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The Best Horror Movies on Netflix to Stream Right Now (July 2024)
If you need even more evidence of horror’s continued dominance, no matter the time of year, look to streaming services at the start of every month. Each month brings a plethora of new additions to streaming libraries across all platforms, from Netflix to Tubi. That means an insane selection of all styles and types of horror available at our fingertips. The downside is that it can make choosing the perfect horror movie to watch an overwhelming process. Sometimes you want to cut right to the chase to find the best Netflix horror movies.
If you get stuck scrolling for hours searching for a good watch on Netflix, we’re here to help. Here are the best Netflix horror movies you can stream right now, from folk horror to existential nightmares to inventive creature features and beyond.
American Psycho
Mary Harron’s adaptation of the novel brings the dark humor and bloodletting in equal measure. Wealthy New York investment banker Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is obsessed with materialism and wealth. His favorite pastime is showing off to coworkers while hiding his psychopathic side. Oh yeah, Patrick also loves murder. The eponymous American Psycho uses his highly competitive, yuppie workplace as just one of his favored hunting grounds. A chilling indictment on shallow consumerism and detachment from reality, Bale’s iconic performance is an all-timer.
Apostle
Writer/Director Gareth Evans brings the bone-crunching brutality of The Raid and The Raid 2 to his period folk horror film. The Guest’s Dan Stevens stars as Thomas, a man who travels to a remote island in 1905 to infiltrate the cult that’s kidnapped his sister for ransom. The cult leaders claim that the barren island was made fertile through blood sacrifice, and in his quest, Thomas learns the grim truth behind those sacrifices. The twists and visceral violence make for a gripping, gory final act with torrential bloodletting. Apostle is a slow burn that embraces its mysteries, but the journey is worth taking.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
André Øvredal goes full throttle for the scares in this quiet little chiller that sees a father and son coroner team stumped over the bizarre mysteries contained within the body of an unidentified young woman. Well executed scares, clever twists, and earnest performances by Brian Cox and Emile Hirsch give this supernatural haunter serious heft. While the narrative bides its time unveiling the truth behind Jane Doe’s battered body, it’s heavily steeped in witchcraft. In other words, The Autopsy of Jane Doe presents a new take on the subgenre. More importantly, it’s seriously spooky.
The Babysitter
In The Babysitter, bullied twelve-year-old Cole Johnson (Suitable Flesh‘s Judah Lewis) bonds with his cool babysitter Bee (Samara Weaving), but their fun goes awry when he sneaks out of his room and witnesses a Satanic sacrifice. It turns out that Bee and her bubbly popular-type pals are into Satanism and murder, and they’re willing to kill to keep their secret from getting out. McG’s horror-comedy brings the laughs and charm thanks to a scene-stealing performance from Weaving.
Backcountry
Alex and Jenn quickly find they’re in way over their heads when they decide to leave the city behind and try their hand at camping. But the more Alex insists on bringing Jenn to his favorite spot nestled deep within the wilderness, the more evident it becomes that he’s gotten them lost. Much of Pyewacket director Adam MacDonald’s feature debut plays like an intense survival thriller, with tensions between the pair rising as their supplies dwindle. There may or may not be a predatory man lurking nearby, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the territorial black bear. There are bear attack movies, and then there’s this one, which delivers the most vicious attack sequence of all time. It’s more than worth the wait getting there.
Blood Red Sky
Cam
Alice (Madeline Brewer) works as an online cam girl, and she’s obsessed with her ranking on the cam site. The higher her ranking goes, the more it draws unwanted attention, and Alice soon finds herself replaced on her own show with a doppelganger. Cam uses the horror thriller premise to examine the life of a sex worker; Alice’s career ambition is directly at odds with the shame it brings to her family and how she tries to spare them from it by keeping them in the dark. It only compounds her danger when the doppelganger enters the equation in director Daniel Goldhaber’s engaging thriller.
The Conjuring 2
Disappear Completely
Tabloid photographer Santiago (Harold Torres) will go to great lengths to get the perfect shot, tact and morals be damned. His insensitivity even extends to his home life, where he learns his girlfriend Marcela (Teté Espinoza) is pregnant. But his professional ambitions and pessimistic outlook get tested when he snaps photos at a particularly grisly new crime scene; Santiago finds himself afflicted with a curse that’s causing him to lose his senses one by one. Director Luis Javier Henaine captures Santiago’s unraveling with a grim atmosphere and inventive camera work that immerses viewers in Santiago’s race against time before he loses everything. It’s a moody, Satanic cautionary tale centered around an unlikable protagonist.
The Fear Street Trilogy
Director Leigh Janiak helms a trio of slashers based on R.L. Stine’s popular YA book series, with each entry largely set in different eras. That ultimately means that each installment will vary based on preferences, whether you’re into ’90s nostalgia, bloodier ’70s slasher fare, or a witchy rewind all the way to 1666. With style and a likable cast, it’s no wonder that the Fear Street trilogy was the summer event of 2021.
Gerald’s Game
His House
The House
It Follows
May The Devil Take You
Missing
This twisty screenlife thriller tracks June’s (Storm Reid) search for answers when her mother (Nia Long) goes missing on vacation. June creatively uses all the latest technology at her fingertips to try and find Mom from thousands of miles away, but the more she digs, the more unsettling questions she uncovers. Written and directed by Will Merrick and Nick Johnson, Missing moves at a breakneck pace and keeps you guessing.
No One Gets Out Alive
The Perfection
This Netflix gem feels like a few different subgenres rolled into one twisty horror thriller, and that unpredictability makes for a wild ride. The setup is simple; former music prodigy Charlotte (Get Out’s Allison Williams) returns to her past school and befriends new star pupil Elizabeth (Logan Browning), sending both down a path of shocking destruction. A little bit Martyrs, Oldboy, and more, this pick is for those that like their horror on the more deliciously outlandish side.
The Platform
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
On Halloween 1968, Stella (Zoe Margaret Colletti) and her two friends meet drifter Ramon (Michael Garza) while fleeing bullies. They invite Ramon to explore a local haunted house, where Stella discovers a mysterious book containing horror stories that seem to write themselves in real-time. Director André Øvredal brings the nightmarish illustrations by Stephen Gammell and stories by Alvin Schwartz to life. Harold the scarecrow, the Pale Lady, the Big Toe corpse (Javier Botet), and the Jangly Man (Troy James) terrorize Mill Valley’s teens in this recent Halloween treat.
Thanksgiving
The Trip
Under the Shadow
Veronica
Inspired by true events, Veronica tells of a teen girl in Madrid that’s besieged by an evil presence after playing with an Ouija board with friends during school. REC‘s Paco Plaza once again proves his knack for atmosphere and scares, and the cast is wholly endearing (Ivan Chavero wins horror’s cutest kid award as the adorable Antonito). While it’s initial debut on Netflix came loaded with a reputation for terrifying viewers, Veronica isn’t actually the scariest film ever made. But it is a solid entry in 2018’s roster of horror with a few potent chills. Make it a double feature with prequel movie Sister Death, also available to stream now.
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Neve Campbell Says ‘Scream 7’ Will Focus On Sidney Prescott’s Story
It’s been a few months since we’ve gotten an official update on Scream 7, but one thing we do know for certain is that Neve Campbell will be back as Sidney Prescott this time around.
And according to Campbell, the upcoming seventh installment will be a return to the franchise’s roots in the sense that Sidney Prescott will be the central character of the movie.
“We are going to follow Sidney,” Campbell confirms to ET Online this week.
“They did pitch the concept to me, and it’s the reason that I jumped on board,” Campbell adds. “I love these movies, they are so much fun to be a part of. I’m so grateful for them; I could never have imagined being a part of a movie that would have lasted this many decades.”
Sidney was featured as a supporting character in 2022’s Scream, while Campbell infamously did not return for the following year’s Scream VI due to a pay dispute. Those two movies, both directed by the filmmakers Radio Silence (Abigail), mixed a new generation of characters with the legacy characters, but much has happened since Scream VI released last year.
The franchise has been mired in controversy in the past several months, with new series leads Melissa Barrera and Jenna Ortega both exiting the project. Barrera was fired, while it was subsequently announced that Ortega wouldn’t be returning. At this time, we still don’t know if Jasmin Savoy Brown or Mason Gooding will be returning for Scream 7.
Original Scream scribe Kevin Williamson will DIRECT the upcoming Scream 7, with franchise mainstay Courteney Cox expected to also return as heroine Gale Weathers.
The upcoming Scream 7, which is currently untitled, was written by Guy Busick from a story by James Vanderbilt & Guy Busick. Stay tuned for more on the film as we learn it.
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