Chilly nights call for spooky movies to watch with friends during silent movie nights. Winter and horror are perfect partners as it’s suitable to hide under our blankets while shivering with both fear and cold.
Rounding up the best horror movies that were released last year and scared the critics and audiences, this list ranges from the supernatural horror of The Exorcist: Believer to the sci-fi horror M3GAN.
So, don’t wait anymore and organize a horror movie night to watch the 15 Best horror movies of 2023.
Where Evil Lurks
Where Evil Lurks is a supernatural horror movie starring Ezequiel Rodriguez, Demián Salomon, and Silvia Sabater. In a small town, two brothers come across a man possessed by a demon who is about to take a physical birth but when they try to get help from authorities and make everyone aware of the demonic activity, no one believes them.
Stream/Buy: Amazon Prime Video
M3GAN
M3GAN is a sci-fi horror movie starring Allison Williams, Violet McGraw, and Jenna Davis. A child robot designed to accompany kids and be their friends takes its overprotectiveness to exact darker methods upon anyone she seems to be the threat to its companion.
Stream/Buy: Amazon Prime Video
Attachment
Attachment is a romantic horror movie starring Josephine Park, Ellie Kendrick, and David Dencik. Maja, a former Danish actress, enters into a relationship with Leah, a Jewish academic student. After Leah has a sudden seizure, the duo decides to return to London, where Leah’s mother lives but this move brings secrets and mysteries that slowly unravel the darkness around them.
Stream/Buy: Amazon Prime Video
Perpetrator
Perpetrator is an action horror movie starring Kiah McKirnan, Melanie Liburd, and Alicia Silverstone. Johnny, a teenage high school student lives with her estranged aunt, Hildie in a town where girls her age are mysteriously disappearing one after the other. But after her 18th birthday, Johnny finds herself facing new changes within herself and decides to use these new powers to bring down the perpetrator.
Stream/Buy: Amazon Prime Video
Influencer
Influencer is a psychological horror movie starring Cassandra Naud, Emily Tennant, and Sara Canning. When Madison, a social media influencer is ditched by her boyfriend on a trip to Thailand she decides to make it a solo trip but ends up meeting a mysterious but interesting girl, CW who takes her around the island but slowly Madison starts to feel that something is wrong.
Stream/Buy: Amazon Prime Video
Talk To Me
Talk To Me is a mystery horror movie starring Sophie Wilde, Alexandra Jensen, and Joe Bird. Mia, a young teenager is dealing with grief over her mother’s death anniversary and her father’s estranged behavior since her demise. When along with a few friends she participates in a possession game using an embalmed hand, it triggers an obsessive need inside her to do it again.
Stream/Buy: Apple TV
The Blackening
The Blackening is a dark comedy horror movie starring Grace Byers, Jermaine Fowler, and Melvin Gregg. A series of misfortune befalls a group of African American friends who gather in a cabin in the woods to celebrate Juneteenth, the end of slavery. At the cabin, they come across a board game called ‘The Blackening’ which has racist caricatures that then capture one of their friends.
Stream/Buy: Apple TV
The Exorcist: Believer
The Exorcist: Believer is a supernatural horror movie starring Leslie Odom Jr, Lidya Jewett, and Olivia O’Neill. Victor Fielding is a single dad who is raising his daughter Angela by himself after his wife’s death which has made him lose faith in God. One day, his daughter disappears along with her best friend and is unable to be found anywhere until three days later when they return on their own. Soon after, Victor starts experiencing that something is wrong with his daughter.
Stream/Buy: Peacock Premium
Evil Dead Rise
Evil Dead Rise is a supernatural horror movie starring Lily Sullivan, Alyssa Sutherland, and Morgan Davies. When Beth visits her sister Ellie and her three children, she gets stuck with them as the building is struck by an earthquake, and all the escape routes are blocked. She immediately finds herself dealing with a suddenly possessed and murderous Ellie who ends up massacring their neighbors.
Stream/Buy: Amazon Prime Video
Infinity Pool
Infinity Pool is a sci-fi and horror movie starring Alexander Skarsgard, Mia Goth, and Cleopatra Coleman. A novelist of a one-hit wonder book travels to a strange country with his wife where he gets ensnared by their strange culture and corrupt system, slowly losing his hold on his real self.
Stream/Buy: Hulu
No One Will Save You
No One Will Save You is a sci-fi horror movie starring Kaitlyn Dever, Zack Duhame, and Lauren Murray. Brynn, a lonely seamstress who has locked herself inside her house after her best friend’s death suddenly discovers that the town and the people in it are being controlled by aliens and all electronic gadgets have been rendered useless.
Stream/Buy: Hulu
Sick
Sick is an action horror movie starring Gideon Adlon, Beth Million, and Dylan Sprayberry. Parker and Miri take residence in Parker’s family lake house during the COVID-19 pandemic, constantly posting about their life on Instagram. But soon the girls start receiving threatening and scary text messages and slowly find their safe house turning into a battle zone where they are being hunted by a masked attacker.
Stream/Buy: Peacock Premium
Saw X
Saw X is a horror movie starring Tobin Bell, Shawnee Smith, and Macody Lund. John Kramer is devastated to learn that he has advanced-stage brain cancer and clutching at the last straws of survival, he heads to Mexico to get operated on by a doctor who has succeeded in curing cancer through an experimental procedure. But when John finds out he was duped all along and everything was fake, he decides to exact revenge upon his perpetrators.
Stream/Buy: Apple TV
A Haunting in Venice
A Haunting in Venice is a supernatural mystery movie starring Kenneth Branagh, Jamie Dornan, and Tina Fey. Hercule Poirot has taken retirement but his novelist friend, Ariadne Oliver finds him in the middle of Venice and invites him to observe a medium summoning a local girl’s ghost on Halloween and to tell if she’s the real deal. Soon, Hercule Poirot and the party are stuck inside a haunted house with a dead medium.
Stream/Buy: Hulu
El Conde
El Conde is a black comedy horror movie starring Jaime Vadell, Gloria Münchmeyer, and Alfredo Castro. Claude Pinoche, a vampire who has survived multiple killing attempts, the French Revolution, Salvador Allende, and rises to power as a dictator, later retiring to farm life, finds himself losing his will to live causing his wife and butler worry.
Stream/Buy: Netflix
