New Horror Movies Out On Netflix

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The All-time Horror Movies on Netflix

Looking for the best scary movies on Netflix? After a guided map of the most terrifying dingy dungeons, creaky manors, home-invaded houses, and securely nighttime forest you can notice on the streaming service? Then your search has led you to your glorious streaming doom: The Best Horror Movies on Netflix!

Not simply does Netflix have a potent rotating library of scary movies, they sit forth their horror original efforts, like Gerald's Game, Fear Street, and Bird Box.

How did we whittle downwardly our list of horror? We took every last scary movie on Netflix that had at least twenty reviews. What emerges is a portrait of which films unnerved and spooked out critics, have the potential to get audiences' heart racing, and mayhap even broke new ground and basic for the genre. So plenty delaying the inevitable: Hither are the best Netflix horror movies to stream and scream right now!

#43

Adjusted Score: 71839%

Critics Consensus: If y'all just scout one art-earth satire with horror overtones this year -- or most others -- information technology should probably exist Velvet Buzzsaw.

Synopsis: After paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who accept allowed their greed... [More]

#42

Adjusted Score: 60582%

Critics Consensus: Jaws 2 never approaches the lingering thrills of its classic predecessor, merely it'southward reasonably entertaining for a sequel that has no reason to exist.

Synopsis: Years afterward the shark attacks that left Amity Island reeling, Sheriff Martin Brody (Roy Scheider) finds new problem lurking in... [More]

#41

Adjusted Score: 68519%

Critics Consensus: Unfriended subverts found-footage horror clichés to evangelize a surprisingly scary entry in the teen slasher genre with a technological twist.

Synopsis: One night, while teenagers Blaire, Mitch, Jess, Adam Ken and Val take part in an online group chat session, they... [More than]

#40

Adjusted Score: 73046%

Critics Consensus: Bird Box never quite reaches its intriguing potential, but strong acting and an effectively chilly mood offer intermittently creepy compensation.

Synopsis: When a mysterious forcefulness decimates the population, only one thing is certain -- if you come across information technology, you die. The... [More than]

#39

Adjusted Score: 66812%

Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.

Synopsis: Foster parents Mark and Jessie welcome 8-year-old Cody into their home. The boy tells Jessie that he's terrified to fall... [More]

#38

Adjusted Score: 73385%

Critics Consensus: We Summon the Darkness makes the most of its rather pedestrian plot with palpable affection for genre formula, an highly-seasoned cast, and a sharp sense of humour.

Synopsis: Three all-time friends cantankerous paths with sadistic killers after they travel to a secluded country home to party.... [More than]

#37

Adjusted Score: 75549%

Critics Consensus: Led by a pair of compelling performances, The Perfection is a smart, gripping thriller that barbs its wild twists with cutting wit.

Synopsis: A troubled musical prodigy and a new star student embark downwardly a sinister path.... [More than]

#36

Adjusted Score: 73329%

Critics Consensus: Enjoyable if non peculiarly original, The Babysitter makes the virtually of its familiar genre ingredients with energetic direction and a killer bandage.

Synopsis: When Cole stays up past his bedtime, he discovers that his hot baby sitter belongs to a satanic cult that... [More]

Directed By: McG

#35

Adjusted Score: 77681%

Critics Consensus: Stylish with a sadistic streak, Piercing pairs gripping lead performances with a smartly macabre story that delivers unpredictable thrills.

Synopsis: After kissing his wife and baby goodbye for a seemingly normal business trip, Reed checks himself into a hotel room... [More than]

#34

Adjusted Score: 78238%

Critics Consensus: Director David Bruckner makes evocative use of the Scandinavian setting and a dedicated cast to deliver a handsome -- if familiar -- horror story.

Synopsis: Reuniting subsequently the tragic death of their friend, four college pals set out to hike through the Scandinavian wilderness. A... [More]

#33

Adjusted Score: 81613%

Critics Consensus: Campaigner resists piece of cake scares in favor of a steady, wearisome-building descent into dread led by a commanding central performance from Dan Stevens.

Synopsis: London, 1905. Prodigal son Thomas Richardson has returned dwelling, simply to learn that his sis is being held for bribe... [More]

#32

Adjusted Score: 77088%

Critics Consensus: No consensus all the same.

Synopsis: Chucky returns to terrorize his human victim, Nica, who is confined to an aviary for the criminally insane. Meanwhile, the... [More]

#31

Adjusted Score: 84205%

Critics Consensus: While it may feel muddled at times, The Platform is an inventive and captivating dystopian thriller.

Synopsis: In the future, prisoners housed in vertical cells lookout man every bit inmates in the upper cells are fed while those below... [More than]

#30

Adapted Score: 100568%

Critics Consensus: The Killing of a Sacred Deer continues manager Yorgos Lanthimos' stubbornly idiosyncratic streak -- and demonstrates again that his is a talent not to exist ignored.

Synopsis: Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children.... [More]

#29

Adjusted Score: 95411%

Critics Consensus: The Conjuring 2 can't help just lose a scrap of its predecessor's dank sting through familiarity, but what remains is still a superior ghost story told with spine-tingling skill.

Synopsis: In 1977, paranormal investigators Ed (Patrick Wilson) and Lorraine Warren come up out of a cocky-imposed sabbatical to travel to Enfield,... [More]

#28

Adjusted Score: 81509%

Critics Consensus: Smart, stylish, and well-acted, What Keeps Y'all Alive proves information technology'due south still possible to spin an engrossing horror yarn without fundamentally altering established formula.

Synopsis: Jackie and Jules are a couple celebrating their starting time anniversary at a secluded cabin in the woods belonging to Jackie's... [More]

#27

Adjusted Score: 80365%

Critics Consensus: A yuletide nightmare full of familial angst and slithering scares, Await Further Instructions is a genre treat that pretty much any horror fan volition want in their stocking.

Synopsis: On Christmas Twenty-four hours, a family unit wakes up to find a mysterious black substance surrounding its house, and its Tv set screen... [More]

#26

Adjusted Score: 88411%

Critics Consensus: Fear Street Part One: 1994 kicks off the trilogy in promising fashion, honoring the source cloth with plenty of retro slasher entreatment.

Synopsis: Later on a series of fell slayings, a teen and her friends accept on an evil force that's plagued their notorious... [More]

#25

Adjusted Score: 85514%

Critics Consensus: Girl on the 3rd Floor proves a good quondam-fashioned haunted house story can still be entertaining -- and put a fresh spin on established genre formula.

Synopsis: A man tries to renovate a dilapidated firm for his growing family, merely to acquire that the house has other... [More]

#24

Adapted Score: 94384%

Critics Consensus: Well-crafted and gleefully creepy, The Conjuring ratchets up dread through a serial of effective former-school scares.

Synopsis: In 1970, paranormal investigators and demonologists Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed (Patrick Wilson) Warren are summoned to the home of... [More]

#23

Adjusted Score: 106726%

Critics Consensus: Information technology Comes at Night makes lethally effective apply of its bare-basic trappings while proving once again that what's left unseen can exist just as horrifying as anything on the screen.

Synopsis: After a mysterious apocalypse leaves the world with few survivors, two families are forced to share a home in an... [More]

#22

Adapted Score: 87820%

Critics Consensus: Well-acted, genuinely unsettling, and occasionally even funny, #alive proves the crowded zombie genre still has fresh stories to tell.

Synopsis: A rapidly spreading infection leaves 1 survivor in the entire urban center.... [More]

#21

Adjusted Score: 88145%

Critics Consensus: Exceptionally restrained for a movie nigh a flesh-eating menace, Ravenous offers a satisfyingly nuanced entry in the crowded zombie apocalypse subgenre.

Synopsis: A village in Quebec is terrorized by a flesh-eating plague.... [More]

#xx

Adjusted Score: 91003%

Critics Consensus: Cargo takes a refreshingly grapheme-driven approach to the zombie genre that's farther distinguished by its Australian setting and Martin Freeman'southward terrific lead operation.

Synopsis: Stranded in rural Australia in the backwash of a violent pandemic, an infected male parent desperately searches for a new dwelling house... [More]

#19

Adjusted Score: 92558%

Critics Consensus: Stocked with solid performances, Freaks is a clever sci-fi/horror hybrid that suggests a bright future for co-writers/co-directors Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein.

Synopsis: Kept locked inside the business firm by her father, 7-twelvemonth-old Chloe lives in fear and fascination of the outside world. It's... [More than]

#18

Adjusted Score: 92241%

Critics Consensus: A smart and subversive twist on slasher horror, Fear Street Office 2: 1978 shows that summer camp has never been scarier thanks to stellar performances from Sadie Sink, Emily Rudd, and Ryan Simpkins.

Synopsis: A summer of fun turns into a gruesome fight for survival equally a killer terrorizes Camp Nightwing in the cursed... [More]

#17

Adjusted Score: 89390%

Critics Consensus: No consensus notwithstanding.

Synopsis: A young male child (Joshua Rush) tries to protect his two siblings when their new babe sitter (Sarah Bolger) starts to... [More]

#xvi

Adjusted Score: 90419%

Critics Consensus: A smart, oddball take on found-footage horror, Creep is clever and well-acted plenty to proceed viewers on the edges of their seats.

Synopsis: Aaron answers an online ad and drives to a stranger's firm to film him for the day. The man wants... [More]

#15

Adapted Score: 95511%

Critics Consensus: The Invitation makes bright apply of its tension-rich premise to deliver a uniquely effective -- and surprisingly clever -- slow-building thriller.

Synopsis: While attention a dinner party at his old firm, a human being (Logan Marshall-Green) starts to believe that his ex-wife (Tammy... [More]

#14

Adjusted Score: 100343%

Critics Consensus: Wickedly funny and featuring plenty of gore, Zombieland is proof that the zombie subgenre is far from dead.

Synopsis: Later on a virus turns most people into zombies, the world's surviving humans remain locked in an ongoing battle against the... [More]

#thirteen

Adjusted Score: 93708%

Critics Consensus: Fear Street Part Three: 1666 sends the slasher series back in fourth dimension for a trilogy-concluding installment that caps things off on a screaming high annotation.

Synopsis: In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a witch hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, while... [More]

#12

Adjusted Score: 92186%

Critics Consensus: In the sharp, socially conscious boxing of Vampires vs. the Bronx, one-act and horror blend brilliantly -- and the audition is the winner.

Synopsis: A grouping of friends ring together to salve their neighborhood from vampires.... [More]

#eleven

Adjusted Score: 92535%

Critics Consensus: Thanks to director Zak Hilditch's patient storytelling and strong work from pb Thomas Jane, 1922 ranks amidst the more than satisfying Stephen Male monarch adaptations.

Synopsis: A rancher conspires to murder his married woman for financial gain and convinces his teenage son to participate.... [More than]

#10

Adjusted Score: 96506%

Critics Consensus: Carla Gugino carries Gerald'south Game'due south small-scale-scale suspense with a career-defining operation.

Synopsis: A woman accidentally kills her married man during a kinky game. Handcuffed to her bed with no hope of rescue, she... [More]

Adapted Score: 95453%

Critics Consensus: Hush navigates the bloody waters of home invasion thrillers and incisive slashers for a contemporary horror puree.

Synopsis: A deaf adult female is stalked by a killer in her dwelling house.... [More]

#eight

Adjusted Score: 98627%

Critics Consensus: Smart and suspenseful, CAM is a techno-thriller that's far more than the sum of its salacious parts -- and an outstanding showcase for Madeline Brewer in the leading role.

Synopsis: A camgirl has her principles, until a mysterious adult female who looks merely like her takes over her channel.... [More]

#vii

Adjusted Score: 93713%

Critics Consensus: Carried by Kiersey Clemons' functioning, Sweetheart balances smart subtext and social commentary against effective genre thrills.

Synopsis: A shipwreck survivor on an uninhabited island must fend off a malevolent force that surfaces each night.... [More than]

Adapted Score: 104889%

Critics Consensus: Pan's Labyrinth is Alice in Wonderland for grown-ups, with the horrors of both reality and fantasy blended together into an extraordinary, spellbinding legend.

Synopsis: In 1944 Spain young Ofelia (Ivana Baquero) and her ailing female parent (Ariadna Gil) get in at the post of her female parent's... [More]

Adjusted Score: 96461%

Critics Consensus: A demonic possession movie with impressive depth, The Old Ways uses familiar genre ingredients to cast a uniquely gripping spell.

Synopsis: Deep in the Veracruz jungles, Mexican American journalist Cristina Lopez is held convict past a mysterious bruja, or witch doctor... [More than]

#iv

Adjusted Score: 105773%

Critics Consensus: Compelling, well-crafted storytelling and a judicious sense of terror ensure Steven Spielberg'southward Jaws has remained a criterion in the art of delivering modern blockbuster thrills.

Synopsis: When a immature adult female is killed by a shark while skinny-dipping near the New England tourist town of Amity Island,... [More]

Adjusted Score: 104471%

Critics Consensus: Under the Shadow deftly blends seemingly disparate genres to deliver an effective chiller with timely themes and idea-provoking social subtext.

Synopsis: Afterwards Shideh'southward building is hit by a missile during the Islamic republic of iran-Republic of iraq State of war, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was... [More]

Adapted Score: 101088%

Critics Consensus: Creep ii has everything that made the original piece of work and more -- more laughs, more than awkwardness, more unsettling terror.

Synopsis: A video artist quickly realizes she has made a mistake when she meets a serial killer in a motel.... [More]

Adjusted Score: 108024%

Critics Consensus: Featuring 18-carat scares through every corridor, His House is a terrifying look at the specters of the refugee experience and a stunning feature debut for Remi Weekes.

Synopsis: A refugee couple makes a harrowing escape from war-torn Due south Sudan, but then they struggle to accommodate to their new... [More]

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