Horror movies about epidemics and viruses

List of the best horror movies about epidemics and virus infection, selected by visitors to our site.: Train to Busan, The Uninvited, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Zombieland, Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City, Dawn of the Dead, The Conjuring, Locke & Key, Resident Evil, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces.

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

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: 7.5
    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, 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.

      Genrehorror, fantastic, action
      CountryCanada, Germany

        Once the booming home of pharmaceutical giant Umbrella Corporation, Raccoon City is now a dying Midwestern town. The company’s exodus left the city a wasteland…with great evil brewing below the surface. When that evil is unleashed, the townspeople are forever…changed…and a small group of survivors must work together to uncover the truth behind Umbrella and make it through the night.

        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: 7.5
        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: 7.2
          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, 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: 7.6
            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: 7.2
            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, 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: 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: 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: 7.7
            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: 7.9
            Genrehorror, fantastic, adventure
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:40

            An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.

            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
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
            CountryUSA, Germany, Hungary
            Duration02:00

            In this continuation to the adventure of the demon superhero, an evil elf breaks an ancient pact between humans and creatures, as he declares war against humanity. He is on a mission to release The Golden Army, a deadly group of fighting machines that can destroy the human race. As Hell on Earth is ready to erupt, Hellboy and his crew set out to defeat the evil prince.

            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, 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: 7.2
            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: 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: 7.1
            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: 7.7
            Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:11

            Working in Dr. Cranley’s laboratory, scientist Jack Griffin was always given the latitude to conduct some of his own experiments. His sudden departure, however, has Cranley’s daughter Flora worried about him. Griffin has taken a room at the nearby Lion’s Head Inn, hoping to reverse an experiment he conducted on himself that made him invisible. But the experimental drug has also warped his mind, making him aggressive and dangerous. He’s prepared to do whatever it takes to restore his appearance.

            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: 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: 7.4
            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, 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: 7.9
            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: 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: 7.6
            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: 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: 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: 7.7
            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: 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: 6.8
            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, thriller, detective
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:51

              A killer known as Ghostface begins killing off teenagers, and as the body count begins rising, one girl and her friends find themselves contemplating the 'rules' of horror films as they find themselves living in a real-life 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: 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, 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: 7.3
              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: 6.3
                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: 7.5
                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
                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: 8.1
                Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
                CountryGermany
                Duration01:25

                God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

                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: 8.1
                Genrehorror
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:02

                12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

                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: 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: 7.1
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller
                CountryUSA, Australia
                Duration01:48

                When their ship crash-lands on a remote planet, the marooned passengers soon learn that escaped convict Riddick isn't the only thing they have to fear. Deadly creatures lurk in the shadows, waiting to attack in the dark, and the planet is rapidly plunging into the utter blackness of a total eclipse. With the body count rising, the doomed survivors are forced to turn to Riddick with his eerie eyes to guide them through the darkness to safety. With time running out, there's only one rule: Stay in the light.




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