19 great horror movies you can watch right now
Whether it’s something gory and macabre, silly and irreverent, eerie and unsettling; the genre of horror is as rich and varied as the multitude of ghost, ghoulies, and homicidal maniacs that go bump in the night.
Looking for the best horror films available to stream on Netflix, Hulu, HBO Max, and Paramount Plus? No worries, we’ve got the good. We’ve combed through the libraries of each of the major streaming platforms to bring you a list of our most recommended horror movies. Here are the 19 of the best horror movies you can stream right now.
The Exorcist is just as terrifying now as when it caused a mild national panic on release in 1973. When a young girl (Linda Blair) starts behaving very strangely, her mother tries anything and everything to get her help, leading to… well, you know the title of the film. The realism of a mother’s desire to keep her daughter safe in an uncontrollable world set against a supernatural conflict pulls you right in from the very beginning, and keeps its hold on you far beyond the end of its two hour run-time. —Pete Volk
The Exorcist is available to watch on Netflix.
Halloween is not the first slasher movie — Psycho and Black Christmas preceded and heavily inspired it — but it may be the most influential. After Michael Myers breaks out of the mental hospital he has been held in for 15 years, he pursues another babysitter (Jamie Lee Curtis) and her friends, all the while being pursued himself by his psychiatrist (Donald Pleasence).
Ten films have followed in the franchise, and while there have been high points and low, none can match the raw terror of the original. Like others in this part of the list, it was made on a small budget (around $300,000), and was a huge hit at the box office (an
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