Best Horror Movies

Horror is the genre that never stops mutating: slashers, hauntings, folk rituals, body horror, elevated dread. This ranking gathers the scariest and best-made of them all, ordered by how audiences rate them. Find where each is streaming - and maybe leave a light on.

Gator Lake

2024

The Man in the White Van

2024

God Told Me To

1976

The Living Dead Girl

1982

Diary of a Madman

1963

The Butterfly Murders

1979

The Xango from Baker Street

2001

Ava's Possessions

2015

Ick

2025

House on Haunted Hill

1999

The Woods

2006

Popcorn

1991

Mill of the Stone Women

1960

The Kindred

1987

Rings

2005

He Took His Skin Off for Me

2014

Slaughter High

1986

[REC]⁴ Apocalypse

2014

Celia

1989

Darkness

2002

Black House

2007

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

1992

We're Going to Eat You

1980

The Reef

2010

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert

2001

Prison

1987

The Bloodstained Butterfly

1971

Poison

1991

I'm Just F*cking with You

2019

The Amazing Mr. X

1948

Wild Flowers

2000

I REC U

2015

Highwaymen

2004

Doc of the Dead

2014

London After Midnight

1927

Fright

1971

Terror of Frankenstein

1977

Dead Birds

2005

The Ghost

2004

My Bloody Valentine

2009

The Carpenter's Son

2025

Black Box

2026

The Covenant

2006

A Creepshow Holiday Special

2020

Onmyoji

2001

Victor Crowley

2017

Opus

2025

The Boy

2015

Corridors of Blood

1958

TerrorVision

1986

Scare Me

2020

What Josiah Saw

2021

Beyond the Black Rainbow

2010

Magick Lantern Cycle

1974

Death Line

1972

It Lives Inside

2023

Antarctic Journal

2005

Flesh for Frankenstein

1973

Eyes of a Stranger

1981

End of the Line

2007