Horror movies about punishment

List of the best horror films about punishment according to the audience: Halloween, Carrie, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Stan Against Evil, The Conjuring, The Lighthouse, Locke & Key, Damien: Omen II, Alien, Dawn of the Dead.

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

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: 7.4
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: 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: 7.2
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, 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, 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: 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: 8.5
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:56

    During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

    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: 7.2
    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: 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: 7.7
    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: 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: 6.3
      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: 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: 7.9
      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, 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: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:05

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

        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: 6.6
        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: 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, 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: 6.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

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

        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, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:48

        Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

        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, 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: 7.3
          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
            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: 5.3
            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: 7.6
            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: 7.3
            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: 7.8
            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: 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: 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: 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: 6.7
            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: 7.6
              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: 7.1
              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, 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: 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: 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: 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
                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
                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: 7.5
                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: 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.




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