Horror movies about the Victorian era

List of the best horror films about the Victorian era according to viewers: The Picture of Dorian Gray, It, Eraserhead, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dracula, Sinister, Marrowbone, mother!, What Lies Beneath, Stan Against Evil.

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

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: 7.3
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: 7.3
    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: 7.6
    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: 7.4
    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: 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: 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: 6.6
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

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

      Markimdb: 6.6
      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: 7.2
      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: 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: 7.1
      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: 7.7
      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: 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: 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: 7.9
      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: 6.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, comedy
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

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

        Markimdb: 6.7
        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: 7.2
          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: 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: 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: 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: 7.5
          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: 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.

            Duration02:02

              Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

              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: 6.5
              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: 7.4
                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: 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: 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: 7.6
                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: 6.2
                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: 7.5
                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: 7.9
                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, 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: 6.5
                Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy
                CountryUSA
                Duration01:43

                Dr. Louis Creed's family moves into the country house of their dreams and discover a pet cemetery at the back of their property. The cursed burial ground deep in the woods brings the dead back to life -- with "minor" problems. At first, only the family's cat makes the return trip, but an accident forces a heartbroken father to contemplate the unthinkable.

                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, 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: 7.7
                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: 7.5
                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: 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: 6.2
                Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
                CountryUSA
                Duration02:05

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

                Markimdb: 7.5
                Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
                CountryUSA, Canada
                Duration03:11

                  Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

                  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: 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: 6.6
                  Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:21

                  Love presents many challenges to couples...but none so daunting as the one Justin faces with his girlfriend April...

                  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: 6.9
                  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: 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.




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