The 30 Best Supernatural Horror Movies on Netflix (July 2026)

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Jujutsu Kaisen 0 (2021)

IMDb 7.8 🍅 96% Letterboxd 3.9 1h 45m

Directed by Sunghoo Park

✦ MovieMuse AI takeJujutsu Kaisen 0 weaponizes trauma into tangible curses, making emotional pain devastatingly literal through visceral supernatural combat.

Yuta Okkotsu is a nervous high school student who is suffering from a serious problem—his childhood friend Rika has turned into a curse and won't leave him alone. Since Rika is no ordinary curse, his plight is noticed by Satoru Gojo, a teacher at Jujutsu High, a school where fledgling exorcists learn how to combat curses. Gojo convinces Yuta to enroll, but can he learn enough in time to confront the curse that haunts him?

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Bhool Bhulaiyaa (2007)

IMDb 7.5 🍅 33% Letterboxd 3.6 2h 38m

Directed by Priyadarshan

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBhool Bhulaiyaa masters psychological ambiguity, blurring possession and mental illness while the palace itself becomes an unreliable narrator.

NRI Siddharth Chaturvedi and his wife Avni return to Siddharth's family's ancestral Varanasi palace while disregarding warnings of a curse and paranormal phenomena. Soon enough, inexplicable events begin occuring, which forces Siddharth to consult the eccentric psychiatrist Aditya Shrivastav to help solve the mystery.

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Frankenstein (2025)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 85% Letterboxd 3.8 2h 30m

Directed by Guillermo del Toro

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrankenstein's creature embodies existential horror—not through jump scares but through the supernatural tragedy of unnatural creation and abandonment.

Dr. Victor Frankenstein, a brilliant but egotistical scientist, brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation.

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KPop Demon Hunters (2025)

IMDb 7.4 🍅 91% Letterboxd 3.6 1h 36m

Directed by Chris Appelhans

✦ MovieMuse AI takeKPop Demon Hunters pairs K-pop aesthetics with supernatural mythology, making the genre visually contemporary rather than gothic.

When K-pop superstars Rumi, Mira and Zoey aren't selling out stadiums, they're using their secret powers to protect their fans from supernatural threats.

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I Am Frankelda (2025)

IMDb 7.3 Letterboxd 3.5 1h 44m

Directed by Arturo Ambriz

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFrankelda uses spectral existence as narrative device, allowing a ghost to construct her own supernatural world rather than haunt another's.

Frankelda, a frustrated young Mexican writer from the 19th Century, travels in the form of a ghost to a kingdom of her own invention inhabited by Spooks, which are all the monstrous characters she created in her horror tales. Her guide is Herneval, the Prince of Spooks, who takes her to help him save the balance between the Realm of Fiction and the Realm of Existence by using her talent as a writer.

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Virupaksha (2023)

IMDb 7.2 Letterboxd 3.1 2h 26m

Directed by Karthik Varma Dandu

✦ MovieMuse AI takeVirupaksha harnesses village folklore's collective dread, where supernatural violence emerges from place-specific curse rather than individual haunting.

Set in a village named Rudravanam in 1990's, Surya along with his mother, visit there after a long time. Suddenly a series of mysterious deaths occur due to an unknown person's occult practice and whole village is scared. Will Surya find the person causing the deaths and save the village?

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The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 67% Letterboxd 3.0 1h 44m

Directed by Clay Kaytis

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot supernatural horror; exclude from list.

Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

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Fallen (1998)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 43% Letterboxd 3.3 2h 4m

Directed by Gregory Hoblit

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFallen's possession mythology operates through invisible viral transmission—the curse spreads like disease, making evil literally contagious.

Homicide detective John Hobbes witnesses the execution of serial killer Edgar Reese. Soon after the execution the killings start again, and they are very similar to Reese's style.

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Marry My Dead Body (2023)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 70% Letterboxd 3.4 2h 9m

Directed by Cheng Wei-hao

✦ MovieMuse AI takeMarry My Dead Body transforms the ghost-encounter trope into a buddy-comedy mystery, humanizing the supernatural through partnership rather than dread.

After finding an odd envelope, Policeman Ming-han's life takes a spooky turn: He's now wed to a ghost husband, and they must solve a crime together.

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The Snow Sister (2024)

IMDb 7.0 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 38m

Directed by Cecilie A. Mosli

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot supernatural horror—skip this heartwarming family film.

A young boy whose grieving family has forgotten about Christmas forms an unexpected, healing bond with a bubbly girl full of holiday spirit.

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Dead Talents Society (2024)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 95% Letterboxd 3.8 1h 50m

Directed by John Hsu

✦ MovieMuse AI takeInverts haunting hierarchy brilliantly: ghosts must perform convincingly human to survive, weaponizing the genre's own performance anxiety.

When ghosts must compete to survive in the underworld by haunting the living, one unassuming young woman needs help creating a lasting performance while under the tutelage of a passionate agent and a washed-up diva.

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Baramulla (2025)

IMDb 7.0 🍅 54% Letterboxd 2.9 2h 0m

Directed by Aditya Suhas Jambhale

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBaramulla escalates supernatural threat methodically, weaponizing spectral events against family to expose how the supernatural corrodes community safety.

A cop's inquiry into child kidnappings unravels chilling secrets as supernatural events endanger his family and the peaceful town of Baramulla.

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Hellboy (2004)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 81% 2h 2m

Directed by Guillermo del Toro

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHellboy grounds supernatural horror in wartime military occultism, making Nazism itself the film's most terrifying supernatural force.

In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before they summon a baby demon who is rescued by Allied forces and dubbed "Hellboy". Sixty years later, Hellboy serves the cause of good rather than evil as an agent in the Bureau of Paranormal Research & Defense, along with Abe Sapien - a merman with psychic powers, and Liz Sherman - a woman with pyrokinesis, protecting America against dark forces.

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The Black Phone (2022)

IMDb 6.9 🍅 81% 1h 43m

Directed by Scott Derrickson

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Black Phone weaponizes 1970s nostalgia into supernatural dread, where a dead girl's spectral calls become the protagonist's only salvation.

Finney Blake, a shy but clever 13-year-old boy, is abducted by a sadistic killer and trapped in a soundproof basement where screaming is of little use. When a disconnected phone on the wall begins to ring, Finney discovers that he can hear the voices of the killer’s previous victims. And they are dead set on making sure that what happened to them doesn’t happen to Finney.

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Kingdom: Ashin of the North (2021)

IMDb 6.9 Letterboxd 3.4 1h 32m

Directed by Kim Seong-hun

✦ MovieMuse AI takeKingdom: Ashin recontextualizes the zombie mythology through colonial trauma and indigenous fury, making resurrection a curse of historical injustice.

Tragedy, betrayal and a mysterious discovery fuel a woman's vengeance for the loss of her tribe and family.

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Ghostbusters (2016)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 74% 1h 57m

Directed by Paul Feig

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot horror; exclude from list.

Following a ghost invasion of Manhattan, paranormal enthusiasts Erin Gilbert and Abby Yates, nuclear engineer Jillian Holtzmann, and subway worker Patty Tolan band together to stop the otherworldly threat.

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Under the Shadow (2016)

IMDb 6.8 🍅 99% Letterboxd 3.5 1h 24m

Directed by Babak Anvari

✦ MovieMuse AI takeUnder the Shadow weaponizes wartime paranoia itself—the supernatural becomes indistinguishable from the very real terror of missiles and occupation.

After Shideh's building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War, a superstitious neighbor suggests that the missile was cursed and might be carrying malevolent Middle-Eastern spirits. She becomes convinced a supernatural force within the building is attempting to possess her daughter Dorsa, and she has no choice but to confront these forces if she is to save her daughter and herself.

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Mononoke the Movie: The Phantom in the Rain (2024)

IMDb 6.8 Letterboxd 3.9 1h 30m

Directed by Kenji Nakamura

✦ MovieMuse AI takePeriod-specific possession ritual and the wandering exorcist figure anchor this narrative in historical supernatural dread and aesthetic formalism.

In the chambers of the Edo harem, two newcomers uncover political intrigue, rivalry and a vengeful spirit only one traveling medicine seller can vanquish.

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A Whisker Away (2020)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 93% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 44m

Directed by Tomotaka Shibayama

✦ MovieMuse AI takeWhisker Away explores supernatural transformation as metaphor for identity loss, where body-switching becomes existentially horrifying rather than whimsical.

A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

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Atlantics (2019)

IMDb 6.7 🍅 96% Letterboxd 3.7 1h 46m

Directed by Mati Diop

✦ MovieMuse AI takeAtlantics subverts ghost-lover romance by framing the supernatural encounter as systemic rage—spirits become the voice of economic exploitation.

Arranged to marry a rich man, young Ada is crushed when her true love goes missing at sea during a migration attempt — until a miracle reunites them.

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Bird Box (2018)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 64% 2h 4m

Directed by Susanne Bier

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBird Box's unseen entity works through psychological contagion rather than appearance; the horror lives in what we refuse to see.

Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a survivor and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety.

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Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 57% 1h 29m

Directed by Genndy Tartakovsky

✦ MovieMuse AI takeNot horror; exclude from list.

When the old-old-old-fashioned vampire Vlad arrives at the hotel for an impromptu family get-together, Hotel Transylvania is in for a collision of supernatural old-school and modern day cool.

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Fear Street: 1666 (2021)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 89% Letterboxd 3.3 1h 55m

Directed by Leigh Janiak

✦ MovieMuse AI takeFear Street: 1666 chains supernatural consequences across centuries, proving that witch-hunt violence generates supernatural debt spanning generations.

In 1666, a colonial town is gripped by a hysterical witch-hunt that has deadly consequences for centuries to come, and it's up to teenagers in 1994 to finally put an end to their town's curse, before it's too late.

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Bulbbul (2020)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 88% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 34m

Directed by Anvita Dutt

✦ MovieMuse AI takeBulbbul cloaks female revenge in supernatural mythology, making her monstrousness a justified response to patriarchal violence.

A child bride grows up to be an enigmatic woman presiding over her household, harboring a painful past as supernatural murders of men plague her village.

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Home for Rent (2023)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.1 2h 4m

Directed by Sophon Sakdaphisit

✦ MovieMuse AI takeCult-as-supernatural-force blurs possession boundaries; terror emerges from not knowing whether enthrallment is psychological or genuinely otherworldly.

When her good tenants go bad, a landlord finds herself terrorized by a cult that seemingly has her husband enthralled — and her daughter in its sights.

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The Parades (2024)

IMDb 6.6 🍅 60% Letterboxd 3.6 2h 12m

Directed by Michihito Fujii

✦ MovieMuse AI takeThe Parades' twist reframes grief itself as supernatural imprisonment—the dead mother's denial becomes the governing supernatural logic.

A mother searches for her missing son after a devastating calamity, only to realize that she has died and is now confined to a realm of restless spirits.

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Host (2020)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 98% Letterboxd 3.2 0h 56m

Directed by Rob Savage

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHost's Zoom-séance format weaponizes pandemic isolation itself, making the digital medium an actual conduit for supernatural breach.

Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.

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Shaitaan (2024)

IMDb 6.5 🍅 43% Letterboxd 2.6 2h 12m

Directed by Vikas Bahl

✦ MovieMuse AI takePossession-through-teenager deploys body-invasion intimacy as violation; the family's powerlessness against invisible hijacking creates relentless dread.

Kabir and his family's fun weekend retreat takes terrifying turn when an intruder takes over the control of the body of his teenage daughter, putting her at the mercy of his increasingly sinister orders.

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His House (2020)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 100% Letterboxd 3.4 1h 33m

Directed by Remi Weekes

✦ MovieMuse AI takeHis House treats the refugee home as haunted by colonial history and displacement trauma, merging social horror with genuine spectral terror.

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

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Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil (2018)

IMDb 6.4 🍅 80% Letterboxd 3.2 1h 38m

Directed by Paul Urkijo Alijo

✦ MovieMuse AI takeErrementari crafts the Basque countryside into a supernatural battleground where folklore and theological dread materialize through a blacksmith's cursed pact.

Basque Country, Spain, 1843. A police constable arrives at a small village in Álava to investigate a mysterious blacksmith who lives alone deep in the woods.

Best Supernatural Horror Movies on Netflix