10 Scary Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix Tonight

Netflix has been leaning particularly hard into true crime lately, but arsenic always, the streamer has vast offerings beyond the Menendez brothers and their ilk. Take a detour into fictional horrors with this database of 10 standout films acceptable to play your eyeballs with frights.

Evil Dead Rise

It’s ever a hazard erstwhile a caller filmmaker puts their ain rotation connected a beloved franchise, but Lee Cronin’s 2023 instrumentality connected Sam Raimi’s Evil Dead world—set not successful a compartment successful the woods, but a Los Angeles flat building—proved that sometimes the hazard is good worthy taking. Within that caller setting, Evil Dead Rise offers a satisfying blend of what made the archetypal movies specified ghastly amusive (reluctant heroes, Deadites, chainsaws) and caller additions, including a memorably agonizing country involving a food grater.

The Sentinel

Here’s different communicative astir a haunted flat building—or, much specifically, an flat gathering situated implicit a hellmouth. This comes arsenic a nasty astonishment to the up-and-coming exemplary who can’t judge however large her caller spot is until the weird signs commencement to marque themselves known; and indeed, the campier elements successful this 1977 merchandise really assistance summation the uncomfortable vibes throughout. Here’s a tip: if your unusual caller neighbors invitation you to a feline day party, run.

Incantation

Hailing from Taiwan, this 2022 found-footage communicative uses 4th partition breaks to straight impact the spectator successful its progressively creepy plot, pursuing a parent hopeless to assistance a dreadful curse from her young daughter. It’s a storytelling device, sure—but adjacent if you conjecture what’s coming, the extremity effect is inactive enjoyably nightmarish.

His House

Wunmi Mosaku (Deadpool & Wolverine), Sope Dirisu (Black Mirror), and Matt Smith (House of the Dragon) springiness fantabulous performances successful this communicative of a mates who flight real-world horrors successful South Sudan, lone to observe exile beingness successful England has its ain terrors to outpouring connected them—particularly arsenic it pertains to the decaying location they’re assigned to unrecorded in.

Under the Shadow

Babak Anvari’s 2016 movie uses its perilous setting—1980s Tehran amid the Iran-Iraq War—to bring further dread to its communicative of a parent and girl targeted by a malevolent djinn. That the parent is dealing with idiosyncratic frustrations galore involving her matrimony and her unfairly interrupted aesculapian studies layers adjacent much hostility atop the supernatural and missile-borne frights.

The Babadook

Another “mother and kid tormented by a monster” tale, but successful Jennifer Kent’s chilling 2014 release, the rubric carnal manifests from a representation publication and is fueled by a substance of crippling grief and worst-case parenting scenarios. Read io9’s interrogation with Kent connected the juncture of The Babadook‘s 10-year day screenings here.

May the Devil Take You

As the prima of Indonesian filmmaker Timo Tjahjanto (among his upcoming projects: Train to Busan remake The Last Train to New York) continues to rise, it’s good worthy revisiting this 2018 release, his archetypal arsenic a solo director. It’s astir a radical of step-siblings who set unneurotic erstwhile their begetter develops a mysterious illness; he’s a problematic patriarch, and the kids larn conscionable how problematic erstwhile they commencement digging into the family’s (surprisingly Satanic!) history.

Child’s Play 2

Soothe your sadness implicit Chucky getting its walking papers from the TV airwaves by re-watching what galore fans clasp arsenic their all-time favourite franchise entry: Child’s Play 2, the 1990 nonstop sequel to the archetypal film. We get to spot what happens adjacent to pint-sized subsister Andy—the bully news: helium gets a kick-ass older foster sister; the atrocious news: Chucky’s inactive aft him—while the film’s beingness expands to amusement america Chucky’s plastic, assembly-line origins, arsenic good arsenic the firm jerks trying to recoup their concern aft his massacre spree.

Ouija: Origin of Evil

Revisiting this 2016 prequel from Mike Flanagan—released earlier helium became a household fearfulness sanction with Netflix’s The Haunting of Hill House—only makes america adjacent much excited for his adjacent Ouija-based project: a reimagining of The Exorcist. Here, we spot what mayhem the tone committee causes for a 1960s Los Angeles ma and her young daughters, whose faux seance racket goes sideways erstwhile existent evil spirits clang the party.

Psycho

You can’t spell incorrect with a classic, particularly erstwhile it’s Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 masterpiece astir mommy issues, wealth issues, and wherefore you should always fastener the bath doorway erstwhile you’re taking a shower. It stars, of course, Anthony Perkins, whose filmmaker lad Oz Perkins (Longlegs) is present carrying connected the household contented of scaring the crap retired of audiences.

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