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Best horror movies on Paramount+ right now, ranked
The highest-rated horror movies you can stream with a standard Paramount+ plan in the US today: 25 movies, checked title by title. Titles that need a paid add-on channel, a rental or a purchase aren’t counted.
How this is ranked: when a title has at least 5 ratings from Wochly users, its score is their average (green). Otherwise we use TMDB’s user rating weighted by how many people voted (marked “TMDB, weighted”), so a title with a handful of votes can’t outrank an established favorite. TMDB has no horror genre for TV, so this page covers movies only. Availability comes from JustWatch via TMDB and is re-checked every few hours.
Best horror movies on Paramount+
- 1
Rosemary's Baby (1968)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frightening legends and mysterious events, with the purpose of starting a family.
7.7TMDB, weighted
- 2
A Quiet Place Part II (2021)
Science Fiction, Thriller, Horror
Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
7.4TMDB, weighted
- 3
A Quiet Place (2018)
Horror, Drama, Science Fiction
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
7.4TMDB, weighted
- 4
Scream (1996)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.
7.3TMDB, weighted
- 5
Jacob's Ladder (1990)
Drama, Mystery, Horror
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends into madness.
7.2TMDB, weighted
- 6
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.
7.2TMDB, weighted
- 7
Sleepy Hollow (1999)
Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
7.2TMDB, weighted
- 8
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
Drama, Horror
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
7.2TMDB, weighted
- 9
Dracula (2025)
Horror, Fantasy, Romance
In late 15th-century Eastern Europe, Prince Vlad II’s bride is brutally murdered. As a result, he renounces God and damns Heaven itself. Cursed with eternal life, Vlad is reborn as Dracula, an immortal warlord who defies fate in a blood-soaked crusade to wrench his lost love back from death.
7.1TMDB, weighted
- 10
Doctor Sleep (2019)
Horror, Fantasy
Still scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook Hotel, Dan Torrance faces the ghosts of the past when he meets Abra, a courageous teen who desperately needs his help -- and who possesses a powerful extrasensory ability called the "shine".
7.1TMDB, weighted
- 11
Passenger (2026)
Horror
After a young couple witnesses a gruesome highway accident, they soon realize they did not leave the crash scene alone, as a demonic presence called the Passenger that won't stop until it claims them both turns their van life adventure into a nightmare.
7.0TMDB, weighted
- 12
The Dead Zone (1983)
Thriller, Horror, Science Fiction
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
6.9TMDB, weighted
- 13
Scream VI (2023)
Horror, Thriller, Crime
Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.
6.9TMDB, weighted
- 14
World War Z (2013)
Action, Horror, Science Fiction
Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.
6.8TMDB, weighted
- 15
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Horror, Mystery
Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.
6.8TMDB, weighted
- 16
The Ring (2002)
Horror, Mystery
Journalist Rachel Keller investigates a strange videotape that may be behind the untimely deaths of four teenagers. There is an urban legend about this tape: the viewer will die seven days after watching it. Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring in order to save herself and her son.
6.7TMDB, weighted
- 17
Scream (2022)
Horror, Mystery
Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.
6.7TMDB, weighted
- 18
Overlord (2018)
Horror, War, Science Fiction
On the eve of D-Day, a team of American paratroopers crash behind enemy lines and come face-to-face with a Nazi threat unlike any the world has ever seen.
6.7TMDB, weighted
- 19
Pet Sematary (1989)
Horror
After the Creed family's cat is accidentally killed, a friendly neighbor advises its burial in a mysterious nearby cemetery.
6.7TMDB, weighted
- 20
Blink Twice (2024)
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
When tech billionaire Slater King meets cocktail waitress Frida at his fundraising gala, he invites her to join him and his friends on a dream vacation on his private island. But despite the epic setting, beautiful people, ever-flowing champagne, and late-night dance parties, Frida can sense that there’s something sinister hiding beneath the island’s lush façade.
6.7TMDB, weighted
- 21
Smile (2022)
Horror, Mystery
After witnessing a bizarre, traumatic incident involving a patient, Dr. Rose Cotter starts experiencing frightening occurrences that she can't explain.
6.7TMDB, weighted
- 22
Spontaneous (2020)
Comedy, Horror
When students in their high school begin inexplicably exploding (literally), seniors Mara and Dylan struggle to survive in a world where each moment may be their last.
6.6TMDB, weighted
- 23
Silver Bullet (1985)
Horror
The small city of Tarker's Mills is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears the work of a maniac, but sightings of a mysterious, hairy creature soon spread. People lock themselves up at night, but there's one boy who's still outside…
6.6TMDB, weighted
- 24
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)
Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
As New York City is invaded by alien creatures who hunt by sound, a woman named Sam fights to survive with her cat.
6.6TMDB, weighted
- 25
Event Horizon (1997)
Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery
In 2047, a group of astronauts are sent to investigate and salvage the starship Event Horizon which disappeared mysteriously seven years before on its maiden voyage. However, it soon becomes evident that something sinister resides in its corridors.
6.6TMDB, weighted
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