English horror movies

List of the best English horror movies selected by visitors to our site: Awaiting, SOS: Save Our Skins, His House, Neil Gaiman's Likely Stories, The Little Vampire 3D, Sawney: Flesh of Man, Beyond Skyline, Amulet, Devil in the Woods, Sea Fever.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

The plot follows Morris (Curran), a recluse with psychotic tendencies, whose life changes when his innocent daughter (Vickers) rescues one of his victims and befriends him. Jake (Hill), an ordinary businessman, soon realizes that he is stranded, and his presence in the house gradually reveals unexpected and dark mysteries from the past.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, comedy
CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
Duration01:38

Two hapless British geeks wake up in New York City only to find that the entire human race has vanished.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom

After making a harrowing escape from war-torn South Sudan, a young refugee couple struggle to adjust to their new life in a small English town that has an unspeakable evil lurking beneath the surface.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration00:46

A unique collection of extraordinary fantastical short stories from the pen of Neil Gaiman, directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard. With a score by Jarvis Cocker and starring a host of British acting talent led by Tom Hughes, Johnny Vegas, George MacKay, Rita Tushingham and Kenneth Cranham.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, cartoon
CountryGermany, Netherlands, USA, Denmark, United Kingdom
Duration01:43

Tony, a thirteen-year-old boy on vacation in rural Germany, is fascinated by the idea of vampires. Meanwhile Rudolph, a vampire of "similar" age (313!), encounters trouble when his clan is threatened by a dangerously obsessed hunter. Fate brings these two boys together, as Tony & Rudolph set off an action-packed battle to stop the villain, save Rudolph's family and learn the power of friendship.

Markimdb: 4.5
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:30

Religious psychopath Sawney stalks Scotland abducting unholy souls for his communion of sacrifices. With his insane family of inbred killers, Sawney tortures and eats their victims saving the best morsels for a chained-up figure in their cavernous Highlands lair. As the Missing Persons list rises investigative crime journalist Hamish MacDonald writes sensational and damming headlines against the police, due to their incompetence in handling the case. After his fiancée is kidnapped by the cannibal clan Hamish investigates the heinous crimes on his own with disastrous results. For there’s something he doesn’t know about the case that’s crucial to solving it…

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror, fantastic, action
CountryUSA, Canada, Indonesia, United Kingdom, China, Singapore
Duration02:09

Detective Mark Corley storms his way onto an alien spaceship to rescue his estranged son. When the ship crashes in Southeast Asia, he forges an alliance with a band of survivors to take back the planet once and for all.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrehorror, fantasy
CountryUnited Kingdom, United Arab Emirates

Tomaz, an ex-soldier now homeless in London, is offered a place to stay at a decaying house, inhabited by a young woman and her dying mother. As he starts to fall for Magda, Tomaz cannot ignore his suspicion that something insidious might also be living alongside them.

Markimdb: 3.1
Genrehorror
CountryUnited Kingdom

Four young friends, after drifting apart due to tragedy, re-connect working on a film studies project. As time ticks on, and fractures appear, the group decide to make a film in the woods under the blood moon, but they are not alone.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrehorror, fantastic
CountryRepublic of Ireland, USA, United Kingdom, Sweden, Belgium

The crew of a West of Ireland trawler—marooned at sea—struggle for their lives against a growing parasite in their water supply.

Markimdb: 4.3
Genrehorror, action, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom

After retiring from active duty, former elite military operative Caitlin Ross now runs a private security firm. She, however, becomes the target when her private security firm accepts a contract from a young millionaire.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, adventure
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Luxembourg, USA
Duration01:28

When an archaeological expedition opens an ancient Egyptian tomb, the unimaginable evil of a cursed pharaoh is unleashed.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy, musical, cartoon, short
CountryUnited Kingdom

A disturbing puppet short exploring the concept of creativity.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, music
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Hungary
Duration01:33

A darker version of the classic Gaston Leroux novel. A young soprano becomes the obsession of a horribly disfigured composer who has plans for those oppose himself or the young singer.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror
CountryUnited Kingdom

The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, United Kingdom

In an effort to repair their relationship, a couple books a vacation in the countryside for themselves and their daughter. What starts as a perfect retreat begins to fall apart as one loses their grip on reality, and a sinister force tries to tear them apart.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:46

London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him get justice for his brother's killing. As their friendship grows Joe finds himself in an increasing dangerous and murky world of violence and revenge. As Joe life collapses around him he starts to question who Piggy really is, and how honest he's really been with him. When Joe confronts Piggy a series of events are put in place that lead to a disastrous climax. Written by Anonymous (IMDb.com).

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:37

The City of Salem, Massachusetts is visited by a coven of ancient witches.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrehorror
CountryUnited Kingdom

Yorkshire, 1974, the Maynard family moves into their dream house. It's a dream that quickly descends into a panic stricken nightmare as the family discovers a horrifying truth, a truth that will make the history books. The house is already occupied by the most violent poltergeist ever documented, a poltergeist that will tear you from your bed as you sleep and drag you helplessly into the darkness.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:33

    In a California desert town, a short-order cook with clairvoyant abilities encounters a mysterious man with a link to dark, threatening forces.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
    Duration01:52

      Eccentric scientist Victor Von Frankenstein creates a grotesque creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, cartoon, crime, detective, anime
      CountryJapan, Italy, United Kingdom, Mexico, Spain

      The Governor of Tokyo, Yuichiro Asakura, receives a threatening letter the day before the opening of Touto Line, a new train line for the Tokyo Metro. During the opening ceremony of the line, Conan Edogawa and the Detective Boys are driven by Professor Agasa and pass under the Touto Line. Conan, having heard about the threatening letter, notices explosives connected to the Touto railway; Using his original voice to inform the police as Shinichi Kudo, he is able to stop the train and divert traffic away from the explosives preventing any deaths.

      Markimdb: 2.4
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, New Zealand

      It focuses on two friends, one of whom pursues a relationship with a mysterious woman who part owns a guest house and who he has been dating online. Problems occur when guests at the isolated guest house begin to disappear and the guys discover the truth about the woman and her monstrous sisters and how they must escape from a mysterious island if they want to survive beyond dawn.

      Markimdb: 2.6
      Genrehorror
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:28

      Lisa Templeton begins a new job as a cleaner at High Hopes Hospital, a mental institution in Amityville, Long Island. Initially delighted to get the job, Lisa soon realises that all is not as it seems. Intimidated by staff and the psychotic ramblings of the patients, she is further unnerved by apparent supernatural occurrences on the night shift. To preserve her sanity Lisa must uncover the mysterious history of the institution and it's inmates. But the truth is far more terrifying than she could ever imagine.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:33

      In a remote corner of England's Peak District, a mysterious skull is unearthed. But even weirder is that Lady Sylvia steals the skull for use in worshiping - very erotically - her pagan god, The White Worm, who hungers for the taste of virginal flesh.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, Belgium, France

      A dynamic killer thriller with its finger firmly on the pulse of stark social commentary and shattering suspense. Recently widowed mother of two Sarah is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr Big, she’s forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:29

        Six men with mid-life anxiety set out for a weekend in the country in an attempt to reconnect with their masculinity. What they find is a catastrophe so horrible and bizarre that a mid-life crisis turns out to be exactly what they need to survive it...

        Markimdb: 5
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A couple trapped in a cinema are manipulated into becoming unwilling actors in a film being captured by CCTV cameras.

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Due to a near-fatal accident that has left her incapacitated and depleted of her long-term memory, a temporarily wheelchair-bound woman returns home after being abroad for six years accompanied by her bohemian boyfriend, the apparent cause of the accident. Unable to remember her family or her own childhood, she sets out, with the help of her boyfriend, to find the reason for her leaving all those years ago and quickly discovers her relatives may not be as loving as she’d thought

        Markimdb: 4.7
        Genrehorror
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:01

        A sleep doctor tries to protect a family from a demon that feeds on people in their nightmares.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror
        CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
        Duration01:55

        A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        A young scientist discovers a malevolent entity which sets her on a bloody descent into the jaws of insanity.

        Markimdb: 2.5
        Genrehorror
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        When a Priest and a Vatican investigator take a possessed housewife to a convent to perform an Exorcism, all hell breaks loose....

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, Italy

        Sadie—a young female novelist—and an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at his Italian villa for a weekend celebration being held to honor the release of Sadie's latest book. Once there, Sadie begins to fear his true intentions as she and Francesca become embroiled in a dangerous game of moral and sexual discovery.

        Markimdb: 2.5
        Genrehorror
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:26

        The deceased have risen with the instinct to feed on the living as a family is trapped during a zombie apocalypse. Wales. Based on George A. Romero's classic "Night of the Living Dead".

        Markimdb: 5.4
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration02:09

        When passengers on a train are attacked by a creature, they must band together in order to survive until morning.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        Antique expert Brendon Cole is summoned to authenticate a 300-year-old clockwork doll with a notoriously dark history known as The Inferno Princess. In the remote Highlands mansion where it has recently been uncovered, Brendon soon finds himself the victim of the automaton’s legendary curse as the malevolent forces surrounding it are terrifyingly awakened.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In the wastelands of post-apocalyptic England, two young brothers turn to cannibalism to survive, only to fall for their prey, a teenage girl... and possibly the last female left alive.

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
        Duration01:25

        Trapped in a London subway station, a woman who's being pursued by a potential attacker heads into the unknown labyrinth of tunnels beneath the city's streets

        Markimdb: 3.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        In a rambling, isolated house, Emily’s first night-shift as carer to an elderly dementia patient turns into a nightmare as she is tormented by a vengeful spirit and uncovers the house's dark secrets.

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