Horror movies about torture

List of the best horror films about torture according to the audience: Tucker and Dale vs Evil, An American Crime, The Crow, Saw II, The Lighthouse, Stan Against Evil, mother!, Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Misery, Hellraiser.

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, comedy
CountryCanada
Duration01:25

    Two hillbillies are suspected of being killers by a group of paranoid college kids camping near the duo's West Virginian cabin. As the body count climbs, so does the fear and confusion as the college kids try to seek revenge against the pair.

    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: 7.5
      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: 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, 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, 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: 7.6
      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: 7.8
      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: 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, 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: 6.8
        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: 6.4
          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: 7.2
          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: 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: 7.4
          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: 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: 6.7
            Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:38

            After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

            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: 7.4
            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: 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: 7.5
              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: 6.1
              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: 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: 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: 7.1
              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: 7.2
              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: 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: 7.9
              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: 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: 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: 7.9
                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, 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: 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: 7.9
                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: 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: 6.7
                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: 7.1
                  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: 7.1
                  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, 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: 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: 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: 7.3
                    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: 7.6
                    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, 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: 6.6
                    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: 7.7
                    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: 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, 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.




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