Horror movies about confined spaces

List of the best horror films about closed space, selected by visitors to our site: Locke & Key, Marrowbone, mother!, It, The Conjuring 2, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Sinister, Shaun of the Dead, The Frighteners, Orca.

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

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, 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: 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: 7.3
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: 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: 7.6
    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, 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: 7.9
      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: 7.1
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
        CountryNew Zealand, USA
        Duration02:03

        Once an architect, Frank Bannister now passes himself off as an exorcist of evil spirits. To bolster his facade, he claims his "special" gift is the result of a car accident that killed his wife. But what he does not count on is more people dying in the small town where he lives. As he tries to piece together the supernatural mystery of these killings, he falls in love with the wife of one of the victims and deals with a crazy FBI agent.

        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: 7.8
        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: 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: 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: 7.5
        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: 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: 7.5
        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: 7.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:43

        Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or die trying...

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrethriller, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom
        Duration01:41

        The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.

        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, 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: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy, detective
        CountryUSA, Mexico
        Duration01:44

        When some very creepy things start happening around school, the kids at Herrington High make a chilling discovery that confirms their worst suspicions: their teachers really are from another planet! As mind-controlling parasites rapidly begin spreading from the faculty to the students' bodies, it's ultimately up to the few who are left – an unlikely collection of loners, leaders, nerds and jocks – to save the world from alien domination.

        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: 7.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.

        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: 6.3
        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: 7.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:47

        Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her mercy.

        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: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:43

        Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.

        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: 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: 7.2
        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: 7.2
        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: 7.1
        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: 7.6
        Genrehorror, action, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:24

        Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

        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: 7.7
        Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:20

        A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Poland
        Duration01:48

        A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

        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: 7.7
        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, 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: 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, comedy
        CountryCanada
        Duration01:25

          Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.

          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: 7.8
          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: 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: 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: 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: 7.1
            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
            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.




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