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Best horror movies streaming right now, by service
Already paying for a streaming service? Here are the 5 highest-rated horror movies you can watch on each one tonight with no rental, purchase or add-on channel, checked title by title.
How this is ranked: when a movie has at least 5 ratings from Wochly users, its score is their average (green). Otherwise we use TMDB’s user rating weighted by vote count (marked “TMDB, weighted”). Availability comes from JustWatch via TMDB.
Best horror movies on Netflix
- 1
Psycho (1960)
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
8.3TMDB, weighted
- 2
Alien (1979)
Horror, Science Fiction
During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.
8.1TMDB, weighted
- 3
Jaws (1975)
Horror, Thriller, Adventure
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
7.6TMDB, weighted
- 4
Frankenstein (2025)
Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.
7.5TMDB, weighted
- 5
Godzilla Minus One (2023)
Science Fiction, Horror, Action
In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror.
7.5TMDB, weighted
Best horror movies on Prime Video
- 1
The Thing (1982)
Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
8.0TMDB, weighted
- 2
Nosferatu (1922)
Horror, Fantasy
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
7.5TMDB, weighted
- 3
Let the Right One In (2008)
Horror, Drama
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship. Initially reserved with each other, Oskar and Eli slowly form a close bond, but it soon becomes apparent that she is no ordinary young girl.
7.4TMDB, weighted
- 4
Exhuma (2024)
Mystery, Horror, Thriller
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.
7.3TMDB, weighted
- 5
Frankenstein (1931)
Drama, Horror, Science Fiction
Obsessed scientist Dr. Henry Frankenstein attempts to create life by assembling a creature from deceased body parts. Aided by his loyal misshapen assistant, Fritz, Frankenstein succeeds in animating his monster, but it flees into the countryside and begins to wreak havoc.
7.3TMDB, weighted
Best horror movies on Max
- 1
The Shining (1980)
Horror, Thriller
Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
8.2TMDB, weighted
- 2
Coraline (2009)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
7.9TMDB, weighted
- 3
The Exorcist (1973)
Horror
When a mysterious entity possesses a young girl, her mother seeks the help of two Catholic priests to save her life.
7.7TMDB, weighted
- 4
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026)
Horror, Mystery
The young daughter of a journalist disappears into the desert without a trace—eight years later, the broken family is shocked when she is returned to them, as what should be a joyful reunion turns into a living nightmare.
7.6TMDB, weighted
- 5
The Conjuring (2013)
Horror, Thriller
Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.
7.5TMDB, weighted
Best horror movies on Hulu
- 1
Coraline (2009)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
7.9TMDB, weighted
- 2
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.
7.4TMDB, weighted
- 3
The Fly (1986)
Horror, Science Fiction
When brilliant, eccentric scientist Seth Brundle makes a huge technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.
7.4TMDB, weighted
- 4
Ready or Not: Here I Come (2026)
Horror, Comedy
Moments after surviving an all-out attack from the Le Domas family, Grace discovers she’s reached the next level of the nightmarish game — and this time with her estranged sister Faith at her side. Grace has one chance to survive, keep her sister alive, and claim the High Seat of the Council that controls the world. Four rival families are hunting her for the throne, and whoever wins rules it all.
7.3TMDB, weighted
- 5
Hereditary (2018)
Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
7.3TMDB, weighted
Best horror movies on Peacock
- 1
Psycho (1960)
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.
8.3TMDB, weighted
- 2
Obsession (2026)
Horror, Thriller
After breaking the mysterious "One Wish Willow" to win his crush's heart, a hopeless romantic finds himself getting exactly what he asked for but soon discovers that some desires come at a dark, sinister price.
8.1TMDB, weighted
- 3
Coraline (2009)
Animation, Family, Fantasy
Wandering her rambling old house in her boring new town, 11-year-old Coraline discovers a hidden door to a strangely idealized version of her life. In order to stay in the fantasy, she must make a frighteningly real sacrifice.
7.9TMDB, weighted
- 4
Train to Busan (2016)
Action, Horror, Thriller
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.
7.7TMDB, weighted
- 5
Get Out (2017)
Mystery, Thriller, Horror
Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.
7.6TMDB, weighted
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
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
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