Full-blooded horror fans want nothing more than to spend as much time as possible watching as many creepy, unsettling, gory, and darkly hilarious classics as they can. While this sounds like a pretty expensive habit, a Pluto TV subscription gives one the opportunity to binge hours upon hours of the genre’s finest for the astonishing price of absolutely nothing. Being unsure of where to start is scary, so we thought we would help speed things up by presenting our picks for the best horror movies available to stream for free on Pluto TV right now!
The Babadook (2014)
A single mother (Essie Davis) becomes increasingly convinced that the unsettling title character of a pop-up book she read her son (Noah Wiseman) is alive and stalking her.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: What makes the title character of writer and director Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook one of the scariest modern horror movie villains is not just its unnerving appearance, but its symbolic properties that also make writer and director Jennifer Kent’s masterpiece one of the best horror movies to address grief.
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Child's Play (1988)
A single mother (Catherine Hicks) becomes increasingly convinced that a popular doll she bought her son (Alex Vincent in a strong debut performance) is alive and trying to kill them.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: While rooted in a seemingly ridiculous idea — a toy possessed by the soul of a serial killer (Oscar nominee Brad Dourif) — Child’s Play is one of the scariest ‘80s slasher movies and the pint-sized Chucky is one of the most iconic horror movie villains of all time.
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The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974)
Road-tripping teenagers end up on the menu for a murderous Southern family — including a power tool-wielding killer who wears his victims’ faces as a mask.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: While not really a horror movie based on a true story like it was advertised, writer and director Tobe Hooper's The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is dripping with nightmarish realism that might have you feeling uneasy, despite how little blood there actually is on the screen, which makes it one of the best horror movies of the 1970s.
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Hellraiser (1987)
A married woman (Clare Higgins) goes to murderous lengths to help her lover revive himself from the dead and escape persecution by a gang of sadomasochistic demonic entities.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Prolific horror writer Clive Barker made his directorial debut with Hellraiser — an adaptation of his novella “The Hellbound Heart,” which introduced the world to Doug Bradley’s iconic villain, Pinhead.
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Mandy (2018)
A heinous, unspeakable tragedy drives a lumberjack (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) to wage war against a murderous cult in the early 1980s.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Cage gives one of his most badass performances yet in director Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy — an otherwise simple tale of revenge enhanced with surreal imagery straight out of a heavy metal album cover.
Day Of The Dead (1985)
Surviving against the undead proves easier than surviving each other — at least at first — for a group of military personnel and scientific researchers holed up together in an underground bunker.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Some of the most impressive special effects and insightful examples of social satire from George A. Romero’s seminal series of zombie movies can be found in the third installment, Day of the Dead.
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The Exorcist III (1990)
A disillusioned detective (Academy Award winner George C. Scott) begins to suspect a seemingly disparate string of murders have a terrifyingly peculiar connection to one another.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: Arguably, the best Exorcist movie since William Friedkin’s 1973 classic is still writer and director William Peter Blatty’s underrated and unbelievably creepy The Exorcist III, which changes things up by being less of a possession thriller and more of a clever crime drama.
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Starry Eyes (2014)
A restaurant server (Alex Essoe) goes to extreme lengths to achieve her dream of making it big in Hollywood.
Why it is one of the best horror movies on Pluto TV: From writing and directing duo Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer, Starry Eyes is a brilliant meditation on the pains of being a struggling actor, enhanced to deeply unnerving levels with a dash of Satanic Panic and some brutal body horror effects.
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