Best Horror Movies of 2020

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Horror Movies of 2020" contains films with the following parameters. Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, tense and slasher. Plot: violence, murder, supernatural, blood, death, fear, chase, monster, supernatural horror and danger. Genre: Horror, Thriller and Mystery. Country: USA, UK and Canada.
Best Horror Movies of 2020
Best Horror Movies of 2020
TOP Movies: The Night House (2020), A Quiet Place Part II (2020), Host (2020), Run (2020), The Invisible Man (2020), Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020), His House (2020), Anything for Jackson (2020), The Dark and the Wicked (2020), Antebellum (2020), You Should Have Left (2020), The Empty Man (2020), The Blackwell Ghost 4 (2020), I Scream on the Beach! (2020), The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020), Come True (2020), Hosts (2020), Stay Out of the Attic (2020), Vicious Fun (2020), The Special (2020).

List of Best Movies

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The Night House (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Style: dark, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, demonic possession, afterlife, grief, forest, depressed woman, suicide, ghost, widow, high school student, female protagonist, invisibility ...
Time: 2020s
Place: new york state
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, suspenseful, apocalyptic ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, alien, creature, survival horror, deaf, silence, survival, monster, deafness, alien invasion, child in peril, macabre ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future, near future
Place: new york, usa, new york state, atlantic ocean, america
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 6.5
 39K
Host (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 57 min.
Story: 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 realize they might not survive the ...
Style: suspense, scary, enigmatic, atmospheric, esoteric ...
Plot: fear, evil spirit, evil, found footage, ghost, internet, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, psychic, supernatural, quarantine, haunting ...
Time: 2020s
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 6.7
 95K
Run (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspense, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: overprotective parent, mother daughter relationship, bad mother, kidnapping, revenge, teenage girl, single mother, disability, lie, teenage life, woman in a wheelchair, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2020s
Place: seattle, washington state
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The Invisible Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Currently unknown.
Style: scary, suspense, surprise ending, disturbing, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, stalking, stalker, sadist, home invasion, domestic abuse, invisibility, homicidal maniac, domestic violence, murder, violence against women, suicide ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, future
Place: california, san francisco, bay area
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Deep Blue Sea 3 (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dr. Emma Collins and her team are spending their third summer on the island of Little Happy studying the effect of climate change on the great white sharks who come to the nearby nursery every year to give birth. Along with the last two inhabitants ...
Style: disturbing, exciting, suspense, psychotronic, tense ...
Plot: shark, shark attack, animal attack, science runs amok, mutation, predator, characters killed one by one, scientist, killer shark, underwater, female scientist, experiment ...
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 6.5
 48K
His House (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, scary, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: supernatural, ghost, refugee, haunted, diaspora, folklore, haunted house, female warrior, husband wife relationship, death of daughter, stereotypes, survival ...
Time: 2020s
Place: africa, england
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Anything for Jackson (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bereaved Satanist couple kidnap a pregnant woman so they can use an ancient spellbook to put their dead grandson's spirit into her unborn child, but they end up summoning more than they bargained for.
Style: suspense, tense, psychotronic, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot: satanism, satanist, demon, demonic possession, evil spirit, occult ritual, possession, occult, curse, ghost, kidnapping, supernatural ...
Time: 2020s
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The Dark and the Wicked (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a sense that something evil is taking over the family.
Style: dark, suspense, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: haunted house, suicide, grief, macabre, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, devil, priest, haunted, supernatural power, mysterious death, dying father ...
Time: 2020s
Place: texas
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 5.8
 30K
Antebellum (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful author Veronica finds herself trapped in a horrifying reality and must uncover the mind-bending mystery before it's too late.
Style: brutal, psychological thriller, slasher, suspense, rough ...
Plot: slavery, racism, plantation, brutality, captivity, freedom, humanity, writers, black, racial slur, african american, female warrior ...
Time: 2020s, future, 19th century, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, louisiana, new orleans, virginia
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You Should Have Left (2020)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear ...
Style: suspense, mystical, splatter, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murderer, drowning, house, family life, time loop, jealous husband, nightmare, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, missing child, husband wife conflict, countryside ...
Time: 2020s
Place: wales, london, mexico, new york
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 6.2
 38K
The Empty Man (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: After a group of teens from a small Midwestern town begin to mysteriously disappear, the locals believe it is the work of an urban legend known as The Empty Man. As a retired cop investigates and struggles to make sense of the stories, he discovers ...
Style: psychological, suspense, lovecraft, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: occult, supernatural, suicide, investigation, cosmic horror, danger, teenager, death, riddles and clues, legend, experiment, supernatural horror ...
Time: 2020s, 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 2019 ...
Place: missouri, himalaya
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The Blackwell Ghost 4 (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Turner returns to the light foot house to continue his investigation. This time he researched into the first victim Susan. He finds out from the detective there was a note left when light foot committed suicide. It ended up being a map to the first ...
Style: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, tense, bleak ...
Plot: found footage, haunted house, paranormal, paranormal activity, ghost, danger, investigation, deadly creature, supernatural power, paranormal investigation, map, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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I Scream on the Beach! (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the small seaside town of Mellow Coast, Emily (Hannah Paterson) is trying to discover what has happened to her father, but as she searches for answers her friends start getting picked off one-by-one by an unknown killer.
Style: scary, psychotronic, bleak, suspense, disturbing
Plot: killer, seaside town, violence, murder, psychopath, danger, brutality, blood, chase, obsession, fear, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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The Babysitter: Killer Queen (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.
Style: horror comedy, slasher, dark, funny, humorous ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: satanic cult, ritual, nanny, deal with the devil, manipulative woman, blood, loss of virginity, male virgin, murder, husband wife relationship, school, game ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 6.0
 11K
Come True (2020)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Looking for an escape from her recurring nightmares, 18-year-old Sarah submits to a university sleep study, but soon realizes she's become the conduit to a frightening new discovery.
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, surreal, suspenseful ...
Plot: coma, high school student, dream, sleepwalking, danger, heroes, chase, escapades, imagination, fantasy world, existentialism, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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 4.3
 3K
Hosts (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve, an innocent couple become hosts to a malicious entity. Throughout the night they terrorise a family of five in unimaginably violent and disturbing ways.
Style: christmas horror, suspense, disturbing, scary, bleak ...
Plot: christmas, murder, blood, christmas party, holiday horror, christmas dinner, xmas, characters killed one by one, death, fear, violence, chase ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: europe
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Stay Out of the Attic (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A diverse group of ex-cons-turned-movers are convinced by their creepy client, Vern Muller, to pull an all-nighter for a generous pay bump. As the night progresses and rooms are cleared, they slowly uncover the horrors that exist inside his old ...
Style: suspense, scary, disturbing, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot: supernatural, mansion, ghost, experiment, murder, violence, paranormal phenomena, demon, paranormal, death, revenge, evil ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.5
 7K
Vicious Fun (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A loser whose life is passing him by accidentally stumbles into a secret underground self-help group for serial killers. Can he match wits with five killers and make it through the night alive? Stuck with only two options - kill or be killed, Joel ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, horror comedy, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, slasher spoof, psychopath, survival, maniac, brutality, fear, danger, murder, obsession, revenge, chase ...
Time: 80s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada
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 4.9
 1K
The Special (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Suspecting his wife of infidelity, Jerry is persuaded by his best friend to accompany him to a brothel to sample ‘The Special’, which proves to be a lifechanging experience in more ways than one. Because every pleasure has its price...
Style: sexual, psychotronic, suspense, slasher, scary ...
Plot: brothel, prostitute, sexual obsession, friendship between men, exploitation, revenge, violence, psychopath, brutality, violent, torture, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 4.3
 3K
Inmate Zero (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The film follows a group of doctors, guards and violent prisoners on St Leonards Island in the north Atlantic, who must unite when a rampant disease threatens the high security units.
Style: suspenseful, scary, disturbing, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: zombie, infestation, undead, zombie outbreak, island prison, disease, quarantine, experiment gone awry, medical malpractice, colony, social isolation, death ...
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 6.3
 71K
Freaky (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A mystical, ancient dagger causes a notorious serial killer to magically switch bodies with a 17-year-old girl.
Style: slasher, horror comedy, entertaining, humorous, not serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, body swapping, violence, body swap, switching roles, gender bending, switching bodies, body transformation, dark humor, blood, friendship between teens, masked killer ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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 6.0
 76K
Unhinged (2020)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A case of road rage turns into full-blown terror when an unstable driver follows a woman and her son.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, road movie ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: psychopath, road rage, pursuit, driving, mentally unstable, maniac, survival, stalking, highway, woman in danger, stalker, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Ten Minutes to Midnight (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A late night radio host is trapped inside the station by a violent storm after being bitten by a rabid bat.
Style: suspense, scary, psychotronic, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Plot: radio, radio station, monster, scream queen, vampire bite, creature, vampirism, chase, killings, escapades, supernatural power, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 4.4
 3K
Honeydew (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Strange cravings and hallucinations befall a young couple after seeking shelter in the home of an aging farmer and her peculiar son.
Style: suspense, sadistic, psychotronic, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: eating human flesh, survival horror, torture, couples, cannibalism, female psychopath, farmer, human prey, sadistic woman, bad guys win, trap, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Children of the Corn (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A psychopathic twelve-year-old girl in a small town in Nebraska recruits all the other children and goes on a bloody rampage, killing the corrupt adults and anyone else who opposes her. A bright high schooler who won't go along with the plan, ...
Style: slasher, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: stephen king, murder, small town, folk horror, psychopath, danger, revenge, masked killer, paranoia, fear, violent, blood ...
Time: 20th century
Place: usa, nebraska
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There's No Such Thing as Vampires (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A group of teenagers encounter vampires in a remote outpost.
Style: scary, suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: vampire, survival, road trip, supernatural power, supernatural, murder, deadly creature, evil, vengeance, monster, revenge, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
Is relevant ?
 6.5
 128K
The Hunt (2020)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, China
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, horror comedy, surprise ending, slasher ...
Audience: teens
Plot: manhunt, murder, game of death, strong female lead, survival, female protagonist, hunter, massacre, danger, pursuit, characters killed one by one, satire ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: vermont, croatia, mississippi, arkansas
Is relevant ?
 6.3
 6K
Rent-A-Pal (2020)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Set in 1990, a lonely bachelor named David searches for an escape from the day-to-day drudgery of caring for his aging mother. While seeking a partner through a video dating service, he discovers a strange VHS tape called Rent-A-Pal. Hosted by the ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: found footage, technology, past, 40 year old, bachelor, caregiver, dying man, mental illness, missing mother, man with glasses, mental breakdown, loneliness ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 2020s, year 1976
Place: denver colorado
Is relevant ?
 4.2
 2K
Behind You (2020)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two young sisters find that all the mirrors in their estranged aunt's house are covered or hidden. When one of them happens upon a mirror in the basement, she unknowingly releases a malicious demon.
Style: scary, bleak, suspense, rough, dark ...
Plot: supernatural horror, mirror, ghost, supernatural, demon, curse, escape attempt, sister sister relationship, broken mirror, macabre, murder, a vision ...
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