Horror movies about excavations

List of the best horror films about excavations according to visitors: mother!, It, Stan Against Evil, The Conjuring 2, Sinister, Hellboy, King Kong, Dracula, The Phantom of the Opera, Scream.

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

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: 7.2
    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: 7.3
    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: 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: 6.8
      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: 7.9
      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: 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
      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: 7.3
      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: 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: 6.5
      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: 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: 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: 7.3
      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: 7.1
      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: 6.3
      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: 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: 7.8
      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: 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: 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, 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: 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: 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: 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, 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: 7.4
      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: 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: 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: 7.3
      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: 7.2
      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
      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: 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: 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, 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: 7.7
        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: 7.8
        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: 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.

        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.

        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: 7.1
        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: 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: 7.6
        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: 6.6
        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: 7.4
        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: 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: 7.5
        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: 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, 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.




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