Every slasher movie streaming on Shudder in the US right now — 30 films ranked by rating, checked against Shudder’s live catalog.
Updated July 2026 · Availability refreshed from Shudder US
Directed by John Carpenter
✦ MovieMuse AI takeEstablishes the stalker-killer archetype: faceless, unstoppable force pursuing victims through mundane suburban spaces with methodical precision.
Fifteen years after murdering his sister on Halloween Night 1963, Michael Myers escapes from a mental hospital and returns to the small town of Haddonfield, Illinois to kill again.
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.
Directed by Alejandro Amenábar
✦ MovieMuse AI takeMeta-thriller interrogating slasher violence itself; the killer's obsession with documenting murder mirrors the genre's complicity.
While working on a thesis about audiovisual violence, film student Ángela finds a snuff video where a girl is tortured until death. Soon she discovers that she was a former student in her university, and that the authors of the video are not very far either.
Directed by Andrzej Żuławski
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVisceral body-horror replaces traditional kill scenes; the killer's grotesque transformation into monster subverts the genre's physical violence expectations.
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Directed by Lars von Trier
✦ MovieMuse AI takeVon Trier weaponizes the killer's monologue—architecture as murder philosophy—transforming confession into aesthetic justification.
Failed architect, engineer and vicious murderer Jack narrates the details of some of his most elaborately orchestrated crimes, each of them a towering piece of art that defines his life's work as a serial killer for twelve years.
Directed by Lucio Fulci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeInverts the final girl trope by making the woman's psychic knowledge a liability rather than salvation against domestic evil.
A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Directed by Dario Argento
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDario Argento's baroque kill sequences prioritize elaborate, surreal violence as pure spectacle over narrative justification.
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
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.
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.
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.
Directed by Cody Calahan
✦ MovieMuse AI takeDeconstructs slasher fandom by trapping a horror critic within the genre's actual machinery—self-aware and wickedly subversive.
Joel, a caustic 1980s film critic for a national horror magazine, finds himself unwittingly trapped in a self-help group for serial killers. With no other choice, Joel attempts to blend in with his homicidal surroundings or risk becoming the next victim.
Directed by Sean Byrne
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAquatic isolation weaponizes confinement; the boat becomes inescapable kill-box, amplifying slasher claustrophobia through nautical geography.
A savvy and free-spirited surfer is abducted by a shark-obsessed serial killer. Held captive on his boat, she must figure out how to escape before he carries out a ritualistic feeding to the sharks below.
Directed by Shawn Linden
✦ MovieMuse AI takeIsolates family unit in wilderness setting, transforming primal survival horror into psychological siege where danger blurs predator/prey.
A fur trapper leaves his wife and daughter behind to kill a rogue wolf in the remote wilderness, but they soon become increasingly worried when their peaceful existence is disrupted.
Directed by Chloe Okuno
✦ MovieMuse AI takeWeaponizes the voyeuristic male gaze itself; killer and film audience collapse into complicit observers of feminine vulnerability.
As a serial killer stalks the city, Julia — a young actress who just moved to town with her husband — notices a mysterious stranger watching her from across the street.
Directed by Sean Byrne
✦ MovieMuse AI takePossession-as-slasher device: demonic influence justifies escalating brutality while maintaining domestic setting's intimate terror.
A struggling painter is possessed by satanic forces after he and his young family move into their dream home in rural Texas.
Directed by William Asher
✦ MovieMuse AI takeQueers the psycho-thriller by making obsessive maternal possessiveness the killer's primary pathology—gender inverts Bates formula.
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death to anyone who comes between her and her obsession. But the investigating detective is convinced that Billy is the real killer - and determined to prove it. Madness and fanaticism work together to drag all concerned into a terrifying vortex of blood-letting that adds a nightmarish twist to the classic Oedipus story.
Directed by Marcus Nispel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFamily-unit killers operating as organized pack rather than lone psycho; collective violence overwhelms individual survival tactics.
After picking up a traumatized young hitchhiker, five friends find themselves stalked and hunted by a chainsaw-wielding killer and his family of equally psychopathic killers.
Directed by Billy O'Brien
✦ MovieMuse AI takeTeenage killer protagonist flips victim/predator binary; sympathetic monster-hunter creates moral vertigo essential to slasher unease.
In a small Midwestern town, a troubled teen with homicidal tendencies must hunt down and destroy a supernatural killer while keeping his own inner demons at bay.
Directed by Yann Gonzalez
✦ MovieMuse AI takeGiallo-slasher hybrid targeting vulnerable gay community; kills become homophobic violence dressed in mystery-thriller formalism.
In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
Directed by Lucio Fulci
✦ MovieMuse AI takeAtmospheric Gothic castle-house murders; Fulci's lyrical grotesquerie elevates bloody set pieces into baroque nightmare logic.
After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.
Directed by Scott Spiegel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeNocturnal confined-space slasher (supermarket); blue-collar setting and time pressure amplify claustrophobic vulnerability.
The overnight stock crew of a local supermarket find themselves being stalked and slashed by a mysterious maniac.
Directed by Kane Senes
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSocial-media satire weaponizes influencer culture's performativity; killer targets women's documented presentation of self.
Cecilia is a successful social media influencer living the dream, until she runs into her ex-childhood best friend and is invited away on her bachelorette weekend. Suddenly, Sissy finds herself stuck in a remote cabin with her school bully... and a taste for revenge.
Directed by Adam Robitel
✦ MovieMuse AI takeFound-footage possession-slasher; documentary framing implodes when medical mystery becomes supernatural body-horror spectacle.
What starts as a poignant medical documentary about Deborah Logan's descent into Alzheimer's disease and her daughter's struggles as caregiver degenerates into a maddening portrayal of dementia at its most frightening, as hair-raising events begin to plague the family and crew and an unspeakable malevolence threatens to tear the very fabric of sanity from them all.
Directed by William Lustig
✦ MovieMuse AI takeUniform as weapon: the killer exploits institutional trust, making authority itself the slasher's camouflage—paranoia becomes the real killer.
A killer dressed in a police uniform begins murdering innocent people on the streets of New York City.
Directed by Tyler MacIntyre
✦ MovieMuse AI takeSocial media obsession drives the kill count; these influencer-villains weaponize content creation itself as their methodology.
McKayla and Sadie, two death-obsessed teenage girls, use their online show about real-life tragedies to send their small Midwestern town into a frenzy and cement their legacy as modern horror legends.
Directed by Juan Piquer Simón
✦ MovieMuse AI takeJigsaw-puzzle killer literally dismembers coeds into artworks; fetishized mutilation elevated to obsessive collector's psychopathology.
A frustrated Boston detective searches for the maniac responsible for mutilating a number of university coeds.
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