Last Updated on July 7, 2025 by Dolores Quintana
The best horror movies on Netflix this month are stacked with classic horror from one of the masters of cinema, Alfred Hitchcock. You will find four of the maestro's films on the streamer in June, as well as two series premieres and Zach Creggers' shocking hit Barbarian.
One of the series that is premiering is the highly anticipated third and final season of Netflix's South Korean show Squid Game. The series has won a Primetime Emmy for the creator and director, Hwang Dong-hyuk, which has never happened before in Emmy history. The twisted and cruel game show that inhabits this future world has turned the show into a global phenomenon.
For South Korean horror fans, there are two more shows that you can check out after you have watched the new season of SG, there are two seasons of Hellbound, created by Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan, Revelations), and the new animated film, KPop Demon Hunters, directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans from Sony Studios.
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Barbarian on June 1
Image Credit: IMDB Zach Cregger's debut feature is a shocking thrill ride with some serious twists and turns that thrilled audiences when the film was released in 2022. It was the film that made many people rethink casually staying in an Airbnb and kept them up nights worrying about who or what might be hiding within the seemingly relaxing property.
Georgina Campbell, Bill Skarsgård, and Justin Long star in this terrifying tale of the vacation rental from Hell.
The Birds on June 1
Image Credit: IMDB Renowned director Alfred Hitchcock's adaptation of a Daphne du Maurier short story by the writer Evan Hunter is one of the director's most haunting horror films. A wealthy San Francisco socialite pursues a potential boyfriend to a small Northern California town that slowly takes a turn for the bizarre when birds of all kinds suddenly begin to attack people.
Jessica Tandy, Rod Taylor, Suzanne Pleshette, Veronica Cartwright, Tippi Hedren, and a whole lot of birds are the players in this ecological horror film. There is a reference in the film to a real-life bird attack that occurred in the town of Capitola in 1961.
Frenzy on June 1
Image Credit: IMDB A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man in Alfred Hitchcock's second-to-last film, which was considered a return to form after two espionage films. Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, and Barry Foster, Billie Whitelaw, Anna Massey, and Barbara Leigh-Hunt play the killer, the wrongly accused man, and the women being stalked by the murderer.
Set in London, it is based on the book “Goodbye Piccadilly, Farewell Leicester Square,” and had a comedic tone despite the seriousness of the subject matter.
Rear Window on June 1
Image Credit: IMDB A bored photographer recovering from a broken leg passes the time by watching his neighbors and begins to suspect one of them of murder in one of director Alfred Hitchcock's most celebrated films, and collaborations with actors Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly.
Wendell Corey, Thelma Ritter, and Raymond Burr complete the cast of the movie which is a study of voyeurism. Disturbia, a movie made in 2007, is based on this classic of tension and paranoia.
Us on June 1
Image Credit: IMDB Director Jordan Peele's second film and follow-up to the enormously successful Get Out. Lupita Nyong'o, Winston Duke, Shahadi Wright Joseph, Evan Alex, Elisabeth Moss, and Tim Heidecker star as the members of a family and their friends who are suddenly confronted by malign doppelgangers.
In order to get away from their busy lives, the Wilson family takes a vacation to Santa Cruz, California. At night, four strangers break into Adelaide's childhood home. The family is shocked to find out that the intruders look like them.
Vertigo on June 1
Image Credit: IMDB Alfred Hitchcock's psychological film of uncontrollable passion and an extreme case of acrophobia stars James Stewart, Kim Novak, Tom Helmore, and Barbara Bel Geddes and features disorienting camera work, the dolly zoom, to emphasize the central character's fear of heights.
In the film, a former San Francisco police detective juggles wrestling with his demons and becoming obsessed with the hauntingly beautiful woman he has been hired to trail, who may be deeply disturbed.
The Last Witch Hunter on June 16
Image Credit: IMDB Vin Diesel, Rose Leslie, and Elijah Wood star in director Breck Eisner's (The Crazies) story of a lone witch hunter who is all that stands between humanity and the combined forces of the most horrifying witches in history after the witch queen unleashes the Black Plague to eliminate humanity.
Kaulder, the witch hunter, is cursed to live forever, and in the present day, finds that the witch queen has plans to return and to attempt to extinguish the light of humanity once and for all.
KPop Demon Hunters on June 20
Image Credit: Netflix When K-Pop superstars Rumi (Arden Cho), Mira (May Hong), and Zoey (Ji-young Yoo) aren’t selling out stadiums, they’re using their secret identities as demon hunters to protect their fans from ever-present supernatural danger. Together, they must face their biggest threat: an irresistible rival boy band of demons in disguise.
The animated film, which arrives this summer from Sony Pictures Animation (Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The Mitchells vs. The Machines), is directed by Maggie Kang and Chris Appelhans, and features a script by Danya Jimenez, Hannah McMechan, Kang, and Appelhans. The story comes from Kang.
Squid Game: Season 3 on June 27
Image Credit: Netflix The third and final season of Squid Game follows Gi-hun (Lee Jung-jae) after losing his best friend in the game and being driven to utter despair by The Front Man (Lee Byung-hun), who was hiding his true identity to infiltrate the game. Gi-hun persists with his goal to put an end to the game, while the Front Man continues onto his next move, and the surviving players' choices will lead to graver consequences with each round.
The world eagerly awaits to see the grand finale written and directed by Director Hwang Dong-hyuk, who has vowed to bring the epic story to its deserved closure. Can we hope for humanity in the cruelest of realities? Fans worldwide are eagerly counting the days until the final answer is revealed.
Hellbound
Image Credit: Netflix In a world where hellbound decrees and gruesome banishments are commonplace, the New Truth Church struggles to hold on to power without Chairman Jung Jinsu, who has disappeared. In contrast, the unruly Arrowhead cult grows its influence through propaganda and public trials. The government tasks The New Truth with establishing a new order, using the resurrected Park Jungja.
When Jung Jinsu suddenly resurrects, returning from Hell, Sodo – a group centered around lawyer Min Hyejin and aiming to protect the innocent – seeks to find him to prevent further chaos. Is resurrection the beginning of salvation or the start of another Hell? Hellbound unfolds once again in this South Korean series from Train to Busan and Peninsula creator Yeon Sang-ho.
There are two seasons available, and Kim Sung-cheol, Kim Hyun-joo, and Kim Shin-rock star in this scary series.