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The greatest horror movies of all time get under your skin with original conceits. They sharpen your paranoia to burrow down into your brain. They grab hold of your heart with iconic imagery-you’ll never forget Freddy’s claws, no matter how hard you try. Most of the major streaming services take spooky, scary dramas quite seriously, including Amazon. So switch off the lights, grab a blanket, and hold your nearest loved one-these stream-ready horror movies are here to fill your head with nightmares. Have fun!

Can’t get enough horror? Make sure to check out our list of The Best Horror Movies of 2020.

Cabin in the Woods (2011)

Drew Goddard’s (The Martian) horror-comedy Cabin in the Woods plays off the classically creepy, tried-and-true trope of the, you guessed it, cabin in the woods. It’s set up with a handful of cliches-a group of college kids, representing each stereotype you’d expect in a horror flick, go away for a weekend stay in a desolate cabin-but takes a turn, and a smart one at that. There isn’t a group of cannibals or a psychopathic innkeeper out to get them, but rather a whole organization unleashing supernatural beings onto them for their own entertainment. Starring a freshly Thor-ed out Chris Hemsworth and produced by Joss Whedon, Cabin in the Woods goes in hard to subvert its own premise from the (under)ground up to become an unexpectedly fun and bloody type of creature feature.
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Child’s Play (2019)

Children of the Corn (1984)

This adaptation of Stephen King’s horror short story is campy and light on production value, but hell, those kids. From the opening massacre at a local diner to the several deaths at the hands of “He Who Walks Behind the Rows,” this rural shlock pairs perfectly with a bucket of your own (popped) corn.
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Climax (2019)

Director Gaspar Noé sure knows how to make divisive movies. On a surface level, Climax is about a large dance troupe whose big party goes terribly wrong when someone spikes the punch with hard drugs and everyone pretty much loses their mind. The movie starts out in fascinating fashion-a bunch of interviews with the dancers is followed by one of the wildest single-shot dance numbers you’ll ever see-then it slowly, gradually, eventually gets all sorts of mean, cruel, nihilistic, and nasty. Whether or not there’s an actual point to all this drug-induced madness, however, is up to you.
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Crawl (2019)

Crawl is a movie that gives you exactly what you want. It’s a short, tight creature feature about a swimmer and her dad trapped in a crawl space with a bunch of hungry gators during a hurricane. The plot unfolds just as you’d expect, but in ways that nonetheless keep your pulse racing. Kaya Scodelario plays Haley, who drives into the eye of a big Florida storm to check in on her unresponsive dad Dave (Barry Pepper). He’s not at his apartment, but she does find him gravely injured in the basement of her childhood home with some scaly villains roaming around. As this child-parent pair tries to escape rising waters and snapping jaws, director Alexandre Aja ramps up the tension with well-executed jump scares and just the right amount of gore. The emotional beats feel perfunctory at best, but Haley and Dave’s baggage comes in handy when the lizard threat mounts. It’s a perfect summertime chiller: lean, mean, and fun as hell.
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Gretel & Hansel (2020)

High Life (2019)

French filmmaker Claire Denis makes movies that claw at the brain and activate the senses, and with High Life, she crafted a story that’s equal parts heady prison thriller, psycho-sexual medical mystery, and bong-rip journey through the cosmos. Bouncing backwards and forwards in chronology, the story tracks quiet inmate Monte (Robert Pattinson) as he raises a baby in a cavernous, dorm-like shuttle in one timeline and attempts to thwart the secretive plans of an oddball scientist (Juliette Binoche) in another thread. Exactly how Monte ends up alone with the baby, playing the role of single parent in the stars, would be the central question of a more conventional sci-fi narrative, and there are surprising plot twists and shocking violent acts committed here. But Denis fills the movie with curious images and wild ideas that complicate the dystopian set-up. High Life resists the solutions of puzzle-box filmmaking, choosing instead to explore its own perilous terrain of desire.
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The Hole in the Ground (2019)

The Hole in the Ground, an Irish horror film of considerable ferocity, is unafraid of the obvious. As the title promises, there is a large hole in the ground, which ends up being a source of great stress for Sarah (Seána Kerslake) and her son Chris (James Quinn Markey) who move to the countryside to escape a troubled home life. They want a new start, but their new digs have issues. In addition to the gnarly pit waiting for them in the forest, the duo must also contend with a creepy old woman with a dark past, some creepy bugs, and their own growing suspicion of each other. This is more of a meat-and-potatoes horror film, one where the music pounds away at a punishing volume and the scares arrive like clockwork. You know what’s at the bottom of the hole, but you won’t be able to resist digging in.
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Insidious (2010)

Haunted house tales are nothing new in horror movies. Same goes for creepy kids. But when horror director extraordinaire James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring) and Blumhouse got their hands on these classic motifs, they reinvented them and launched an entirely new spooky franchise that stretches across four films and has earned more than half a billion dollars at the box office. The original installment follows a couple (Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne) whose son falls into a coma after a strange encounter in their new home, and then, as you might expect, strange things start happening.
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Ju-on: The Grudge (2002)

Ju-On: The Grudge is an unabashed haunted-house horror story through and through. Writer/director Takashi Shimizu doesn’t set out to reinvent the wheel with this tale of numerous tenants and two tenacious ghosts, but he does manage to wring several great scares out of a potentially over-familiar premise. This one went on to spawn all sorts of remakes, sequels, and spinoffs, including an American version of the film (which finds virtually nothing changed) starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. Also available on Prime, the pair together would make for a nice late-night double feature, given that they’re both directed by Shimuzu.
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The Lighthouse (2019)

In The Witch director Robert Eggers’ The Lighthouse, two colorfully rotten men played by Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson are tasked with keeping an isolated lighthouse running, but they quickly succumb to boredom, animosity, and frequently amusing madness. Visually striking and oddly compelling, this bizarre combination of dark comedy and offbeat thriller may go to some unexpected places (including one wild sex scene with a mermaid), but it’s certainly never boring.
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Midsommar (2019)

Have you ever found yourself on a vacation trip you immediately regretted? Weird people, freaky food, uncomfortable lodgings, and your boyfriend is acting like a real piece of shit, and all you can do is try your best to grin and bear it until you can finally return home? We’ve all been there, and now there’s a supremely creepy “folk horror” story from horror auteur Ari Aster (Hereditary) that captures that discomfort perfectly. In a nutshell, four college friends, plus one of the group’s grieving girlfriends (Florence Pugh), visit an obscure Swedish summer solstice festival deep in the Scandinavian forest-and things go from odd to uncomfortable to downright horrific. To say much more would ruin the dreadful fun.
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My Friend Dahmer (2017)

Most true-crime fans can rattle off the DSM’s characteristics of a psychopathic killer: antisocial, a history of mental illness, and a fascination with killing or dissecting animals, on top of a handful of other eerie benchmarks. My Friend Dahmer puts that textbook definition onto screen to illustrate who exactly infamous, 17-time-murderer Jeffrey Dahmer (Ross Lynch) was before his horrific killing spree began. Adapted from real-life former classmate John Backderf’s graphic novel and memoir, the thriller is as close a look as ever at Dahmer’s psychology. While not entirely hesitant to prescribe empathy to the serial killer who did grow up as an isolated, lonely young man, the film never strays from being utterly chilling as it cautiously evaluates the subject’s psyche.
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Overlord (2018)

Pet Sematary (2019)

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

The ’90s take on Sleepy Hollow is as goth as could be. It’s one of the many team-ups between Tim Burton and Johnny Depp, who stars as Ichabod Crane, features the likes of Wednesday Addams herself Christina Ricci, and the stylized filmmaker manages to make the legend of the headless horseman and his decapitating frenzy on the town of Sleepy Hollow extra creepy. Like many of Burton’s works, this one is all about atmosphere, turning the classic American story into a dark fairy tale. You’ll feel that New England autumn breeze send shivers down your spine, and avoid forests that are a little too eerie for some time.
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Southbound (2016)

Every so often we see the release of a horror “anthology” movie that reinvigorates the medium just by existing. Slightly more impressive is a multi-story anthology that somehow manages to tie all the stories together at the end. There isn’t a weak link in Southbound, which entwines five stories into a tangible desert highway purgatory. Those who hold a fondness for old EC horror comics (or the original Creepshow) would do well to track this one down.
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Suspiria (2019)

It takes a lot of bravery to remake what is arguably the finest horror film of Dario Argento’s career-and fans of the original film should be deeply grateful that a new rendition was handed to director Luca Guadagnino (Call Me By Your Name) who clearly knows and loves the original. What we have here is an epic horror film that follows the quiet but very ominous activities of an elite Berlin dance school faculty, and the unfortunate young women who begin to suspect the truth about the school. Even given the original movie’s place in the horror hall of fame, there’s something truly, wildly, indelibly ambitious about this beautifully scary film. And that score by Thom Yorke!
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Train to Busan (2016)

There are so many zombie movies and TV shows, it’s hard to know what’s actually good and what’s garbage. But the South Korean import Train to Busan is one of the most novel, clever, and refreshingly entertaining and crushing zombie massacres to hit the screen in quite some time. It’s about nothing more than a father and his young daughter who board a train from Seoul to Busan just as a very expeditious zombie virus has hit the area. Onboard the train, you’ll find a colorful collection of amusing disaster movie archetypes, from a gruff bully and his pregnant wife to a teenage girl with a crush on a hunky baseball player (Parasite’s Choi Woo-shik), and Yeon Sang-Ho, in his debut, does an expert job of ramping up the zombie insanity at frequent and regular intervals. Also on Amazon: Yeon’s animated prequel that takes place the day before the events of Train to Busan, Seoul Station.
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The Uninvited (2009)

Stepmothers have gotten a bad rap in fiction, and The Uninvited leans into this nightmare of a fairytale-trope with all of its weight. The movie centers on a young woman named Anna (Emily Browning) who returns home from a stint in the hospital following a suicide attempt after the disturbing death of her mother, only to find her father remarried to her late mother’s former nurse. Not only is she haunted by what feels like an entirely new home life, but she also sees visions of her dead mother yearning for her to uncover the truth of her death. The plot may be pretty predictable, but there’s a handful of frights that will leave you just as fearful as Anna in her own home.
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Unsane (2018)

The set-up of Unsane alone is interesting: The impressively eclectic Steven Soderbergh tackles full-bore horror with a movie shot entirely with an iPhone camera. But is it any good? Survey says: thankfully, yes. It’s a noir-style paranoia thriller about a troubled woman (Claire Foy) who unwittingly signs herself up to be remanded to an asylum, and things get even twistier from there.
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

Horror at its most primal. Director Lynne Ramsay teams up with the incredible Tilda Swinton for a stylized, psychologically rich portrait of a mother sent into crisis after her son commits an unforgivable crime. Featuring winning turns from John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller, the movie explores visceral, ugly truths without blinking. It’s the type of movie that will get you talking-unless you’re left in stunned silence.
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