The 25 Spookiest Halloween Movies on Netflix Right Now
Sure, Christmas movies have their own special place in the annual to-watch canon, but there's another holiday that just might reign supreme when it comes to seasonal movies: Halloween. From gory scarefests to fun flicks for the whole family, Halloween's got something to offer everybody... which can make narrowing down your viewing options feel like a chore. To help keep the scares on the screen this season, we've rounded up some of the best movies of every Halloween ilk that are available on Netflix. Now go pop that popcorn, mix yourself a hot cocktail, and settle in for the spookiest streamers of the season.
Rattlesnake
Carmen Ejogo (Selma, True Detective) is fierce in this movie about a single mother, Katrina, who must kill a stranger to save her daughter. On a long drive across Texas, Katrina gets a flat tire, and her daughter Clara wanders off while she changes it. Clara is bitten by a rattlesnake but saved by a mysterious woman living in a nearby trailer. Katrina's relief soon turns to panic when she learns that because Clara’s life was spared, another soul must be taken to repay the debt.
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Apostle
In 1905, when Thomas (Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens) discovers his sister is being held for ransom by a cult, by a dangerous cult, he infiltrates the island where the cult lives to try and find a way to get her back, encountering horrors he never anticipated along the way.
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In the Tall Grass
There are dozens of Stephen King films to choose from, and this 2019 Netflix original should definitely be on your list. In the Tall Grass, first published as a short story in Esquire, follows two siblings who hear the cries of a child and descend into six-foot high grasslands in rural Kansas. What they find is anything but ordinary.
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The Ritual
This Netflix original film is already making waves as a motion sickness-free descendant of The Blair Witch Project. The story kicks off with four hapless friends venturing into the Swedish wilderness on a hiking expedition. Naturally (or should we say supernaturally) things quickly get out of hand as mysterious runes, dead animals, and unsettling totems begin to litter their path, none of them half as frightening as the unidentifiable creature moving through the trees.
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Gerald's Game
Stephen King is a master of manipulating the mundane into genuine terror, so it's hardly a surprise that this chilling Netflix original is based on one of his novels. In an attempt to reignite their passion, Jessie and Gerald set out on a sexy weekend at an isolated cottage, but things quickly take a turn for the worse when Gerald suddenly collapses on top of her her from a fatal heart attack, leaving Jessie helplessly handcuffed to the bed.
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Little Evil
This horror-comedy puts a new spin on the evil child trope. Starring Adam Scott as Gary, whose happily ever after with Samantha is being thrown off-kilter by Samantha's quiet, sometimes disturbing son, Lucas. But as Gary tries to connect to his new stepson, he begins to suspect that the boy might in fact be the Antichrist.
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Veronica
Nominated for seven Goya awards, this 2017 Spanish import has garnered a reputation as one of the scariest films on Netflix right now, with many viewers claiming that the sheer terror it evokes makes it nearly impossible to watch the whole way through. For those who just can't get enough of fright night, the gauntlet has been thrown.
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Creep
A horror story for anyone who's ever used Craigslist. Videographer Aaron gets a lot more than he bargained for when he signs on to help charming oddball Josef create a final message before his approaching death from an inoperable brain tumor in this twisting, indie horror.
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The Perfection
In this twisting horror, Allison Williams stars as Charlotte, a former musical prodigy who returns to her mentors only to find her position has been subsumed by another promising young student—and sets out to change that fact, in bloody fashion.
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Umma
Farmer Amanda (Sandra Oh) finds her life turned upside down in terrifying fashion when she receives the ashes of her deceased mother, whose spirit begins haunting her and her daughter.
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The Rental
Starring Alison Brie, Dan Stevens, and Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) tells the story of two couples who find themselves in the vacation house from hell as they begin to suspect someone is watching them on their idyllic weekend away.
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Annihilation
After her husband disappears on a secret mission, a biologist (Natalie Portman) ventures into a strange region where mysterious forces seem to be radically changing the plants and animals in Lovecraftian ways, in order to find out what's happened to the man she loves.
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Crimson Peak
If a Gothic romance and a penny dreadful had a baby, it might look something like Guillermo del Toro's 2015 Crimson Peak. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain, it tells the tale of Edith, an unusual young woman who is swept away by her new husband to a crumbling mansion with some very old, very dangerous family secrets.
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Cargo
If The Last of Us left your with a hankering for more of the "zombie apocalypse dad" genre, this 2018 find is for you. In it, Martin Freeman plays Andy, who's trying to protect his young daughter as they struggle to survive in the Australian outback amidst the zombie apocalypse.
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Paranormal Activity
This 2007 film set off a slew of found footage horror films, creating a mini genre unto itself—and for good reason. It follows a young couple who set up cameras in their home to find proof that they're being haunted, producing genuine edge of your seat tension that horror fans can't get enough of.
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Warm Bodies
Looking for a less terrifying take on zombies? How about the Nicholas Hoult-starring offering that takes the classic story of Romeo and Juliet and gives it an undead makeover.
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Zombieland
It's all fun and games until somebody kills Bill Murray. Zombie comedy may not seem like the most obvious genre shift, but this film about four wayward travelers across zombie-riddled America will offer plenty of laughs and ample Halloween vibes.
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The Ring
It seems impossible to imagine that this American remake of the Japanese frightener is over 20 years old. With a haunted VHS tape playing a starring role, it could seem like an outdated, but the inherent thrills embedded in the story ensure it's just as spine-tingling as ever.
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Fear Street: Part One 1994
For those familiar with author R.L. Stine's Goosebumps novels, this trio of films (of which this is the first) are a more grownup take. Featuring plenty of nods to classic horror cinema and its '90s era renaissance, it kicks off the cross-generational trilogy with a tale of a teen and her friends who band together to fight an evil force that has haunted their town for centuries.
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Ouija: Origin of Evil
Anyone who's ever spent a sleepover playing around with this ominous game can take a guess at where things are going in this film when the young daughter of a medium tries to communicate with her dearly departed father using a Ouija board.
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His House
A refugee couple from South Sudan attempt to start a new life in England, but find themselves plagued by an otherworldly presence that quickly turns their dream into a nightmare in this film that not only travels the roads of traditional horror but also mines the complexities of the immigrant experience.
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Under the Shadow
Set in war-torn '80s Tehran, a woman and her daughter try to cope with horrors both worldly and supernatural as they find themselves under the attentions of a specter that plagues them with apparitions.
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The Wretched
A troubled teen gets pulled into a fight against an ancient evil when a thousand-year-old witch begins inflicting horrors on the young boy who lives next door.
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Vampires Vs The Bronx
Nobody messes with the Bronx—not even the undead. In this horror comedy, a group of neighbors have to come together to ward off the bloodsuckers bent on taking over their neighborhood.
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The Babysitter
Some of the great scary movie tropes of the '80s and '90s make an appearance in this spoofy spinetingler about a boy who discovers that his hot babysitter is part of a sexy satanic cult.
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Unfriended
A scarer for the social media age, Unfriended follows a group of teens who are targeted by a deadly online stalker after cyberbullying a classmate.
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Lights Out
A young woman who was plagued by terrors as a child must work to protect her younger brother when a supernatural being with a connection to their mother begins killing people around them.
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Army of the Dead
It's nonstop action in this Zack Snyder directed flick about a group of mercenaries who venture into zombie-infested Las Vegas to recover a huge sum of money before the city is destroyed.
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1922
Not to be confused with Taylor Sheridan's 1923, this film is inspired by a novella by horror master Stephen King. In it, a man and his son conspire to kill his wife, only to find themselves consumed by the consequences of her death.
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