung
Storyline: While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan. It is one of the best horror movies on Netflix.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Tubi


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The Shining (1980)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Scatman Crothers, Danny Lloyd
Storyline: A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where a sinister presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from both past and future.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV


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Annabelle (2014)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John R. Leonetti
Starring: Annabelle Wallis, Ward Horton, Alfre Woodard
Storyline: A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


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Midsommar (2019)

Countries: United States, Sweden
Language: English
Director: Ari Aster
Starring: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe
Storyline: A couple travels to Northern Europe to visit a rural hometown’s fabled Swedish mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly devolves into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV, Max


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The Wailing (2016)

Country: South Korea
Languages: Korean, Japanese
Director: Na Hong-jin
Starring: Kwak Do-won, Hwang Jung-min, Chun Woo-hee, Jun Kunimura
Storyline: The film centers on a policeman who investigates a series of mysterious killings and illnesses in a remote Korean village called Gokseong in order to save his daughter.

Available on: Netflix, FuboTV, Peacock Premium, Kocowa, Hoopla, Rakuten Viki


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Get Out (2017)

Countries: United States, Japan
Language: English
Director: Jordan Peele
Starring: Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Bradley Whitford, Caleb Landry Jones, Stephen Root, Catherine Keener
Storyline: A young African-American visits his white girlfriend’s parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, fuboTV, FXNow


The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen
Storyline: Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.

Available on: Peacock Premium, Roku, Tubi


It (2017)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Andy Muschietti
Starring: Jaeden Lieberher, Bill Skarsgård, Jeremy Ray Taylor, Sophia Lillis
Storyline: In the summer of 1989, a group of bullied kids band together to destroy a shape-shifting monster, which disguises itself as a clown and preys on the children of Derry, their small Maine town.
Sequel: It Chapter Two

Available on: Netflix


The Host (2006)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean, English
Director: Bong Joon-ho
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Byun Hee-bong, Park Hae-il, Bae Doona, Go Ah-sung
Storyline: A monster emerges from Seoul’s Han River and begins attacking people. One victim’s loving family does what it can to rescue her from its clutches.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent)


Dawn of the Dead (2004)

Countries: United States, France, Japan
Language: English
Director: Zack Snyder
Starring: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Jake Weber, Mekhi Phifer
Storyline: A nurse, a policeman, a young married couple, a salesman and other survivors of a worldwide plague that is producing aggressive, flesh-eating zombies, take refuge in a mega Midwestern shopping mall.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix


The Devil’s Backbone (2001)

Countries: Spain, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillermo del Toro
Starring: Marisa Paredes, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi, Irene Visedo, Fernando Tielve, Íñigo Garcés
Storyline: After Carlos – a 12-year-old whose father has died in the Spanish Civil War – arrives at an ominous boys’ orphanage, he discovers the school is haunted and has many dark secrets which he must uncover.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent)


Cure (1997)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Kōji Yakusho, Masato Hagiwara, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, Anna Nakagawa, Yoriko Dōguchi, Yukijirō Hotaru
Storyline: A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they’ve done.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent)


Halloween (1978)

Country: United States, Canada, Germany, France
Language: English
Director: John Carpenter
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis
Storyline: Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent), Vudu (rent)


The Witch (2015)

Country: United States, Canada
Language: English
Director: Robert Eggers
Starring: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Ellie Grainger
Storyline: A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


Final Destination (2000)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: James Wong
Starring: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Tony Todd
Storyline: After getting a premonition about a plane crash on his school trip, Alex, a student saves a few of his classmates. However, their situation gets complicated when death starts chasing them.

Available on: Max, Amazon Prime Video (rent, buy), Apple TV (rent, buy)


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Orphan (2009)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
Starring: Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, CCH Pounder, Jimmy Bennett
Storyline: A husband and wife who recently lost their baby adopt a 9-year-old girl who is not nearly as innocent as she appears.

Available on: Max, Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent)


REC (2007)

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza
Starring: Manuela Velasco, Ferrán Terraza, Jorge-Yamam Serrano, Pablo Rosso, David Vert, Vicente Gil
Storyline: A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (buy, rent)


Sinister (2012)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, Fred Thompson, James Ransone, Clare Foley, Michael Hall D’Addario
Storyline: A controversial true-crime writer finds a box of Super 8 home movies in his new home, revealing that the murder case he is currently researching could be the work of an unknown serial killer whose legacy dates back to the 1960s.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent), Max


The Descent (2005)

Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Neil Marshall
Starring: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, MyAnna Buring
Storyline: A caving expedition goes horribly wrong, as the explorers become trapped and ultimately pursued by a strange breed of predators.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Tubi


A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Kim Jee-woon
Starring: Im Soo-jung, Moon Geun-young, Yum Jung-ah, Kim Kap-soo
Storyline: After being institutionalized in a mental hospital, Su-mi reunites with her sister, Su-yeon, and they return to live at their country home. But strange events plague the house, leading to surprising revelations and a shocking conclusion.

Available on: Kanopy


Scream (1996)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: David Arquette, Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox, Matthew Lillard, Rose McGowan, Skeet Ulrich
Storyline: A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent), Max


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Smile (2022)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Parker Finn
Starring: Sosie Bacon, Jessie T. Usher, Kyle Gallner, Kal Penn, Rob Morgan
Storyline: After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, a psychiatrist becomes increasingly convinced she is being threatened by an uncanny entity.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Paramount Plus


Insidious (2010)

Country: United States, Canada
Language: English
Director: James Wan
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Barbara Hershey
Storyline: A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.

Available on: Netflix


Saint Maud (2019)

Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Rose Glass
Starring: Morfydd Clark, Jennifer Ehle, Lily Frazer, Lily Knight, Marcus Hutton, Turlough Convery
Storyline: A pious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


28 Days Later (2002)

Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Danny Boyle
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Naomie Harris, Christopher Eccleston, Megan Burns, Brendan Gleeson
Storyline: Four weeks after a mysterious, incurable virus spreads throughout the UK, a handful of survivors try to find sanctuary.

Available on: Apple TV


Three… Extremes (2004)

Countries: Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea
Languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean
Director: Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, Takashi Miike
Starring: Bai Ling, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Lee Byung-hun, Im Won-hee, Kyōko Hasegawa, Atsuro Watabe
Storyline: An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films from accomplished indie directors.

Available on: VUDU, Tubi TV, Apple TV (buy)


Saw (2004)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: James Wan
Starring: Cary Elwes, Danny Glover, Monica Potter, Michael Emerson, Ken Leung
Storyline: Two strangers awaken in a room with no recollection of how they got there, and soon discover they’re pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious serial killer.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


It Follows (2014)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Starring: Maika Monroe, Keir Gilchrist, Olivia Luccardi, Lili Sepe, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary
Storyline: A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

Available on: Netflix, FuboTV


Poltergeist (1982)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Tobe Hooper
Starring: JoBeth Williams, Craig T. Nelson, Beatrice Straight
Storyline: A family’s home is haunted by a host of demonic ghosts.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (rent), Apple TV (rent)


Martyrs (2008)

Countries: France, Canada
Language: French
Director: Pascal Laugier
Starring: Morjana Alaoui, Mylène Jampanoï, Catherine Bégin
Storyline: A young woman’s quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.

Available on: Tubi, Plex


Let the Right One In (2008)

Country: Sweden
Language: Swedish
Director: Tomas Alfredson
Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson, Per Ragnar, Ika Nord, Peter Carlberg
Storyline: Oskar, an overlooked and bullied boy, finds love and revenge through Eli, a beautiful but peculiar girl.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video


Possession (1981)

Countries: France, West Germany
Language: English
Director: Andrzej Żuławski
Starring: Isabelle Adjani, Sam Neill, Heinz Bennent
Storyline: A woman starts exhibiting increasingly disturbing behavior after asking her husband for a divorce. Suspicions of infidelity soon give way to something much more sinister.

Available on: Shudder


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The Pope’s Exorcist (2023)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom, Spain
Language: English
Director: Julius Avery
Starring: Russell Crowe, Daniel Zovatto, Alex Essoe, Franco Nero
Storyline: Follow Gabriele Amorth, the Vatican’s leading exorcist, as he investigates the possession of a child and uncovers a conspiracy the Vatican has tried to keep secret.

Available on: Netflix


Audition (1999)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi Miike
Starring: Ryo Ishibashi, Eihi Shiina
Storyline: A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.

Available on: Apple TV (rent), Vudu (rent), Tubi


The Babadook (2014)

Country: Australia
Language: English
Director: Jennifer Kent
Starring: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Ben Winspear
Storyline: A single mother and her child fall into a deep well of paranoia when an eerie children’s book titled “Mister Babadook” manifests in their home.

Available on: Netflix, Hulu, Shudder, Roku, Tubi


Raw (2016)

Countries: France, Belgium
Language: French
Director: Julia Ducournau
Starring: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Laurent Lucas
Storyline: A young woman, studying to be a vet, develops a craving for human flesh.

Available on: Apple TV (rent)


The Blair Witch Project (1999)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez
Starring: Heather Donahue, Michael Williams, Joshua Leonard
Storyline: Three film students vanish after traveling into a Maryland forest to film a documentary on the local Blair Witch legend, leaving only their footage behind.

Available on: MUB, Amazon Prime Video (rent)


A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Wes Craven
Starring: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp, Amanda Wyss, Nick Corri, Johnny Depp, Robert Englund
Storyline: Teenager Nancy Thompson must uncover the dark truth concealed by her parents after she and her friends become targets of the spirit of a serial killer with a bladed glove in their dreams, in which if they die, it kills them in real life.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu


Goodnight Mommy (2014)

Country: Austria
Language: English
Director: Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala
Starring: Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz
Storyline: Twin boys move to a new house with their mother after she has face-changing cosmetic surgery, but under the bandages is someone the boys don’t recognize.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV


Evil Dead Film Series

Films: The Evil Dead (1983), Evil Dead II (1987), Army of Darkness (1993), Evil Dead (2013), Evil Dead Rise (2023)
Country: United States
Language: English
Directors: Sam Raimi, Fede Álvarez, Lee Cronin


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The Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Countries: United States, Canada
Language: English
Director: Drew Goddard
Starring: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford
Storyline: Five college friends head out to a remote cabin for a getaway, but things don’t go as planned when they start getting killed. They soon discover that there is more to the cabin than it seems.

Available on: Hulu, Apple TV


Psycho (1960)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin. Martin Balsam, John McIntire, Janet Leigh
Storyline: A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer’s client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu


Raaz (2002)

Country: India
Language: Hindi
Director: Vikram Bhatt
Starring: Dino Morea, Bipasha Basu, Malini Sharma, Ashutosh Rana
Storyline: Sanjana and Aditya decide to give their marriage one last chance. They plan a holiday in Ooty, but they don’t know that a strange figure is waiting for them to come.

Available on: Amazon


Julia’s Eyes (2010)

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Guillem Morales
Starring: Belén Rueda, Lluís Homar, Julia Gutiérrez Caba
Storyline: The story of a woman who is slowly losing her sight whilst trying to investigate the mysterious death of her twin sister.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, AMC+


The Orphanage (2007)

Country: Spain, Mexico
Language: Spanish
Director: J. A. Bayona
Starring: Belén Rueda, Fernando Cayo, Roger Príncep, Mabel Rivera, Montserrat Carulla, Andrés Gertrúdix
Storyline: A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage for handicapped children. Before long, her son starts to communicate with an invisible new friend.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Vudu


A Quiet Place (2018)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: John Krasinski
Starring: Emily Blunt, John Krasinski, Millicent Simmonds, Noah Jupe
Storyline: A family struggles for survival in a world where most humans have been killed by blind but noise-sensitive creatures. They are forced to communicate in sign language to keep the creatures at bay.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, FuboTV, Paramount Plus


The Invisible Man (2020)

Countries: United States, Australia
Language: English
Director: Leigh Whannell
Starring: Elisabeth Moss, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman, Oliver Jackson-Cohen
Storyline: When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.

Available on: FuboTV, Peacock Premium, Amazon, Apple TV


Dark Skies (2013)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Scott Stewart
Starring: Keri Russell, Josh Hamilton, Dakota Goyo, J. K. Simmons
Storyline: As the Barrett family’s peaceful suburban life is rocked by an escalating series of disturbing events, they come to learn that a terrifying and deadly force is after them, one which may have arrived from beyond the stars.

Available on: Max, Amazon, Apple TV


Alien (1979)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, John Hurt, Ian Holm, Yaphet Kotto
Storyline: The crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform after investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin.

Available on: Amazon, Hulu, Peacock Premium


Dark Water (2002)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Hideo Nakata
Starring: Hitomi Kuroki, Rio Kanno, Mirei Oguchi, Asami Mizukawa, Fumiyo Kohinata, Yu Tokui
Storyline: A mother and her 6-year-old daughter move into a creepy apartment whose every surface is permeated by water.

Available on: Apple TV, Vudu, Tubi


The Omen (1976)

Countries: United States, United Kingdom
Language: English
Director: Richard Donner
Starring: Gregory Peck, Lee Remick, David Warner, Billie Whitelaw
Storyline: The film’s plot follows Damien Thorn, a young child replaced at birth by his father, unbeknownst to his wife, after their biological child dies shortly after birth. As a series of mysterious events and violent deaths occur around the family and Damien enters childhood, they come to learn he is in fact the prophesied Antichrist.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu


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The Call (2020)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Lee Chung-hyun
Starring: Park Shin-hye, Jeon Jong-seo, Kim Sung-ryung, Lee El
Storyline: Two people live in different times. Seo-Yeon lives in the present and Young-Sook lives in the past. One phone call connects the two, and their lives are changed irrevocably.

Available on: Netflix


The Skin I Live In (2011)

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Pedro Almodóvar
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes, Jan Cornet, Roberto Álamo
Storyline: A brilliant plastic surgeon, haunted by past tragedies, creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


Voice (2005)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Choi Ik-Hwan
Starring: Kim Ok-bin, Seo Ji-hye, Cha Ye-ryun, Kim Seo-hyung, Im Hyun-Kyung
Storyline: While training after hours in her high school, the aspiring singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcasts at lunchtime in school, is able to hear her voice.


Bird Box (2018)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Susanne Bier
Starring: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Danielle Macdonald, Rosa Salazar, Sarah Paulson, Jacki Weaver
Storyline: Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

Available on: Netflix


One Cut of the Dead (2017)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Shin’ichirō Ueda
Starring: Takayuki Hamatsu, Yuzuki Akiyama, Kazuaki Nagaya, Harumi Syuhama, Manabu Hosoi, Hiroshi Ichihara
Storyline: Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

Available on: Amazon, Shudder


Cold Fish (2010)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Sion Sono
Starring: Mitsuru Fukikoshi, Denden, Asuka Kurosawa
Storyline: The lives of a bored suburban couple are changed forever when a seemingly nice old man gives their daughter a job at his fish store, and soon his gruesome hobbies are brought to light.

Available on: Apple TV


The Hidden Face (2011)

Country: Spain, Colombia
Language: Spanish
Director: Andrés Baiz
Starring: Quim Gutiérrez, Clara Lago, Martina García
Storyline: Shattered by the unexpected news of their irreversible break-up, an aspiring orchestra conductor is puzzled by his girlfriend’s mysterious and seemingly inexplicable case of disappearance. But can he look beyond the facts?

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu


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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Jonathan Demme
Starring: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn, Ted Levine
Storyline: A young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


1408 (2007)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Mikael Håfström
Starring: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub
Storyline: A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


The Wolf House (2018)

Country: Chile
Language: Spanish, German
Director: Cristobal León, Joaquín Cociña
Starring: Amalia Kassai, Rainer Krause
Storyline: The film tells the story of Maria, a young woman who takes refuge in a house in southern Chile after escaping from a German colony.

Available on: Amazon, Tubi, Vudu


Bedevilled (2010)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Jang Cheol-soo
Starring: Seo Young-hee, Ji Sung-won, Park Jeong-hak
Storyline: A woman subject to mental, physical and sexual abuse on a remote island seeks a way out.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


Thesis (1996)

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Miguel Picazo, Javier Elorriaga
Storyline: While doing a thesis about violence, Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that the girl was a former student in her faculty.

Available on: Apple TV


The Platform (2019)

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Starring: Iván Massagué, Antonia San Juan, Zorion Eguileor, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay
Storyline: A vertical prison with one cell per level. Two people per cell. Only one food platform and two minutes per day to feed. An endless nightmare trapped in The Hole.

Available on: Netflix


Pulse (2001)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Kumiko Asō, Haruhiko Kato, Koyuki, Kurume Arisaka
Storyline: Two groups of people discover evidence that suggests spirits may be trying to invade the human world through the Internet.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock, Roku, Vudu, Tubi


Phone (2002)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Ahn Byeong-ki
Starring: Ha Ji-won, Kim Yoo-mi, Choi Woo-jae
Storyline: Investigative reporter Ji-won begins to receive a series of menacing calls. To escape the terrifying and relentless clanging of the telephone, she changes her number and moves out. But the threatening campaign of terror continues unabated.

Available on: Kanopy


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The Menu (2022)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Mark Mylod
Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Hong Chau, Janet McTeer, Judith Light
Storyline: A young couple travels to a remote island to eat at an exclusive restaurant where the chef has prepared a lavish menu, with some shocking surprises.

Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, Apple TV


Veronica (2017)

Country: Spain
Language: Spanish
Director: Paco Plaza
Starring: Sandra Escacena, Claudia Placer, Bruna González, Iván Chavero, Ana Torrent
Storyline: It is loosely based on true events from the 1991 Vallecas case where Estefanía Gutiérrez Lázaro died mysteriously after she used a Ouija board.
Prequel: Sister Death (2023)

Available on: Netflix


The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion (2018)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Park Hoon-jung
Starring: Kim Da-mi, Jo Min-su, Park Hee-soon, Choi Woo-shik
Storyline: A high school student with amnesia tries to uncover what has happened to her. All leading her into deeper troubles ultimately revealing a darkness she could not have imagined.
Sequel: The Witch: Part 2. The Other One

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, Peacock, Kocowa


The Grudge (2004)

Country: United States
Languages: English, Japanese
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, KaDee Strickland, Clea DuVall, Bill Pullman
Storyline: An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.

Available on: Apple TV


The Others (2001)

Countries: Spain, United States, France
Language: English
Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Starring: Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston, Elaine Cassidy, Eric Sykes
Storyline: Set in 1945 Jersey, it focuses on a woman and her two young photosensitive children who experience supernatural phenomena in their large manor after the arrival of new servants.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV, Vudu


Old (2021)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: M. Night Shyamalan
Starring: Gael García Bernal, Vicky Krieps, Rufus Sewell, Alex Wolff, Thomasin McKenzie, Abbey Lee, Nikki Amuka-Bird
Storyline: A vacationing family discovers that the secluded beach where they’re relaxing for a few hours is somehow causing them to age rapidly, reducing their entire lives into a single day.

Available on: Amazon, Roku


Thirst (2009)

Country: United States, South Kore
Language: Korean, English
Director: Park Chan-wook
Starring: Song Kang-ho, Kim Ok-bin
Storyline: Through a failed medical experiment, a priest is stricken with vampirism and is forced to abandon his ascetic ways.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


Dead Friend (2004)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Kim Tae-gyeong
Starring: Kim Ha-neul, Nam Sang-mi, Ryu Jin
Storyline: A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost.

Available on: Vudu


Suicide Club (2001)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Sion Sono
Starring: Ryō Ishibashi, Masatoshi Nagase, Akaji Maro, Saya Hagiwara, Yoko Kamon, Rolly
Storyline: A detective is trying to find the cause of a string of suicides.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


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The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Scott Derrickson
Starring: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Campbell Scott, Colm Feore, Jennifer Carpenter, Mary Beth Hurt
Storyline: A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


Piggy (2022)

Countries: Spain, France
Language: Spanish
Director: Carlota Pereda
Starring: Laura Galán, Richard Holmes, Carmen Machi, Irene Ferreiro, Camille Aguilar, Claudia Salas, Pilar Castro
Storyline: An overweight teen is bullied by a clique of cool girls poolside while holidaying in her village. The long walk home will change the rest of her life.

Available on: Hulu


Ju-On: The Grudge (2002)

Country: Japan
Language: Japanese
Director: Takashi Shimizu
Starring: Megumi Okina, Misaki Ito, Takashi Matsuyama, Yui Ichikawa
Storyline: A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.

Available on: Amazon, Apple TV


The Medium (2021)

Country: Thailand, South Korea
Languages: Thai, Isan
Director: Banjong Pisanthanakun
Starring: Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma, Sirani Yankittikan, Yasaka Chaisorn
Storyline: A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. What could be possessing a family member might not be the Goddess they make it out to be.

Available on: Apple TV, Hoopla, Shudder


Killer Toon (2013)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Kim Yong-gyun
Starring: Lee Si-young, Um Ki-joon
Storyline: Popular horror web-comic artist Ji Yoon finds life imitating her own work when her publisher turns up dead in a way, precisely mirrors the images in her latest comic.

Available on: Roku, Tubi


Door Lock (2018)

Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Director: Lee Kwon
Starring: Gong Hyo-jin, Kim Ye-won, Kim Sung-oh
Storyline: A thriller that begins with a murder incident with a trace of a stranger entering the house of Kyung Min who lives alone in the one room.


Creep (2014)

Country: United States
Language: English
Director: Patrick Brice
Starring: Mark Duplass, Patrick Brice
Storyline: A young videographer answers an online ad for a one-day job in a remote town to record the last messages of a dying man. When he notices the man’s odd behavior, he starts to question his intentions.

Available on: Netflix

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