Horror movies about monsters

List of the best horror films about monsters according to visitors: King Kong, Army of Darkness, Get Out, Sinister, The Lighthouse, Rosemary's Baby, King Kong, The Conjuring, The Omen, The Exorcism of Emily Rose.

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

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, action, fantasy, comedy
CountryUSA
Duration01:25

A man is accidentally transported to 1300 A.D., where he must battle an army of the dead and retrieve the Necronomicon so he can return home.

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, 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: 7.5
    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: 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: 7.9
    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: 7.5
    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: 7.5
      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: 6.7
      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: 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
        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: 7.6
        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: 7.8
        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: 7.3
        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: 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: 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: 6.6
        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: 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: 8.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
          CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:49

          Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.

          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: 7.2
          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: 7.2
          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: 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: 7.3
          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: 7.9
          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, 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: 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: 7.6
          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: 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: 7.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
          CountryUSA, Mexico
          Duration01:44

          Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.

          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: 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: 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: 6.2
          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: 7.3
          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: 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: 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: 7.7
              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: 7.7
              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: 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: 7.1
              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, 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: 6.6
              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: 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: 6.5
              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: 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.




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