These 10 Horror Movies on Amazon Prime Should Be on Your Watchlist (#1 Has 95% Rotten Tomatoes Score)

The horror genre is expanding, and every now and then, we get an amazing horror flick that becomes the talk of the town. And thanks to streaming services like Amazon Prime, these horror movies are easily accessible to millions of fans. However, like it’s hard to find a needle in a haystack, it’s not easy to find good horror movies on a streaming service. So, to help you out, here are some of the best horror movies on Amazon Prime.

10. A Quiet Place: Day One

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  • Release Date: June 28, 2024
  • Director: Michael Sarnoski
  • Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Joseph Quinn, Djimon Hounsou
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.3/ 87%

A Quiet Place: Day One serves as the prequel and a spin-off to the ‘A Quiet Place’ film series. The film showcases the early days of the alien invasion on Earth. It revolves around a woman suffering from a terminal illness navigating the chaotic situation with her cat and the other survivors.

The film received mixed reviews from the global fandom. While a portion of fans praised it for its emotional depth and the brilliant use of sound and silence to showcase fear, others criticized it for having a thin and less scary storyline compared to the other films in the franchise. However, everyone appreciated Lupita Nyong’o for her powerful performance.

9. The Invitation

The Invitation
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  • Release Date: April 8, 2016
  • Director: Karyn Kusama
  • Cast: Logan Marshall-Green, Tammy Blanchard, Michiel Huisman, Emayatzy Corinealdi, Lindsay Burdge, Michelle Krusiec, Mike Doyle, Jay Larson, John Carroll Lynch
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.6/ 90%

The Invitation revolves around Will, who drives his girlfriend to the lavish dinner party being hosted by his ex-wife, Eden, and her new husband, David. They are also joined by some other guests whom David and Eden introduce as their friends. As the story moves forward, Will starts getting suspicious of the hosts’ real motives.

The film won hearts with its gripping suspense, stable pacing, and the strong performance by every actor involved, especially Logan Marshall-Green. Besides that, critics applauded the film’s direction that smartly transitioned a simple dinner party into a trail of nightmarish events.

8. The Babadook

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  • Release Date: May 22, 2014
  • Director: Jennifer Kent
  • Cast: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall, Barbara West, Ben Winspear
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.8/ 98%

The Babadook is an Australian Film that doesn’t feature many jump scares, but it does haunt its viewers psychologically. The movie is about a woman and her son being haunted by an entity from the Children’s book. But the narrative is much more complex than it seems on the cover.

The film also explores themes of trauma, loss, grief, and redemption. While there are several horror movies that lack the “good story” element, this one surely surprises you with a deep and emotional narrative that stays with you for a long time.

7. The Black Phone

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  • Release Date: June 24, 2022
  • Director: Scott Derrickson
  • Cast: Mason Thames, Madeleine McGraw, Jeremy Davies, James Ransone, Ethan Hawke
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 6.9/ 81%

Taking place in suburban Denver in 1978, the film follows a 13-year-old boy, Finney Shaw, who gets abducted by a serial killer named The Grabber. The kidnapper keeps Finney in the basement, where the kid starts getting calls from the deceased victims of The Grabber. The ghostly kids guide Finney on how to escape the captivity. While the boy struggles to flee from the prison, his sister, on the other side, tries harder to find him using her psychic visions.

The film was a major success and Ethan Hawke earned huge praise for playing The Grabber so well. The Black Phone’s horror and the coming-of-age elements makes it worth a while.

6. The Cabin in the Woods

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Image Credit: Lionsgate (via Amazon)
  • Release Date: July 20, 2016
  • Director: Drew Goddard
  • Cast: Kristen Connolly, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz, Jesse Williams, Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7/ 92%

The Cabin in the Woods is one of those horror movies that, to this day, inspires several filmmakers to take risks in terms of narrative. The movie has a simple and straightforward premise: five people visit a cabin in the woods but are haunted by several evil forces.

However, the manner in which everything has been executed in the movie is beyond amazing. Honestly, if you haven’t watched this movie yet, then you surely haven’t explored the best of the horror genre.

5. Midsommar

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  • Release Date: July 3, 2019
  • Director: Ari Aster
  • Cast: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Ellora Torchia, Archie Madekwe, Will Poulter
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.1/ 83%

Midsommar is a folk horror film that revolves around Dani, an American student who is grieving the deaths of her parents and her bipolar sister. The trauma also distances her from her already distant boyfriend, Christian. However, a month later, Christian invites her to join him and their friends for a Midsummer festival in Harga, his ancestral commune. However, none of them prepared themselves for the horror that awaited them.

Midsommer is a stunner that no horror fanatic should miss. With the unsettling environment, excellent cinematography, and strong performances, the film garnered a massive viewership upon its release.

4. Nosferatu

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Image Credit: Maiden Voyage Pictures (via Prime Video)
  • Release Date: December 25, 2024
  • Director: Robert Eggers
  • Cast: Bill Skarsgård, Nicholas Hoult, Lily-Rose Depp, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Emma Corrin, Willem Dafoe
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.2/ 84%

Bram Stoker gave us the novel Dracula, which was then adapted into the silent film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror, released in 1922. It became one of the horror classics of all time, and then Robert Eggers picked it up to give the story a modern touch for a new audience in 2024. The film revolves around a young girl named Ellen, who summons a vampire named Count Orlok to overcome loneliness. The vampire gets obsessed with her beauty and returns to her after several years, when Ellen’s husband makes a property deal with Count Orlok.

The film mainly received positive reviews and garnered huge praise for its amazing gothic visuals, eerie sound scores, and strong performances.

3. Hereditary

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  • Release Date: June 8, 2018
  • Director: Ari Aster
  • Cast: Toni Collette, Alex Wolff, Milly Shapiro, Ann Dowd, Gabriel Byrne
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.3/ 90%

I haven’t seen a more disturbing film than Hereditary. After the elderly adult of the Graham family passes away, the family starts facing bizarre and disturbing visions. A sinister force emerges and pushes the family into the world of possessions, cults, trauma, and grief.

Hereditary is considered one of the best horror movies ever made. The film doesn’t feature unnecessary jump scares, but it does tingle your spine with the disturbing environment and occult elements.

2. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

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  • Release Date: October 11, 1974
  • Director: Tobe Hooper
  • Cast: Marilyn Burns, Paul A. Partain, Edwin Neal, Jim Siedow, Gunnar Hansen
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.4/ 84%

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) laid the foundation for the acclaimed horror franchise, which leaves no stone unturned in giving you goosebumps with its gore. The film follows a group of five friends who, crossing the muddy backroads, chase a grave after hearing that the place has been vandalized. Their trip to the rural area takes a nightmarish turn when they stumble into an old farmhouse and meet Leatherface and his cannibalistic family.

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre featured a gut-punch appeal, so when it was released in the theatres, the brutality in it sparked outrage among the fandom and critics. The film even got banned in several countries. So, even if you’re a horror fanatic, beware before watching the film as The Texas Chain Saw Massacre might turn out to be the most gory film you have watched to date.

1. Train to Busan

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Image Credit: Next Entertainment World (via Amazon)
  • Release Date: July 20, 2016
  • Director: Yeon Sang-ho
  • Cast: Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, Kim Eui-sung
  • IMDb/Rotten Tomatoes: 7.6/ 95%

If you’re looking for one of the best zombie horror movies, then you surely can’t miss out on Train to Busan. The Korean movie took the world by storm by delivering some of the most gruesome and bone-chilling sequences.

The fact that a man had to save some innocent people, including a child, from thousands of infected inside a movie train made the movie all the more exciting and scary. Facing these flesh-eating monsters in a closed space like a moving train is an unsettling setting that’ll keep you on the edge from start to finish.

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