Horror movies about schoolchildren

List of the best horror movies about schoolchildren selected by visitors to our site: Locke & Key, mother!, The Conjuring 2, The Faculty, Strait-Jacket, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, Misery, Saw II, Christine, Army of Darkness.

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

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: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

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

Markimdb: 7.3
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: 6.5
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, 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: 6.6
Genrehorror, fantasy
CountryUSA
Duration01:36

It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.

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: 6.6
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: 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: 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: 7.1
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, 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: 7.5
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: 7.3
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: 6.2
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: 7.3
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: 7.4
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, 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
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: 6.3
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: 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: 7.1
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: 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: 6.8
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: 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: 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: 7.3
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
    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: 6.8
    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: 7.8
    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, 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: 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: 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: 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, 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: 7.3
    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: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

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

      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: 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: 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: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:30

        When Kimberly has a violent premonition of a highway pileup she blocks the freeway, keeping a few others meant to die, safe...Or are they? The survivors mysteriously start dying and it's up to Kimberly to stop it before she's next.

        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: 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: 7.1
          Genrehorror, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:24

          Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Trying to put the incident behind her, she moves to Utah and takes a job as a church organist. But her fresh start is interrupted by visions of a fiendish man. As the visions begin to occur more frequently, Mary finds herself drawn to the deserted carnival on the outskirts of town. The strangely alluring carnival may hold the secret to her tragic past.

          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: 7.4
          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: 6.9
          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.




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