Terrifying movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant terrifying movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out terrifying, weird, scary, serious, disturbing and atmospheric films and TV shows about / with murder, violence, violent, danger, blood, brutality, gory, macabre, deadly and catastrophe plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as terrifying: The Entity (1982), Antichrist (2009), Dead Silence (2007), Daddy's Girl (1996), Martyrs (2008), Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977), The Changeling (1980), Night of the Living Dead (1968), The Devils (1971), The Brood (1979).
Best films
New films
| Autobiography (2022) | 7.1 | |
| Relic (2020) | 6.0 | |
| Kutra (2023) | 7.1 | |
| Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019) | 6.2 | |
| Smile (2022) | 6.5 |
List of terrifying movies
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Barbara Hershey stars as Carla Moran, a hard-working single mother until the night she is raped in her bedroom by someone - or something - that she cannot see. Despite skeptical psychiatrists, she is repeatedly attacked in her car, in the bath, and ...
Style:
creepy, terrifying, scary, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual abuse, rape, demon rape, female nudity, paranormal phenomena, sexual assault, ghost, haunted, invisibility, torment, woman in jeopardy, sex crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
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144K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Italy, Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A grieving couple retreats to their cabin 'Eden' in the woods, hoping to repair their broken hearts and troubled marriage. But nature takes its course and things go from bad to worse.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, dark, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insanity, depression, cruelty, guilt, controversy, fear, violence, woods, female nudity, nudity, black magic, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
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108K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jamie returns to his hometown in search of answers to his wife's murder, which occurred after receiving a weird package containing a ventriloquist dummy named Billy, which may be linked to the legend of ventriloquist Mary Shaw. Destined to find ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, gothic, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
ghost, doll, ventriloquist, macabre, small town, clown, investigation, supernatural horror, puppet, supernatural, plot twist, danger ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A girl's bright smile masks a psychopathic soul that will eliminate anyone who comes between her and her doting father.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
evil child, killer child, childhood trauma, father, murder, creepy kid, school, family relations, danger, adopted daughter, redhead girl, obsession ...
Time:
90s
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119K
Genre: Horror
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman's quest for revenge against the people who kidnapped and tormented her as a child leads her and a friend, who is also a victim of child abuse, on a terrifying journey into a living hell of depravity.
Style:
disturbing, creepy, brutal, bloody, extreme horror ...
Plot:
torture, violence, revenge, child abuse, kidnapping, gory, brutality, death, abuse, torment, violent, hardcore ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2000, turn of the century, 2000s, year 1971 ...
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
From the moment she arrives in Freiberg, Germany, to attend the prestigious Tans Academy, American ballet-dancer Suzy Bannion senses that something horribly evil lurks within the walls of the age-old institution.
Style:
suspense, creepy, scary, gothic, dark ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
witch, murder, boarding school, coven, black magic, gory, supernatural, ballet school, witchery, spell, killer, darkness ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, italy, west germany
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man staying at a secluded historical mansion, finds his life being haunted by the presence of a spectre.
Style:
suspense, gothic, creepy, spooky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, isolated house, macabre, haunted, mansion, musician, supernatural, senator, death of wife, revenge, murder ...
Time:
year 1980, victorian era, 20th century, 70s, 1900s ...
Place:
seattle, usa, new york, washington d.c., washington state ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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" ...
Style:
suspense, classic horror, grindhouse, scary, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, cemetery, infection, zombie apocalypse, survival, cannibalism, zombie attack, basement, gory, monster, supernatural, post apocalypse ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, year 1967, 60s
Place:
pennsylvania, pittsburgh, usa, washington d.c.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A dramatised historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following alleged demonic possessions of sexually repressed nuns.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
inquisition, religion, priest, surrealism, politics, nun, nunsploitation, witch, torture, clergy, violent, folk horror ...
Time:
17th century, medieval times, year 2016, middle ages, year 1971 ...
Place:
france, london, europe, england
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38K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man tries to uncover an unconventional psychologist's therapy techniques on his institutionalized wife, while a series of brutal attacks committed by a brood of mutant children coincides with the husband's investigation.
Style:
creepy, cult classic, disturbing, suspenseful, slasher ...
Plot:
body horror, mental illness, killer child, murder, creepy child, childhood trauma, child abuse, psychiatrist, transformation, strangulation, supernatural, mutant ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A zombie is found aboard a boat off the New York coast which belongs to a famous scientist. A journalist travels to the Antilles with the daughter of the scientist. They discover a terrifying disease which is turning the islanders into horrifying ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, disturbing, gothic, scary ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
zombie, island, virus, zombie outbreak, gory, survival horror, zombie attack, living dead, zombie apocalypse, boat, doctor, shark ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1979, 80s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, caribbean, italy, fictional island ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and ...
Style:
surreal, controversial, demonic, mind bending, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, occult, insanity, obsession, body horror, cosmic horror, possession, supernatural power, private detective, supernatural horror, berlin wall, sex ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
germany, west berlin west germany, berlin germany, europe, west germany ...
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Begotten is the creation myth brought to life, the story of no less than the violent death of God and the (re)birth of nature on a barren earth.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, avant garde, experimental, independent film ...
Plot:
necrophilia, surrealism, self mutilation, macabre, gory, spirituality, cruelty, chaos, nihilism, extreme, obsession, supernatural ...
Place:
america
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371K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, bad ending, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, monster, apocalypse, stephen king, creature, fear, trapped, twists and turns, survival horror, cosmic horror, chaos and mayhem, death ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, distant future, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, maine
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The Gingerdead Man seeks revenge against Sarah Leigh for causing him to live his life in the body of a gingerbread man. Her only hope is to team up with Larnell who has problems of his own in the form of a magical talking bong named Eebee.
Style:
christmas horror, horror comedy, slasher, terrifying, cult horror ...
Plot:
haunted, monster, doll, serial killer, holiday horror, tiny, killer, drug, stoner, vengeance, danger, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
Polish your balls and head to the lanes. Rabbit has escaped the Evil Bong’s World of Weed, and has opened a topless bowling alley. It’s the Grand Opening and the balls are rolling, the boobs are bouncing and the weed is plentiful. When his old ...
Style:
horror comedy, terrifying, slasher, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
drug, creature, killer, stoner, bowling, marijuana, cannabis, drug abuse, pun, drug addict, back from the dead, murder ...
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27K
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.
Style:
depressing, grim, psychological, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nuclear war, nuclear holocaust, apocalypse, cold war, nuclear explosion, survival, world war three, nuclear, post apocalypse, distopia, post apocalyptic, radiation ...
Time:
80s, near future, distant future, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, ussr, soviet union ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The final chapter of George A. Romero's "Dead Trilogy". In an underground government installation they are searching for a cure to overcome this strange transformation into zombies. Unfortunately, the zombies from above ground have ...
Style:
bloody, cult classic, tense, splatter, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
zombie, zombie apocalypse, apocalypse, living dead, virus, survival, violence, post apocalypse, mad scientist, gory, zombie attack, survival horror ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida, pittsburgh, usa
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Netherlands Antilles, Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The small city of Tarker's Mill is startled by a series of sadistic murders. The population fears that this is the work of a maniac. During a search a mysterious, hairy creature is observed. This strange appearance is noticed once a month. ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, creepy, scary, tense ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, kids, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
werewolf, beast, stephen king, transformation, escapades, supernatural, shapeshifter, monster, danger, social relations, murder, paraplegic ...
Time:
80s, year 1976, 70s
Place:
maine
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Playing around with a Ouija board, a trio of friends succeeds in contacting the spirit of a young boy. Trouble begins when the evil spirit, Malfeitor, takes over one of their bodies.
Style:
scary, creepy, homoerotic, cult classic, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ouija, possession, ghost child, supernatural, ouija board, medium, witch, skeptic, haunted house, ghost, obsession, gory ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california
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835K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When Ripley's lifepod is found by a salvage crew over 50 years later, she finds that terra-formers are on the very planet they found the alien species. When the company sends a family of colonists out to investigate her story, all contact is ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, space horror, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
alien, strong female character, space travel, creature, female warrior, survival, space and aliens, outer space, monster, space, creature feature, spaceship ...
Time:
22nd century, 20th century, year 1986, future
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
242K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, dark, cerebral, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, small town, voyeurism, sadomasochism, sex scene, violence, dark humor, abuse, sex, nightclub, sexual humiliation, serial killer ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place:
canada
Is relevant?
131K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A single mother gives her son a beloved doll for his birthday, only to discover that it is possessed by the soul of a serial killer.
Style:
scary, slasher, bloody, cult classic, frightening ...
Audience:
teens, horror for children, adult
Plot:
serial killer, doll, killer doll, psychopath, gory, evil doll, macabre, blood, murder, dark humor, voodoo, black magic ...
Time:
80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place:
chicago
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109K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Style:
bloody, dark comedy, cult classic, horror comedy, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gory, zombie, dark humor, living dead, infection, eaten alive, terror, monster, supernatural, zombie attack, body horror, macabre ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century, 50s, 1950s ...
Place:
new zealand, oceania
Is relevant?
137K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Four friends find themselves trapped in their small hometown after they discover their friends and neighbors going quickly and horrifically insane.
Style:
scary, suspense, creepy, splatter, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
infected, insanity, chaos and mayhem, plague, deadly virus, epidemic, gory, survival, quarantine, survival horror, transformation, virus ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s
Place:
usa, iowa, kansas
Is relevant?
34K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Romania
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Lucas and Clementine live peacefully in their isolated country house, but one night they wake up to strange noise. They're not alone... and a group of hooded assailants begin to terrorize them throughout the night.
Style:
scary, tense, creepy, clever, frightening ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
home invasion, stranger, violence, couples, breaking and entering, danger, forest, killer child, isolation, teenage life, invasion, violent ...
Time:
year 2006, year 2000, year 2002
Place:
europe, bucharest, romania
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The photographer Leon lives with his girlfriend and waitress Maya waiting for a chance to get in the photo business. When Maya contacts their friend Jurgis, he schedules a meeting for Leon with the successful owner of arts gallery Susan Hoff; she ...
Style:
bloody, splatter, suspense, slasher, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, gory, psychopath, violence, violent, train, twists and turns, butcher, blood, subway, torture ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
new york, america
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Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Michael is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on ...
Style:
dark comedy, creepy, terrifying, slasher, black comedy ...
Plot:
cannibalism, coming of age, macabre, suburbs, dysfunctional family, eating human flesh, dark humor, youth, cannibal, body horror, blood, nightmare ...
Time:
year 1989, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1954
Is relevant?
40K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, cult classic, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insanity, paranoia, obsession, losing-it hero, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, conspiracy theory, addiction, schizophrenia, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa, louisiana
Is relevant?
211K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, New Zealand, Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Evil Dead, the fourth installment of the Evil Dead franchise, serving as both a reboot and as a loose continuation of the series, features Mia, a young woman struggling with sobriety, heads to a remote cabin with a group of friends where the ...
Style:
bloody, scary, demonic, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
gory, demon, demonic possession, supernatural, zombie, woods, violence, blood, extreme violence, black magic, characters killed one by one, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 80s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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