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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 2026-09-04; 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.
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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.
Where this comes from. 8 of 9 titles here were read from Max's own public pages on 2026-09-04. 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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