The 30 Best Horror Films on Shudder You Might Not Have Seen to Watch with Shudder's 30 Day Free-Trial!

We all have a lot more time on our hands right now, which means a lot more time for horror films...

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...Horror streaming service Shudder is out there doing the dark lord's work for horror fans, not only offering fun watch parties for fans on Thursdays, but a FREE 30-DAY TRIAL for new members with promo code SHUTIN. 

Since that code is good for 30 days, we thought we would take the time to put together a list of the 30 best horror films on the service that you might not have seen (in no particular order), one for each day of the trial run! Check out the list below, and hope you're all staying safe and doing well out there. Stay home and watch these movies. 

A Christmas Horror Story (2015)

​Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)

​A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.

Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon (2006)

​The next great psycho horror slasher has given a documentary crew exclusive access to his life as he plans his reign of terror over the sleepy town of Glen Echo.

Better Watch Out (2017)

​On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.

Bliss (2019)

​A brilliant painter facing the worst creative block of her life turns to anything she can to complete her masterpiece, spiraling into a hallucinatory hellscape of drugs, sex and murder in the sleazy underbelly of Los Angeles.

Chopping Mall (1986)

​A group of young shopping mall employees stay behind for a late night party in one of the stores. When the mall goes on lock-down before they can get out, the robot security system malfunctions, and goes on a killing spree.

Christmas Evil (1980)

​A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Darling (2015)

​A lonely girl's violent descent into madness.

Deadly Games (1989)

​On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.

Digging Up the Marrow (2014) 

​A documentary exploring genre based monster art takes an odd turn when the filmmakers are contacted by a man who claims he can prove that monsters are indeed real.

Hell House LLC (2015)

​Five years after an unexplained malfunction causes the death of 15 tour-goers and staff on the opening night of a Halloween haunted house tour, a documentary crew travels back to the scene of the tragedy to find out what really happened.

Howl (2015)

​When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

Incident in a Ghostland (2018)

A mother of two who inherits a house is confronted with murderous intruders on the first night in their new home and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later when the daughters reunite at the house, things get really strange.

Knife+Heart (2018)

​Paris, summer 1979. Anne is a producer of cheap gay porn. When Lois, her editor and companion, leaves her, she attempts to get her back by making a more ambitious film with the flamboyant Archibald.

Mandy (2018)

​The enchanted lives of a couple in a secluded forest are brutally shattered by a nightmarish hippie cult and their demon-biker henchmen, propelling a man into a spiraling, surreal rampage of vengeance.

Nightmare Cinema (2019)

​Five strangers converge at a haunted movie theater owned by The Projectionist (Mickey Rourke). Once inside, the audience members witness a series of screenings showing them their deepest fears and darkest secrets over five tales.

One Cut of the Dead (2019)

​Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned WWII Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

Patchwork (2017)

​A bombastic throw-back horror-comedy that follows three young women who go out partying one night and find themselves Frankensteined together in one body. Now they must put aside their differences so they can find who did this and exact revenge!

Prevenge (2017)

​Widow Ruth is seven months pregnant when, believing herself to be guided by her unborn baby, she embarks on a homicidal rampage, dispatching anyone who stands in her way.

Hello Mary Lou: Prom Night II (1987)

​Thirty years after her accidental death at her 1957 senior prom, the tortured spirit of prom queen Mary Lou Maloney returns to seek revenge.

Revenge (2018)

​Never take your mistress on an annual guys' getaway, especially one devoted to hunting - a violent lesson for three wealthy married men.

Spring (2015)

​A young man in a personal tailspin flees from US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

Starry Eyes (2014)

​A hopeful young starlet uncovers the ominous origins of the Hollywood elite and enters into a deadly agreement in exchange for fame and fortune.

The Head Hunter (2019)

​A medieval warrior's gruesome collection of heads is missing only one - the monster that killed his daughter years ago.

The Reef (2010)

​A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.

The Taking of Deborah Logan (2014)

​An elderly woman battling Alzheimer's disease agrees to let a film crew document her condition, but what they discover is something far more sinister going on.

The Void (2017)

​Shortly after delivering a patient to an understaffed hospital, a police officer experiences strange and violent occurrences seemingly linked to a group of mysterious hooded figures.

The Wailing (2016)

​Soon after a stranger arrives in a little village, a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman, drawn into the incident, is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

Tigers Are Not Afraid (2019)

​A dark fairy tale about a gang of five children trying to survive the horrific violence of the cartels and the ghosts created every day by the drug war.

The Wax Mask (1997)

Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures.

By Matt Konopka