Here Are The 18 Best Scary Movies You Can Watch Right Now:
As of now, movie fans are still more interested in scars than ever after Halloween. It helps that Netflix keeps making original movies all year, not just during the Halloween season. This adds to its already amazing collection of scary movies.
That being said, if you don’t mind watching scary movies all year, we made a list of 18 movies that will scare you no matter the season. As an adult, you should only watch scary films if you are courageous and enjoy being frightened.
But there are times when you don’t want to watch an excellent film. What about those of us who like to watch really bad things for some reason? A bad, scary film can’t just be bad, though, because that would be dull.
The most remembered horror movies are the ones that are so awful that no one can forget them. Their level of campiness gets so high that they become works of art.
Also, this is important the scary movie “so bad it’s good” has layers. There’s no way it could be as bad as many of the Halloween movies or as silly as Evil Dead 2. A lot of people would think this mysterious movie is rubbish, but if you keep your mind open, you’ll find something more.
It Comes At Night:
In the years since COVID, this is the scary movie that has really hit home for me. The world in It Comes At Night is a terrifying place, as a deadly plague has claimed the lives of most people.
This movie doesn’t have any zombies or ghosts. Instead, it explores the fear and worry that arise from the knowledge that anyone, including loved ones, may have an incurable disease.
Sense a pattern? The movie is about a family who has to let some strangers into their safe home during a disaster. It is hard to tell who to believe, who is fit, and who might be spreading the dangerous disease without realizing it.
Gerald’s Game:
Is it possible to use a later work to improve a bigger one? When a director explores similar topics in a new work, it often brings to light how he did this in earlier works.
This is also true of Mike Flanagan’s Gerald’s Game, which was an excellent film yet feels even better after seeing Hill House. This isn’t just because Carla Gugino and Henry Thomas give great performances in both films.
Stephen King’s story about a woman trapped in a living nightmare, as well as how the pain of her past affects her chances of survival, is brilliantly brought out by Flanagan. Gugino gives the most outstanding performance on this list; she is brave and memorable.
House II:
House II is one of those movies that you can watch even if you haven’t seen the initial one. It might even be better if you don’t watch the first movie so that you don’t have any ideas before you watch House II.
Is this a scary movie, a bad movie, as well as a really bad comedy? It can be all of those things and more within the land of So-Bad-It’s-Good!
House II is about a couple of wealthy people who move into a house they received. What do they do first? First, locate a family member who is concealed in the backyard! That great-great-grandfather is not really dead; he’s not.
There are also time tunnels in the house that take you back to ancient times or the Aztec culture. Getting ready for a wild ride? Not even the most experienced bad horror movie fan will be able to guess where this one’s going.
The Ring:
Gore Verbinski directed The Ring, which stars Naomi Watts, Martin Henderson, David Dorfman, and Brian Cox. Rachel Keller is a newspaper reporter who doesn’t believe a story that says people die exactly seven days shortly after watching a video tape until four teenagers die after watching the exact same tape.
Rachel looks for the movie and watches it because she is interested. Now, the movie reveals the story behind the evil tape. That’s right, The Ring is the scary movie for you. Don’t believe us when we say it won’t be worth your time; the script for this movie is so great that you can really feel what the characters are feeling.
Slash/Back:
This has been a great year for alien attack movies with Prey and Nope, but Slash/Back was one of the best. Slash/Back was the first movie ever shot in the town of Pangnirtung, Nunavut. It takes place in an Inuit village on Baffin Island in Canada.
Nyla Innuksuk, who co-wrote and directed Slash/Back, gives the genre a creative, playful, and teen-led spin. The musical score for Slash/Back is great, and the main characters are a group of young girls named Maika, Jesse, Uki, Leena, and Aju. They are the village’s greatest opportunity to get rid of the aliens who are stealing bodies.
Really, the skin suits in this movie are making me have nightmares. But Innuksuk lets our cool main characters be who they are: teens. There are scares, blood, and references to John Carpenter’s “The Thing.”
No matter how busy you are, there’s always time for conversations about love. As the girls say within a great battle-prep video, The girls from Pang are not fucked with by anyone.
The Invisible Man:
The Invisible Man is a clever reworking of HG Wells’s science fiction book by Leigh Whannell that makes a sharp point about toxic men and how they gaslight women. Elisabeth Moss plays Cecilia, an artist who has been traumatized by her violent tech businessman husband, Griffin.
Soon, it will be revealed that Griffin took his own life. But is it true? What’s going on with things going bump during the night? There is some respect for the classic Universal Monsters film that this movie is named after, but this is not a polite remake.
It has its own thoughts, like how being in a violent relationship can make life feel like jail. As everyone knows, Moss is a great scream queen.
The Ritual:
Because independent filmmakers don’t have a lot of money these days, horror directors have come up with unique ways to avoid making expensive monsters. Fans of monster movies are used to never seeing the monsters their main characters fight.
The ritual is a thrilling change from this. A group of friends go camping in Sweden to remember a friend who died. On the way there, they decide to cut through a forest, and then some very scary things start to happen to them.
It seems like the directors are always pulling a scary trick when you think you’ll never find out what’s causing all this chaos.
I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House:
The gloomy ghost story by writer-director Osgood Perkins is likely the most controversial movie on this list. It’s more interested in making you feel something than in making you jump. In The Affair, Ruth Wilson portrays a nurse residing in a potentially haunted house.
Perkins’s movie is hard to watch because it has long takes as well as creepy sound design, but it does something that all of the greatest ghost stories do it comes back to you during the midst of the night, such as a moving movie ghost.
Idle Hands:
The Halloween-themed comic Idle Hands doesn’t get enough attention. Devon Sawa, as a young boy whose right hand is taken over by evil, truly brings out the charm and humor. Sawa fights with his murderous hand, as if he had graduated from the school of possessed body parts for the Evil Dead.
This movie is filled with crazy things, such as a bong that saves lives, zombie Seth Green microwaving a frozen meal, and Dexter Holland from The Offspring getting scalped while playing at a high school dance. Idle Hands may not have done well at the box office, yet it’s a funny, clever horror comedy with great practical effects.
Sinister:
Ethan Hawke plays crime writer Ellison Oswald, who desperately needs a hit book after a decade-long dry spell. Then he discovers a movie based on a true story about a family whose death remains unexplained. Following this, he tries to solve the riddle by moving into the house of the victims.
As the movie goes on, Ellison finds more signs that point to the presence of bad power. This movie is very well put together, from the music to the graphics, and it definitely scares you. Sinister is the right movie for you if you want a great, scary night.
Master:
Scary ghosts aren’t nearly as bad as the very real racism that exists in Master’s mostly white school. The social horror/supernatural thriller is Mariama Diallo’s first full-length movie. It opens at an Ivy League university in New England.
Regina Hall, who plays Gail Bishop, is very good at her job. Bishop is the first black professor within the history of the university to be the “master” of a living hall. Freshman Jasmine Moore is one of only a few black students in the hall.
She comes with the new students. The story is based on Jasmine’s thoughts of being alone while she has dreams in her college room. The magical parts of Master are scary, but what really scares the characters the most is the constant fear that comes from family trauma, social rejection, and racial discrimination.
God Told Me To:
It can be hard to play this scary game. Larry Cohen was without a doubt one of the most creative and unique American writer-directors of the 1970s.
His impressive body of work includes low-budget social commentary, low-rent blaxploitation, and some of the most politically charged horror movies ever made. That being said, 35 years later, he only gets one movie into our Top 100.
God Told Me To is without a doubt one of the darkest, sexiest, and strangest movies on this list. The film explores a serial killer, a religious maniac, and an alien abduction, all captured on the gritty streets of mid-1970s New York.
Cohen belongs in the same category as Carpenter and Craven when it comes to horror movies. This might be Cohen’s best work, but It’s Alive, Q The winged serpent and the stuff are all very close.
Rosemary’s Baby:
What could be scarier than being sure you’re not crazy while everyone else is trying to tell you you are? That’s what makes Rosemary’s Baby so scary.
Young people named Rosemary and Guy move into a beautiful apartment in New York City. There, they encounter their overly friendly old neighbors. Guy becomes very close to them, and just as their friendship starts to grow, Guy’s performing career takes off.
Then he and Rosemary make the choice to have a child together. But when she gets pregnant, Rosemary is sure that something is very wrong. Mia Farrow did a great job as a young woman who tries to persuade everyone that she is pregnant with the devil’s child.
The Conference:
This silly, killer comedy is like a mix between Friday the 13th and The Office. It’s about a business vacation that goes horribly wrong. Lina, played by Katia Winter, is pretty much the only nice worker in a group who has to get along at what appears to be a remote summer camp that is being watched by a masked person with a grudge.
It turns out that the people who work for the company that’s building one of those boring shopping malls stole land from people who worked hard to do it.
Someone within a mask that appears to be a spooky theme park experience starts killing these corporate stooges in a cruel way, leaving Lina to try to be the last girl in this clever Swedish genre mix.
House Of Wax:
The writers of The Conjuring also wrote this movie, which doesn’t get enough attention. In House of Wax, a group of high school friends are getting ready to go their different ways after they graduate.
When their car breaks down, their companions go with a stranger to a nearby dead town to get parts for it. The twins there are up to no good, and there is a doll museum that looks a little too real.
This movie takes full advantage of how creepy wax models are, which is why I’ve always been afraid of wax museums. Many people didn’t like House of Wax, especially Paris Hilton’s act, but it’s an original narrative with some really scary as well as interesting set pieces.
The Witch:
Set in New England in the 1630s, The Witch features Anya Taylor-Joy, Ralph Michael Ineson, Kate Dickie, Harvey Scrimshaw, Sarah Elizabeth Stephens, and Ellie Grainger. In a huge, remote forest where no other family lives, a farmer and his family start living a Christian life.
The story starts when their baby son goes missing for no apparent reason and the family’s crops fail. Soon, everyone in the family starts to turn against everyone else. This ranks as one of the scariest movies about the mind that we’ve ever seen. And it’s so intense as well as gripping the whole time. If you haven’t seen it yet, you should.
Resurrection:
Some videos are impossible to get away from. I still get chills when I recall how mesmerizing and peculiar the film’s conclusion was, nearly a year after its Sundance premiere, which was this psychological film. We are captivated by the story of a single mom who effortlessly manages her work-life balance and exudes style in her hair.
But when a guy from her past shows up out of the blue, her life and mind fall apart in a brutal way. With intense acting, shocking turns of events, and stomach-churning tension, Resurrection explores the horrible realities of domestic violence and psychological trauma in a way that is both wonderfully and horrifyingly effective.
Saint Maud:
Rose Glass’s first book is incredibly creepy. It takes place in a normal English coastal town and is full of religious craziness, psychological power plays, and some horrifyingly gross moments.
Morfydd Clark is amazing as the deeply religious live-in nurse Maud, whose first private job brings her to the house of Jennifer Ehle’s ex-dancer, who is dying and has a lot of spikes.
The next dance between the unhappy monk and the sensualist who smokes cigarettes reminds me of the psychological conflicts in Persona, which were a big influence on Saint Maud.
Things quickly got worse after that. It would be fair that Clark would win awards for her amazing physical acting, and Ehle is great. The British horror movie that came out of it is the best since Under the Skin.
