Horror movies about maniacs

List of the best horror movies about maniacs selected by visitors to our site: Saw, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Tucker and Dale vs Evil, Get Out, Halloween, The Lighthouse, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, An American Crime, Zombieland, Mindhunters.

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, 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: 7.6
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, 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: 7.7
    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: 7.7
    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: 7.5
    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: 6.7
    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: 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: 7.6
        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: 6.4
        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: 7.6
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:41

          Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryItaly
          Duration02:07

          A musician witnesses the murder of a famous psychic, and then teams up with a fiesty reporter to find the killer while evading attempts on their lives by the unseen killer bent on keeping a dark secret buried.

          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: 7.5
          Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy
          CountryNew Zealand
          Duration01:39

          When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.

          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: 7.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:28

          Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.

          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: 6.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA

          Twenty-five years after a streak of brutal murders shocked the quiet town of Woodsboro, a new killer has donned the Ghostface mask and begins targeting a group of teenagers to resurrect secrets from the town’s deadly past.

          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: 7.5
            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: 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: 7.5
                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: 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: 7.9
                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: 7.9
                  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: 7.7
                  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: 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: 7.1
                  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: 7.3
                  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: 6.9
                  Genrehorror, thriller
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, Mexico, USA, Czech Republic
                  Duration01:41

                  Upon receiving reports of missing persons at Fort Spencer, a remote Army outpost on the Western frontier, Capt. John Boyd investigates. After arriving at his new post, Boyd and his regiment aid a wounded frontiersman who recounts a horrifying tale of a wagon train murdered by its supposed guide -- a vicious U.S. Army colonel gone rogue. Fearing the worst, the regiment heads out into the wilderness to verify the gruesome claims.

                  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: 7.7
                  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: 7.2
                  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: 7.3
                  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: 7.1
                  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: 7.8
                  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: 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: 6.8
                  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: 6.1
                  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.

                  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: 7.5
                    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: 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, 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: 7.2
                    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, 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: 7.9
                    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: 6.2
                    Genrehorror
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                    Duration01:47

                    Since the sudden and highly suspicious death of his parents, 12-year-old Damien has been in the charge of his wealthy aunt and uncle. Widely feared to be the Antichrist, Damien relentlessly plots to seize control of his uncle's business empire—and the world. Anyone attempting to unravel the secrets of Damien's sinister past or fiendish future meets with a swift and cruel demise.

                    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, 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.




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