2020 Horror Movies
by luan-penna | created - 19 Apr 2019 | updated - 06 Sep 2021 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Grudge (2019)
R | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
A house is cursed by a vengeful ghost that dooms those who enter it with a violent death.
Director: Nicolas Pesce | Stars: Tara Westwood, Junko Bailey, David Lawrence Brown, Zoe Fish
Votes: 29,198
2. Underwater (2020)
PG-13 | 95 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crew of oceanic researchers working for a deep sea drilling company try to get to safety after a mysterious earthquake devastates their deepwater research and drilling facility located at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Director: William Eubank | Stars: Kristen Stewart, Vincent Cassel, Mamoudou Athie, T.J. Miller
Votes: 96,995 | Gross: $17.29M
3. The Turning (2020)
PG-13 | 94 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A young governess is hired to look after an orphaned girl, but the return of the girl's problematic brother uncovers secrets from their past. A modern take on Henry James' novella "The Turn of the Screw."
Director: Floria Sigismondi | Stars: Mackenzie Davis, Finn Wolfhard, Brooklynn Prince, Barbara Marten
Votes: 16,136
4. Gretel & Hansel (2020)
PG-13 | 87 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A long time ago in a distant fairy tale countryside, a young girl leads her little brother into a dark wood in desperate search of food and work, only to stumble upon a nexus of terrifying evil.
Director: Oz Perkins | Stars: Sophia Lillis, Samuel Leakey, Alice Krige, Jessica De Gouw
Votes: 33,996 | Gross: $15.35M
5. Fantasy Island (2020)
PG-13 | 109 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
When the owner and operator of a luxurious island invites a collection of guests to live out their most elaborate fantasies in relative seclusion, chaos quickly descends.
Director: Jeff Wadlow | Stars: Michael Peña, Maggie Q, Lucy Hale, Austin Stowell
Votes: 57,943 | Gross: $27.31M
6. Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
PG-13 | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Director: William Brent Bell | Stars: Katie Holmes, Christopher Convery, Owain Yeoman, Ralph Ineson
Votes: 20,531
7. The Invisible Man (I) (2020)
R | 124 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When Cecilia's abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see.
Director: Leigh Whannell | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Harriet Dyer, Aldis Hodge
Votes: 254,912 | Gross: $70.41M
8. The Hunt (II) (2020)
R | 90 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are, or how they got there. They don't know they've been chosen - for a very specific purpose - The Hunt.
Director: Craig Zobel | Stars: Betty Gilpin, Hilary Swank, Ike Barinholtz, Wayne Duvall
Votes: 128,564 | Gross: $5.81M
9. Body Cam (2020)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a routine traffic stop results in the unexplained, grisly death of her colleague, a cop realizes footage of the incident will play for her eyes only. As the attacks mount, she races to understand the supernatural force behind them.
Director: Malik Vitthal | Stars: Mary J. Blige, Nat Wolff, David Zayas, Anika Noni Rose
Votes: 7,362
10. Becky (II) (2020)
R | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A teenager's weekend at a lake house with her father takes a turn for the worse when a group of convicts wreaks havoc on their lives.
Directors: Jonathan Milott, Cary Murnion | Stars: Lulu Wilson, Kevin James, Joel McHale, Robert Maillet
Votes: 24,575
11. Host (II) (2020)
Not Rated | 57 min | Horror, Mystery
Six friends hire a medium to hold a seance via Zoom during lockdown, but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong.
Director: Rob Savage | Stars: Haley Bishop, Jemma Moore, Emma Louise Webb, Radina Drandova
Votes: 39,327
(Shudder)
12. You Should Have Left (2020)
R | 93 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A former banker, his actress wife, and their spirited daughter book a vacation at an isolated modern home in the Welsh countryside where nothing is quite as it seems.
Director: David Koepp | Stars: Kevin Bacon, Amanda Seyfried, Avery Tiiu Essex, Colin Blumenau
Votes: 25,675
13. Relic (2020)
R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A daughter, mother and grandmother are haunted by a manifestation of dementia that consumes their family's home.
Director: Natalie Erika James | Stars: Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote, Steve Rodgers
Votes: 30,179
14. Ghosts of War (2020)
R | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Five American soldiers assigned to hold a French Chateau near the end of World War II. This unexpected respite quickly descends into madness when they encounter a supernatural enemy more terrifying than anything seen on the battlefield.
Director: Eric Bress | Stars: Brenton Thwaites, Kyle Gallner, Alan Ritchson, Theo Rossi
Votes: 12,007
15. The Rental (2020)
R | 88 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Two couples rent a vacation home for what should be a celebratory weekend get-away.
Director: Dave Franco | Stars: Dan Stevens, Alison Brie, Sheila Vand, Jeremy Allen White
Votes: 38,079
16. Black Water: Abyss (2020)
Not Rated | 98 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Five friends exploring a remote cave system in Northern Australia find themselves threatened by a hungry crocodile.
Director: Andrew Traucki | Stars: Jessica McNamee, Luke Mitchell, Amali Golden, Benjamin Hoetjes
Votes: 6,795
17. Sputnik (2020)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Director: Egor Abramenko | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev
Votes: 27,230
18. Peninsula (2020)
Not Rated | 116 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
A zombie virus has in the last four years spread to all South Korea. Four Koreans in Hong Kong sail through the blockade to Incheon for USD20,000,000 on a truck.
Director: Yeon Sang-ho | Stars: Koo Kyo-hwan, Lee Jung-hyun, Kwon Hae-hyo, Gang Dong-won
Votes: 37,773 | Gross: $1.23M
19. The New Mutants (2020)
PG-13 | 94 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
Five young mutants, just discovering their abilities while held in a secret facility against their will, fight to escape their past sins and save themselves.
Director: Josh Boone | Stars: Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga
Votes: 89,329 | Gross: $23.86M
20. The Owners (2020)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A group of friends think they've found an easy score at an empty house with a safe full of cash, but when the elderly owners arrive home things begin to go awry.
Director: Julius Berg | Stars: Maisie Williams, Sylvester McCoy, Rita Tushingham, Jake Curran
Votes: 9,510
21. #Alive (2020)
TV-MA | 98 min | Action, Drama, Horror
The rapid spread of an unknown infection has left an entire city in ungovernable chaos, but one survivor remains alive in isolation. It is his story.
Directors: Il Cho, Jo Il Hyung, Madeleine Martin, Jimmy Olsson | Stars: Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-Hye, Jeon Bae-soo, Lee Hyun-wook
Votes: 47,603
(Netflix)
22. The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
TV-MA | 101 min | Comedy, Horror
Two years after Cole survived a satanic blood cult, he's living another nightmare: high school. And the demons from his past? Still making his life hell.
Director: McG | Stars: Judah Lewis, Samara Weaving, Jenna Ortega, Emily Alyn Lind
Votes: 50,822
(Netflix)
23. Antebellum (2020)
R | 105 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
Successful author Veronica Henley finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Directors: Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz | Stars: Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Jena Malone, Jack Huston
Votes: 29,771
24. Alone (V) (2020)
R | 98 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A recently widowed traveler is kidnapped by a cold blooded killer, only to escape into the wilderness where she is forced to battle against the elements as her pursuer closes in on her.
Director: John Hyams | Stars: Jules Willcox, Marc Menchaca, Anthony Heald, Jonathan Rosenthal
Votes: 28,448
25. Scare Me (I) (2020)
Not Rated | 104 min | Comedy, Horror
During a power outage, two strangers tell scary stories. The more Fred and Fanny commit to their tales, the more the stories come to life in their Catskills cabin. The horrors of reality manifest when Fred confronts his ultimate fear.
Director: Josh Ruben | Stars: Josh Ruben, Aya Cash, Chris Redd, Rebecca Drysdale
Votes: 5,013
(Shudder)
26. Possessor (2020)
R | 103 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
An agent works for a secretive organization that uses brain-implant technology to inhabit other people's bodies - ultimately driving them to commit assassinations for high-paying clients.
Director: Brandon Cronenberg | Stars: Andrea Riseborough, Christopher Abbott, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rossif Sutherland
Votes: 45,658
27. Vampires vs. the Bronx (2020)
PG-13 | 85 min | Comedy, Horror
A group of young friends from the Bronx fight to save their neighborhood from gentrification...and vampires.
Director: Oz Rodriguez | Stars: Jaden Michael, Gerald Jones, Gregory Diaz IV, Sarah Gadon
Votes: 11,106
(Netflix)
28. 12 Hour Shift (2020)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Bodies start to pile up when a drug-user nurse and her cousin try to find a replacement kidney for an organ trafficker.
Director: Brea Grant | Stars: Angela Bettis, Julianne Dowler, Tom DeTrinis, Nikea Gamby-Turner
Votes: 5,071
29. Death of Me (2020)
R | 94 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A vacationing couple must discover the mystery behind a strange video that shows one of them killing the other.
Director: Darren Lynn Bousman | Stars: Maggie Q, Luke Hemsworth, Alexandra Essoe, Kat Ingkarat
Votes: 7,327
30. The Binding (2020)
TV-MA | 93 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
While visiting her fiancé's mother in southern Italy, a woman must fight the mysterious and malevolent curse intent on claiming her daughter.
Director: Domenico de Feudis | Stars: Riccardo Scamarcio, Mía Maestro, Giulia Patrignani, Mariella Lo Sardo
Votes: 4,653
(Netflix)
31. The Call (VIII) (2020)
Not Rated | 97 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident brings them to the couple's door.
Director: Timothy Woodward Jr. | Stars: Lin Shaye, Tobin Bell, Chester Rushing, Erin Sanders
Votes: 4,970
32. Black Box (II) (2020)
Not Rated | 100 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
After losing his wife and his memory in a car accident, a single father undergoes an agonizing experimental treatment that causes him to question who he really is.
Director: Emmanuel Osei-Kuffour | Stars: Mamoudou Athie, Phylicia Rashad, Amanda Christine, Tosin Morohunfola
Votes: 17,217
(Prime Video)
33. Books of Blood (2020)
TV-MA | 107 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A journey into uncharted and forbidden territory through three tales tangled in space and time.
Director: Brannon Braga | Stars: Britt Robertson, Freda Foh Shen, Nicholas Campbell, Anna Friel
Votes: 9,868
(Hulu)
34. The Wolf of Snow Hollow (2020)
R | 85 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Terror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as werewolves.
Director: Jim Cummings | Stars: Jim Cummings, Riki Lindhome, Robert Forster, Chloe East
Votes: 24,251
35. Nocturne (II) (2020)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Horror, Music
An incredibly gifted pianist makes a Faustian bargain to overtake her older sister at a prestigious institution for classical musicians.
Director: Zu Quirke | Stars: Sydney Sweeney, Madison Iseman, Jacques Colimon, Ivan Shaw
Votes: 11,892
(Prime Video)
36. Evil Eye (II) (2020)
Not Rated | 90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
A superstitious mother is convinced that her daughter's new boyfriend is the reincarnation of a man who tried to kill her 30 years ago.
Directors: Elan Dassani, Rajeev Dassani | Stars: Sarita Choudhury, Sunita Mani, Bernard White, Omar Maskati
Votes: 4,186
(Prime Video)
37. Alone (XXI) (2020)
R | 92 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
When an outbreak hits, Aidan barricades himself inside his apartment and starts rationing food. His complex is overrun by infected Screamers, and with the world falling apart into chaos, he is left completely alone fighting for his life.
Director: Johnny Martin | Stars: Tyler Posey, Summer Spiro, Donald Sutherland, Robert Ri'chard
Votes: 4,428
38. Don't Look Back (2020)
90 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
When a young woman overcoming her traumatic past is among several witnesses who see a man fatally assaulted and don't intervene, they find themselves targeted by someone, or something, out for revenge.
Director: Jeffrey Reddick | Stars: Kourtney Bell, Will Stout, Skyler Hart, Jeremy Holm
Votes: 815
39. Children of the Corn (2020)
R | 93 min | Horror
The film describes the events leading up to, and including, the massacre of the adults of a small town in Nebraska by their children, after the adults' irresponsibility ruins the crop and the children's future.
Director: Kurt Wimmer | Stars: Elena Kampouris, Kate Moyer, Callan Mulvey, Bruce Spence
Votes: 3,971
40. Cadaver (2020)
TV-MA | 86 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
In the starving aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a family of three attends a charitable event at a hotel, which takes a dark turn when people start to disappear.
Director: Jarand Herdal | Stars: Thorbjørn Harr, Thomas Gullestad, Maria Grazia Di Meo, Kingsford Siayor
Votes: 12,303
(Netflix)
41. Malasaña 32 (2020)
104 min | Horror, Mystery
A family moving to a new house to live the dream of the big city. A house where dreams turn in nightmares.
Director: Albert Pintó | Stars: Begoña Vargas, Iván Marcos, Bea Segura, Sergio Castellanos
Votes: 5,757
(Shudder)
42. The Empty Man (2020)
R | 137 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
On the trail of a missing girl, an ex-cop comes across a secretive group attempting to summon a terrifying supernatural entity.
Director: David Prior | Stars: James Badge Dale, Marin Ireland, Sasha Frolova, Samantha Logan
Votes: 38,511
43. Bad Hair (2020)
Unrated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror, Music
In 1989 an ambitious young woman gets a weave in order to succeed in the image-obsessed world of music television. However, her flourishing career may come at a great cost when she realizes that her new hair may have a mind of its own.
Director: Justin Simien | Stars: Zaria Kelley, Corinne Massiah, Elle Lorraine, Moses Storm
Votes: 4,324
(Hulu)
44. The Craft: Legacy (2020)
PG-13 | 97 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror