Top 10 Best Horror Movies On Netflix To Binge Watch (December 2020)

Director: Scott Derrickson

Cast: Ethan Hawke, Juliet Rylance, James Ransone, Michael Hall D’Addario, Clare Foley

Very few horror movies on Netflix have the ability to get stuck in your brain enough to keep you sleepless. Scott Derrickson’s Sinister is one of those. The movie puts the spotlight on Ethan Hawke a crime novelist Ellison Oswalt. Ellison moves his family into a new home oblivious to the house’s gruesome murder history. After the brutal murder of the whole family, Ellison finds a box of Super 8 reels showing a whole bunch more. The movie’s main evil deity Bughuul is all things scary. The belief is that images of Bughuul function as a gateway for him to step into our world.

If you are looking for the best scary movies on Netflix, this one must make it to your list!

Director: Paul W.S. Anderson

Cast: Sam Neill, Laurence Fishburne, Kathleen Quinlan, and Joely Richardson

If you like your horror with a sci-fi twist, you can’t go wrong with Event Horizon. This 1997 film time travels to 2047 where a crew of astronauts is sent on a rescue mission. All hell is let loose when they discover the mysterious galore and a missing spaceship. This scary film does sci-fi storytelling with out of body physical horror complete justice.

Warning: You might want to avoid watching it right before you sleep.

Director: Gore Verbinski

Cast: Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, and Brian Cox

The Ring remains one of the most overly talked about horror movies streaming on Netflix. Released in the year 2002, the movie grossed nearly $250 million at the box office. With Verbinski’s genius at play, the undertone tension throughout the film does not falter a bit. The story follows a journalist who investigates a cursed videotape that apparently kills anyone who watches it within seven days. There is an engaging central mystery and enough atmosphere to make it the most thrilling experience ever.

Director/Writer: Sam Raimi

Cast: Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Hal Delrich, and Betsy Baker

The Evil Dead remains a cult horror classic to date. A group of college students visits a remote cabin the wood oblivious to the demonic possession trap they are about to fall in. This horror movie is all things brilliant. Sam Raimi gives the characters their own own personality making the gory violence oh so scary to watch. The Evil Dead is a history maker and for all the right reasons. If you plan on watching one, this right here takes the cake.

Director: Vincenzo Natali

Cast: Laysla De Oliveira, Avery Whitted, Patrick Wilson, Will Buie Jr., Harrison Gilbertson

Netflix has tapped into the well that is Stephen King. This scarry movie is presumably simple on paper. Passersby are called into a vast field of tall grass by people pleading for help, only to be unable to find their way back out again. The Stephen King and Jon collaboration add to it their own violence and dastardly horror.

In the tall grass is amazing and confines to the level of the pure horror genre. The movie is ambitious and imaginative and must be on your Netflix watch list today.

Director: James Wan

Cast: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Leigh Whannell, Barbara Hershey

Insidious is one of the scariest movies on Netflix. This spooky tale is packed with haunted violin background, paranormal activities, and shrieking voices that are enough to scare any good soul away.

Insidious packs on its roaming, fluid shots with endless amounts of tension and bursts of nightmarish nonsense. It is one of the most frightening films yet. After 11 years of releasing, this gem of a horror universe is availed on Netflix.

Director: James Wong

Cast: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, and Tony Todd

Final Destination is your ride to a complete horror flick. This story follows a group of airborne passengers who escaped death. Death in return tries to nab each one of them throughout the rest of the film. The hook of Final Destination is the unique way in which Death tries to claim the souls of these individuals. And if you watch this one and are hungry for more, a number of the sequels are also on Netflix.

Director: Susanne Bier

Cast: Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, John Malkovich, Sarah Paulson, Jacki Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Danielle Macdonald, Lil Rel Howery, Tom Hollander, Machine Gun Kelly, BD Wong, Pruitt Taylor Vince

A Netflix sensation, Bird Box follows Sandra Bullock’s reluctant mother-to-be who’s forced to care for two young children after a devastating invasion takes away everyone’s ability to see. Technically, the human beings in this post-apocalyptic scenario still can see if they’re so inclined, but to do so is to invite madness and, ultimately, death. It’s a clever gimmick that’s on par with that of Hush and A Quiet Place. The movie roared to become Netflix’s most-watched in a single month of its release.

Director: Gareth Evans

Cast: Dan Stevens, Richard Elfyn, Paul Higgins

Apostle is one of the scariest movies on Netflix. It leaves you squirmish, uncomfortable, and squinty. If you are a horror movie fan and love a good butchery, chances are this piece of British folk will be your last stop. The absolute carnage and violence in the film builds a sickening sense of tension before all the gory insides of man and abandon craziness unfurls.

Apostle tackles the subjects of faith and fringe society with a lot of heart and zeal. The movie is surprising, it shocks you and it mixes with the legacy of The Wicker Man with a hint of freak. It’ll make you groan and grimace through the torment, but it will get your heart racing in all the right ways.

Director/Writer: Robert Eggers

Cast: Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Ineson, Kate Dickie, and Harvey Scrimshaw

The Witch is one of the scariest (and prettiest) horror movies in recent memory. This wholly original story was billed as “A New England Folktale,” and indeed it takes place in 1630s New England. A family is banished from its home for being too religious, trapped in the woods the family begins to experience supernatural activities. It’s gorgeous, terrifying, and builds to an operatic finale that you won’t soon forget. This isn’t your typical jump-scare or masked menace horror flick. It’s something far more sinister.

These are the top 10 best horror movies on Netflix. This list was last updated on December 5, 2020. We will keep updating this list on a weekly basis as new title premieres on the streaming platform.

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