Horror movies about skeletons

List of the best horror films about skeletons according to the audience: Army of Darkness, Hellraiser, The Witches, The Frighteners, The Lighthouse, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Resident Evil, They Live, Frankenstein, Misery.

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

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: 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: 6.8
Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, adventure, family, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:31

A young boy named Luke and his grandmother go on vacation only to discover their hotel is hosting an international witch convention, where the Grand High Witch is unveiling her master plan to turn all children into mice. Will Luke fall victim to the witches' plot before he can stop them?

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: 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: 7.6
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, 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: 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: 7.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:10

    Henry Frankenstein is a doctor who is trying to discover a way to make the dead walk. He succeeds and creates a monster that has to deal with living again.

    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: 7.1
    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: 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: 7.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySpain, USA, France, Italy
    Duration01:44

    Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in the face of strange events and disturbing visions.

    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: 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: 6.2
    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
    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, fantastic, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:20

    A small-town doctor learns that the population of his community is being replaced by emotionless alien duplicates.

    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: 7.7
    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: 7.1
    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: 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: 7.2
    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: 7.3
    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: 7.1
    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: 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: 6.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

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

      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: 7.2
      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: 7.2
      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: 8.2
      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: 6.2
      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
      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: 6.9
      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: 7.9
      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: 7.6
        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: 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: 7.7
        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: 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: 7.3
        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: 6.4
        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: 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: 7.5
          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: 7.8
          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: 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: 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: 6.8
          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: 7.9
          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: 6.6
          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: 6.1
          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.




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