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Best Slasher Movies on Paramount+

Every slasher movie streaming on Paramount+ in the US right now — 17 films ranked by rating, checked against Paramount+’s live catalog.

Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Paramount+ US

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Scream (1996)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 78% 1h 52m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-textual genius: killers weaponize horror movie rules against victims, collapsing fiction and reality within the slasher framework.

A year after the murder of her mother, a teenage girl is terrorized by a masked killer who targets her and her friends by using scary movies as part of a deadly game.

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Friday the 13th (1980)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 69% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 35m

Directed by Sean S. Cunningham

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablished slasher blueprint: faceless killer, isolated setting, methodical body count, and unreliable killer identity reveal.

Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.

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Scream VI (2023)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 3m

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-textual whodunit that weaponizes slasher franchise logic against both killers and audience expectations.

Following the latest Ghostface killings, the four survivors leave Woodsboro behind and start a fresh chapter.

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Scream 2 (1997)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 83% 2h 0m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeGhostface's franchise reinvention proves sequels can refresh slasher tropes while maintaining meta-commentary on horror's own evolution and recycling.

Two years after the Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott acclimates to college life while someone donning the Ghostface costume begins a new string of killings.

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Scream (2022)

IMDb 6.3 🍅 77% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 54m

Directed by Tyler Gillett

✦ MovieMuse AI takeLegacy sequel that honors Wes Craven's meta-commentary while aggressively updating the masked-killer archetype for contemporary fandom discourse.

Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

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Scream 4 (2011)

IMDb 6.2 🍅 61% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 51m

Directed by Wes Craven

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-commentary on horror fandom becomes the killing mechanism itself, weaponizing audience expectations and franchise knowledge.

Fifteen years after the original Woodsboro murders, Sidney Prescott returns home to promote her new book about surviving trauma, only for a new Ghostface killer to emerge, targeting a new group of teens.

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Friday the 13th Part 2 (1981)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 35% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 26m

Directed by Steve Miner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJason becomes unkillable icon through Part 2's resurrection—establishing unstoppable killer as franchise cornerstone.

Five years after the horrible bloodbath at Camp Crystal Lake, new counselors roam the area, not sensing the ominous lurking presence that proves that the grisly legend is real.

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Maniac (2012)

IMDb 6.1 🍅 53% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 29m

Directed by Franck Khalfoun

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFirst-person perspective transforms mannequin necrophilia into intimate slasher psychology—killer's psyche becomes the true antagonist.

As he helps a young artist with her upcoming exhibition, the owner of a mannequin shop's deadly, suppressed desires come to the surface.

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Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 25% Letterboxd 3.1 1h 31m

Directed by Joseph Zito

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFinal Chapter crystallizes franchise formula: suburban teen sanctuary invaded by resilient, evolving supernatural threat.

After his revival in a hospital morgue, Jason fixes his vengeful attention on the Jarvis family and a group of hitherto carefree teenagers.

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Jason Lives - Friday the 13th Part VI (1986)

IMDb 6.0 🍅 56% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 26m

Directed by Tom McLoughlin

✦ MovieMuse AI takeResurrects Jason as unstoppable force through pure genre will, establishing the unkillable monster as slasher commandment.

Tommy Jarvis, tormented by the fear that maybe Jason isn't really dead, unwittingly resurrects the mass murderer for another bloody rampage.

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Marshmallow (2025)

IMDb 5.7 🍅 83% Letterboxd 2.8 1h 33m

Directed by Daniel DelPurgatorio

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNo data sufficient for evaluation.

At a secluded summer camp, timid and introverted 12-year-old Morgan is thrust into a waking nightmare when a once-fabled campfire tale becomes real. As a mysterious figure descends upon the camp, Morgan and his newfound friends must embark on a treacherous journey and uncover a sinister reality buried beneath the surface.

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Friday the 13th Part III (1982)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 14% Letterboxd 2.7 1h 35m

Directed by Steve Miner

✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablishes Jason's unstoppable momentum and geographic fixation—villain becomes landscape's supernatural embodiment.

An idyllic summer turns into a nightmare of unspeakable terror for yet another group of naïve friends. Ignoring Camp Crystal Lake's bloody legacy, one by one they fall victim to the maniacal Jason, who stalks them at every turn...

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Scream 7 (2026)

IMDb 5.6 🍅 31% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 54m

Directed by Kevin Williamson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNo data sufficient for evaluation.

When a new Ghostface killer emerges in the quiet town where Sidney Prescott has built a new life, her darkest fears are realized as her daughter becomes the next target. Determined to protect her family, Sidney must face the horrors of her past to put an end to the bloodshed once and for all.

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Friday the 13th Part VII - The New Blood (1988)

IMDb 5.2 🍅 31% Letterboxd 2.5 1h 28m

Directed by John Carl Buechler

✦ MovieMuse AI takeTelekinetic final girl subverts victim passivity, turning supernatural power into active slasher survival mechanism.

Tina Shepard, a telekinetic teenage girl, accidentally unchains Jason from his watery grave, allowing him to go on another killing spree in the area.

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Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)

IMDb 4.8 🍅 15% Letterboxd 2.3 1h 32m

Directed by Danny Steinmann

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFake-out killer twist dismantles franchise mythology, proving the slasher formula's malleable architecture.

Homicidal maniac Jason returns from the grave to cause more bloody mayhem. Young Tommy may have escaped from Crystal Lake, but he’s still haunted by the gruesome events that happened there. When gory murders start happening at the secluded halfway house for troubled teens where he now lives, it seems like his nightmarish nemesis, Jason, is back for more sadistic slaughters.

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Venom (2005)

IMDb 4.7 🍅 13% Letterboxd 2.4 1h 25m

Directed by Jim Gillespie

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVenom's possession-by-multiple-demons concept fractures the killer's psychology across thirteen souls, creating narrative instability that generates genuine dread.

A group of teenagers fear for their lives in the swamps of Louisiana, chased by Mr. Jangles, a man possessed by 13 evil souls, and now relentless in his pursuit of new victims.

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Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989)

IMDb 4.5 🍅 11% Letterboxd 2.1 1h 40m

Directed by Rob Hedden

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAbandons isolated setting for urban terrain, proving the slasher killer's indestructibility transcends geography.

Jason ships out aboard a teen-filled "love boat" bound for New York, which he soon transforms into the ultimate voyage of the damned.

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