Survival Horror Movies

List of the best survival horror movies selected by visitors to our site: The Mist, Dawn of the Dead, Eden Lake, Wrong Turn, mother!, The Others, The Conjuring 2, Grindhouse, Hellraiser, Night of the Living Dead.

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

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, 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: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

    Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, adventure
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
    Duration01:24

    Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.

    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, 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: 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, 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: 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: 7.9
      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: 7.7
      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: 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: 6.7
      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: 6.6
      Genrehorror, fantasy
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with their dreams. Too bad Freddy's decided to herald his return by invading the kids' dreams and scaring them into committing suicide.

      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: 6.2
      Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:48

      Jigsaw has disappeared. Along with his new apprentice Amanda, the puppet-master behind the cruel, intricate games that have terrified a community and baffled police has once again eluded capture and vanished. While city detective scramble to locate him, Doctor Lynn Denlon and Jeff Reinhart are unaware that they are about to become the latest pawns on his vicious chessboard.

      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: 5.9
      Genrehorror, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:14

      In this remake of the 1933 classic about the giant ape, an oil company expedition disturbs the peace of Kong and brings him back to New York to exploit him. Even though a woman somewhat tames Kong, he finally breaks loose and terrorizes the city, and as the military attempt to stop him, he falls to his death from the top of the World Trade Center.

      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: 7.1
      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: 7.2
      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, 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: 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: 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: 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: 7.6
      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: 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, 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: 7.7
          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: 7.8
          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: 7.9
          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: 7.3
          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: 7.6
          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: 7.9
          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: 7.8
          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: 7.3
          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: 7.1
            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, 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: 7.3
            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: 7.3
            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, 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 6.8
                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, 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: 7.2
                  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: 7.7
                  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.




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