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The Shining 1980
Jumps8 Gore6 Dread10 8.6/10
Kubrick's Overlook Hotel is the genre's great architectural villain — carpets, corridors, and one impossible room.
Max · 9 films ·
Horror movies on Max right now
9 horror films from our catalog are streaming on Max in the US. 8 of them were checked on Max's own site on 2026-10-20; the other 1 are from our last hand-check; availability changes, confirm before you settle in. Everything below is ranked by our combined score — the mean of IMDb, the Tomatometer, the Popcornmeter and Douban — with its own jump scare, gore and dread numbers beside it.
Every horror film on Max9 films
Ranked by combined score. The buttons re-sort by our own intensity ratings — how much it makes you jump, how much it shows you, how much it sits on your chest.
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02
The Conjuring 2013
Jumps10 Gore4 Dread6 8.1/10
James Wan's haunted-farmhouse blockbuster rebuilt mainstream horror around craft: hide-and-clap, the wardrobe, the exorcism finale.
03
The Exorcist 1973
Jumps10 Gore6 Dread8 8.1/10
Still the benchmark for possession cinema fifty years on.
04
The Orphanage 2007
Jumps6 Gore2 Dread10 8.0/10
Bayona's Spanish ghost story runs on maternal terror: a woman returns to the seaside orphanage where she grew up, and her son starts talking to a boy in a sack mask.
05
Gremlins 1984
Jumps4 Gore4 Dread2 7.7/10
Three rules, and Joe Dante spends the movie gleefully watching a town break all of them.
06
Barbarian 2022
Jumps10 Gore8 Dread8 7.5/10
Book an Airbnb, find it double-booked, discover the basement has a basement.
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Midsommar 2019
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread10 7.2/10
A breakup movie staged as a Swedish midsummer festival where the flowers breathe and the elders smile too much.
08
Annabelle: Creation 2017
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread6 6.8/10
The best of the Annabelle films by a wide margin — a dollmaker's farmhouse, orphaned girls, and a patient demon.
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Under the Skin 2013
Jumps4 Gore4 Dread10 6.6/10
Scarlett Johansson drives a van through Glasgow, harvesting men into a black void that remains cinema's most economical image of alien indifference.
Questions
How many horror movies are on Max right now?
9 horror films from the WhatScares catalog of 323 are on Max in the US. That list is from our last hand-check; availability changes, so confirm on Max before you settle in.
What is the scariest horror movie on Max?
By our own jump-scare rating, The Exorcist (1973) — 10/10 for jump scares and 8/10 for dread, on a scale we score by hand rather than take from review sites.
What horror was added to Max most recently?
The Shining (1980), which our checks first saw on Max on 2026-09-04.
Where this comes from. 8 of 9 titles here were read from Max's own public pages on 2026-10-20. The rest come from the catalog's hand-maintained availability list, which nothing re-checks automatically. No streaming API is used anywhere on this site, so there is nothing here licensed from a third party and nothing to attribute — and equally, nothing that updates itself the moment a licence expires.
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