Horror movies about missing people

List of the best horror films about missing people, selected by visitors to our site: Scream, Get Out, What Lies Beneath, Angel Heart, It, The Lighthouse, Marrowbone, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Hide and Seek, Locke & Key.

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

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: 7.7
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: 6.6
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, 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: 7.3
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, 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: 6.6
    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: 7.6
    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
    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: 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: 6.3
    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, 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: 7.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:15

    The legend of vampire Count Dracula begins here with this original 1931 Dracula film from Bela Lugosi.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A man on the run is hunted by a demon known as the Collector.

    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: 7.2
    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: 6.5
    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: 7.1
    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: 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: 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: 7.3
      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: 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: 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: 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: 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, 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, 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: 6.7
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:50

          Geeky student Arnie Cunningham falls for Christine, a rusty 1958 Plymouth Fury, and becomes obsessed with restoring the classic automobile to her former glory. As the car changes, so does Arnie, whose newfound confidence turns to arrogance behind the wheel of his exotic beauty. Arnie's girlfriend Leigh and best friend Dennis reach out to him, only to be met by a Fury like no other.

          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: 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: 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: 7.6
          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: 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: 6.5
          Genrehorror, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:29

          A married woman and her lover plot to kill her husband to make off with the insurance money. However, their attempt to murder him using poisonous fish toxins backfires when he awakens inside his coffin and returns from the grave, hellbent on revenge.

          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
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:23

            A couple's relationship is tested when uninvited guests arrive at their home, disrupting their tranquil existence.

            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: 6.2
              Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration02:05

              Publisher Will Randall becomes a werewolf and has to fight to keep his job.

              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: 7.4
              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: 7.7
              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: 7.3
              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: 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: 6.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, melodrama, drama
              CountryUSA, Japan, United Kingdom
              Duration02:03

              Based on Mary Shelley's novel, "Frankenstein" tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a promising young doctor who, devastated by the death of his mother during childbirth, becomes obsessed with bringing the dead back to life. His experiments lead to the creation of a monster, which Frankenstein has put together with the remains of corpses. It's not long before Frankenstein regrets his actions.

              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: 7.3
              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: 6.4
              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: 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: 7.9
                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: 7.6
                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...




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