20 best movies like Malignant (2021)

List of the best movies like Malignant (2021): The Ward, The Sand, Truth or Dare, Antlers, The Wolf of Snow Hollow, Underwater, Smiley, The Night Flier, The Haunting of Whaley House, Static.

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Markimdb: 5.6
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

    A thriller centered on an institutionalized young woman who becomes terrorized by a ghost.

    Markimdb: 3.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, comedy
    CountryUSA

    Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water again, you can’t even get across the sand! BLOOD BEACH meets SPRING BREAKERS in an ace monster mash-up of smart nostalgia and up-to-the-minute visual effects. After an all-night graduation beach party, a group of hung-over students wake up under blazing sun to find their numbers somewhat depleted. An enormous alien creature has burrowed down deep and anyone foolish enough to make contact with the sand finds themselves at the mercy of a sea of flesh-eating tentacles. Will they ever be able to escape its carnivorous clutches?

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:18

    Eight college friends head to a "Haunted Rental" in a remote town for Halloween weekend. There, they play the game rumored to have caused the deaths of seven teenagers decades earlier, Truth or Dare. What starts out as vodka induced fun, quickly turns serious when the dares become sickeningly dangerous and the truths threaten to tear the group apart. When players attempt to refuse the increasingly challenging tasks, they're met with deadly consequences, quickly discovering: you must do the dare, or the dare does you. As the death toll mounts, the remaining players must race against the clock to outrun, outsmart and outlast the simple game of Truth or Dare.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, drama
    CountryUSA, Mexico, Canada

    A young teacher discovers that her troubled student's father and younger brother harbor a deadly supernatural secret. Taking the boy into her care, the teacher must fight for their survival against horrors beyond imagination.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, comedy, detective
    CountryUSA

    A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, action
    CountryUSA

    After an earthquake destroys their underwater station, six researchers must navigate two miles along the dangerous, unknown depths of the ocean floor to make it to safety in a race against time.

    Markimdb: 3.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:35

      After learning of an urban legend in which a demented serial killer named SMILEY can be summoned through the Internet, mentally fragile Ashley must decide whether she is losing her mind or becoming Smiley's next victim.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrehorror, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA, Italy
      Duration01:34

      Two investigative reporters for a tabloid magazine track down across country "The Night Flier", a serial killer who travels by private plane stalking victims in rural airports. One of the reporters, Richard Dees, begins to suspect that "the Night Flier could perhaps be a vampire"

      Markimdb: 3.8
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      When a tour guide breaks into America's Most Haunted House, a bit of amateur ghost hunting with friends turns into more horror than they could have ever imagined.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      A couple facing marital problems after losing their child finds their life together further complicated by a mysterious visitor.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA, China
      Duration02:22

      When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      On a secluded farm in a nondescript rural town, a man is slowly dying. His family gathers to mourn, and soon a darkness grows, marked by waking nightmares and a growing sense that something evil is taking over the family.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genreaction, fantasy, cartoon
      CountryUSA

      Escaping from poverty to become a witcher, Vesemir slays monsters for coin and glory, but when a new menace rises, he must face the demons of his past.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:15

      Frederick Loren has invited five strangers to a party of a lifetime. He is offering each of them $10,000 if they can stay the night in a house. But the house is no ordinary house. This house has a reputation for murder. Frederick offers them each a gun for protection. They all arrived in a hearse and will either leave in it $10,000 richer or leave in it dead!

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:39

      A family imprisoned by intruders is forced to play a terrifying game of "Kill, Or Be Killed". As the night unfolds, the game's mysterious rules become clear, and the family realizes their nightmare is being streamed live to riveted viewers all over the world, who are compelled to KEEP WATCHING... not knowing if what they're seeing is real, or staged.

      Markimdb: 4.9
      Genrehorror, detective
      CountryUSA

      In the darkly phantasmagorical world of the carnival magician and sideshow hypnotist, the gruesome "illusions" of Montag the Magnificent are unique in that they seem to become retroactive reality long after the the tricks are done. Is it coincidence, or circumstantial evidence of the world's most diabolically ingenious murders? When an underground journalist begins to investigate the strange deaths, the truth proves to be far more bizarre and disturbing than anything he or his readers might have imagined.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      An unexpected pregnancy takes a terrifying turn for newlyweds Zach and Samantha McCall.

      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: 5.8
      Genrehorror, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:17

      When Simon brings his twelve year-old son, Finn, to rural Vermont to help flip an old farmhouse, they encounter the malicious spirit of Lydia, a previous owner. And now with every repair they make - she's getting stronger.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, China, Germany, Japan

      A portal transports Lt. Artemis and an elite unit of soldiers to a strange world where powerful monsters rule with deadly ferocity. Faced with relentless danger, the team encounters a mysterious hunter who may be their only hope to find a way home.

      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, fantastic
      CountryUSA

      What’s controlling the town on Block Island? There’s a force lurking off the coast and the wildlife and people are all behaving strangely.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Canada, France, Turkey
      Duration01:41

        The only U.S. Marshal assigned to Antarctica, Carrie Stetko will soon leave the harsh environment behind for good – in three days, the sun will set and the Amundsen-Scott Research Station will shut down for the long winter. When a body is discovered out on the open ice, Carrie's investigation into the continent's first homicide plunges her deep into a mystery that may cost her her own life.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.

        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: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:30

        After a mysterious malfunction sends their small plane climbing out of control, a rookie pilot and her four teenage friends find themselves trapped in a deadly showdown with a supernatural force.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryCanada
        Duration02:12

        After the traumatic loss of her mother, a teenaged girl tries to uncover the dark secrets behind her new home, in spite of her father's disbelief.

        Markimdb: 3.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:33

        An attractive young woman is kidnapped, held captive and forced to endure the evils of one of the most violent homicidal maniacs in the city's history. "The Toolbox Killer" aka TBK. It is by her will, strength and her faith that she must survive, the ordeal. Her escape is almost hopeless. Unfortunately her situation only worsens when outside supernatural forces become more difficult to contend with than TBK.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, western, detective
        CountryUSA

        A supernatural thriller set in the Western frontier of the late 1800s, The Wind stars Caitlin Gerard as a plains-woman driven mad by the harshness and isolation of the untamed land.

        Markimdb: 5.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:32

        A group of young friends make an incomprehensible discovery in an abandoned mine, but the more they try to change the future, the more they seal their fate.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrehorror, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:53

        A traumatized Vietnam war veteran finds out that his post-war life isn't what he believes it to be when he's attacked by horned creatures in the subway and his dead son comes to visit him...

        Markimdb: 5.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Germany, Canada

        Set in 1965 New England, a troubled girl encounters mysterious happenings in the woods surrounding an isolated girls school that she was sent to by her estranged parents.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA

        Fifteen years after conjuring an imaginary phantom known as Mercy Black, a repentant woman returns to her hometown to live with her sister and young nephew. But as Mercy continues to haunt her and the death count rises, she must face her deepest terror and discover the truth of her past before Mercy Black claims her nephew. Daniella Pineda, Austin Amelio, Elle LaMont, Miles Emmons, Lee Eddy, and Janeane Garofalo star in this terrifying story of regret, redemption, and the dark side of belief.

        Markimdb: 3.2
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA

        A Marine Biologist is assigned to investigate the mysterious deaths of some marine life in an inland salt water lake that has been attributed to a creature thought to have been the stuff of a legend.

        Markimdb: 3.3
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective, military
        CountryUnited Kingdom

        With nowhere else to hide, a group of mercenaries and their prisoners take cover inside a long abandoned Bulldog tank. But, while they try to keep the forces outside at bay, the real enemy is already among them, locked inside the 'Belly of the Bulldog'. After collaborating closely with Ben Wheatley on FREE FIRE, HIGH-RISE, A FIELD IN ENGLAND and KILL LIST, director Nick Gillespie makes his feature debut.

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA, Spain
        Duration01:30

        After the death of his wife and child, an author travels to Barcelona to see his estranged brother and dying father, where he learns that his life is plagued by events that occur on 11/11/11.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        The town of Downers Grove looks like your average suburban neighborhood -- but Downers Grove has a disturbing secret.... For the past eight years, one senior from every high school graduating class has met a bizarre death right before graduation day. And this year, Chrissie Swanson has a terrible feeling that she is going to be the one to die. Can Chrissie survive the curse of Downers Grove or will she, like those seniors before her, fall prey to the town's deadly secret?

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA

        Janie’s just trying to get well. As she recovers from a violent psychotic break, she’s subjected each day to a bizarre holistic health and wellness regimen designed, and enforced, by her lifelong nanny and caretaker. But when she develops an obsession with a stranger, Janie's buried demons begin to surface.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration01:48

        A seasoned police detective and his partner have just uncovered a string of unusual murders that lead them to a serial killer, who believes that he is the descendant of Judas.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:28

        In 1965 Los Angeles, a widowed mother and her two daughters add a new stunt to bolster their séance scam business and unwittingly invite authentic evil into their home. When the youngest daughter is overtaken by the merciless spirit, this small family confronts unthinkable fears to save her and send her possessor back to the other side.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, detective
        CountryUSA, Iceland

        In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the others as each of them succumbs to a mysterious fear.

        Markimdb: 4.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, adventure, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:00

        After being put on a supposedly uninhabited island as a form of behavioral rehabilitation, a high school senior finds that he's not alone on the island, and that getting discovered could be deadly.

        Markimdb: 4.5
        Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:10

        Julia becomes worried about her boyfriend, Holt when he explores the dark urban legend of a mysterious videotape said to kill the watcher seven days after viewing. She sacrifices herself to save her boyfriend and in doing so makes a horrifying discovery: there is a "movie within the movie" that no one has ever seen before.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, detective
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

        Reeling from the unexpected death of her husband, Beth is left alone in the lakeside home he built for her. Soon she begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.

        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: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryUSA

        Robert Wainwright dies after breaking his deal with the Devil, passing that debt onto his estranged daughter Morgan. She soon finds herself in a never-ending cycle of terror as she is brutally murdered then resurrected over and over again, each time losing a piece of her soul. Now she must discover why this is happening and break the deadly cycle in order to escape.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, detective
        CountryAustralia
        Duration01:27

        A group of elite soldiers sent to infiltrate and extract the lead science team from Pine Gap, Australia's top secret underground military compound, after it comes under attack from unknown forces. The mission is compromised when they encounter a young woman with no memory of who she is or how she came to be there. As they try to escape, the group quickly discovers all is not as it seems and the facility has become a testing ground for something far more sinister.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
        CountryItaly, USA
        Duration02:26

        A darkness swirls at the center of a world-renowned dance company, one that will engulf the troupe's artistic director, an ambitious young dancer and a grieving psychotherapist. Some will succumb to the nightmare, others will finally wake up.

        Markimdb: 5.9
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:30

        Counselors are being killed off at summer camp, and Sam (Fran Kranz) is stuck in the middle of it. Instead of contacting the cops, he calls his friend and slasher-film expert (Alyson Hannigan) to discuss his options.




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