The Best Horror Movies on Netflix Right Now

Following the death of her secretive grandmother, a family begins to slowly unravel. Ari Aster's debut is not just terrifying — it's genuinely devastating. Toni Collette gives one of the most intense performances in any horror film. Not an easy watch, but an unforgettable one.

A couple travel to Sweden for a traditional midsummer festival. Under permanent bright sunshine, increasingly strange and violent rituals unfold. Ari Aster's folk horror is shot almost entirely in daylight — and somehow more disturbing for it.

A South Sudanese couple flee their war-torn homeland and are placed in a run-down English town house. Something in the walls doesn't want them there. A Netflix original that's smarter and sadder than most horror — it's really about trauma and displacement.

In a vertical prison, a lavish feast descends daily through hundreds of floors. Those at the top gorge; those at the bottom starve. A Spanish dystopian horror that doubles as savage social satire — the central concept is devastating in its simplicity.

A man travels to a remote Welsh island in 1905 to rescue his sister from a religious cult. Gareth Evans — director of The Raid — delivers a dark, beautifully shot folk horror. Gets increasingly strange and commits completely to its vision.

Mysterious entities drive anyone who sees them to immediate suicide. Sandra Bullock must navigate a post-apocalyptic world blindfolded with two children. Not subtle, but enormously effective — Netflix's most-watched horror release.

Four friends take a hiking trip through the Swedish wilderness after the death of a mutual friend. When they cut through the forest, things go wrong in ways they can't explain. A lean, atmospheric British horror that earns its ending.

A father-and-son team of coroners discover increasingly disturbing things about an unidentified woman's body. André Øvredal's film works almost entirely on atmosphere — confined to a single location, it builds to genuine dread.

After a sexual encounter, a young woman is pursued by an entity that only she can see — which walks slowly but never stops. A genuinely original horror premise, executed with Carpenter-esque 80s style and a brilliant, unsettling score.

A true-crime writer moves his family into a house where a murder was committed — and discovers a box of Super 8 footage showing multiple family killings across decades. Ethan Hawke is excellent, and the home movies are deeply unsettling.