You want something scary tonight, not a list of films that might come back “someday.” Below are ten pulse-raisers you can press play on in the UK right now, each with a quick “why watch,” the mood you’re signing up for, and the official Netflix page so you can jump in immediately.
(Catalogues shift by country and over time, so we verify UK availability on the day we publish and refresh this list regularly.)
Quick filters
Mood: occult dread • techno-paranoia • siege • slow knife • cult horror
Length: most under two hours
The Top 10 (playable in the UK today)
10) New Life (2023)
Why watch: a cat-and-mouse infection thriller with two women on intersecting survival tracks.
Mood: on-the-run, bio-terror.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
9) Hellhole (2022)
Why watch: monastery horror that starts as a police probe and slips into ritual filth.
Mood: religious rot, slab-thick dread.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
8) Creep 2 (2017)
Why watch: a devious two-hander where a video artist keeps filming a confessed killer just to see how far the game goes.
Mood: found-footage unease, gallows humour.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
7) Fair Play (2023)
Why watch: not “horror” by monsters, but the anxiety here will chew your nails down; an office romance curdles into psychological warfare.
Mood: financial-district menace.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
6) Unlocked (2023)
Why watch: a lost phone becomes a full-spectrum invasion; lean, modern, properly skin-crawling.
Mood: techno-stalker panic.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
5) The Whole Truth (2021)
Why watch: a hole in the wall, a family that won’t talk, and a drip-feed of reveals that tightens like a noose.
Mood: gothic domestic mystery.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
4) His House (2020)
Why watch: UK-set refugee horror that treats the haunt as both literal and lived; two powerhouse leads.
Mood: grief-house, cultural dislocation, jump-tight.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025. (If it disappears again, that’s normal catalogue churn.)
3) The Platform (2019)
Why watch: brutal vertical-prison allegory where dinner drops floor-by-floor; savage, bleak, and horribly gripping.
Mood: social nightmare, pressure cooker.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
2) The Call (2020)
Why watch: a phone link across 20 years turns into a duel with a budding serial killer; a steady, sick twist-ratchet.
Mood: time-spliced cat-and-mouse.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
1) Apostle (2018)
Why watch: pagan-cult terror from Gareth Evans; by the finale, you’ll feel the mud under your nails.
Mood: folk-horror bloodletting.
Watch in the UK: Included on Netflix UK — verified 28 Sep 2025.
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