Horror movies about children

List of the best horror movies about children selected by visitors to our site: It, Hide and Seek, The Ring, Sinister, The Omen, mother!, The Lighthouse, The Brothers Grimm, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Alien.

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

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
    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: 7.1
    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: 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: 7.5
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:51

      Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.

      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: 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: 5.9
      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: 7.6
        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: 8.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:56

        During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

        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: 6.8
        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, 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: 6.4
        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: 6.6
          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: 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: 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: 7.3
            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: 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: 7.1
            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: 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.

            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: 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: 7.3
            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: 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: 7.7
            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: 7.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:10

            Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying to discover a way to make the dead walk. He succeeds and creates a monster that has to deal with living again.

            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: 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: 7.2
            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: 7.7
            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: 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: 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: 6.1
            Genrehorror, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA, Romania, Germany, France
            Duration01:57

            An ex-cop and his family are the target of an evil force that is using mirrors as a gateway into their home.

            Markimdb: 7.9
            Genrehorror, comedy
            CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
            Duration01:40

              Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

              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: 6.7
              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: 6.9
                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: 7.4
                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: 6.2
                Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:05

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

                Markimdb: 7
                Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:35

                Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

                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: 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: 6.8
                Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, family
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:40

                A girl calls on her brother's imaginary friend to banish a mischievous boogeyman who has framed her for his pranks.

                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: 6.3
                Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
                CountryUSA, Netherlands
                Duration01:34

                Three short stories by shock-meister Stephen King are linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick (James Woods) tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.

                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: 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, 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?




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