Scary horror movies

List of the best horror movies selected by visitors to our site: Alien, The Conjuring 2, 28 Days Later, The Ring, The Mist, Angel Heart, Halloween, Marrowbone, Get Out, The Lighthouse.

In the top there are new films of 2022, 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: 7.3
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: 7.5
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, 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: 7.3
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: 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: 6.6
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: 7.7
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, 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: 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: 6.3
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, 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: 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: 6.5
    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: 7.6
    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: 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: 6.5
      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: 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: 7.3
        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: 6.4
        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: 7.6
          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: 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: 8.2
          Genrehorror, fantastic, detective
          CountryCanada, USA, United Kingdom
          Duration01:49

          Scientists in the Antarctic are confronted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of the people it kills.

          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: 7.4
          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: 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: 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: 5.8
            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.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genrehorror, fantastic, action, adventure
            CountryUSA, Mexico
            Duration01:44

            Dutch and his group of commandos are hired by the CIA to rescue downed airmen from guerillas in a Central American jungle. The mission goes well but as they return they find that something is hunting them. Nearly invisible, it blends in with the forest, taking trophies from the bodies of its victims as it goes along. Occasionally seeing through its eyes, the audience sees it is an intelligent alien hunter, hunting them for sport, killing them off one at a time.

            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: 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: 7.9
            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: 6.1
              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: 6.7
              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: 7.6
                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, 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: 7.5
                  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, 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: 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: 6.7
                    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
                    CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
                    Duration01:48

                      Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more horrifying than they could have imagined.

                      Markimdb: 6.8
                      Genrethriller, detective
                      CountryUnited Kingdom
                      Duration01:41

                      The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.

                      Markimdb: 7.2
                      Genrehorror, fantasy, drama
                      CountrySoviet Union
                      Duration01:17

                      A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of a witch in the church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.

                      Markimdb: 7.4
                      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
                      CountrySpain, Mexico
                      Duration01:45

                        A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.

                        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: 6.5
                          Genrehorror, fantasy
                          CountryCanada
                          Duration02:05

                            The eerie and deserted ghost town of Silent Hill draws a young mother desperate to find a cure for her only child's illness. Unable to accept the doctor's diagnosis that her daughter should be permanently institutionalized for psychiatric care, Rose flees with her child, heading for the abandoned town in search of answers – and ignoring the protests of her husband. It's soon clear this place is unlike anywhere she's ever been. It's smothered by fog, inhabited by a variety of strange beings and periodically overcome by a living 'darkness' that literally transforms everything it touches. As Rose searches for her little girl, she begins to learn the history of the strange town and realizes that her daughter is just a pawn in a larger game.

                            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: 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: 7.2
                              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: 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.




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