The Best Netflix Horror Movies

Julia Allen (11th), Reporter

If there’s any good time to watch horror movies, it’s October. The weather is getting chilly, people are in the mood for Halloween, and everyone wants to hang out with friends, cuddle up with a warm blanket, and make themselves tremble with fright.

A lot of classic horror movies are hard to find nowadays, but one thing that is easily accessible and most people already own is Netflix. There may not be every single horror movie, but it is home to a lot of fantastic thrillers, slashers, and paranormal movies alike. Here are the top five horror movies on Netflix, just in time for that Halloween weather.

  1. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. (2007)

This horror film is based on a play and it is a musical. It tells the story of a man who was once a barber and how he was wrongfully imprisoned, but after fifteen years gets released. When he comes back, he learns his wife is dead and the local judge had takes custody of his daughter. Angry and shaken, he vows revenge. He opens a barber shop where he begins to murder.

  1. Children of the Corn (1984)

Children of the Corn is a cult classic, in which an innocent physician gets a new job, and must go on a cross country drive to get there. While driving they find a town, inhabited by only children. These children are worshippers of their makeshift leader, Isaac. The physician soon realizes they are a part of a demonic cult, and tries to leave.

  1. Hush (2016)

One of the newer movies on the list, Hush is a adrenaline rushing horror that shows the audience the life of both a deaf and mute writer. This writer is in for quite the surprise when a masked killer shows up at her doorstep. When he learns of her disability, he wants to play a sadistic game with her.

      2.The Sixth Sense (1999)

  A young child named Cole is burdened with a deep secret, in which even his parents don’t know about or understand. The only person he learns to trust is an adult psychologist named Malcolm. Dr. Malcolm helps Cole get over the fear that comes with his secret, and with this, comes a big secret about himself.

  1. The Exorcist (1973)

 

A reigning classic, The Exorcist is often named one of the top horror movies of all time, and the audience is lucky enough to have it on Netflix. It tells the story of one of the first documented exorcisms, when a little girl starts displaying odd behavior. The girl’s parents call a priest, who believes that the girl must be saved as she has been taken by the devil.

  The time has come for horror movies. It is October so as said before, grab some friends, eat lots of Halloween candy, and get spooky!