15 Best Horror Movies To Watch On Netflix This Halloween

8. Scream

One of the original horror satires, Scream helped paved the way for Scary Movie and its ilk. Another creation from Wes Craven, Scream is, despite its meta nature and its tricks-of-the-trade genre nods, a genuinely creepy slasher flick - one that gave birth to the now iconic ghost-face-killer mask and also gave us that hilarious, brilliant opening Drew Barrymore scene. A cast of characters you wouldn't expect to show up in this sort of fare - Courtney Cox and David Arquette among them) - help to create Scream's outright weird premise, and the fact that it's a pretty famous film pop-culture wise suggests its influence. The sequels all vary in quality, and, while entertaining enough, they don't come close to the original, which has seen it's own parody nature parodied countless times.