12 Horror films on Netflix Australia with the highest Rotten Tomatoes scores

BE WARNED: You may not be able to sleep after this binge watch.

UNDER THE SHADOW

Rotten Tomatoes score: 99 per cent

Want some critically acclaimed political commentary with your horror? This Persian-language film has your back. The award-winning movie follows a young mother whose building is hit by a missile during the Iran-Iraq War. Her superstitious neighbour comes to believe the missile was also laced with a curse. Can she save her daughter and herself from possession or worse?

IT FOLLOWS

Rotten Tomatoes score: 97 per cent

Sex becomes a death sentence in this modern horror hit, which follows a curse that jumps from victim to victim via doing the dirty deed.

TRAIN TO BUSAN

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 per cent

There’s nothing better than a good zombie flick and this is one of the best one that’s been released in the past couple of years. Directed by Yeon Sang-ho, the film follows a man and his estranged daughter who become trapped on a speeding train during a zombie outbreak. It’s a thrilling and beautiful movie that will leave you disturbed.

CREEP

Rotten Tomatoes score: 96 per cent

Directed by Patrick Kack-Brice and starring Mark Duplass, this movie follows a cancer-stricken man who asks a Craigslist filmmaker to record his last days. However, nothing is what it seems in this deeply unsettling found footage film.

CALIBRE

Rotten Tomatoes score: 93 per cent

Directed by Matt Palmer, this British thriller does for hunting trips what Cabin Fever once did for shaving. Two friends go on a hunting trip in the remote Scottish Highlands. But after a tragic accident, they’re forced to make some of the most difficult decisions either has ever contemplated.

LITTLE EVIL

Rotten Tomatoes score: 91 per cent

Adam Scott stars in this original Netflix comedy about a mild-mannered man who fears that his new stepson may be the antichrist.

GERALD’S GAME

Rotten Tomatoes score: 90 per cent

You can’t have a list of spooky movies without including one, two or three films based on the works of horror master Stephen King. This one features a sex game gone wrong that leaves a wife (Carla Gugino) handcuffed to a bed and struggling for survival.

HUSH

Rotten Tomatoes score: 89 per cent

If you want a horror movie that will leave you on the edge of your seat, turn to Mike Flanagan. On paper, this 2016 thriller tells the story of a typical home invasion turned slasher gone wrong. But it’s how Hush uses silence and its deaf leading lady that make this film horrifying.

BACKCOUNTRY

Rotten Tomatoes score: 89 per cent

Ghosts and slashers are fun and all, but there’s one branch of horror that consistently gets ignored every Halloween — the man-vs-wild thriller. If the idea of random wild animals or earthquakes killing you is more terrifying than any jump scare, then check out this Adam MacDonald-directed film. Two friends leave the city to go camping in the woods and quickly become lost. But when a hungry man-eating bear starts to stalk them, their vacation turns into a fight for survival.

VERONICA

Rotten Tomatoes score: 88 per cent

For a while, Paco Plaza’s Spanish-language movie was hailed as the scariest movie on Netflix, so of course it’s making this list. During a solar eclipse, Veronica and her friends use an Ouija board to summon her late father. But what they bring back is more haunting than anything they could imagine.

RAVENOUS

Rotten Tomatoes score: 88 per cent

This French-language film directed by Robin Aubert is also known as Les Affamés. A small village in upstate Quebec is being plagued with a flesh-eating disease that’s turning loved ones against each other. Can anyone survive? And are the woods as safe as our heroes think they are?

1922

Rotten Tomatoes score: 87 per cent

Need more King this Halloween? Check out another Netflix original thriller, this one based on a novella about a farmer (Thomas Jane) confessing to murdering his wife.