This article is updated as new movies come and go from Netflix.
For some chill seekers, the best part of Halloween isn't the candy and costumes: it's cozying up on the couch under a blanket with a slate of great scary movies. And if that sounds like you, why wait until October to make it a home movie night filled with horror flicks? We rounded up the best horror movies and scary films on Netflix that you can catch any time of year (while clutching your popcorn — and your movie buddies — oh so tightly).
Whether you're all about the gruesome slasher or the psychological thriller, this slate of movies includes something in a subgenre just for you. Our list has some heavy-hitting classics (like The Conjuring and its sequels), as well as recent made-for-Netflix features that play on totally modern themes (think Countdown and Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight — both of which derive their chilling plots from tech addictions gone wrong). We've even got a dose of comedy to offset the pure unadulterated horror (like Netflix's own Little Evil, starring Adam Scott and Evangeline Lilly).
But be warned: These freaky flicks are for mature audiences only. If you're looking for something to watch on family movie night, browse our picks for great kid-friendly scary movies instead or kids' movies on Netflix the whole family will love. And if you need a palate cleanser after all those horror movies, try our picks for the best romantic movies to help you unwind!
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There's Someone Inside Your House (2021)
A high schooler and her friends are stalked by a serial killer hellbent on exposing their darkest secrets in this slasher flick.
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That feeling when you unwittingly download an app that predicts your time of death... In the Countdown, a nurse has three days to figure out how to change her fate.
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This evocative period piece is set in '60s California. In it, the daughter of an imposter medium tries to communicate with her late dad through a ouija board, but unleashes a demon instead.
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If a hell-themed amusement park sounds like your idea of a good time, buckle up for this serial killer screamfest.
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A Classic Horror Story (2021)
Traveling in Southern Italy sounds like a good time, right? Not so much in this movie, after its characters get lost in the woods and must fight for their lives to survive.
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This one brings a little comedy to go along with the horror. In it, a man wanting to bond with his stepson thinks the boy might actually be a demon.
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Nobody Sleeps in the Woods Tonight (2020)
A group of tech-addicted teens (what, a little too on the nose?) goes to a rehabilitation camp to break their habit. That's where things, er, take a turn.
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Megan Fox stars as a woman who finds herself handcuffed to her husband's corpse as part of a dark revenge plot. And that's just the beginning.
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A mom and her teenage son move to an empty vacation home after a tragedy. But let's just say it's not a very healing turn of events.
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The town of Rockwell Falls has had the same number of residents — 436 — for over a century. A census taker visits to find out why, and is horrified by what she discovers.
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No One Gets Out Alive (2021)
This film follows Ambar, a woman who moves into a boarding house in Cleveland and starts seeing ghostly apparitions and hearing screams and other voices. But since Ambar is without documentation, she doesn't think she can turn to anyone for help.
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In the running for number one scariest movie on Netflix, this film follows a couple that flees South Sudan for asylum in England, only to learn that they may have brought a presence with them. It asks whether it's possible for people, not houses, to be haunted.
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Things Heard and Seen (2021)
Based on the book All Things Cease to Appear by Elizabeth Brundage, this film follows a family that moves from the city out to a farmhouse in upstate New York. As Catherine (Amanda Seyfried) starts to feel more lonely and isolated in her role as wife and mother, she starts to experience strange things in the house, possibly related to its previous (and deceased) owners.
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Interesting timing for this South Korean horror film, a pandemic-related film released in 2020: It's about a virus that turns people into zombie-like creatures, and a video game streamer who's holed up in his apartment alone, looking for help. Audiences suffering from pandemic cabin fever might relate too well.
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Mysterious forces, supernatural curses and the Italian countryside? This under-the-radar film is about a woman who believes her daughter is cursed, and tries to protect her from elusive dangers.
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If you're a fan of Guillermo del Toro's lush cinematography, decaying British manor homes and doomed romance, then you'll want to check out this gothic horror film. It's not your typical scary movie, but it'll creep you out nevertheless.
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Things start out simple enough: A couple goes on vacation, where they indulge in one too many drinks. But then the next day they're presented with a video neither can remember making, wherein one of them kills the other. A hoax, or a warning? Maggie Q and Luke Hemsworth star as the couple.
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Army of the Dead (2021)
If you're in the mood for a zombie flick, queue up this Zack Snyder-directed action movie about a group of mercenaries that fights off the undead while attempting to pull off a dangerous heist.
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In the Tall Grass (2019)
This movie wrings a lot of horror out of a very simple premise: There are scary things lurking where you can't see. Based on a novella by Stephen King and Joe Hill (King's son), it begins as adult siblings Becky and Cal rescue a young boy from a field of tall grass.
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Based on a Stephen King story, a farmer convinces his son to help him murder his wife — but that's only the beginning of this deeply disturbing tale.
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If you like the Quiet Place franchise, this movie also turns silence into a creepy plot device. In it, a deaf writer who lives out in the woods alone has to fight for her life when a killer shows up out of nowhere.
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More psychological thriller than gore-fest, Sam Worthington plays a dad whose daughter breaks her arm while traveling. At the hospital, he falls asleep ... and when he wakes up, his wife and daughter are nowhere to be found.
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A videographer who takes an odd Craiglist job slowly begins to discover that his client is not who he says he is during this intense thriller. It stars Mark Duplass, a staple everyman in many horror movies.
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In the Shadow of the Moon (2019)
There's nothing creepier than a serial killer — except a killer at large that pops up periodically, once every nine years, to kill again. This movie is about a Philly detective who sets out to solve one such case, and figure out how the killer's crimes seem to defy science.
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If you haven't been introduced to the work of The Warrens, this is the film to start with — then you can move on to the sequels and spin-offs like Annabelle and The Nun. This one finds Ed and Lorraine helping out a family of seven who start experiencing strange things in their Rhode Island farmhouse.
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The Conjuring 2 (2016)
With the third installment, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It now available on VOD, perhaps it's time for a refresh on the series? In this chapter, paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren — characters based on real people — look into a possible haunting in Enfield, England, which is also based on a real case.
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A cam girl starts to be plagued with a look-alike who starts to take over her account — and the rest of her life. But who — or what — can be behind it all? If you weren't paranoid about how much sway the internet has over your life before, you will be after this one.
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A brother and sister duo in this film make their living by faking paranormal investigations. When their plot for some extra cash turns truly horrifying, they find themselves fighting for their lives.
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Based a wildly popular Japanese Manga, this movie has brilliant premise — a high school boy gets his hand a supernatural notebook that can kill whoever's name is written in its pages. But what to do with that power?
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This British horror movie follows four friends venturing through the Swedish wilderness. No one is safe from the supernatural forces outside of their tents. This is a good one for anyone who has ever wondered what's out there in the woods.
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Haley Joel Osment wasn't the only kid who saw dead people. In this Indonesian thriller, a young woman's little sister sees ghosts, so she goes on a mission to learn more about the spirits haunting their home.
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It's hard being babysat when you're 12 and think you're too old for it. It's even harder when your babysitter is part of a Satanic cult that wants to keep you quiet. This movie was directed by McG — who's best known for the Charlie's Angels movie with Cameron Diaz, Drew Barrymore and Lucy Liu — and if you enjoy it, Netflix has a sequel: The Babysitter: Killer Queen.
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Fans of The Haunting of Hill House will be thrilled to know that Gerald's Game has the same director. Based on the book by Stephen King, it's a psychological horror movie about a woman in a strange predicament: Her husband dies suddenly while she's still handcuffed to their bed.
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When a couple adopts a little boy named Cody, played by Wonder's Jacob Tremblay, they face unexpected roadblocks. As it turns out, Cody's dreams come to life — and, unfortunately, so do his nightmares.
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There's nothing funny about these ghostbusters. When a group visits an abandoned house and a bloodbath takes place, a detective and psychologist must investigate what went down.
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The sequel to Sinister, which is oddly not on Netflix, the film follows a family that is haunted by children who have been taken by a demonic inhabitant of their house. But are the ghostly kids there to help?
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This movie is part of a trend known as "screenlife" films, where all you get to see as an audience member is someone's computer screen. In it, five teenagers are video chatting when an uninvited participant shows up and tries to get them to admit their role in a girl's suicide a year earlier. There's a sequel, Unfriended: Dark Web, that's not on Netflix.
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Marisa LaScalaSenior Parenting & Relationships EditorMarisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; she previously wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother.
Alesandra DubinContributing WriterAlesandra is a digital travel and lifestyle journalist based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in Good Housekeeping, Woman's Day, Prevention, Insider, Glamour, Shondaland, AFAR, Parents, TODAY and countless other online and print outlets.
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