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Best Slasher Movies on Max

Every slasher movie streaming on Max in the US right now — 13 films ranked by rating, checked against Max’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Max US

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Funny Games (1997)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 73% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 49m

Directed by Michael Haneke

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-slasher brilliance: Haneke deconstructs viewer complicity by having killers acknowledge the camera, forcing us into uncomfortable participation.

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)

IMDb 7.3 🍅 66% Letterboxd 4.3 2h 15m

Directed by David Lynch

✦ MovieMuse AI takePrequel horror that weaponizes Twin Peaks' mythology; Laura's murder becomes ritualistic sacrifice, elevating slasher to cosmic terror.

In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life. Meanwhile, in the more cozy town of Twin Peaks, hedonistic beauty Laura Palmer hangs with lowlifes and seems destined for a grisly fate.

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Final Destination (2000)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 50% 1h 38m

Directed by James Wong

✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeath as unstoppable force elevates beyond killer—creative kills exploit mundane environments with darkly inventive logic.

After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

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The Devil's Rejects (2005)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 54% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 51m

Directed by Rob Zombie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeRelentless pursuit and moral inversion—the hunter becomes as brutal as the hunted, dismantling slasher morality.

The murderous, backwoods Firefly family take to the road to escape the vengeful Sheriff Wydell, who is not afraid of being as ruthless as his target.

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Happy Death Day (2017)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 71% 1h 37m

Directed by Christopher Landon

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-loop mechanism transforms final girl trope: Tree must solve her own murder through repeated death sequences.

Caught in a bizarre and terrifying time warp, college student Tree finds herself repeatedly reliving the day of her murder, ultimately realizing that she must identify the killer and the reason for her death before her chances of survival run out.

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Final Destination 2 (2003)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 52% 1h 30m

Directed by David R. Ellis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeElevates the formula with creative, interconnected kills orchestrated by an invisible force—death as relentless screenwriter.

When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

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House of 1000 Corpses (2003)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 22% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 29m

Directed by Rob Zombie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransgressive family unit replaces individual killer; collective depravity and hereditary sadism drive horror.

Two teenage couples traveling across the backwoods of Texas searching for urban legends of serial killers end up as prisoners of a bizarre and sadistic backwater family of serial killers.

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Final Destination 3 (2006)

IMDb 5.9 🍅 44% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 32m

Directed by James Wong

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTransforms everyday objects into instruments of fate; the rollercoaster sequence defines premonitory horror spectacle.

High school senior Wendy's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself — which seeks out those who escaped their fate.

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Trap (2024)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 56% Letterboxd 2.6 1h 45m

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeConfined setting and masked killer hunting amid crowd chaos creates claustrophobic slasher tension within public space.

A father and teen daughter attend a pop concert, where they realize they're at the center of a dark and sinister event.

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Halloween H20: 20 Years Later (1998)

IMDb 5.8 🍅 54% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 26m

Directed by Steve Miner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLegacy survivor mythos perfected—Laurie's accumulated trauma and final confrontation elevates Michael Myers beyond immortal boogeyman.

Two decades after surviving a massacre on October 31, 1978, former baby sitter Laurie Strode finds herself hunted by persistent knife-wielder Michael Myers. Laurie now lives in Northern California under an assumed name, where she works as the headmistress of a private school. But it's not far enough to escape Myers, who soon discovers her whereabouts. As Halloween descends upon Laurie's peaceful community, a feeling of dread weighs upon her -- with good reason.

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The Final Destination (2009)

IMDb 5.1 🍅 28% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 22m

Directed by David R. Ellis

✦ MovieMuse AI take3D gimmickry serves the kills themselves; the racetrack explosion demonstrates slasher ambition meeting blockbuster excess.

A horrifying premonition saves a young man and his friends from death during a racetrack accident but terrible fates await them nonetheless.

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Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers (1995)

IMDb 4.7 🍅 8% Letterboxd 2.0 1h 28m

Directed by Joe Chappelle

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCult mythology deepens Myers as unstoppable force, adding supernatural dimension to slasher's inexplicable evil.

Six years after being presumed dead in a fire, and just as the town prepares to finally celebrate Halloween again, Michael Myers returns to Haddonfield to continue his reign of terror.

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Halloween: Resurrection (2002)

IMDb 3.9 🍅 10% Letterboxd 1.6 1h 29m

Directed by Rick Rosenthal

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-slasher deconstruction: found-footage reality TV format interrogates voyeurism and audience complicity in murder spectacle.

Reality programmers at DangerTainment select a group of thrill-seeking teenagers to spend one night in the childhood home of serial killer Michael Myers. Their planned live broadcast turns deadly when Michael decides to crash the party.

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