Scary horror movies

List of the best horror movies selected by visitors to our site: Alien, 28 Days Later, The Ring, Black Christmas, A Quiet Place, You're Next, Sinister, Dracula, Insidious, The Evil Dead.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:53

Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

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: 7.1
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryCanada
Duration01:38

A sorority house is terrorized by a stranger who makes frightening phone calls and then murders the sorority sisters during Christmas break.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:30

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:34

    When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.

    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: 7.4
      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
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

        A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

        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: 6.6
        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: 7.4
        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: 6.8
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryAustralia, Canada
        Duration01:33

        A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France
        Duration01:39

          After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

          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: 8.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:24

          Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.

          Markimdb: 6.7
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryAustria
          Duration01:39

          In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

          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: 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: 6.5
          Genrehorror, thriller
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:21

          In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

          Markimdb: 7.4
          Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
          CountrySpain
          Duration01:15

          A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

          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: 5.4
          Genrehorror, thriller, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration01:35

            John Form has found the perfect gift for his expectant wife, Mia - a beautiful, rare vintage doll in a pure white wedding dress. But Mia's delight with Annabelle doesn't last long. On one horrific night, their home is invaded by members of a satanic cult, who violently attack the couple. Spilled blood and terror are not all they leave behind. The cultists have conjured an entity so malevolent that nothing they did will compare to the sinister conduit to the damned that is now... Annabelle.

            Markimdb: 6.3
            Genrehorror, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:26

              After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.

              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: 6.3
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:37

              From the producers of Paranormal Activity, Insidious, and Sinister comes Dark Skies: a supernatural thriller that follows a young family living in the suburbs. As husband and wife Daniel and Lacey Barret witness an escalating series of disturbing events involving their family, their safe and peaceful home quickly unravels. When it becomes clear that the Barret family is being targeted by an unimaginably terrifying and deadly force, Daniel and Lacey take matters in their own hands to solve the mystery of what is after their family.

              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: 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: 6.4
              Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime
              CountryUSA, France
              Duration01:43

                Three groups of people are trying to survive Purge Night, when their stories intertwine and are left stranded in The Purge trying to survive the chaos and violence that occurs.

                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: 7.9
                Genrehorror, fantasy
                CountryGermany
                Duration01:34

                Vampire Count Orlok is interested in a new residence and in real estate agent Hutter's young wife. Silent horror classic based on the Bram Stoker novel "Dracula".

                Markimdb: 5.4
                Genrehorror, comedy
                CountryUSA, Japan
                Duration01:25

                  Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha that have been dormant for thousands of years, now with a taste for human flesh. This year, there's something more to worry about than the usual hangovers and complaints from locals, a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.

                  Markimdb: 6.7
                  Genrehorror, western, crime
                  CountryUSA, Germany
                  Duration01:47

                  The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding out in a backwater motel, the wanted siblings wait to rendezvous with their errant father, Captain Spaulding, killing whoever happens to stand in their way.

                  Markimdb: 7.1
                  Genrehorror, drama, detective
                  CountryJapan, South Korea
                  Duration01:53

                  Seven years after the death of his wife, company executive Aoyama is invited to sit in on auditions for an actress. Leafing through the resumés in advance, his eye is caught by Yamazaki Asami, a striking young woman with ballet training.

                  Markimdb: 6.9
                  Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:41

                  In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.

                  Markimdb: 7.7
                  Genrehorror, comedy
                  CountryNew Zealand, USA
                  Duration01:25

                  Vampire housemates try to cope with the complexities of modern life and show a newly turned hipster some of the perks of being undead.

                  Markimdb: 8.1
                  Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration02:04

                  An insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, The police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the bloodthirsty beast.

                  Markimdb: 7
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
                  CountryUSA
                  Duration01:21

                    Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

                    Markimdb: 7.1
                    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
                    CountryUSA, Sweden
                    Duration02:28

                    A group of friends travels to Sweden to visit the rural hometown of one of them and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.

                    Markimdb: 6.5
                    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
                    CountryUSA, Canada
                    Duration02:31

                    In the aftermath of a family tragedy, an aspiring author is torn between love for her childhood friend and the temptation of a mysterious outsider. Trying to escape the ghosts of her past, she is swept away to a house that breathes, bleeds… and remembers.

                    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, thriller, comedy, detective
                    CountryUSA, China, Japan
                    Duration01:56

                    Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

                    Markimdb: 8.5
                    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:49

                    When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother. The place seems quirky, but fine… until Marion decides to take a shower.

                    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: 6
                    Genrehorror, thriller
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:43

                    A lawyer puts his family in jeopardy when he captures the last member of a violent clan and tries to forcibly tame her.

                    Markimdb: 6.1
                    Genrehorror, thriller
                    CountryFrance, Belgium
                    Duration01:30

                    Searing memories and carnal desires rule the mind of Ana, a young woman in thrall to her own fantasies whose visions and obsessions draw her toward deeper eroticism -- and deeper danger, in this modern take on a Giallo.

                    Markimdb: 6.8
                    Genrehorror
                    CountryUSA
                    Duration01:40

                    For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay and her teenage friends must find a way to escape the horror that seems to be only a few steps behind.

                    Markimdb: 6.7
                    Genrehorror
                    CountryFrance
                    Duration01:15

                    Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.

                    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.




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