Horror movies about priests

List of the best horror movies about priests selected by visitors to our site: The Exorcism of Emily Rose, The Lighthouse, Locke & Key, The Exorcist, It, mother!, Marrowbone, Sinister, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, The Conjuring 2.

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

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: 7.5
    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: 7.2
    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: 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: 7.3
    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, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

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

      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: 6.8
      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: 7.6
        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: 7.3
        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: 6.1
        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: 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: 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: 6.8
        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: 6.8
        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: 7.1
        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: 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: 6.9
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration01:33

        Larry and his wife, Julia move into an old house and discover a hideous creature - the man's half-brother, who is also the woman's former lover - hiding upstairs. Having lost his earthly body to a trio of S&M demons, the Cenobites, Frank, is brought back into existence by a drop of blood on the floor. He soon forces his former mistress to bring him his necessary human sacrifices to complete his body... but the Cenobites won't be happy about this.

        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, 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, 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: 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: 7.5
        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.

        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: 7.1
          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: 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: 7.5
          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: 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: 7.2
          Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
          CountrySoviet Union
          Duration01:17

          A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

          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: 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: 7.2
          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
          Duration01:46

          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: 7.7
          Genrehorror, melodrama, drama, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:59

          Chic socialite Melanie Daniels enjoys a passing flirtation with an eligible attorney in a San Francisco pet shop and, on an impulse, follows him to his hometown bearing a gift of lovebirds. But upon her arrival, the bird population runs amok. Suddenly, the townsfolk face a massive avian onslaught, with the feathered fiends inexplicably attacking people all over Bodega Bay.

          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: 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: 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: 7.3
          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: 7.2
          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: 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: 7.2
          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: 7.7
          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: 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: 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: 7.5
          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
          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: 6.3
          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: 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: 7.8
            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.




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