Being a fan of all things spooky is especially rewarding when you are watching the best horror movies on Pluto TV. Not only is that because Pluto TV is free, but also because the streaming service has so many of the all-time best horror movies available to watch right now. We picked out some of our favorites for you, below.
The Ring (2002)
A journalist (played by Naomi Watts) investigates a mysterious death linked to a disturbing video tape.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Gore Verbinski’s The Ring is one of the few Americanized remakes of a classic Japanese horror movie that is widely considered to be as hauntingly creepy as the original.
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers (1978)
A group of San Franciscans struggle to avoid falling prey to an epidemic causing people to be replaced with emotionless clones.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Out of the many cinematic versions of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman’s chilling, atmospheric adaptation – also one of the late Donald Sutherland’s best movies – might just be the best.
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You’re Next (2013)
An already awkward family reunion quickly becomes a nightmare when a group of masked assailants invade their isolated home.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Director Adam Wingard and writer Simon Barrett’s You’re Next is a satisfyingly clever and brutal home invasion thriller that also boasts one of the most badass modern final girls in Sharni Vinson’s Erin.
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The Return Of the Living Dead (1985)
Two medical supply warehouse employees accidentally release a chemical that causes the dead to rise from their graves.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: The film that introduced the concept of the undead craving brains is director Dan O’Bannon’s The Return of the Living Dead – a thoroughly fun zombie movie classic with a kick-ass soundtrack.
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Goodnight Mommy (2015)
When their mother (played by Susanne Wuest) returns home after receiving cosmetic surgery, twin brothers (played by Lukas and Elisa Schwarz) begin to suspect that she is not who she claims to be.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Severin Fiala and Veronika Franz’s Austrian import, Goodnight Mommy, is a suffocatingly eerie nightmare that might have you crying for (or in fear of) your own mother.
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Bliss (2019)
An increased desperation to get over her creative block sends a prolific painter (played by Dora Madison) into a surreal, deadly downward spiral.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Without giving too much away, writer and director Joe Begos’ Bliss is one of the most narratively subversive and visually striking takes on an otherwise common topic of horror lore in recent memory.
Frailty (2001)
A man (played by Matthew McConaughey) recalls shocking memories of his father (played by Bill Paxton), whom he helped hunt people he believed were demons in disguise, to an FBI agent (played by Powers Boothe).
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Paxton also makes his directorial debut with Frailty – one of the most absorbing and underrated horror films of its time.
Let Me In (2010)
A lonely boy (played by Kodi Smith-McPhee) discovers that his new friend (played by Chloë Grace Moretz) is hiding a strange and deadly secret.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Tomas Alfredson had already crafted one of the greatest vampire movies ever with his adaptation of Swedish author John Ajvide Lindqvist’s Let the Right One In, but Matt Reeves’ English-language update, Let Me In, is an equally powerful and unsettling tale of young love.
Night Of The Living Dead (1968)
A man (played by Duane Jones) struggles to maintain order among the survivors with whom he takes refuge against the flesh-eating reanimated corpses shuffling outside.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: The film that kicked off George A. Romero’s legendary Dead franchise and the modern zombie genre was Night of the Living Dead, which also boasts one of the most resourceful horror movie characters with Jones’ Ben.
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Nosferatu (1922)
A German real estate agent (played by Alexander Granach) discovers that his latest client (played by Max Schreck) is a dangerous creature.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Before Universal released its 1931 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, F.W. Murnau released his own, arguably much scarier interpretation, Nosferatu, which has a remake by Robert Eggers set to release in late 2024.
Terrifier 2 (2022)
A high school student (played by Lauren LaVera) finds herself taunted by a notorious serial killer dressed as a clown (played by David Howard Thornton) on Halloween.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Writer and director Damien Leone crafts a surprisingly more brutal sequel to his already shocking creepy clown movie with Terrifier 2.
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Battle Royale (2000)
A recently passed government law forces a group of troubled underage students to compete in a fight to the death as punishment.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Predating the Hunger Games books by nearly a decade is the Japanese horror movie classic, Battle Royale – director Kinji Fukasaku’s adaptation of Koushun Takami’s novel.
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The House Of The Devil (2009)
A desperate college student (played by Joceline Donahue) accepts a last-minute babysitting job that turns out not to be what it seems.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Writer and director Ti West’s breakout film, The House of the Devil, is a deliciously creepy slow-burn horror masterpiece set during the Satanic Panic era.
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Grave Encounters (2011)
The cast and crew of a paranormal investigation reality program get far more than they bargained for while exploring an old, abandoned mental institution.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: From writing and directing duo, the Vicious Brothers, Grave Encounters is one of the most raw and relentless found footage thrillers of its time.
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Coherence (2013)
On the night a comet passes over a suburban neighborhood, a group of friends unite for a dinner party that is interrupted by a very unusual situation.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: The less you know about director James Ward Byrkit’s Coherence, the better, but just know that the partially improvised sci-fi thriller is one of the most cleverly constructed and wickedly suspenseful Multiverse movies in recent memory, if not all time.
The Babadook (2014)
A single mother (played by Essie Davis) becomes increasingly convinced that the unsettling title character of a pop-up book she read her son (played by Noah Wiseman) is alive and stalking her.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: What makes the title character of The Babadook one of the scariest modern horror movie villains is not just its unnerving appearance, but its symbolic properties that also make writer and director Jennifer Kent’s masterpiece one of the best horror movies to address grief.
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Child's Play (1988)
A single mother (played by Catherine Hicks) becomes increasingly convinced that a popular doll she bought her son (played by Alex Vincent in a strong debut performance) is alive and trying to kill them.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: While rooted in a seemingly ridiculous idea — a toy possessed by the soul of a serial killer (played by Oscar nominee Brad Dourif) — Child’s Play is one of the scariest ‘80s slasher movies and the pint-sized Chucky is one of the most iconic horror movie villains of all time.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Road-tripping teenagers end up on the menu for a murderous Southern family — including a power tool-wielding killer who wears his victims’ faces as a mask.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: While not really a horror movie based on a true story like it was advertised, writer and director Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is dripping with nightmarish realism that might have you feeling uneasy, despite how little blood there actually is on the screen, which makes it one of the best horror movies of the 1970s.
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Hellraiser (1987)
A married woman (played by Clare Higgins) goes to murderous lengths to help her lover revive himself from the dead and escape persecution by a gang of sadomasochistic demonic entities.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Prolific horror writer Clive Barker made his directorial debut with Hellraiser — an adaptation of his novella “The Hellbound Heart,” which introduced the world to Doug Bradley’s iconic villain, Pinhead.
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Mandy (2018)
A heinous, unspeakable tragedy drives a lumberjack (played by Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) to wage war against a murderous cult in the early 1980s.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Cage gives one of his most badass performances yet in director Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy — an otherwise simple tale of revenge enhanced with surreal imagery straight out of a heavy metal album cover.
Day Of The Dead (1985)
Surviving against the undead proves easier than surviving each other — at least at first — for a group of military personnel and scientific researchers holed up together in an underground bunker.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Some of the most impressive special effects and insightful examples of social satire from George A. Romero’s seminal series of zombie movies can be found in the third installment, Day of the Dead.
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The Exorcist III (1990)
A disillusioned detective (played by Academy Award winner George C. Scott) begins to suspect a seemingly disparate string of murders have a terrifying and peculiar connection to one another.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Arguably, the best Exorcist movie since William Friedkin’s 1973 classic is still writer and director William Peter Blatty’s underrated and unbelievably creepy The Exorcist III, which changes things up by being less of a possession thriller and more of a clever crime drama.
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Starry Eyes (2014)
A restaurant server (played by Alex Essoe) goes to extreme lengths to achieve her dream of making it big in Hollywood.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: From writing and directing duo Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, Starry Eyes is a brilliant meditation on the pains of being a struggling actor, enhanced to deeply unnerving levels with a dash of Satanic Panic and some brutal body horror effects.
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