Best Horror Movies to Watch Right Now

Horror is the genre most likely to get dismissed as disposable — and also the genre most likely to produce films people are still talking about forty years later. These are the ones that earned that staying power.

The Genre-Definers

Alien is still the film every space-horror movie since has had to compete with — a slow-burn haunted-house movie that happens to be set on a spaceship. The Shining does the same thing for the haunted-hotel subgenre, built on dread rather than jump scares.

Modern Horror That Actually Says Something

Get Out reset expectations for what a horror movie could be about, wrapping sharp social commentary inside a premise that also just works as pure suspense.

Survival Horror

Train to Busan takes the zombie outbreak movie and confines it to a moving train, turning every carriage into its own set piece — one of the best entries the zombie genre has produced in the last decade.

Slow-Burn Psychological Horror

Black Swan blurs the line between psychological thriller and body horror as a ballet dancer's grip on reality slips — unsettling in a completely different way than a typical slasher.

Underrated Pick

I Saw the Devil is a brutal Korean revenge-horror film that doesn't get talked about as often as it should — go in without reading much else about the plot.

The One That Started It

No horror list is complete without Jaws — often credited as the first modern blockbuster, and still tense today even though you barely see the shark.

More to Explore

New horror titles are added regularly. See the full, sortable lineup on the Horror category page.