Anime Horror Movies

List of the best anime films in the genre of horror, selected by visitors to our site: Perfect Blue, The Garden of Sinners - Chapter 1: Overlooking View, Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust, Tokyo Ghoul: Jack, Steins;Gate: The Movie − Load Region of Déjà Vu, Gantz:O, Mushishi: The Shadow That Devours the Sun, Okko's Inn, Get Out.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration01:21

A retired pop singer turned actress' sense of reality is shaken when she is stalked by an obsessed fan and seemingly a ghost of her past.

Markimdb: 7
Genrehorror, thriller, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration00:48

When an odd string of suicides begins to occur at a local high rise building, most of the townsfolk treat it as an unfortunate series of events. One girl, however, senses something more sinister at work - especially when a close friend of hers falls mysteriously ill.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
CountryUSA, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
Duration01:28

Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan, USA
Duration01:43

D has been hired to track down Meier Link, a notoriously powerful vampire who has abducted a woman, Charlotte Elbourne. D's orders are strict - find Charlotte, at any cost. For the first time, D faces serious competition. The Markus Brothers, a family of Vampire Hunters, were hired for the same bounty. D Must intercept Meier and conquer hostile forces on all sides in a deadly race against time.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan

Who needs school, who needs baseball, and who needs friends? That's the attitude of high school delinquent, Taishi Fura, who became a loner after falling out with his peers. One day, he witnesses the brutal attack of a ghoul, which left one of his former friends in the hospital and the other dead. Determined to avenge them, Fura decides to pursue the man-eating monster. His efforts allow him to cross paths with Kishou Arima, a quiet student who also attends his high school. Arima, however, is no ordinary student. Despite his young age, he is a full-fledged investigator of the CCG, a government task force that strives to deal with the ghoul threat. Together, Fura and Arima hunt down the ghoul, known as Lantern, but it soon becomes apparent the monster may be closer than anyone suspects. In this side story, Tokyo Ghoul: "Jack" offers a glimpse into the past of Kishou Arima, well before he ever became the CCG's feared God of Death.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration01:30

One year after the events of the anime, Rintarou begins to feel the repercussions of extensive time travel, and eventually completely fades from reality. Kurisu, being the only companion to remember him, now must find a way to bring him back.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan
Duration00:56

Somewhere in Tokyo, there is a room. In that room is a black sphere. Periodically, people who should otherwise have died are transferred to the room. There, the sphere gives them special suits and weapons, and sends them out on a mission to kill aliens here on Earth. While these missions take place, the rest of the world is largely oblivious to them. These missions are lethal - few participants survive them. The sphere calls the shots, and it's not the slightest bit nice. Its name... Gantz.

Markimdb: 8.6
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, cartoon, detective, anime
CountryJapan
Duration00:45

A powerful mushi appears during an eclipse, drawing other mushi to form a huge shadow that blocks the sun over a small village. Looking for clues about the mushi, Ginko meets a child who is afflicted by a strange disease that manifests itself when she is exposed to sunlight, and it does not take long for him to find out that both facts are related.

Markimdb: 7
Genrefantasy, comedy, cartoon, anime
CountryJapan, USA

12-year-old Oriko Seki, who lost her parents in a car accident, ended up living in her grandmother's Onsen Ryokan "Haru no Ya." With the ghost "Uribou" cohabitating with her and all the other odds, she ended up training to be a young female innkeeper. At first, she didn't like the training, but gradually felt her admiration for her title and began to train seriously. Thus, the growth of the young warrior Oriko begins.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, Japan
Duration02:43

Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, detective
CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
Duration01:52

    Paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren work to help a family terrorized by a dark presence in their farmhouse. Forced to confront a powerful entity, the Warrens find themselves caught in the most terrifying case of their lives.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:45

      Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:11

      Working in Dr. Cranley’s laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley’s daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion’s Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
      Duration01:41

      Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration03:11

        Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:23

        A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Nada, a down-on-his-luck construction worker, discovers a pair of special sunglasses. Wearing them, he is able to see the world as it really is: people being bombarded by media and government with messages like "Stay Asleep", "No Imagination", "Submit to Authority". Even scarier is that he is able to see that some usually normal-looking people are in fact ugly aliens in charge of the massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

        Markimdb: 7.7
        Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:59

        Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, France

        The long-awaited missing pieces from the original version of the film – nearly an hour-and-a-half of deleted/alternate scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – often referred to as the “holy grail” of Twin Peaks fandom.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
        CountryUSA, Germany, Hungary
        Duration02:02

        In the final days of World War II, the Nazis attempt to use black magic to aid their dying cause. The Allies raid the camp where the ceremony is taking place, but not before a demon - Hellboy - has already been conjured. Joining the Allied forces, Hellboy eventually grows to adulthood, serving the cause of good rather than evil.

        Markimdb: 7.6
        Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Canada
        Duration01:36

        When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

        Markimdb: 7.3
        Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, drama, cartoon, short, anime
        CountryUSA, Japan

        This animated short revolves around the events causing an electrical systems failure on the west coast of the US. According to Blade Runner 2049’s official timeline, this failure leads to cities shutting down, financial and trade markets being thrown into chaos, and food supplies dwindling. There’s no proof as to what caused the blackouts, but Replicants — the bio-engineered robots featured in the original Blade Runner, are blamed.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrefantastic, action, drama, cartoon, anime
        CountryUSA, Japan
        Duration01:42

        The human resistance works to convert a sentinel to their side. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands, Finland
        Duration01:46

          Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst.

          Markimdb: 5.3
          Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA, Australia
          Duration01:41

          Lestat de Lioncourt is awakened from his slumber. Bored with his existence, he has now become this generation's new Rock God. While in the course of time, another has arisen, Akasha, the Queen of the Vampires and the Dammed. He wants immortal fame, his fellow vampires want him eternally dead for his betrayal, and the Queen wants him for her King. Who will be the first to reach him? Who shall win?

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, fantasy, melodrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:08

          When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.

          Markimdb: 8.5
          Genredrama, cartoon, military, anime
          CountryJapan, USA
          Duration01:29

          In the final months of World War II, 14-year-old Seita and his sister Setsuko are orphaned when their mother is killed during an air raid in Kobe, Japan. After a falling out with their aunt, they move into an abandoned bomb shelter. With no surviving relatives and their emergency rations depleted, Seita and Setsuko struggle to survive.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:38

          After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
          CountryUSA, Australia
          Duration01:48

          When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.

          Markimdb: 5.9
          Genrehorror, action, adventure
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:14

          In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, and as the military attempt to stop him, he falls to his death from the top of the World Trade Center.

          Markimdb: 7
          Genrefantastic, cartoon, anime
          CountryJapan, USA
          Duration01:30

          Five stories, five maestros, five styles and one common denominator: maximum creativity. Studio 4°C, the coolest label on the planet, invites us for the second time to an exclusive reunion of a talents with a group film, full of freedom and ingenuity, that goes from Mahiro Maeda's classic anime, to Kazuto Nakazawa's intricate urban sketches, Shinya Ohira's bedlam of color and Tatsuyuki Tanaka's animated cyberpunk. And as if that wasn't enough, Koji Morimoto, the studio big boss, is charge of putting the icing on the cake with fantafabulous piece of abstract poetry that would make a VJ die of ecstasy. The party of the year.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:31

          When a bumbling pair of employees at a medical supply warehouse accidentally release a deadly gas into the air, the vapors cause the dead to re-animate as they go on a rampage seeking their favorite food: brains!

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:00

          An aging police sheriff who has recently lost his position due to an angry outburst begrudgingly joins an alliance with new sheriff, Evie Barret to battle angry demons haunting their small New Hampshire town.

          Markimdb: 6.8
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:44

          A man who specializes in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:32

          A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:22

            In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

            Markimdb: 8.1
            Genrehorror
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:02

            12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrefantasy, adventure, cartoon, anime
            CountryJapan, USA
            Duration01:55

            Something bizarre has come over the land. The kingdom is deteriorating. People are beginning to act strange... What's even more strange is that people are beginning to see dragons, which shouldn't enter the world of humans. Due to all these bizarre events, Ged, a wandering wizard, is investigating the cause. During his journey, he meets Prince Arren, a young distraught teenage boy. While Arren may look like a shy young teen, he has a severe dark side, which grants him strength, hatred, ruthlessness and has no mercy, especially when it comes to protecting Teru. For the witch Kumo this is a perfect opportunity. She can use the boy's "fears" against the very one who would help him, Ged.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
            CountryCanada, USA
            Duration01:37

            Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrehorror, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA, France, Canada, Spain
            Duration01:38

            After a car crash, a criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) comes to, only to find that she's a patient in the same mental institution that currently employs her. It seems she's been accused of murdering her husband -- but she has no memory of committing the crime. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her co-workers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn, which further convinces everyone of her guilt.

            Markimdb: 7.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
            CountryUSA

            Three children become the caretakers of a New England mansion that is home to a bevy of secrets and magic.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:30

            When a group of college students finds a mysterious book and recording in the old wilderness cabin they've rented for the weekend, they unwittingly unleash a demonic force from the surrounding forest.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrehorror
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:32

            Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was burned alive by angry parents many years before. Krueger has now come back in the dreams of his killers' children, claiming their lives as his revenge. Nancy and her boyfriend, Glen (Johnny Depp), must devise a plan to lure the monster out of the realm of nightmares and into the real world...

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genrehorror, action, thriller, adventure
            CountryUSA, Italy
            Duration01:36

            A group of people try to survive an attack of bloodthirsty zombies while trapped in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse. Although not the first zombie film, Night of the Living Dead is the progenitor of the contemporary "zombie apocalypse" horror film, and it greatly influenced the modern pop-culture zombie archetype.

            Markimdb: 7.1
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:00

            After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping artist David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other people. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrefantastic, action, cartoon, short, anime
            CountryUSA
            Duration00:07

            Cis and Duo discuss leaving the real world while during a samurai sword fight. Part of the Animatrix collection of animated shorts set in the Matrix universe.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire investigates, she discovers that the man she loves might know more than he's letting on.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
            CountrySpain, USA
            Duration02:11

            A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.




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