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Rosemary's Baby 1968
Jumps6 Gore2 Dread10 8.6/10
Polanski's Manhattan satanism plays entirely in daylight, over herbal drinks and neighborly kindness, which is exactly why it's terrifying.
Paramount+ · 11 films ·
Horror movies on Paramount+ right now
11 horror films from our catalog are streaming on Paramount+ in the US, 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 Paramount+11 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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Pearl 2022
Jumps6 Gore6 Dread8 8.1/10
Shot back-to-back with X, this Technicolor origin story lets Mia Goth deliver an unbroken eight-minute confession that should be studied in acting classes.
03
A Quiet Place 2018
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread10 7.9/10
Sound is death, so a family lives in whispers — and the film weaponizes your own theater's silence against you.
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Talk to Me 2022
Jumps10 Gore6 Dread8 7.8/10
An embalmed hand, a party trick, ninety seconds of possession — what could go wrong.
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Hereditary 2018
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread10 7.7/10
Ari Aster's debut smuggles a full-blown occult nightmare inside a family grief drama, and modern horror hasn't recovered since.
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X 2022
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread6 7.5/10
Ti West's slasher about a 1979 porn shoot on the wrong Texas farm is both a loving grindhouse pastiche and a surprisingly tender film about desire and aging.
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Annihilation 2018
Jumps6 Gore6 Dread10 7.4/10
Garland's Shimmer is a slow-rolling ecological nightmare where biology itself stops taking orders.
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It Follows 2014
Jumps6 Gore2 Dread10 7.3/10
A shape only you can see walks toward you forever, passed on like a curse.
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The Witch 2015
Jumps4 Gore2 Dread10 7.3/10
Robert Eggers built 1630s New England from period diaries, right down to the grammar, then let a family devour itself over sin and suspicion at the edge of the woods.
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Saint Maud 2019
Jumps6 Gore4 Dread10 7.2/10
Rose Glass turns a hospice nurse's private faith into a pressure cooker of ecstasy and delusion.
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The Blair Witch Project 1999
Jumps4 Gore2 Dread10 6.8/10
Three student filmmakers hike into the Black Hills and the map stops mattering.
Questions
How many horror movies are on Paramount+ right now?
11 horror films from the WhatScares catalog of 323 are on Paramount+ in the US. That list is from our last hand-check; availability changes, so confirm on Paramount+ before you settle in.
What is the scariest horror movie on Paramount+?
By our own jump-scare rating, Talk to Me (2022) — 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. Availability on this page comes from the catalog's hand-maintained list — somebody checked each film against the US service and wrote it down, and nothing re-checks it 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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