You’ve just finished binging the entirety of Stranger Things Season 2. You stare blankly at the red glow of the Netflix logo on your screen. Surely, you can just find something else to watch amongst the myriad of titles offered through the streaming platform.
We’ve all been there, though. We start perusing through “Suggestions For You.” Nothing there sparks your interest. We move to browsing various genres, typically “Horror.” Still, there are so many options. You click one title, read the reviews, drop it in your queue. “I’ll come back to it.” A lot of times I’ll spend upwards of an hour just surfing through the films without being able to make up my mind. The truth is, there’s just TOO MUCH to choose from. And the current available categories are less than helpful, often so generic they cover a wide swath of different types of flicks. “Teen Screams” for instance is home to Yoga Hosers as well as Stake Land and Troll Hunter. And just how precisely do they differentiate between “Creature Features” and “Monster Films”?
Well, earlier today, I was scrolling through reddit in regards to the new-to-me service from Mitch Lowe (co-founder of Netflix), Moviepass. I ended up tumbling down a reddit rabbit hole and discovered this nifty little Netflix hack. Essentially, Netflix breaks all their films down into subcategories on the backend, but you can easily access these lists yourself by using different ID numbers. While it appears What’s On Netflix listed this “ID Bible” two years ago (again, new-to-me), I took it upon myself to dive through and pull out all the horror related subcategories for your pleasure.
The way it works is simple. First, you must already be logged in to your Netflix account. In the address bar, simply copy and paste this:
“http://www.netflix.com/browse/genre/1111”
To locate a specific category listed below, merely replace the “1111” (unless you’re looking for a courtroom mystery apparently) with one of the IDs below.
Of course, the benefit of this is that by narrowing down your choices to a much more specific grouping of films, you’re likely to spend less time searching and more time actually watching a damn movie! I’ve included every possible genre related subcategory I came across. You might find that a few are currently empty…that’s because Netflix is constantly cleaning house. Thankfully, these codes don’t seem to change, so you can always drop in later to see if they’ve built the stock of titles back up. I’ve also included the IDs for the categories already present on the site, just in case they were to be removed anytime in the near future from the main “Horror” page.
Netflix Sub-Category IDs
Action Sci-Fi & Fantasy – 1568
Action Thrillers – 43048
Alien Sci-Fi – 3327
Anime Fantasy – 11146
Anime Horror – 10695
Anime Sci-Fi – 2729
B-Horror Movies – 8195
Classic Sci-Fi & Fantasy – 47147
Classic Thrillers – 46588
Creature Features – 6895
Crime Thrillers – 10499
Cult Horror Movies – 10944
Cult Movies – 7627
Cult Sci-Fi & Fantasy – 4734
Deep Sea Horror Movies – 45028
Experimental Movies – 11079
Fantasy Movies – 9744
Film Noir – 7687
Foreign Horror Movies – 8654
Foreign Sci-Fi & Fantasy – 6485
Foreign Thrillers – 10306
Horror Comedy – 89585
Horror Movies – 8711
Independent Thrillers – 3269
Monster Movies – 947
Mysteries – 9994
Political Thrillers – 10504
Psychological Thrillers – 5505
Satanic Stories – 6998
Sci-Fi & Fantasy – 1492
Sci-Fi Adventure – 6926
Sci-Fi Dramas – 3916
Sci-Fi Horror Movies – 1694
Sci-Fi Thrillers – 11014
Slasher and Serial Killer Movies – 8646
Spy Thrillers – 9147
Steamy Thrillers – 972
Supernatural Horror Movies – 42023
Supernatural Thrillers – 11140
Teen Screams – 52147
Thrillers – 8933
TV Horror – 83059
TV Mysteries – 4366
TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy – 1372
Vampire Horror Movies – 75804
Werewolf Horror Movies – 75930
Zombie Horror Movies – 75405
Whatever your specific taste may be or whatever mood you may find yourself in tonight – hopefully one of these hidden Netflix Categories will guide you to a night spent watching a cool new flick instead of hours spent surfing the never-ending Netflix “Horror” page.