Horror movies about the dead

List of the best horror films about the dead according to visitors: Train to Busan, Dawn of the Dead, The Return of the Living Dead, The Conjuring 2, It, Stan Against Evil, mother!, Sinister, The Lighthouse, One Cut of the Dead.

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

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:43

    Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

    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: 7.3
    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: 7.3
    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: 7.3
    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: 7.2
      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, 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, 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, comedy, short
        CountryJapan
        Duration01:11

        Things go badly for a hack director and film crew shooting a low budget zombie movie in an abandoned Second World War Japanese facility, when they are attacked by real zombies.

        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: 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: 6.8
        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: 7.6
        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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.6
        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: 7.3
        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: 7.7
        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: 7.1
        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, 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: 7.8
          Genrehorror, fantastic, fantasy, drama
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:12

          Bride of Frankenstein begins where James Whale's Frankenstein from 1931 ended. Dr. Frankenstein has not been killed as previously portrayed and now he wants to get away from the mad experiments. Yet when his wife is kidnapped by his creation, Frankenstein agrees to help him create a new monster, this time a woman.

          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: 7.1
          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: 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: 7.9
            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: 7.7
            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
            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: 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, 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: 6.9
            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: 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
              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: 7.7
              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: 7.3
              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: 6.6
              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: 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: 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: 7.5
              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: 6.7
              Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:32

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

              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: 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: 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: 7.9
              Genrehorror, fantastic, adventure
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:40

              An adventure film about a film crew in search of a monster on a remote island. The crew finds King Kong and decides to take him back to New York as a money making spectacle. The film is a masterpiece of Stop-Motion in filmmaking history and inspired a line of King Kong films.

              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?




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