Horror movies about killers

List of the best killer horror movies selected by visitors to our site: Misery, Cure, It, Saw II, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Grindhouse, Sinister, Marrowbone, The Lighthouse, Halloween.

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

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: 7.4
Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
CountryJapan

A wave of gruesome murders is sweeping Tokyo. The only connection is a bloody X carved into the neck of each of the victims. In each case, the murderer is found near the victim and remembers nothing of the crime. Detective Takabe and psychologist Sakuma are called in to figure out the connection, but their investigation goes nowhere...

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: 6.6
    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, 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: 7.5
    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: 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: 6.6
        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: 7.5
        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: 7.7
        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: 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: 6.8
        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: 6.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany
        Duration01:44

          A hospice nurse working at a spooky New Orleans plantation home finds herself entangled in a mystery involving the house's dark past.

          Markimdb: 7.3
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:23

          In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions". One night, during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.

          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: 7.9
          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: 7.3
          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: 7.2
          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, 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: 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: 7.2
          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.

          Duration02:02

            Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

            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: 6.8
            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
            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: 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: 7.1
            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: 7.3
            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: 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: 7.6
            Genrehorror, thriller, detective
            CountrySpain, USA, France, Italy
            Duration01:44

            Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:30

            When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

            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: 7.3
            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: 7.7
            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: 6.8
            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: 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: 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: 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, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.8
              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: 7.7
              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: 7.3
              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: 6.8
                Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
                CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Canada
                Duration01:37

                A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

                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: 6.7
                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.




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