Horror movies about rites

List of the best horror films about rites, selected by visitors to our site: The Skeleton Key, The Conjuring 2, The Lighthouse, Locke & Key, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, mother!, The Cabin in the Woods, Return to Oz, The Crow, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 6.6
    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
    Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

    Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

    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: 7.5
    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: 7.6
    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: 7.7
    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: 7.4
    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: 7.4
    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: 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: 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
      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: 7.3
      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: 6.7
      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: 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: 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: 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: 6.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, crime
          CountryUSA, Germany
          Duration01:47

          A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.

          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: 7.5
          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: 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: 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
          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: 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: 7.5
          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: 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: 6.2
            Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

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

            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: 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: 7.6
            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: 7.3
            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: 7.1
              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: 7.3
              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: 7.6
              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: 6.8
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:53

              Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.

              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: 6.5
              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: 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: 6.7
              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: 6.5
              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: 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: 7.6
              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: 6.9
              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: 7.8
              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: 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.




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