9 Movies On Netflix Too Disturbing To Watch

Netflix has those who love skin-crawling horror covered. These 15 movies are way scarier than anything else available on the streaming service.

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Be it a gore-fest, a psychological horror, or something a little more light-hearted, Netflix has horror fans covered. Yet, with so many movies on the streaming service, it can be difficult to pick a preferred helping of scares off the menu. Items on Netflix are constantly changing and updating, making it is impossible to come up with a definitive list of their horror movies.

For skin-crawling scares, grab some popcorn, switch off the lights and settle down to watch these movies currently available on the streaming service—or perhaps leave the lights on. Some of these troubling stories will make it impossible to sleep without them—and others will leave viewers itching for a shower.

Updated on November 12th, 2021 by Tanner Fox: Horror films on Netflix are often a pretty mixed bag; while the streaming service does offer more than a few notable creep shows, it also carries a non-negligible amount of bottom-of-the-five-for-three-movie-barrel films that aren’t interesting to anyone save those few who care to explore the most fringe edges of the genre.

Horror fans shouldn’t discount Netflix altogether, though. It’s true that streaming services like Shudder may cater more to their tastes, but Netflix features a few ultra-creepy hidden gems for those willing to look for them.

Hush (2016)

Directed and edited by Mike Flanagan, who debuted with Oculus in 2014, Hush raises itself above the clichés to deliver a claustrophobic thriller. It stars Kate Siegel, who co-wrote the piece with Flanagan, as Maddie. A deaf author, Maddie has moved to a remote location to avoid distractions and finish her book. One night, she settles in to write, unaware that outside there waits a heavily-armed masked intruder poised to break in.

What follows is a clever cat-and-mouse chase that will keep viewers on the edge of their seats. Maddie is a resourceful protagonist, but she is not unrealistic, and the film manages to deliver the correct ratio of gore and suspense to frighten but not desensitize.

The Exorcist III (1990)

1973’s The Exorcist is one of the most acclaimed horror movies of all time, but its sequel, The Exorcist II: The Heretic is often seen as an incoherent mess that doesn’t do much to continue the narrative of the original.

The Exorcist III, however, is a return to form for the series. Released more than a decade after the sequel, the third installment is a weird nightmare of a movie that deals with souls switching bodies and apparently demonic serial killers. It can be tough to follow, but it’s definitely an interesting watch for horror fans—and almost every bit as disturbing as the first film.

I Am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House (2016)

An American-Canadian horror, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is a ghost story within a ghost story starring is Ruth Wilson as Lily, a live-in nurse looking after an elderly lady with dementia. She becomes convinced the house is haunted, and the opening frames are artful and chilling with a female voice-over speaking to the audience. The next frame reveals that the voice belongs to Lily, and she lets us know, “three days ago I turned 28 years old. I will never be 29 years old.”

With Ruth’s fate sealed in the eyes of the audience, it is difficult to not jump at every shifting shadow and creaking floorboard in the isolated manor where she now works. Mrs. Bloom, the elderly lady she cares for, was once a prolific author and keeps calling Lily “Polly” after a doomed heroine in her novel, The Lady in the Walls.

Creep (2014)

Creep is a found footage horror and the directorial debut of Patrick Brice. At the time of its release, it seemingly played into an overdone trope, but Creep offers an unexpectedly fresh take. The protagonist is a filmmaker who is short on cash and answers a Craigslist ad offering $1000 for a day’s filming. He arrives at a remote cabin to document the life of an odd recluse who appears friendly, but, as the day goes on, he is revealed to be less sincere.

Chilling in its simplicity, it is well-acted enough to feel uncomfortably realistic. The film-making technique lends itself to a truly personal horror, and the interplay between the two main players is intense. There are no fast-paced thrills in this film, but the last scene is worth waiting for.

1922 (2017)

An adaptation of the short story of the same name by horror legend Stephen King, 1922 sees a farmer slip further and further into madness after murdering his wife in order to continue living on the property she owned. Things go from bad to worse once his son runs off with his pregnant girlfriend, resulting in their deaths.

Tormented by an infestation of rats, a brutally cold winter, and haunting memories of a terrifyingly literal variety, the man is led down a path to ruin in one of the bleakest and most uncomfortable films available on Netflix.

Under the Shadow (2016)

Shideh (Narges Rashidi) is a young mother and medical student living in 1980s Tehran with her daughter, Dorsa (Avin Manshadi). She struggles to hold her life together as the Iran-Iraq war rages around her. Set against this cruel war-torn backdrop, Shideh becomes convinced that a missile that fell on their home was cursed and that a supernatural force is attempting to possess her daughter.

Whether viewers believe the demons are real or represent the horrors of war, the movie still delivers some nail-biting scares. It takes the traditional supernatural horror tropes and places them in a setting that makes it all the more grueling and visceral. It’s an intelligent story that challenges even as it frightens.

Unfriended (2014)

A group of friends in an online chatroom is haunted by someone, or something, using a dead friend’s account. Thinking it a technical glitch, the teens are unconcerned until the account begins messaging them, claiming to be Laura, a girl who died exactly one year prior. The entity begins forcing the teens to expose their darkest secrets. Then the killing starts.

At heart, Unfriended follows in the footsteps of old slasher films like Friday the 13th as a supernatural force punishes the teens for their misdeeds. In this case, it utilizes modern technology to ground the horror in a situation that is familiar—and, by extension, more disturbing—to modern teens.

Gerald’s Game (2017)

The 2017 Netflix-exclusive Gerald’s Game stands out among many of the hit-and-miss adaptations of author Stephen King’s work. When a couple takes a trip to a remote cabin to rekindle their relationship, things take a turn when Jessie’s husband Gerald suddenly has a heart attack, leaving Jessie handcuffed to a bed.

It’s a strange fight for survival that’ll have fans struggling to parse truth from fiction. True to form, King’s narrative also features a few truly disturbing plot points that are made all the more horrific due to how grounded in reality they are.

The Conjuring (2013)

After a family moves into a rural Rhode Island home, they begin experiencing supernatural phenomena. Believing their house to be haunted, they seek out paranormal experts Ed and Lorraine Warren, who eventually manage to purge the house of horrors after a lengthy battle with the unholy.

2013’s The Conjuring may not be as extreme as some more obscure horror films, but it’s one of the most extreme movies to earn mainstream attention in some time. Seasoned horror vets may have seen it all before, but newcomers will be watching through the gaps in their fingers.

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