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The best horror on Prime Video right now
Right now the best horror films and series on Prime Video in the United States are Supernatural (2005), American Horror Story (2011) and Hannibal (2013). This is the top 27 streaming there today, ranked by how well rated each one is, how many people have rated it, and what people are watching now.
Updated November 12, 2026 · streaming in the United States
1. Supernatural2005
Series · 15 seasonsDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.3
When they were boys, Sam and Dean Winchester lost their mother to a mysterious and demonic supernatural force. Subsequently, their father raised them to be soldiers.
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Peacock2. American Horror Story2011
Series · 13 seasonsDrama, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.1
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
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fuboTV+13. Hannibal2013
Series · 3 seasonsDrama, Crime★ 8.3
Both a gift and a curse, Graham has the extraordinary ability to think like his prey—he sees what they see, feels what they feel.
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Philo
Plex (free)4. Carrie2026
Series · 2 seasonsMystery, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.3
After her father's sudden, untimely death thrusts her into the unforgiving ecosystem of public high school, Carrie is forced to navigate a viral bullying scandal that tears through her community, the relentless pressure and casual cruelty…
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Amazon MX Player (free)5. The Thing1982
Film · 1h 49mHorror, Mystery, Science Fiction★ 8.1
A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.
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6. Chucky2021
Series · 3 seasonsCrime, Comedy, Mystery★ 7.8
After a vintage Chucky doll turns up at a suburban yard sale, an idyllic American town is thrown into chaos as a series of horrifying murders begin to expose the town’s hypocrisies and secrets.
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Spectrum On Demand7. iZombie2015
Series · 5 seasonsDrama, Crime, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 7.8
A medical student who becomes a zombie joins a Coroner's Office in order to gain access to the brains she must reluctantly eat so that she can maintain her humanity.
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Pluto TV (free)8. Scream Queens2015
Series · 2 seasonsMystery, Comedy★ 7.8
The super-charged comedy-horror series is a modern take on the classic whodunit with a killer cast.
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Disney+
Hulu9. Death Note2006
Series · 1 seasonAnimation, Mystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.6
Light Yagami is an ace student with great prospects—and he’s bored out of his mind. But all that changes when he finds the Death Note, a notebook dropped by a rogue Shinigami death god.
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Prime Video
Hulu
Crunchyroll+610. Tale of the Nine Tailed2020
Series · 1 seasonSci-Fi & Fantasy, Drama, Comedy★ 8.4
A TV producer discovers a secret supernatural world as she becomes entangled with a former deity who's spent centuries searching for his lost lover.
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Prime Video
Roku Channel (free)
Rakuten Viki (free)+111. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure2012
Series · 6 seasonsAnimation, Action & Adventure, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 8.6
Follow the intergenerational feud between the Joestar Family and various forces of evil, the most prominent of which is Dio Brando and his followers.
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Prime Video
Hulu
Crunchyroll+412. Hereditary2018
Film · 2h 8mHorror, Mystery, Thriller★ 7.3
When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about her ancestry.
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Hulu
YouTube Free (free)13. The Institute2025
Series · 2 seasonsMystery, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 7.5
When 14 year old genius Luke Ellis is kidnapped, he awakens at The Institute, a facility full of children who all got there the same way he did, and who are all possessed of unusual abilities.
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fuboTV
MGM+
Spectrum On Demand+114. Them2021
Series · 2 seasonsDrama, Mystery, Crime★ 7.6
A limited anthology series that explores terror in America.
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Prime Video
Amazon MX Player (free)15. Carrie1976
Film · 1h 38mHorror, Thriller★ 7.3
Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.
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HBO Max16. The Walking Dead: World Beyond2020
Series · 2 seasonsDrama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy★ 7.3
A heroic group of teens sheltered from the dangers of the post-apocalyptic world receive a message that inspires them to leave the safety of the only home they have ever known and embark on a cross-country journey to find the one man who…
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Shudder+117. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre1974
Film · 1h 23mHorror★ 7.3
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Philo+718. Garth Marenghi's Darkplace2004
Series · 1 seasonComedy, Mystery, Action & Adventure★ 8.0
When the Hellmouth opens beneath Darkplace Hospital in downtown Romford, kiddy doctor, Vietnam veteran and ex-warlock Dr. Rick Dagless M.D. is the only man who can close it. Joined by best buddy Dr.
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Pluto TV (free)19. Midsommar2019
Film · 2h 27mHorror, Drama, Mystery★ 7.1
Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them.
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Fandango at Home Free (free)
Xumo Play (free)20. Ghostland2018
Film · 1h 31mHorror★ 7.4
A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters’ lives.
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Prime Video
Bloodstream
Fawesome (free)21. An American Werewolf in London1981
Film · 1h 37mComedy, Horror★ 7.4
American tourists David and Jack are savagely attacked by an unidentified animal while hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. After retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon begins experiencing disturbing changes to his…
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Howdy+722. Good Boy2026
Film · 1h 50mDrama, Mystery, Horror★ 7.2
Tommy, a volatile 19-year-old, revels in drugs, parties and violence. After getting separated from his friends on a drunken bender, he is abducted by a shadowy figure.
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Kanopy (free)
Hoopla (free)
Tubi (free)23. Pearl2022
Film · 1h 42mHorror, Drama★ 7.2
Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother.
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Prime Video
Kanopy (free)
Hoopla (free)
Roku Channel (free)+424. Nosferatu1922
Film · 1h 34mHorror, Fantasy★ 7.6
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
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AMC+
Night Flight Plus
Shudder+2525. Absentia2017
Series · 3 seasonsCrime, Drama, Mystery★ 7.3
A missing FBI agent reappears six years after being declared dead.
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Netflix
Prime Video26. Succubus2024
Film · 1h 43mHorror, Thriller★ 8.3
A new father going through a marital separation joins a dating app and matches with a beautiful but mysterious young woman...
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Shout! Factory
Fawesome (free)
Plex (free)27. Let the Right One In2008
Film · 1h 55mHorror, Drama★ 7.5
When Oskar, a sensitive, bullied 12-year-old boy, meets his new neighbor, the mysterious and moody Eli, they strike up a friendship.
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fuboTV
Peacock
Magnolia Selects+9
Questions
- What are the best horror films and series on Prime Video right now?
- In the United States, as of November 12, 2026: Supernatural (2005), rated 8.3 out of 10 on TMDB, then American Horror Story and Hannibal.
- How is this list made?
- Watchwalla asks TMDB for everything of this kind that streams in your country today, ranks it by rating (pulled toward the middle until enough people have rated a title), with a nudge for what's new and what people are watching now, and refreshes the list every day. Streaming availability comes from JustWatch, through TMDB.
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- Yes. The picker at watchwalla.com/tonight asks who's watching, how much time you have and what you're in the mood for, and gives three picks streaming where you are. Sign in and every title also gets a match score for your own taste.
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