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Train to Busan 2016
Jumps8 Gore6 Dread6 8.7/10
Korea's bullet-train zombie film earns its reputation: relentless set pieces, class satire in coach seating, and a father-daughter arc that leaves audiences wrecked.
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Horror movies on Shudder right now
33 horror films from our catalog are streaming on Shudder 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 Shudder33 films
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Halloween 1978
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread8 8.3/10
Carpenter invented the modern slasher with a synth theme, a William Shatner mask, and the patience to let The Shape simply stand there, watching.
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Exhuma 2024
Jumps6 Gore4 Dread8 8.2/10
A feng shui master, a mortician, and two shamans relocate a wealthy family's ancestral grave and hit something that should have stayed buried.
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I Saw the Devil 2010
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread6 8.2/10
A secret agent catches the serial killer who murdered his fiancée — then releases him, again and again, to prolong the punishment.
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The Wailing 2016
Jumps8 Gore6 Dread10 8.2/10
A bumbling cop, a rainy mountain village, a stranger in the woods, and a possession case where every clue might be a trap.
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Tigers Are Not Afraid 2017
Jumps4 Gore4 Dread6 8.2/10
Orphans of Mexico's cartel wars survive on rooftops with three wishes and the ghosts of the disappeared trailing behind.
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Suspiria 1977
Jumps8 Gore8 Dread8 8.1/10
Argento's candy-colored fever dream about a German dance academy that is obviously, gloriously a coven.
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Late Night with the Devil 2023
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread8 8.0/10
A 1977 late-night talk show airs its Halloween special live, and the broadcast-tape format makes every commercial break a countdown.
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A Tale of Two Sisters 2003
Jumps6 Gore2 Dread10 7.8/10
Kim Jee-woon's baroque family gothic — two sisters, a brittle stepmother, a house of florid wallpaper and locked doors — hides its tragedy inside a puzzle-box structure.
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Oddity 2024
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread10 7.8/10
A blind medium, her murdered twin, and a life-size wooden man delivered to the house where it happened.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre 1974
Jumps10 Gore10 Dread6 7.8/10
Hooper's grimy 16mm nightmare still feels like contraband — a heat-stroke documentary about the family at the end of the road.
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When Evil Lurks 2023
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread8 7.8/10
In Rugna's countryside, possession is livestock disease: there are rules for handling the "rotten," and the film's every catastrophe comes from men breaking them out of pride or panic.
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Audition 1999
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread10 7.7/10
Miike's infamous bait-and-switch: an hour of gentle widower romance, then the sack moves.
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Raw 2016
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 7.7/10
At veterinary school, a lifelong vegetarian tastes meat during hazing week and her appetite opens like a door.
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The Babadook 2014
Jumps6 Gore2 Dread10 7.6/10
A pop-up book about a top-hatted visitor arrives in a grieving household, and Jennifer Kent makes the monster inseparable from a mother's exhausted rage.
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Impetigore 2019
Jumps6 Gore6 Dread8 7.5/10
Two city women return to an ancestral village for an inheritance and find the community has been waiting for them — with shadow puppets skinned in something awful.
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Satan's Slaves 2017
Jumps8 Gore4 Dread8 7.5/10
After a mother's long illness ends, her children start hearing her bell ring through the house.
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The Sadness 2021
Jumps8 Gore10 Dread6 7.4/10
A virus doesn't kill Taipei — it removes every inhibition, and the infected explain themselves while they act.
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Color Out of Space 2019
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 7.3/10
Lovecraft's most unfilmable color, filmed: a meteorite lands on the Gardner farm and reality drifts magenta.
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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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Dark Water 2002
Jumps4 Gore2 Dread10 7.2/10
Nakata follows Ringu with something sadder: a mother mid-custody-battle, a leaking ceiling, a red child's bag that keeps coming back.
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Ju-On: The Grudge 2002
Jumps8 Gore2 Dread8 7.2/10
Shimizu's curse doesn't chase you — it waits where the anger happened and takes everyone who enters, out of order.
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Noroi: The Curse 2005
Jumps6 Gore2 Dread10 7.1/10
A paranormal documentarian's final film, assembled from broadcast clips, variety-show segments, and home video that slowly triangulate a demon's name.
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Shutter 2004
Jumps8 Gore2 Dread8 7.1/10
A Bangkok photographer starts finding a face in his developed film after a hit-and-run.
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Terrified 2017
Jumps10 Gore6 Dread8 7.0/10
In one Buenos Aires block, the dead don't stay across the street.
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Mandy 2018
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 6.9/10
Nicolas Cage forges an axe and hunts a hippie death cult through a world lit like a black-light poster.
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Pulse 2001
Jumps4 Gore2 Dread10 6.9/10
Kiyoshi Kurosawa's internet-age ghost story reads dial-up loneliness as an apocalypse: spirits seeping through screens because the afterlife is as isolating as this one.
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The Dark and the Wicked 2020
Jumps8 Gore6 Dread10 6.8/10
Adult siblings return to the family farm where their father is dying, and something is methodically dismantling everyone's will to live.
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Speak No Evil 2022
Jumps6 Gore6 Dread10 6.7/10
A Danish family visits Dutch friends from vacation, and politeness becomes a fatal disease — every red flag waved away to avoid an awkward scene.
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The Medium 2021
Jumps8 Gore6 Dread10 6.5/10
A documentary crew follows a hereditary shaman in rural Isan as the spirit in her family line picks a new host — or something else does.
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Possum 2018
Jumps4 Gore2 Dread10 6.3/10
Sean Harris carries a leather bag containing a spider-legged puppet he cannot destroy, through the greyest England ever filmed.
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The Void 2016
Jumps6 Gore8 Dread8 6.2/10
Cultists in white sheets surround a night-shift hospital while something Lovecraftian gestates in the basement.
Questions
How many horror movies are on Shudder right now?
33 horror films from the WhatScares catalog of 323 are on Shudder in the US. That list is from our last hand-check; availability changes, so confirm on Shudder before you settle in.
What is the scariest horror movie on Shudder?
By our own jump-scare rating, Terrified (2017) — 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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