Things that could be strange, spooky, or terrifying in the other eleven months of the year are perfectly acceptable in October. While everyone enjoys pumpkin spice lattes, movies are the ultimate gift of fall. As the spooky season is just around the corner, I compiled a list of the Best Horror Movies on Showtime as the platform has thrillers, slashers, creature features, and whatnot. So light those candles, jump into your cozy beds, and check out our list of best scary movies on Showtime, handpicked by us based on their IMDb rating.
Best Horror Movies on Showtime [Quick Guide]
Here is our list of Best Horror Movies currently streaming on Showtime (based on the IMDb rating):
- Rosemary’s Baby (1968) – 8/10
- Let The Right One In (2008) – 7.9/10
- The Crow (1994) – 7.5/10
- Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974) – 7.4/10
- Hereditary (2018) – 7.3/10
- Midsommar (2019) – 7.1/10
- X (2022) – 6.6/10
- Mother! (2017) – 6.6/10
- Scream (2022) – 6.3/10
- Werewolves Within (2021) – 6.0/10
Best Horror Movies on Showtime [Detailed]
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
It is a suspense story by Alfred Hitchcock, and being the oldest film on our list, it goes darker than even he is ready to. The movie revolves around Rosemary Woodhouse and her husband Guy who move into an eerie apartment in Manhattan, where Rosemary starts having strange, horrible things happen to her.
Guy falls in love with the eccentric Castevet family, their next-door neighbors, after one of the elderly couple’s patients appears to have killed himself.
Rosemary then had a child. While Rosemary is pregnant, a kind Minnie continues offering her strange remedies, and she is not feeling well at all. As the tagline puts it, the only answer is to pray for Rosemary’s unborn child.
- IMDb rating: 8/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 96%
- Runtime: 2h 17m
- Genre: Horror, Drama
- Cast: Mia Farrow (Rosemary), John Cassavetes (Guy Woodhouse), Ruth Gordon (Minnie)
Let The Right One In (2008)
In Let The Right One In, the psychological is given considerably more attention than the visceral. A 12-year-old bullied boy named Oskar develops a bond with his new neighbor, the enigmatic and temperamental Eli. Initially guarded, they eventually develop a lovely romance. However, everything is put in jeopardy by a sinister, gruesome secret that reveals Eli’s involvement in a series of violent local killings.
Even though some moviegoers might resist to watch a foreign film, we assure you that it will be worthwhile.
- IMDb rating: 7.9/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 98%
- Runtime: 1h 54m
- Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
- Cast: Kare Hedebrant (Oskar), Lina Leandersson (Eli), Per Ragnar (Hakan)
The Crow (1994)
The Crow, a 1994 superhero film with elements of fantasy and horror, is best remembered for the horrifying events that didn’t take place on-screen.
A vicious inner-city gang member brutally murders singer Eric Draven (Brandon Lee) and his fiance the night before their wedding. Eric emerges from the grave on the anniversary of their passing and dons the gothic disguise of the Crow, a supernatural assassin.
Brandon Lee, the star of the movie, was unintentionally shot on the set while The Crow was being filmed because of an error with a toy gun.
- IMDb rating: 7.5/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 84%
- Runtime: 1h 42m
- Genre: Horror, Drama, Crime
- Cast: Brandon Lee (Eric), Michael Wincott (Top Dollar), Rochelle Davis (Sarah)
Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974)
In order to really start the season off, I occasionally need to throw in a classic. The movie showcases a family of bloodthirsty cannibals having a leather-masked chainsaw-wielding lunatic, his knife-wielding grave robber brother, their cannibal chief father, and their decaying grandfather. They prey on a group of five hippies traveling through the backroads of rural Texas in the 1970s. The movie got so many sequels and remakes, claiming the terror it caused among the people.
- IMDb rating: 7.4/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 89%
- Runtime: 1h 23m
- Genre: Horror
- Cast: Marilyn Burns (Sally), Edwin Neal (Hitchhiker), Allen Danziger (Jerry)
Hereditary (2018)
We’ve reached the very top of our ranking—the crème de la crème, the pinnacle of Showtime horror. The impact and frequently horrifying nature of this film cannot be overstated. We were quite stunned with the horror cinematography that is shown in this movie. The movie revolves around the story of The Graham Family. After the Graham family matriarch dies, her daughter and grandkids start to piece together cryptic and progressively more terrible stories about their lineage in an effort to escape the evil destiny they have inherited.
- IMDb rating: 7.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 90%
- Runtime: 2h 7m
- Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
- Cast: Toni Collete (Annie), Milly Shapiro (Charlie), Gabriel Byrne (Steve)
Midsommar (2019)
Ari Aster, the hottest auteur working in horror right now, directed Midsommar. This is his first but not the last film on our list. Our main character, Dani (Florence Pugh), her boyfriend, and his ragged bunch of pals are visiting during the town’s summer festival when the majority of Midsommar is set in a remote Swedish village. The group quickly learns that the term “summer festival” does not accurately describe the cultish, ritualistic, pagan activities that the locals perform.
- IMDb rating: 7.1/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 83%
- Runtime: 2h 28m
- Genre: Horror, Drama, Mystery
- Cast: Florence Pugh (Dani), Jack Reynor (Christian), Vilhelm Blomgren (Pelle)
X (2022)
You may already be aware that Pearl, the sequel to this movie, is currently playing in theaters, so you can understand the important part that this enigmatic elderly woman plays in X. In the end, this movie succeeds because it is exactly what it claims to be—a traditional slasher with jump scares and some gory carnage moments.
Adult film actors and a tiny team go up to an elderly couple’s farmhouse in the remote Texas countryside in 1979 to shoot an adult film there. The guests gradually come to the realization that they are not safe and are being hunted by an enemy as day turns to night.
- IMDb rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 93%
- Runtime: 1h 45m
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Cast: Mia Goth (Maxine), Jenna Ortega (Lorraine), Brittany Snow (Bobby Lynne)
Mother! (2017)
Mother! by Darren Aronofsky is the kind of horror film that will really mess you up. When things fully unveil themselves in this movie, the real dread starts because nothing in it is what it seems.
A couple has hidden themselves away in a remote home that was recently burned down and lovingly renovated by the devoted wife, in the middle of a wild flat meadow bordered by an Edenic lush forest. The once-famous middle-aged poet spouse is eager to produce his masterpiece in this secure setting, but he is unable to shake the chronic creative block that plagues him.
A knock on the door, a mysterious late-night visitor, and his nosy wife will then abruptly appear, igniting the writer’s sluggish imagination. The more turbulence he allows into his haven, the better for his dented masculine ego, he slowly realizes, much to the amazement of his confused wife. Will the couple’s inviolable sanctuary ultimately become irrevocably tarnished by this incremental mess?
- IMDb rating: 6.6/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 69%
- Runtime: 2h 1m
- Genre: Horror, Thriller, Mystery
- Cast: Jennifer Lawren (Mother), Javier Barden (Him), Ed Harris (Man)
Scream (2022)
Our list would have remained incomplete without their being a legacy movie. In order to resurrect secrets from the town’s bloody past, a new killer dons the Ghostface mask and starts targeting a group of teens 25 years after a string of grisly killings stunned the sleepy hamlet of Woodsboro, California.
- IMDb rating: 6.3/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 76%
- Runtime: 1h 54m
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
- Cast: Neve Campbell (Sidney Prescott), Courteney Cox (Gale Weathers), David Arquette (Dewey Riley)
Werewolves Within (2021)
Any horror movie marathon needs a highlight to help ease the tension, and Werewolves Within is the ideal choice. Residents of the town are trapped inside the town’s inn by snowfall, and recently arrived forest ranger Finn and postal worker Cecily must work to maintain order while learning more about the mystery beast that has started terrorizing the neighborhood.
- IMDb rating: 6.0/10
- Rotten Tomatoes: 86%
- Runtime: 1h 37m
- Genre: Horror, Mystery, Comedy
- Cast: Sam Richardson (Finn Wheeler), Milana Vayntrub (Cecily Moore), George Basil (Marcus)
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Conclusion
That was it, folks! We hope our list of Best Horror Movies on Showtime has helped all fans of Horror to know what to watch this Halloween. Our comment section is always open to any suggestions from your end. Keep connected with us to become a pro-streamer.
