Every slasher movie streaming on Prime Video in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Prime Video’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Prime Video US
Directed by Tobe Hooper
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablishes the slasher blueprint: isolated victims, resourceful killer, relentless pursuit through confined spaces that amplify dread.
Five friends head out to rural Texas to visit the grave of a grandfather. On the way, they stumble across what appears to be a deserted house, only to discover something sinister within. Something armed with a chainsaw.
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Directed by Michael Mann
✦ MovieMuse AI takePsychological thriller, not slasher—focuses on detective methodology rather than stalking and murder spectacle.
FBI Agent Will Graham, who retired after catching Hannibal Lecktor, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecktor to capture a new killer.
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Directed by Bob Clark
✦ MovieMuse AI takePioneered the sorority-house slasher template; anonymous killer's unseen menace and phone-call terror define the genre's voyeuristic anxiety.
As the residents of the Pi Kappa Sigma sorority house prepare for the festive season, a stranger begins to harass them with a series of obscene phone calls.
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Directed by Mario Bava
✦ MovieMuse AI takePioneering giallo template: masked killer, isolated setting, and a MacGuffin diary that transforms gossip into motive.
Isabella, a young model, is murdered by a mysterious masked figure at a fashion house in Rome. When her diary, which details the house employees' many vices, disappears, the masked killer begins killing off all the models in and around the house to find it.
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Directed by John McNaughton
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDecentralized brutality and moral ambiguity; rejects the masked killer archetype to explore mundane evil as instructional narrative.
Arriving in Chicago, Henry moves in with ex-con acquaintance Otis and starts schooling him in the ways of the serial killer.
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Directed by Dario Argento
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGiallo perfection: elaborate kill choreography, razor-blade signature weapon, and meta commentary on violence through the author protagonist.
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.
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Directed by Kim Jee-woon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDark comedy subversion that replaces final girl heroics with escalating body-disposal panic—the slasher formula inverted.
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
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Directed by Mario Bava
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGiallo precursor establishing the innocent-witness-hunted trope; escalating murders build genre's template for accumulating body counts.
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
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Directed by Sergio Martino
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEarly giallo exemplar: blackmail plot, masked killer, and female protagonist agency within male-violence frameworks define pre-slasher tradition.
When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.
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Directed by Joseph Ruben
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDomestic-infiltration horror; the killer's quotidian mask and suburban setting weaponize normalcy to make family spaces inherently dangerous.
Seemingly mild-mannered Henry Morrison has just murdered his entire family. After adopting a new identity and skipping town, he begins building a new relationship with a widow and her teenage daughter. However, he soon begins struggling to hide his true identity and maintain a grip on reality.
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Directed by Mike Flanagan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolation vulnerability perfected: deaf protagonist's sensory deprivation creates genre's purest predator-prey dynamic without mercy.
A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
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Directed by Adam Wingard
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes domestic architecture and household objects as instruments of survival, transforming the home invasion into tactical warfare.
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
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Directed by Richard Franklin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeResurrects Norman Bates as sympathetic killer, complicating slasher morality through his disturbed maternal obsession.
Norman Bates is declared sane and released from the facility in which he was being held, despite the complaints of Lila Loomis, sister of his most famous victim. Is he really cured, or will he kill again?
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Directed by Dario Argento
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGiallo crime procedural, not slasher—intellectual mystery overshadows the stalking and killing that define the genre's visceral appeal.
A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility.
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Directed by Michele Soavi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-slasher brilliance: real killer mirrors rehearsed violence; theatrical setting transforms performance into participatory murder spectacle.
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
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Directed by Dick Maas
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAquatic-killer originality; canal setting and diver stalker create claustrophobic underwater hunting ground inverting traditional suburban vulnerability.
A mysterious diver hiding in Amsterdam's canal system embarks on a rampage of gruesome murders, terrifying city officials and leaving few clues for the city's best detective, who doesn't suspect that both his new girlfriend and twelve-year-old daughter may be closer than he is to finding the killer.
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Directed by Richard Franklin
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVehicular cat-and-mouse tension; isolated highway setting and dual-predator game transform travel into inescapable killing ground.
A truck driver plays a cat-and-mouse game with a mysterious serial killer in a van who lures young female hitchhiker victims on a desolate Australian highway.
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Directed by Nahnatchka Khan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTime-travel revisionism; nostalgia's erasure forces reconsideration of 80s slasher tropes through contemporary final-girl competence.
When the infamous "Sweet Sixteen Killer" returns 35 years after his first murder spree to claim another victim, 17-year-old Jamie accidentally travels back in time to 1987, determined to stop the killer before he can start.
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Directed by Joe Dante
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot slasher—creature-feature with serial killer framing; genre confusion undermines focus on stalking and isolated-victim kills.
After a bizarre and near fatal encounter with a serial killer, a newswoman is sent to a rehabilitation center whose inhabitants may not be what they seem.
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Directed by Clive Barker
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInverted slasher morality; monsters become sympathetic while the killer-cop becomes the true predatory threat to established victims.
A troubled young man is drawn to a mythical place called Midian where a variety of friendly monsters are hiding from humanity. Meanwhile, a sadistic serial killer is looking for a patsy.
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Directed by Mario Bava
✦ MovieMuse AI takeProto-slasher multiplicity: cascading murders by competing killers establish body-count escalation over singular masked-killer focus.
An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.
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Directed by Patrick Brice
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFound-footage intimacy becomes predatory seduction—camera becomes weapon, blurring documentary trust with homicidal deception.
After finding an ad online for “video work,” Sara, a video artist whose primary focus is creating intimacy with lonely men, thinks she may have found the subject of her dreams. She drives to a remote house in the forest and meets a man claiming to be a serial killer. Unable to resist the chance to create a truly shocking piece of art, she agrees to spend the day with him. However, as the day goes on, she discovers she may have dug herself into a hole from which she can’t escape.
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Directed by Cary Solomon
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDemonic-possession framing philosophically questions slasher violence's motivations; theological debate replaces standard killer psychology.
On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
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Directed by Darren Lynn Bousman
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDystopian slasher-opera hybrid; organ-repossession murders and surgical violence corrupt the genre with baroque operatic spectacle.
By the year 2056, an epidemic of organ failures has devastated the planet. The megacorporation GeneCo provides organ transplants on a payment plan - and those who can’t fulfill their plans have their organs repossessed. In the midst of this, a sickly teenager discovers a shocking secret about herself, her father, and their connection to GeneCo.
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Directed by Alfred Sole
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAmbiguous child killer creates proto-slasher uncertainty; the film's refusal to fully confirm guilt pioneered psychological dread over spectacle.
Alice is a withdrawn 12-year-old who lives with her mother and her younger sister, Karen, who gets most of the attention from her mother, leaving Alice out of the spotlight. When Karen is found brutally murdered in a church, suspicions start to turn toward Alice. But could a 12-year-old girl really be capable of such savagery?
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Directed by Marjane Satrapi
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnreliable-narrator subjective-reality approach; talking animals obscure killer agency, destabilizing audience alignment with traditional slasher perspective.
A mentally unhinged factory worker must decide whether to listen to his talking cat and become a killer, or follow his dog's advice to keep striving for normalcy.
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Directed by Marcus Dunstan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHome-invasion crossover; the Collector's torture aesthetic transcends robbery plot to establish maximalist predatory spectacle.
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
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Directed by Patrick Brice
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFound-footage format strips away protective spectacle, making killer's mundane presence more psychologically destabilizing than elaborate slaughter.
Looking for work, Aaron comes across a cryptic online ad: “$1,000 for the day. Filming service. Discretion is appreciated.” Low on cash and full of naiveté, he decides to go for it. He drives to a cabin in a remote mountain town where he meets Josef, his cinematic subject for the day. Josef is sincere and the project seems heartfelt, so Aaron begins to film. But as the day goes on, it becomes clear that Josef is not who he says, and his intentions are not at all pure.
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Directed by Bryan Woods
✦ MovieMuse AI takeHaunt-house-as-predator; professional killers operating within entertainment framework blur victim-willing-participant boundaries brilliantly.
On Halloween, a group of friends encounter an extreme haunted house that promises to feed on their darkest fears. The night turns deadly as they come to the horrifying realisation that some nightmares are real.
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Directed by Gregory J. Read
✦ MovieMuse AI takeLegal thriller, not slasher—forensic psychology and courtroom procedure eclipse the stalking and murder that define the genre.
A forensic psychologist must determine if a minor should be charged with murder.
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