10 Freaky Horror Movies to Stream on Shudder

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The scariest fearfulness movies are often the ones that contiguous a mentation of world wherever madness feels similar it’s conscionable portion of the atmosphere, and evil is dilatory infecting everything successful the frame. These 10 picks from Shudder each person the powerfulness to marque your tegument crawl—and propulsion your imaginativeness to precise acheronian places.

When this mockumentary archetypal aired connected British TV circa Halloween 1992, immoderate viewers believed its “live broadcast” investigating a haunted location was perfectly real. While audiences 3 decades aboriginal cognize Ghostwatch is fiction, its scare tactics are inactive highly effective—and you tin spot wherefore its power is inactive felt successful found-footage fearfulness projects adjacent today. Stream connected Shudder.

Speaking of found-footage horror, the astir caller introduction successful the long-running V/H/S bid is 1 of its strongest crossed the board, with peculiar (nightmare-inducing) kudos owed to the segments directed by Mike P. Nelson and Scott Derrickson. Read io9's reappraisal here. Stream connected Shudder.

io9's review of Panos Cosmatos’ trippy 2018 release, an instant cult classic, singled retired “the eventual Nicolas Cage performance.” While you hold for Longlegs to get to spot if possibly he’s topped himself, Cage going ham with a chainsaw is ne'er not entertaining. Stream connected Shudder.

Anthony Hopkins’ astir salient fearfulness bequest is his Oscar-winning crook arsenic Hannibal Lecter successful The Silence of the Lambs, but a close, adjacent 2nd is his show successful Magic implicit a decennary prior, arsenic the progressively unhinged signifier spouse of a decidedly unhinged ventriloquist dummy named “Fats.” Stream connected Shudder.

In 1964, Brazilian director, co-writer, and prima José Mojica Marins unleashed his singular creation—Coffin Joe—into the satellite of fearfulness cinema. At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul kicked disconnected a movie bid built astir the character, a murderous undertaker who’s the astir monstrously atrocious feline you’ll ever meet, portion besides being idiosyncratic you simply can’t instrumentality your eyes disconnected whenever he’s onscreen. Stream connected Shudder.

Before she broke into blockbusters with Five Nights astatine Freddy’s, Emma Tammi cemented her fearfulness cred with this 2018 western; it’s acceptable connected the desolate American prairie circa the precocious 1800s, and investigates a lonely woman’s conflict with “prairie madness” that has superior supernatural overtones. Stream connected Shudder.

In this atmospheric 2020 Spanish chiller, purportedly inspired by existent events, a 1970s household decides to springiness beingness successful the large metropolis a try—but soon finds their caller Madrid flat is chock-full of ghosts that person each volition of interfering with their caller start. Stream connected Shudder.

Here’s different 1970s-set tale, this clip taking spot wrong the Italian movie manufacture astatine the tallness of its fearfulness boom. Peter Strickland’s 2021 merchandise stars Toby Jones arsenic a British dependable technologist hired to bring his talents to a convulsive giallo film—and past realizes the film’s communicative has started bleeding into his ain reality. Stream connected Shudder.

Speaking of giallo movies, this 1977 merchandise is 1 of the much elegant entries successful Italian fearfulness maestro Lucio Fulci’s frequently gruesome filmography; it follows a glamorous pistillate (Jennifer O’Neill) whose disturbing visions hint her into a enigma revolving astir her husband’s state home—starting with the skeleton she conscionable knows is buried successful the wall. Read io9's retro reappraisal here. Stream connected Shudder.

Horror movie lovers emotion movies astir fearfulness movie lovers, and 1980's Fade to Black conscionable mightiness beryllium the eventual example. Dennis Christopher gives a haunting show arsenic a Hollywood kid whose movie obsession (and his obsession with dressing up arsenic characters from his favourite films) nudges him into becoming a peculiarly cinematic serial killer. Stream connected Shudder.