Horror movies about the 18th century

List of the best horror films about the 18th century, selected by visitors to our site: Sinister, The Conjuring, Night of the Living Dead, Gremlins, Scream, It, Carrie, Christine, Aliens, They Live.

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: 7.5
    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: 7.9
      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: 7.3
      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: 7.3
      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: 7.3
      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: 7.4
        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: 6.7
        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: 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: 7.2
        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: 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: 7.7
          Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:24

          Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from “The Book of the Dead.” As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda’s body.

          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: 7.2
          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: 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: 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: 6.2
          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: 7.1
          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, 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: 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: 7.7
          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: 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: 7.7
            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: 7.3
            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: 7.1
            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: 7.6
            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: 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: 6.1
            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, 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: 7.2
            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: 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: 6.6
            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: 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, 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, 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: 6.7
              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: 7.8
                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: 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: 7.9
                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, 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: 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
                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
                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: 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: 7.4
                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: 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: 7.8
                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.




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