Best Horror Films on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Horror Films on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 8711. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Death Note (2006)
Rated 9/10 on IMDb, from 2006, 2h 06m. When he finds he has the power to kill anyone by merely writing his or her name, a brilliant student develops a god complex and aims to create utopia.
2. Hush (2016)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2016, 1h 21m. A deaf writer who retreated into the woods to live a solitary life must fight for her life in silence when a masked killer appears in her window.
3. Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Rated 8.6/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1991, 1h 58m. FBI trainee Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned cannibal.
4. Psycho (1960)
Rated 8.5/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1960, 1h 48m. When a larcenous real estate clerk goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel.
5. The Shining (1980)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1980, 1h 59m. Jack Torrance descends into madness -- terrorizing his wife and young son -- after living at a deserted and eerie hotel during its off season.
6. Dororo (2008)
Rated 8.4/10 on IMDb, from 2008, 2h 18m. Daigo pledged 48 body parts from his unborn son, Hyakkimaru, to 48 demons.
7. Aliens (1986)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1986, 2h 17m. Found after decades in hypersleep, Ripley joins a team of Marines on a mission to the planet where she first encountered a vicious, gut-busting alien.
8. The Blue Elephant 2 (2019)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 2h 10m. When a former criminal psychiatrist discovers that a patient holds a secret that threatens his family, he must resort to extreme measures to save them.
9. The Hunt (2020)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2020, 1h 30m. In this dark horror satire, wealthy elites hunt innocent ordinary citizens for sport — until one of them turns the tables on her pursuers.
10. The Exorcist (1973)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 1973, 2h 01m. When a movie actress begins to suspect that an evil spirit is possessing her young daughter, she calls in two priests to try to exorcise the demon.