Horror movies about swords

List of the best horror films about swords according to the audience: Sinister, It, The Thing, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Queen of the Damned, The Return of the Living Dead, Stan Against Evil, mother!, Return to Oz, Pitch Black.

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

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: 7.3
    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: 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: 7.6
      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: 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: 7.3
      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: 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: 6.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

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

      Markimdb: 6.8
      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: 7.1
      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: 6.6
      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: 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: 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
          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: 7.6
          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: 6.3
          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: 7.2
          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: 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: 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: 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: 7.7
          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: 7.5
          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: 7.4
          Genrehorror, fantasy, melodrama
          CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
          Duration02:08

          When Dracula leaves the captive Jonathan Harker and Transylvania for London in search of Mina Harker -- the spitting image of Dracula's long-dead wife, Elisabeta -- obsessed vampire hunter Dr. Van Helsing sets out to end the madness.

          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: 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: 7.7
          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: 7.3
          Genrehorror, action
          CountryUSA, Canada, Japan, France
          Duration01:49

          A group of surviving people take refuge in a shopping center after the world has been over taken over by aggressive, flesh-eating zombies. A remake of the 1978 zombie film of the same name.

          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: 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: 7.7
          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, 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: 6.2
          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: 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, 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: 7.6
          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: 6.5
          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, 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: 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: 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: 6.5
            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: 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: 6.7
                Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:32

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

                Markimdb: 6.3
                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: 7.9
                Genrehorror, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:04

                A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.

                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: 6.3
                  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: 7.1
                  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.




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