As with Parasite, it's an insightful portrayal of a family in crisis, only this time it is because a young girl has been kidnapped by an enormous river-dwelling reptilian beast. Scenes, lines, and images from the Universal Monsters pictures have become so iconic that we sometimes forget they flow as part of an engrossing story. © 2020 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. The Amblin-esque setup opens the door to new frights and new mythology — an unexpected twist for a series built on did-you-hear-that jump scares. Fair warning: You’ll probably end up watching half of the movie through your fingers. After 28 Days Later, Alex Garland established himself as a master of trippy sci-fi, and his 2018 film Annihilation is his trippiest.

What do we want? A father thinks a family retreat to a remote winter cabin over the holidays would be a good idea (sigh), but he is suddenly forced to depart for work, leaving the kids alone with his new girlfriend (whom they naturally despise).

Fun! Sadly, trick-or-treating is ill-advised during a pandemic year, but this means you don't have to spend the run-up to Halloween sewing, stitching, or, more likely, racing to a store to purchase a party outfit. And when the evil does show, it’s not as a jump scare or a special effect—it’s as obvious and stark as it is disturbing.

Boris Karloff returns as Frankenstein's Monster, and Elsa Lanchester is the bookending narrator Mary Shelley and the undead mate of the lumbering, occasionally murderous creature. Download the TV Guide app for iPhone, iPad and Android! Prog rock band Goblin provides the eerily groovy score. I mean, you can — but if you do, you are liable to end up on a "good movies to stream for Halloween" list. I'm not a scientist, but it all checks out to me. As a filicidal father stalking his teen children after a rage-inducing virus turns parents against their offspring, he’s delightfully unhinged.

Crawl is what you get when you mash Jaws with alligators (a worthy combo). If that sounds familiar, it’s very similar to the opening of The Walking Dead (though creator Robert Kirkman promises it’s a coincidence).

Stephen King’s story about a writer, his biggest fan, and a rather ... torturous recuperation process, has only grown in relevancy as social media as connected creators directly to their audiences. You'll never think of a bank of elevators in the same way again. Bike messenger Jim (Cillian Murphy) wakes up from a coma to find London deserted, and soon gets attacked by humans infected by a rage-inducing virus. Vox Media has affiliate partnerships. Hulu's annual "Huluween" category curates a collection of spooky titles, but some of these films deserve their own special spotlight because, well, they’re just that good (and Hulu's library navigation can make them hard to find sometimes). One of the newer movies on this list, The Lodge showcases the most awkward family getaway of all time. Ridley Scott's Alien has been subjected to sequels, prequels, and a face-off against the Predator franchise, but nothing will ever touch the original. Just imagining the first pitch meeting for this movie is entertainment in itself. A crew tasked with cleaning asbestos out of an abandoned mental hospital have their personal conflicts aggravated by the discovery of old audio tapes from an inmate's therapy sessions. It’s also a prequel: 27 years before the events of the first movie, a young Katie is growing up with her mother, her sister, and her mother’s boyfriend. This spooky supernatural thriller is set at a girls school over a winter break and is bursting with a cold, eerie tone. Side note: Anna (Ella Hunt) belting “What a time to be alive,” oblivious to the murderous mayhem raging behind her is one of the best scenes in musical history. As if a Category 5 hurricane isn’t rough enough, the most unfortunate natural disaster happens when the storm lets loose on an alligator farm, causing a father-daughter duo to have to navigate rising waters and carnivorous reptiles. The film is written and directed by Osgood Perkins, son of Psycho's Anthony Perkins, so, in a way, making movies packed with tension and sharp knives is the family business. The Best Horror Movies to Watch on Netflix. Our forefathers didn't die for our right to Netflix and Chill for nothing. Before horror films got "elevated" they were gleefully full of gratuitous gore and glimpses of unnecessary nudity. When the American military dumps chemicals into the waterway, a mysterious ocean creature emerges from the River Han and snatches a local vendor’s daughter, pushing her father to embark on a crazed quest to save her. If you’ve burned through all the horror movies on Netflix, don’t fear because there is so much more fear to be had. The 2006 South Korean classic is a monster film like no other. The only mar on this film is the underwhelming monster design itself, which I can excuse because A Quiet Place isn’t really about the monsters.

Keep track of your favorite shows and movies, across all your devices. Join Talia Shire, Robert Foxworth, and New York Italian-American Armand Assante as a leader of the Penobscot Tribal Nation in Maine in this John Frankenheimer film that starts as a conspiratorial thriller, then catapults into insanity.

Animal and plant life has mutated inside The Shimmer — plants grow into human silhouettes, a bear screams in their missing teammate’s voice — but that’s not nearly as frightening as the psychological effects on the scientists themselves.

As a kid, the best part about Halloween was trick-or-treating and stuffing myself sick on sweet treats. October 31 is the only date in the calendar year when someone could drag a corpse around the streets without anybody thinking twice. The gang ends up in a supernatural pit of horrors, and the result is 90 intensely claustrophobic minutes with quality jump scares and at least one sequence of pure terror. Murderous ursine beasts are terrorizing the woods, and it's all because a paper mill is keeping its logs soaked in mercury to make a profit. I don’t know if I’d call it inspiration exactly, but Stephen King would probably be impressed. Disney is offering a bundle combining its three streaming services — Disney Plus, Hulu, and ESPN Plus — for $12.99/month. This gimmick is played out over 81 minutes, and from every possible angle. Home on your couch, only your neighbors can hear you scream. The tension factor is a solid 10 in this movie featuring a son’s rising suspicion that his Christian-rooted family dad could be a notorious murderer. It's out there, in broad daylight, just a few minutes into the film. I personally keep Babadook (2014), The Conjuring (2013), Hush (2016), Demonic (2015), and Last Shift (2014) in my Netflix queue for that late night scare itch.

Before he won the Oscar for Parasite, South Korean director Bong Joon Ho, following up on the realistic police drama Memories of Murder, surprised audiences with this shocking monster movie with cutting edge special effects. Even more worrisome: Steve claims that the man is the literal devil. No Halloween list should be deprived of a classic Italian giallo, and while there are no shortage available on subscription services (hooray for easy licensing deals, I guess), Deep Red is a quality choice for either a first taste or a revisit. The Host bucked tradition by famously not waiting until the end to let audiences get a good glimpse of the creature. / To that end, let's make sure we pack this list with one movie that is absolutely idiotic but loaded with gorgeous imagery.

The following horror and thriller movies have been rated at least 4 out of 5 for jump scare frequency and intensity by the Where’s The Jump?

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