20 Best Horror Movies To Watch on Amazon Prime Video

Master is an American psychological horror movie of 2022 directed and written by Mariama Diallo, where systemic racism turned into a ghost story that hunted school halls. The anonymous racist attacks target a first-year student when three women strive at an elite Northeastern university.

The university student believed it was crushed by the Margaret Millett ghost, who hung nearby when she was accused of witchcraft.

Gail Bishop (Regina Hall) appeared as the first master of her race at Ancaster. Hall's character faces discrimination which seems more horrifying in the movie.

• Director- Mariama Diallo
• Casts-Regina Hall, Zoe Renee, Amber Gray, Talia Ryder
• Rating- 5.2/10
• Runtime-1h 38m

Run Sweetheart Run is a horror thriller story where Ella Balinska plays the lead role as a single mother in Los Angles who has been chased by a misogynistic womanizing man on her blind date. The film shared the sequel, where the girl fought for survival. Even it's hard to predict what comes next in Cherie's life. 

Cherie faces an eviler situation when she finds herself in the crosshairs of a conspiracy stranger. She went to meet with Ethan (Pilou Asbæk) when her boss insisted on meeting with their vital client, and she felt relieved after meeting a charismatic influential Businessman.

The innocent date led to a night of terror when her date started hunting her down after he revealed his true intention and violent nature. Ethan tried to Killed Cherie, and she tried to escape from his grasp to save her life.

The movie had released on October 28, 2022, in the United Kingdom. It has directed by Shana Feste and written by Keith Joshep Adkins and Kelle Terrell. 

• Rating-5.4/10
• Runtime-1h 44m
• Casts-Ella Balinska, Pilou Asbæk, Clark Gregg, and Shohreh Aghdashloo

Colin and Cameron Cairnes's Scare Campaign is a 2016 Australian horror movie that shared the plot of a hidden camera prank TV show run by a group of people who scared targets with their school secrets for five years. 

The latest target nearly ends up the life of the actress, thinking she is a zombie until he discovers it was a prank. The crew found themselves hunted by the Masked Freaks, who killed other people gruesomely.

Things turned horrible when the director wanted them to get darker and set up the location at the asylum to spook a creepy guy worker. 

• Director Cameron Cairnes and Colin Cairnes 
• Casts-Meegan Warner, Ian Meadows, Olivia DeJonge, and Josh Quong Tart
• Runtime-1h 20m
• Rating-5.8/10

Conor McMahon's Stitches is perfect for a horror-comedy slasher. The plot directs the birthday clown Richard Grindle (Ross Noble), who returns from his demise to take revenge upon a group of children and teenagers involved in his murder. 

The movie gives some classic horror touches, and the effects are very imaginative. The film featured the Clown ceremony and mythology with the hilarious clown. 

• Director- Conor McMahon
• Casts-Ross Noble, Tommy Knight, Gemma-Leah Devereux
• Rating-5.7/10
• Runtime-1h 26m

Ava's Possessions is a horror comedy movie that follows the story of a once-possessed demon girl who tried to get her life memory back by retracing her demon self.

The story shares Ava Dobkins recovering from demonic possession with no memory of her past months. As a result, she was forced to join the Spirit Possession Anonymous support group to recover from her month-long blackout. 

When Ava attempts to reconnect with her colleague, struggles for a job, and figures out about bloodstain, she has nightmarish visions; and she figures out the demon is trying to come back. There was a lot of mystery, which gave the audience a twist and turns. 

The movie had directed and written by Jordan Galland. Louisa Krause played the role of Ava; Whitney Able, William Sadler, Lou Taylor Pucci, Dan Fogler, and Carol Kane are the other stars of the movie. It has received a 5.6 rating on IMDB. 

The Poughkeepsie Tapes is a John Erick Dowdle-directed American Pseudo documentary movie. In the abandoned house, police discovered tapes that detailed the decade of serial killer Carver's work. 

The movie gained nobility after its release at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2007. It displayed the video evidence, which has filled with violent immorality. 

The film revolves around the murders of a serial killer. The police found 800 videotapes filmed by Edward Carver where the visual record of his murders was present. 

The eight-year-old girl was the first victim of Carver. He murdered the couple next and later teenager Cheryl Dempsey. Also, he targeted the victim's boyfriend, Tim, and an adult worker. 

• Cast- Stacy Chbosky, Ben Messmer, Ivar Brogger, Samantha Robson
• Runtime-1h 21m
• Genre- Horror, Mystery, Thriller
• Rating -6/10

Harpoon is a comedy horror thriller movie directed and written by Rob Grant, where three best friends are stranded in the middle of the ocean on a yacht. 

Richard's guilt makes him take his two best friends for a day trip on his yacht, and the tension breaks as Sasha cheats on Richard with Jonah, and a big fight occurs between them.

As their day ended on the boat when the engine stopped, the group thought one should sacrifice their life. Also, Richard and Jonah revealed the truth about the pregnant girl's murder. 

• Director-Rob Grant
• Casts- Munro Chambers, Emily Tyra, and Christopher Gray
• Rating-6/10
• Runtime-1h 23m

Derek Lee and Clif Prowse's Afflicted is a 2013 Canadian horror film based on found footage of the two childhood best friend travel web series.

Clif Prowse and Derek Lee decided to film the venture of the world as the web series Ends of the Earth as the wish of Derek's. The fatally ill Derek's survived as the bloodsucker bit him in a backward-serving way.

The movie is based on a Vampire plot, where Derek has to suck blood to survive and avoid sunlight while traveling with his friend Cliff through European countries. However, complications occurred on their journey. 

• Director -Derek Lee and Clif Prowse
• Casts-Derek Lee, Clif Prowse, Michael Gill, Baya Rehab
• Rating-6.2/10
• Runtime-1h 25m

Uncaged, also known as Beast Within, is a story about a monstrous lion threatening Amsterdam. Ben Getz played the lead role in the movie as Jack turned 18 and started facing symptoms of sleepwalking episodes. 

As a result, he woke in the woods without clothes and memories. He is determined to find the truth and wears a camera to discover the reason behind his activities. Later, he finds the sinister family secret and that he is the heir to a monstrous family legacy.

The movie is Hollywood standards, with natural lighting and unconstructed sets. The film is worth watching for fans of the werewolf genre.

However, the film is unrated on IMDB, which runs for 1hr and 35 min. The movie had directed by Daniel Robbins and written by Mark H. Rapaport. Julian Looman, Mark Frost, and Sophie Van Winden are the stars.

Hell House LLC is an American found-footage horror film shot as a documentary and followed the Halloween haunted house creators, where some crew investigates a tragedy at a hunted house. 

The titular company prepared the 2009 opening for the haunted attraction, Hell House, in an abandoned hotel in a small town in New York. 

The tragedy strikes when an unexplained malfunction causes the demise of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night.

The movie disclosed the lead-up to the disaster and the mystery caused and documented what happened wrong on opening night after the documentary crew interviewed the people familiar with the incident after five years. 

The video is available not only on Amazon but Shudder, Youtuber, Vudu, and iTunes. 

• Director-Stephen Cognetti
• Casts-Gore Abrams, Alice Bahlke, Danny Bellini, Theodore Bouloukos, Natalie Gee
• Runtime- 1h 33m

A Quiet Place Part II is the second version of the 2018 movie A Quiet Place, which follows a family who survives in a post-apocalyptic world occupied by blind aliens. It is a post-apocalyptic horror movie directed by American filmmaker John Burke Krasinski. 

The Abbott Family and the other spectators witness the strange blind creatures appearing towards the Earth with extraordinary speed and strength, which track down the victim with hypersensitive hearing. It attacked everything that made noises. 

Over a year, the creature killed much of the human population on Earth, including Regan's father, Lee, and son Beau. The deaf daughter found out about the thing which made them vulnerable.  

They realized that they were only threatened not by the creature but by other lurking beyond the sand path. They tried to venture into the quiet place and hoped for a miracle, but they faced the enemy everywhere. The sci-fi horror movie has a 7.2 rating on IMDB.

• Director-John Krasinski
• IMDB Rating-7.2/10
• Stars - Emily Blunt, Millicent Simmonds, Cillian Murphy, John Krasinski, Scoot McNairy, Noah Jupe, Djimon Hounsou, Scoot McNairy
• Runtime -1h 37m
• Genre-Drama, Horror, Sci-fi, Thriller 

The Taking Of Deborah Logan is an American supernatural horror film based on found footage document. The three students, Mia Medina, Gavin, and Luis, had teamed up to create the documentary about Alzheimer's patients.

As they started documenting the woman, they discovered the bizarre actions, which are standard, according to her physician. However, Luis believed something supernatural happened, and the thing became worse when Deborah mentioned sacrificing snakes in French. 

The informational research turned into a nightmare, and Deborah's condition went more sinister during filming. 

• Director- Adam Robitel
• Casts- Jill Larson, Anne Ramsay, and Michelle Ang
• Rating-6/10
• Runtime-1h 30m

Candyman is a Nia DaCosta-directed supernatural slasher movie which is the sequel to the horror movie of 1992 movie of the same name. It returned with the artist Anthony McCoy who tried to discover the story behind the Candyman when his brother told him the story of Helen Lyle. 

Anthony meets William Burke, who witnessed Sherman's demise and led him to Candyman. He jokingly performs its curse by saying Candyman in the mirror five times and mentioning his spirit would kill his summoner. As a result, he unknowingly opens the door to the terrifying wave of violence. 

• Directed by Nia DaCosta
• Cast- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo, Vanessa Williams
• Rating- 5.9/10
• Runtime -1h 31m

Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine are the lead cast of the Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil. They hoped for a relaxing vacation playing yokels and headed to their fixer-upper vacation cabin. 

They want to have some beer, fish, and a good time but get mistaken for murderous villains. They faced the bloody situation after teenagers accidentally killed themselves in Tucker and Dale's dilapidated mountain cabin. 

The group of preppy college kids assumed Tucker and Dale as the murderer from their looks. As a result, their holiday takes a bloody and hilarious turn for the worse.

Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil was one of the best horror comedies of the 2010s, where some characters conclude up losing their life. Eli Craig has developed light-hearted, enjoyable movies in that time with stars Tyler Labine, Alan Tudyk, Katrina Bowden, and Jesse Moss.

• Rating-7.5/10
• Runtime-1h 29m
• Director-Eli Craig

House On Haunted Hill is a 1999 American horror movie by William Castle where eccentric millionaire Frederick Loren( Vincent Price) invited five people to the hunted house party alongside his wife, Annabelle. 

The person who remained in the house for one night would make $10,000. As the night start, the evening turns into a delicious horror puzzler, and guests have trapped in the house with an assortment of terrors. The movie placed more stress on the character's guests and Price's character than on inky ghosts. 

• Director-William Castle
• Casts-Vincent Price, Carol Ohmart, Richard Long, Alan Marshal, Carolyn Craig, Elisha Cook Jr
• Rating-5.6/10
• Runtime-1h 33m

We Are Still Here is a 2015 horror film by Ted Geoghegan where grieving parents found themselves attacked by vengeful spirits in the cold fields of New England.

Anne (Barbara Crampton) and Paul Sacchetti (Andrew Sensenig) moved to a new home following the demise of their son Bobby. However, Anne felt the presence of the deceased son in the house, and neighbor Cat McCabe warned them to leave home.

A lonely old house of the Dagmar family wakes up after thirty years and demands sacrifice, and murder occurs in the home. 

• Director-Ted Geoghegan
• Casts- Andrew Sensenig, Barbara Crampton, Larry Fessenden, Lisa Marie
• Rating-5.7/10
• Runtime-1h 24m

Hellraiser is a classic horror staples movie featured in Prime Video. The 1987 British supernatural horror movie by Clive Barker involved the mystical puzzle box that summons a demonic character who cannot differentiate between pain and pleasure.

Frank Cotton buys the puzzle box, said as the kingdom of otherworldly pleasure. Afterward, the young woman struggled with addiction, and she was later even possessed by an ancient puzzle box, which summoned the Cenobites. 

• Director -Clive Barker
• Casts- Andrew Robinson, Clare Higgins, Ashley Laurence, Doug Bradley
• Rating-6/10
• Runtime-2h 1m

Tumbbad is the Rahi Anil Brave-directed Hindi-language period horror movie. It shared the mythological story of Godness of Prosperity, who created the universe. Besides this, it talks about the first beloved offspring who tried to steal the gold of goodness. 

As a result, 16 crore gods and goddesses tried to kill him. But the Goddess of Prosperity saved him. He has been crushed by the gods never listed in Puranas and trapped in his mother's womb. When the Tumbbad built the temple of Haster, they were cursed and caused the downpour of rain on the village. 

• Director-Rahi Anil Barve, Anand Gandhi, and Adesh Prasad
• Cast- Sohum Shah, Jyoti Malshe, Anita Date-Kelkar
• Rating-8.2/10
• Runtime-1h 44m

Yeon Sang-ho's Train To Busan is a South Korean action horror movie where the zombie virus breaks out in the country, and the passenger struggles to survive from Seoul to Busan.

A single father, Seok-woo, took her daughter Su-an to meet her mother on her birthday. When the train departs, the ill young lady runs into the train and turns into a zombie, which breaks out in the country, and endangers the safety of the train attendant.

As a result, the passenger escapes to another vehicle and locks the door. Seok-woo learned his company was indirectly related to the incident. 

• Director- Yeon Sang-ho
• Rating-7.6/10
• Casts- Gong Yoo, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Kim Su-an, Choi Woo-shik, Ahn So-hee, and Kim Eui-sung
• Runtime- 1h 58m

The Descent is one of the best films by English director Neil Marshall, as of posting on October 2022, which has a 7.2 rating on IMDB. The expectation of caving turned into a horrible path when the six ladies were trapped in an unknown cave and chased by a strange breed of predators. 

It is a 2005 British horror movie that follows six female explorers, including Sarah, Juno, Sam, Rebecca, and Beth. They entered a cave system, ultimately pursued by flesh-eating creatures. 

The Thrill seeker friends struggled to survive against the creatures and scrambled to discover the jagged escape tunnel. So, they led to an unknown cave system where rescue was impossible. 

Some of the characters lead to a deadend. Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, and Nora-Jane Noone are the six actors trapped in the cave. 

• Director-Neil Marshall
• Casts-Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, MyAnna Buring, and Nora-Jane Noone
• Rating-7.2/10
• Runtime-1h 39m