Hauntings, classic thrillers, cult favorites — whatever fright strikes your fancy, we promise you it’s on this list.
Last Updated: March 18th If you haven’t found a truly spine-tingling, bone-chilling horror movie to binge this month, it’s probably because you haven’t looked on Netflix. The streamer is our top pick for anyone craving a little nightmare fuel with its wide range of on-screen offerings — think classic thrillers, cult favorites, foreign-language entries, hidden gems, and more. Whatever fright strikes your fancy, we promise you it’s on this list. Here are the best horror films on Netflix right now. Related: The Scariest Shows On Netflix Right Now Run Time: 121 min| IMDb: 6.1/10 This foreign language thriller gives horror fans not one, but two nightmare scenarios. A group of terrorists hijacking a place is scary enough, but when one of the passengers just so happens to be infected with some kind of illness that causes her to crave human blood, things get really terrifying. Run Time: 123 min| IMDb: 7.6/10 Sitting down to interview a vampire, even one as fangishly handsome as Brad Pitt, is a horrifying experience. At least, that’s what we took away from director Neil Jordan’s Anne Rice adaptation. Because this is a film about bloodsucking beings, there’s plenty of grisly murder, lurking in the shadows, and fanged smiles to fuel your nightmares but the scariest part of this nosferatu epic is watching a baby Kirsten Dunst feast on living human beings and demand more blood. Add To Netflix Queue Run Time: 93 min| IMDb: 6.4/10 Lovecraft Country’s Wunmi Mosaku and Matt Smith star in this British horror flick. The film follows a couple that flees war-torn South Sudan and applies for refugee status in England. As they try to adapt to life in a small town, evils lurking in their neighborhood (and their house) threaten their newfound safety. It’s a wholly original take on the genre, and if you’ve been watching Lovecraft, you know how good Mosaku will be in it. Run Time: 99 min| IMDb: 7/10 If you have the stomach for it, Raw is one of the better horror films available on Netflix right now. The French-Belgian drama centers on a young girl named Justine, who begins her first year of vet school and uncovers a dark secret about herself and her family. A vegetarian, Justine is soon overcome with a craving for meat after a hazing ritual gone wrong. From there, things get strange and gross and nightmare-inducing. Run Time: 90 min| IMDb: 6.1/10 Allison Williams, who’s become something of a scream queen after her work in Get Out, continues her horror track record with this thriller about a gifted musician who befriends the talented student who replaced her. Strange happenings begin to occur, events that sabotage the young girl, but as terrifying as this story is, there’s absolutely no way you’ll be able to predict its ending. Run Time: 94 min| IMDb: 7/10 This Spanish-language sci-fi flick is all kinds of f*cked up but in the best way. The film is set in a large, tower-style “Vertical Self-Management Center” where the residents, who are periodically switched at random between floors, are fed by a platform, initially filled with food, that gradually descends through the levels. Conflicts arise when inmates at the top begin eating all the food, leaving the people lower down to fight for survival. Run Time: 105 min| IMDb: 6.3/10 Martin Freeman stars in this Aussie zombie drama about a father searching for a safe place for his family amidst a zombie outbreak. Freeman plays Andy, a fairly easy-going guy, who’s forced to make some tough calls when he gets stranded in the Outback with his newborn daughter during the apocalypse. He fights off a few of the walking dead, but the real danger comes from the living (what’s left of humanity after the contagion has spread). Freeman rarely plays the rugged hero type, but he does so convincingly here, and while there aren’t hordes of biters wandering the desert, the isolationist aspect of things makes this horror story feels eerily plausible. Add To Netflix Queue Run Time: 94 min| IMDb: 6.3/10 This Netflix nightmare follows a group of friends who venture into the Scandinavian wilderness in order to honor their recently-murdered brother. The guys, Luke (Rafe Spall), Phil (Arsher Ali), Hutch (Robert James-Collier), and Dom (Sam Troughton) are forced to take a different path from the one planned, a mistake that leads them to cults and sacrificial offerings and an ancient being who prefers to stake its prey. The scenery is gorgeous, the chemistry of the cast is spot on, and the premise — how these men confront their fears and failures thanks to a supernatural being — starts out promising, though it could’ve delivered a better ending. Run Time: 112 min| IMDb: 7.5/10 The Conjuring marks the first installment in a horror series that sees Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga play a married pair of paranormal investigators that seek to understand the phenomenon of hauntings. When the duo is called to assist a family living in a ghostly farmhouse in Rhode Island, they encounter more than they can handle when it comes to the undead. Again, these stories were based on true events, so watch at your own risk. Run Time: 109 min| IMDb: 6.8/10 Based on the book series from R.L. Stine, the second installment in this Netflix trilogy uses the familiar, comforting setting of summer camp to introduce some truly terrifying horror tropes. Stranger Things star Sadie Fink plays the younger version of Ziggy, a kid at a camp that’s home to demon possessions and witch’s marks and all kinds of weird, evil shenanigans and for her to survive, she’s got to figure out her part in a centuries-old curse. Run Time: 92 min| IMDb: 5.5/10 Bel Powley and Liv Tyler star in this fantasy-horror film with feminist undertones.
