World War II horror movies

List of the best horror movies about the Second World War, selected by visitors to our site: Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces, Hellboy, The Lighthouse, Locke & Key, Get Out, Stan Against Evil, The Conjuring, Sinister, Alien, The Cremator.

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

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: 6.8
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, 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, 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, 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: 7.2
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: 7.5
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: 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: 8
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCzechoslovakia

      Mr. Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering.

      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: 6.9
        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: 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: 6.8
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        After a twenty-year stay at an asylum for a double murder, a mother returns to her estranged daughter where suspicions arise about her behavior.

        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: 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: 7.3
          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: 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: 5.3
          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: 7.6
          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: 7.9
          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: 7.4
          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: 6.4
          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: 7.4
          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: 6.5
          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, 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: 7.9
          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: 7.3
            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: 7.1
            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: 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, 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: 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: 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: 7.5
                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: 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: 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: 6.6
                  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: 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: 7.5
                  Genrehorror, detective
                  CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
                  Duration01:51

                  Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil. A classic horror film with Gregory Peck from 1976.

                  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: 6.7
                  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: 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: 7.6
                  Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
                  CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France, Canada
                  Duration01:36

                  When Seth Brundle makes a huge scientific and technological breakthrough in teleportation, he decides to test it on himself. Unbeknownst to him, a common housefly manages to get inside the device and the two become one.

                  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: 7.3
                  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: 7.5
                    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: 7.3
                      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: 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, 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, thriller, drama
                      CountryUSA
                      Duration01:23

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




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