Best horror movies on Peacock (Updated October 2026)

If you want the classics for spooky season, Peacock is where they are. These are the best horror movies streaming on Peacock in the US right now, ranked by rating, and the list gets refreshed as titles rotate in and out through Halloween and after. Peacock's horror shelf is the old one: half of the top ten were released before 1970, four of them in black and white, and the average Metascore across the ten is 85, against 71 for the Hulu horror top ten. For the full movie shelf beyond one genre, the Peacock what-to-watch page updates daily.

The 10 best horror movies on Peacock right now

1. Psycho (1960)

109 min · IMDb 8.5 · RT 97 · Metascore 97

The best-rated horror movie on Peacock by IMDb and Metascore both, and 0.7 clear of anything on the Hulu list. Hitchcock's motel picture: a real estate clerk steals a bag of cash, drives out of Arizona, and stops for the night at a place run by a young man and his mother. The shower is in the keywords for a reason. Horror, thriller and mystery by genre, with a detective in the second half.

2. Obsession (2026)

109 min · IMDb 7.9 · RT 93 · Metascore 77

The newest film in the top ten and the only one from this decade. A hopeless romantic breaks a wishing willow to make his crush love him, and she does, completely, in a way that stops being romantic fast. Supernatural possession with an absurdist streak, and a warning tag for self-harm. Second-highest IMDb score on the page, from 5,663 TMDB votes and counting.

3. Coraline (2009)

100 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 91 · Metascore 80

The only animated film on this page, and the one that works with kids in the room. A girl in a new house finds a secret door to a parallel version of her life, better in every way until it names the price for staying. Stop-motion, based on the novel, with dark fantasy and a talking cat in the tags. It also sits at number one on the Hulu horror list, so either subscription gets you to it.

4. Shaun of the Dead (2004)

99 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 92 · Metascore 76

A London slacker's routine is his girlfriend, his mum and his pub, and the zombie outbreak barely changes the order. Parody with a working zombie movie underneath it, and the only comedy in this top ten. The pub is the plan.

5. Night of the Living Dead (1968)

96 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 95 · Metascore 89

Strangers board up a Pennsylvania farmhouse against the dead, then turn on each other over whether the cellar is safer. Black and white, one house, one night, and the earliest zombie film on the page.

6. Get Out (2017)

104 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 98 · Metascore 85

A Black man visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend and their hospitality is the problem. Satire tagged alongside hypnosis and kidnapping. The most-voted title on this page, with 19,338 TMDB votes, and tied for the highest Rotten Tomatoes score in the top ten.

7. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)

75 min · IMDb 7.8 · RT 98 · Metascore 95

The scientist and the monster both survived the mob, and a former mentor wants a second creature built. A sequel with a hermit, a mill and comic relief in the tags. Take this over Frankenstein below: it beats the original on IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metascore, and it runs 75 minutes.

8. Frankenstein (1931)

70 min · IMDb 7.7 · RT 94 · Metascore 91

Body parts, a laboratory, lightning, and a creature that wakes up angry at a world that already hates it. Based on the novel, pre-Code, and the shortest film in the top ten at 70 minutes. The angry mob is where the sequel picks up.

9. Train to Busan (2016)

118 min · IMDb 7.6 · RT 95 · Metascore 73

A zombie outbreak spreads across South Korea while an express train is on its way to Busan, and the passengers trapped on it have to last the trip. The third zombie film in this top ten and the only one filed under action and adventure as well as horror. Survival horror on a timetable.

10. The Birds (1963)

119 min · IMDb 7.6 · RT 95 · Metascore 90

A socialite follows a man to a seaside town with a pair of lovebirds as a joke, and the town's birds start attacking people. Hitchcock again, three years after Psycho, based on a short story, and the longest film in the top ten at 119 minutes, most of them spent waiting for the next attack.

More horror movies on Peacock worth a look

• The Invisible Man (1933). 71 min · TMDB 7.5.
  A chemist turns himself invisible, and the drug that did it also makes him a killer. Black and white, pre-Code, and a 95 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Saw (2004). 103 min · TMDB 7.4.
  Two men wake up chained in a bathroom with a tape that explains the game. Critics gave it a 50 on Rotten Tomatoes; IMDb voters put it at 7.6.
• The Fly (1986). 96 min · TMDB 7.5.
  A scientist tests his teleporter on himself with a housefly in the pod. A remake, body horror, and a tragedy by its own tags.
• The Omen (1976). 111 min · TMDB 7.4.
  An American ambassador adopts a newborn without telling his wife, and the nanny, the priest and the rottweiler all know more about the boy than he does.
• Scream (1996). 112 min · TMDB 7.4.
  A masked killer works through a small California town by phone, and scary movies are part of the game. Slasher and whodunit at once.
• The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974). 83 min · TMDB 7.3.
  Five friends in a van, a hitchhiker, a gas station, and a farmhouse where the family works in a slaughterhouse. A Metascore of 91, the highest in this section.
• Dracula (1931). 74 min · TMDB 7.2.
  An estate agent goes to Transylvania to close a lease and comes back to London insane, with the count behind him. A 96 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• The Wolf Man (1941). 70 min · TMDB 7.0.
  A man comes home to the family estate in Wales and gets bitten. The full moon, the amulet and the fortune teller all start here.
• 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016). 104 min · TMDB 7.0.
  A woman wakes from a car crash in a survivalist's bunker and he says the world outside is gone. Whether he is lying is the movie.
• Tremors (1990). 96 min · TMDB 7.0.
  Two locals in a stranded Nevada town find out something under the ground eats. Creature feature with jokes.
• Black Christmas (1974). 98 min · TMDB 7.0.
  Obscene phone calls to a sorority house over the holidays, and then the murders start. Toronto, 1974.
• Day of the Dead (1985). 101 min · TMDB 7.0.
  Scientists and soldiers in a Florida bunker argue about the undead upstairs. Grim is in the tags, and so is sequel.
• Triangle (2009). 99 min · TMDB 6.9.
  A yacht trip, a storm, an empty ocean liner, and a time loop that the tags give away but the film earns.
• The Mummy (1932). 73 min · TMDB 6.7.
  An archaeologist reads the wrong scroll aloud and a priest walks out of his wrappings looking for a reincarnated lover.
• Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954). 79 min · TMDB 6.8.
  An Amazon expedition finds the missing link between fish and man, and it is not interested in being studied.
• Ginger Snaps (2000). 108 min · TMDB 6.9.
  Two outcast sisters in a Canadian suburb, and the older one is bitten on the night of her first period. Werewolf film as coming-of-age story, with a 90 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Candyman (1992). 100 min · TMDB 6.7.
  A skeptical grad student researching an urban legend in a housing project summons the man with the hook. Based on the book.
• Hush (2016). 82 min · TMDB 6.7.
  A deaf woman alone in a secluded house, and a killer who realizes she cannot hear him. 82 minutes, a 92 on Rotten Tomatoes.
• Drag Me to Hell (2009). 99 min · TMDB 6.5.
  A loan officer denies an old woman an extension and gets cursed for it, and a psychic is her only way out. Gore with a Metascore of 83.

Pick one before the popcorn goes cold

Horror night stalls on the same question every time: black and white or this century, and does anyone have to close their eyes. Start a Peacock swipe room, let everyone swipe through the deck, and watch whichever one matches. The concessions machine handles the snacks.