If you are a horror movie fan and want to find somewhere to watch or download the latest, classic, or rare horror movies, you are in the right place. In this article, I’ll list 8 great websites for horror movies download or watching online, including 6 free sites and 2 paid platforms.
However, no websites are perfect, their cons are also listed for a more complete presentation.
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Unique Features: You can find everything here with their great variety of movies including the most banned ones.
Effedupmovies has always been my choice to find the most banned movies. They have everything from Hollywood movies to the August Underground. It supports horror movies free download without ads, and its stable server hasn’t had any problem with my computer. The image quality is quite good and they have subtitles on lots of films.
Though there’re no ads, it will redirect to another page once for each movie, so just close it. There’s no download button but I found a solution presented in the following part.
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As for the biggest video streaming site, YouTube provides all kinds of videos and movies for its billions of users. Just type horror movies in their familiar interface, you can find modern or old horror movies with generated subtitles.
Still, you cannot find any movie here, and some are paid, besides, it is not totally free with all the disturbing ads every few minutes.
Actually, YouTube doesn’t provide the download option, so it is necessary to find a professional downloader to accomplish the job, the best YouTube downloader is iFunia.
Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7
Free Download macOS 10.13 or later 
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Unique Features: It is full of classical and original movies and series that you cannot find anywhere else.
Shudder is a subscription streaming service dedicated to various horror, thriller, and supernatural movies and series uncut plus live streaming. If you are a horror nut, you cannot miss this popular site with a well-stocked catalog and high-quality images and sound.
However, I saw some negative points saying that after canceling the plan, the platform offered another free trial but then charged for a whole year. Maybe that user wasn’t be careful about the terms and it hasn’t occurred to me until now. In addition, do not go with the Amazon Prime sub.
To download from Shudder, it depends on your devices and the content you want to download. Generally, Shudder allows users to temporarily download certain content if they are registered users and had purchased a subscription. However, some content may not be available and there are limitations on a number of downloads and geographic and device restrictions.
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Unique Features: Maximum of 4-device concurrent stream and a rich on-demand library.
Netflix is a subscription on-demand video streaming service that allows members to watch original and popular films and TV shows from various genres and in multiple subbed and dubbed languages. In the horror category, you’ll find a wide range of horror movies.
The price is a bit high and there are viewing restrictions on devices (Samsung and Roku).
Downloads on Netflix for Windows are no longer supported and there’s no Netflix app on Mac, so you’re limited to watch Netflix with a web browser when using a Mac. Hence to download from Netflix, make sure you are using the supported devices:
iPhone/iPad;
Android phone/tablet;
Amazon Fire tablet;
Google Chromebook.
In Categories → Available for Download → search for the horror movies you want.
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Unique Features: nonprofit platform and providing old and rare horror movies that you cannot find elsewhere.
Internet Archive is a nonprofit online media library founded in 1996 with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". You have access to different collections including Internet sites and other digitized cultural artifacts like eBooks, audiovisuals, music, images, and software. You can find a horror movies category from the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s.
For old movies, the quality is not that good and some are without subtitles. Maybe you could not find the latest films here, but some old movies are original and still worth watching.
Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7 Free Download macOS 10.13 or later 
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Unique Features: rare horror movies that you cannot find elsewhere.
The site rarefilmm.com is the cave of forgotten films, as it states. There are thousands of rare movies that have never been released on streaming services. Most are rarities, silent classics, foreign films from around the world, and hard-to-find gems from the 1920s-1990s.
You may not find recent or popular movies on rarefilmm.com and some movies are not subbed and not of high quality.
For most films, you can download directly by clicking the links they list:
For films that cannot be downloaded, use iFunia Downloader to get the movies in a few minutes:
Free Download Windows 11/10/8/7 Free Download macOS 10.13 or later
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Unique Features: high quality and great watching experience.
Crackle is a free-to-use service offering on-demand movies and shows without subscription. It’s full of horror movies and original programming. You can watch online for free with high picture and sound quality uncut and unedited.
Like YouTube, it is ad-supported with ads every few minutes and doesn’t allow users to download except for certain devices (like Amazon Fire TV and Roku).
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Unique Features: horror movie site free download for Hindi/Telugu/Tamil/Bollywood.
WorldFree4u is a free website for movies and torrents download in high quality. You can discover plenty of Bollywood and Hollywood movies and films from other languages.
But it occurs service interruption and always shows an error page. And it directs you to another ad page every time you click. It allows users to directly download but I often encounter problems like server errors. Besides, you cannot watch the movies online.
This list is based on my opinion and opinions from Rotten Tomatoes and forums.
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Release Date |
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The Exorcist |
1973 |
8.1 |
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The Shining |
1980 |
8.4 |
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The Conjuring |
2013 |
7.5 |
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Hereditary |
2018 |
7.3 |
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre |
1974 |
7.4 |
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The Thing |
1982 |
8.2 |
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Halloween |
1978 |
7.7 |
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Alien |
1979 |
8.5 |
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Psycho |
1960 |
8.5 |
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The Ring |
2002 |
7.1 |
Emule is a free sharing application for PC where you can share and download files by connecting to millions of other users who have the file resources you are looking for. Other than horror movies, you can search for other files like documents, and music as well.
Yes, Tubi is a media content and ad-supported streaming service with many movies and series, including horrors. The reason why I didn’t put it in the top best sites is that for most horror movies I searched on it, it said unavailable.
Some people are frightened about watching horror movies and they don’t understand why people enjoy seeing scary and bloody scenes.
Well, horror movies are designed to stir terror feelings, elicit fear and disgust. But not all fears are bad, sometimes they help us learn how to react and protect us. Others say that horror movies help us detach the real life and put us in dangerous or scary situations without real risk, so people feel confident that they are in control of the danger.
As a movie lover, I enjoy writing articles about testing and recommending free download sites, check other types of websites I wrote about:
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Top 8 Bollywood download sites
9 websites to free watch Telugu movies
Hope the article is helpful for you to find the horror movies you are looking for and download them easily within the sites or with the useful video downloader. Enjoy watching!
Chloe LEE is good at explaining and solving complex technology problems to her readers. Since joining iFunia Studio, she has focused on writing articles about video and DVD software, and how-to tutorials.
