Horror in 2025 has shape-shifted. There are no neat jump-scares or paint-by-numbers slasher routines here. What we’ve seen instead is a wave of discomforting brilliance. Films that burrow under your skin and make a mess of your nerves. This year’s best horror isn’t content with just being scary. It’s unhinged, intimate, politically aware and occasionally feral.
Best Horror Movies Of 2025 On Netflix, Prime Video, JioHotstar And More
Sinners
Where to watch: Prime Video (rent)
Twin brothers try to start over in Mississippi, only to find that home has more horrors than the lives they left behind. A Southern Gothic slow-burn that escalates with brutal precision.
Late Night with the Devil
Where to watch: Lionsgate Play
In 1977, a Halloween special on a struggling talk show turns into a live broadcast of demonic possession. Think Network meets The Exorcist with cigarette smoke and Satanic panic.
Oddity
Where to watch: Prime Video (rent)
A blind psychic tries to solve her sister’s murder and finds herself caught in something far more terrifying. Atmospheric, strange, and built on dread you can’t quite name.
The Ugly Stepsister
Where to watch: TBD
Cinderella’s tale gets gutted and reassembled from her stepsister’s point of view. Brutal, biting and devastatingly honest about beauty, obsession, and twisted fairytale logic.
Companion
Where to watch: Apple TV (rent)
A couples' weekend in the woods is upended by a malfunctioning android. The result is part slasher, part existential crisis. Come for the body count, stay for the uncanny valley.
The Monkey
Where to watch: Prime Video
A cursed wind-up toy monkey and a trail of violent deaths across generations. Stephen King’s influence is unmistakable, but the kills and creature design are fresh hell.
Heart Eyes
Where to watch: TBD
Every Valentine's Day, a red-eyed killer shows up. This year, his victims are done playing nice. A slick, neon-soaked slasher with sharp humour and sharper knives.
28 Years Later
Where to watch: Theatres
The rage virus is back. Quarantined survivors. A mutated infection. A suicide mission across a ravaged Britain. The legacy sequel nails the bleak tone and then amps it.
The Shrouds
Where to watch: TBD
A grieving man builds a machine to speak to the dead. Cronenberg returns to body-horror territory, but this time with grief, decay, and digital ghosts.
Dark Nuns
Where to watch: Prime Video (rent)
Possession, exorcism, and infighting within the clergy. This South Korean horror is equal parts theological debate and all-out supernatural warfare.
Drop
Where to watch: Prime Video (rent)
A blind date becomes a psychological bloodbath when a mother is forced into an impossible choice. Tight, tense, and fuelled by maternal panic.
Peter Pan's Neverland Nightmare
Where to watch: JioHotstar
Peter Pan goes feral and starts stealing children for keeps. Tinker Bell’s gone rogue too. It’s the childhood story no one asked to see warped, but it works.
Clown in a Cornfield
Where to watch: Prime Video (rent)
A factory town. A disgruntled community. And a clown with a vendetta. This is small-town rot made monstrous and stitched together with rage and red balloons.
