The five best movies to watch on Netflix on a Sunday
The first Sunday of October certainly demands equal parts horror and equal parts thrill, and thankfully, viewers can find it all on Netflix.
As the Halloween decorations come out of the dusty shelves and mothers get busy curating extravagant Gen Alpha-coded trick-or-treat bundles for your little siblings, you can either take time for spooky reminiscence or kick back with a suspenseful watchlist that has the old-school scare.
That doesn’t necessarily mean taking a trip down the vintage lanes of gory, graphic horror, but it does mean hopping on the seasonal trend with the best.
So, for those planning to keep things cosy with a terrifying cinematic experience, here are the five best movies to watch on Netflix this Sunday.
The five best movies to binge on Netflix on a Sunday
The Woman in the Yard (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2025)
Horror movies that play with your head are undoubtedly the most unsettling type, and The Woman in the Yard, directed by Jaume Collet-Serra, does just that. While the audience has likely already caught up on the film in bits and pieces that keep popping up on social media reels, it’s time they experience the full horror from the front row. The psychological horror film follows Ramona, a grieving widow crippled by severe injuries from a car crash that killed her husband, David.
As Ramona struggles to raise her teenage son Taylor and young daughter Annie on a secluded farm, a mysterious woman veiled in black quietly and eerily appears, sitting in a chair in the front yard and refuses to leave. While she repeatedly utters a cryptic phrase that certainly means something to one of the three members of the family, the ominous entity soon starts exuding disturbing abilities and ransacks the household with her psychological games, forcing the family to confront hard truths originally thought to be buried.
Undertone (Ian Tuason, 2025)
Directed by Ian Tuason, Undertone is a supernatural horror that slowly creeps onto your skin and settles down like a stubborn stain. The 2025 aural horror movie follows Evy, who moves into her comatose mother’s home to care for her during her final days. To cope with isolation, stress, and overwhelming grief, she hosts a paranormal podcast called The Undertone with her remote co-host Justin, despite not exactly being a believer in the otherworld.
One day, Justin receives a strange email, comprising 10 mysterious audio files made by an expecting couple, Mike and Jessa, and he unsuspectingly plays them on the podcast. While the recordings feature eerie children’s nursery rhymes in reverse, Evy soon starts experiencing disturbing, unexplainable phenomena, including the revelation that she’s six weeks pregnant. Undertone centres on this slow-burning escalation of paranormal activities, blurring the lines between the audio recordings and Evy’s world.
I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House (Osgood Perkins, 2016)
If you’re into gothic supernatural horrors, I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House is enough to make you check under the bed multiple times. Clocking in at a crisp 87 minutes, the horror-thriller follows Lily Saylor, a gentle but anxious hospice nurse who moves into a quiet New England house to care for Iris Blum, the elderly, retired, dementia-stricken horror author, living in the remote mansion.
While caring for Iris, Lily stumbles onto Blum’s most famous novel, The Lady in the Walls, which chronicles the terrifying true story of Polly, a bride who was brutally bludgeoned and sealed in the walls of the very mansion she’s currently staying in, on her wedding day. Soon after reading the novel, Iris starts experiencing paranormal visions as black mould spreads on the walls. But if you think the unsettling happenings stop right there, we recommend buckling up for what’s to come.
Ánimas (Laura Alvea and José F Ortuño, 2018)
Next on our Sunday watchlist is a Spanish psychological horror movie, Ánimas, co-directed by Laura Alvea and José F Ortuño. It tells the story of childhood best friends Alex and Bram, who have been inseparable for a long time. But when Bram starts dating another girl and experiences a downward spiral following his abusive father’s mysterious death, his friendship with Alex starts deteriorating in more ways than one.
As Bram starts getting distant, Alex begins experiencing hallucinated visuals filled with shadowy figures and inexplicable time jumps, turning to self-harm. Ánimas blurs the lines between physical and psychological reality with an uncanny plot twist involving Alex as Bram tries to dissociate from an unbelievable truth, slowly confronting his repressed memories and the ghosts of his past.
The Perfection (Richard Shepard, 2018)
To finish off the Sunday session, we recommend The Perfection, currently streaming on Netflix. The musical horror-thriller follows troubled musical prodigy Charlotte Willmore, a former star cellist, who left her elite school to care for her ailing mother. After her mother’s death, she flies to Shanghai to reconnect with her former mentors Anton and Paloma, who have now found a new star pupil, Elizabeth, AKA Lizzie.
Although she sees Lizzie as her own replacement, they bond quickly and take a trip to the Chinese countryside, driven by an urge to exact revenge. While there, Charlotte drugs Lizzie with a trippy hallucinogen, causing the latter to cut off her hand and end her musical career. The Perfection centres on Charlotte, who abandons Lizzie to return to the academy, feigning defeat and brokenness to carry out the next part of her grisly revenge mission.