Family horror movies

List of the best horror movies about family and family relationships, selected by visitors to our site: Get Out, Resident Evil, Deep Red, Locke & Key, mother!, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Return to Oz, The Witches, Sinister, The Conjuring 2.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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: 6.6
Genrehorror, fantastic, action
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:40

    When a virus leaks from a top-secret facility, turning all resident researchers into ravenous zombies and their lab animals into mutated hounds from hell, the government sends in an elite military task force to contain the outbreak. Alice and Rain are charged with leading the mission. But they only have three hours before the pathogen becomes airborne and infects the world.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryItaly
    Duration02:07

    A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

    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: 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: 6.7
    Genrehorror, drama, biography
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:02

      When a younger girl called Emily Rose dies, everyone puts blame on the exorcism which was performed on her by Father Moore prior to her death. The priest is arrested on suspicion of murder. The trial begins with lawyer Erin Bruner representing Moore, but it is not going to be easy, as no one wants to believe what Father Moore says is true.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, fantasy, musical, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:53

      Dorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, finds herself back in the land of her dreams, and makes delightful new friends, and dangerous new enemies.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:31

      A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

      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: 7.3
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
        Duration02:30

        Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

        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: 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: 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: 6.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:44

            A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

            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: 7.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:12

            Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:48

            Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

            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: 6.5
            Genrehorror, thriller, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:29

            A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires when he awakens inside his coffin and returns from the grave, hellbent on revenge.

            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: 6.6
            Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:21

            Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April...

            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: 5.9
            Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, adventure, detective
            CountryUSA, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
            Duration01:58

              Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending to protect townsfolk from enchanted creatures and performing exorcisms. However, they are put to the test when they encounter a real magical curse in a haunted forest with real magical beings, requiring genuine courage.

              Markimdb: 6.4
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, Germany
              Duration01:47

              A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

              Markimdb: 7.6
              Genrehorror, thriller, detective
              CountrySpain, USA, France, Italy
              Duration01:44

              Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrehorror, drama, crime, biography
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:37

                The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.

                Markimdb: 8.4
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure
                CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                Duration02:17

                When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is lost with the planet and colonists. They enlist Ripley and the colonial marines to return and search for answers.

                Markimdb: 7.3
                Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:30

                Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child.

                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.

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama, crime
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:42

                Exactly one year after young rock guitarist Eric Draven and his fiancée are brutally killed by a ruthless gang of criminals, Draven -- watched over by a hypnotic crow -- returns from the grave to exact revenge.

                Markimdb: 7.7
                Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:24

                Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.

                Markimdb: 6.3
                Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA, Japan, United Kingdom
                Duration02:03

                Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

                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: 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: 7.5
                  Genrehorror
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:46

                  A grotesquely disfigured composer known as "The Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.

                  Markimdb: 7.5
                  Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:50

                  Posing for a portrait, Dorian Gray talks with Lord Henry Wotton, who says that men should pursue their sensual longings, but laments that only the young get to do so. Taken with the idea, Dorian imagines a scenario in which the painting will age as he stays youthful. His wish comes true, and his boyish looks aid him as he indulges his every whim. But when a stunning revelation forces him to see what he's become, Dorian faces some very dangerous questions.

                  Markimdb: 8
                  Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:16

                  A young couple moves into an infamous New York apartment building to start a family. Things become frightening as Rosemary begins to suspect her unborn baby isn't safe around their strange neighbors.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrehorror, fantastic
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:38

                  Based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson, Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men - a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated. He succeeds in his experiments with chemicals to accomplish this and transforms into Hyde to commit horrendous crimes. When he discontinues use of the drug, it is already too late.

                  Markimdb: 7.2
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:35

                  A dedicated student at a medical college and his girlfriend become involved in bizarre experiments centering around the re-animation of dead tissue when an odd new student arrives on campus.

                  Markimdb: 6.2
                  Genrehorror
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:47

                  Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire—and the world. Anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise.

                  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: 6.2
                  Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:05

                  Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.

                  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: 7.4
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:38

                  Carrie White, a shy and troubled teenage girl who is tormented by her high school peers and her fanatically religious mother, begins to use her powers of telekinesis to exact revenge upon them.

                  Markimdb: 7.6
                  Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
                  CountrySouth Korea
                  Duration01:43

                    Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

                    Markimdb: 6.3
                    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
                    Duration01:27

                    Anna returns home after spending time in a psychiatric facility following her mother's tragic death and discovers that her mother's former nurse, Rachel, has moved into their house and become engaged to her father. Soon after she learns this shocking news, Anna is visited by her mother's ghost, who warns her that Rachel has evil intentions.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrehorror, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:24

                    Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

                    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: 7.8
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
                    CountryUSA, Mexico
                    Duration01:44

                    Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.

                    Markimdb: 6.8
                    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:33

                    After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.




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