Horror movies about Africa

List of the best horror films about Africa, selected by visitors to our site: The Conjuring, The Lighthouse, Stan Against Evil, Locke & Key, mother!, Saw II, 1408, Dawn of the Dead, Gremlins, What Lies Beneath.

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

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: 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: 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: 7.2
    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: 6.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:33

    When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game...

    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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, action
    CountryUSA, Canada, Japan, France
    Duration01:49

    A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

    Markimdb: 7.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    When Billy Peltzer is given a strange but adorable pet named Gizmo for Christmas, he inadvertently breaks the three important rules of caring for a Mogwai, and unleashes a horde of mischievous gremlins on a small town.

    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: 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: 7.3
    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: 7.7
    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: 6.7
    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: 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: 7.4
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:25

    A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.

    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: 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: 7.3
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada, USA
    Duration01:53

    The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural journey into his own soul.

    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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 7.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.

    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: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.

    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: 7.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:55

    It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, until four teenagers all met with mysterious deaths exactly one week after watching just such a tape. Allowing her investigative curiosity to get the better of her, Rachel tracks down the video... and watches it. Now she has just seven days to unravel the mystery of the Ring.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA, Netherlands, Italy
    Duration01:32

    After witnessing the killing of his mate and offspring at Captain Nolan's hands, a vengeful killer whale goes on a rampage in the fisherman's Newfoundland harbor. Under pressure from the villagers, Nolan, Rachel and Umilak sail after the great beast, who will meet them on its own turf.

    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: 7.1
    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: 6.9
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:33

    Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

    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, 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: 7.1
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.

    Markimdb: 8.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
    CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
    Duration01:49

    Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUSA, Italy
    Duration02:19

    During an ever-growing epidemic of zombies that have risen from the dead, two Philadelphia SWAT team members, a traffic reporter, and his television-executive girlfriend seek refuge in a secluded shopping mall.

    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: 6.4
    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, 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, 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: 6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:37

      David Callaway tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide and has been left to raise his nine-year-old daughter, Emily on his own. David is at first amused to discover that Emily has created an imaginary friend named 'Charlie', but it isn't long before 'Charlie' develops a sinister and violent side, and as David struggles with his daughter's growing emotional problems, he comes to the frightening realisation that 'Charlie' isn't just a figment of Emily's imagination.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:04

      A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrehorror, comedy, drama
      CountrySpain, France
      Duration01:47

      The journey of Javier, the obese Sad Clown, starts during his childhood in the midst of the Spanish civil war in 1937. His father, one of Spain’s most prominent jesters, is detained and tortured by the fascist regime.

      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: 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: 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: 7.2
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration01:43

          Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.




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