| Gremlins (1984) | 7.3 | |
| Martyrs (2008) | 7.0 | |
| The Conjuring (2013) | 7.5 | |
| Possession (1981) | 7.2 | |
| Day of the Dead (1985) | 7.1 |
Terrifying movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
| Midsommar (2019) | 7.1 | |
| Autobiography (2022) | 7.1 | |
| Ready or Not (2019) | 6.8 | |
| The Hot Zone (2019) | 7.3 | |
| Mad of Madness (2025) | 4.5 |
List of terrifying movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer is repeatedly gang-raped, humiliated, and left for dead by four men whom she systematically hunts down to seek revenge.
Style:
suspense, grindhouse, splatter, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, rape, rape and revenge, revenge, brutality, sex, macabre, sexual abuse, cruelty, violence, sexualized violence, female vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, england, europe, germany, new england ...
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The first remake of the paranoid infiltration classic moves the setting for the invasion, from a small town to the city of San Francisco and starts as Matthew Bennell notices that several of his friends are complaining that their close relatives are ...
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, frightening, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot:
alien invasion, alien, dystopia, doppelganger, extraterrestrial, alien parasite, supernatural, parasite, evil wins, monster, alien possession, body horror ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 1950s, 50s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
Is relevant?
14K
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Martin sedates women with a syringe full of narcotics and then slices their wrists with a razor blade so he can drink their blood. Martin, who comes to live with his uncle and cousin in the dying town of Braddock, Pennsylvania, has romantic ...
Style:
surreal, cult horror, suspenseful, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, serial killer, female pubic hair, curse, murder, shyness, hidden identity, mental disorder, teenage life, zombie, socially awkward ...
Time:
70s, year 1977, 20th century, 80s
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa, romania
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill.
Style:
slasher, ambiguous ending, terrifying, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
murder, painting, artist, serial killer, punk rock, painter, anger, homeless man, homelessness, church, insomnia, dream ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Camp counselors are stalked and murdered by an unknown assailant while trying to reopen a summer camp that was the site of a child's drowning.
Style:
slasher, suspense, classic horror, cult classic, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, maniac, camp, gory, summer camp, revenge, psycho killer, teenager, disturbed individual, summer, blood ...
Time:
1950s, 80s, year 2016, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Is relevant?
26K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young man returns from Rome to his sister's satanic New York apartment house.
Style:
dark, slasher, atmospheric, cult classic, scary ...
Plot:
death, amateur detective, witch, haunted house, gory, supernatural, violent, murder, serial killer, eclipse, danger, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
italy, rome italy, new york
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A caretaker at a summer camp is burned when a prank goes tragically wrong. After several years of intensive treatment at hospital, he is released back into society, albeit missing some social skills. What follows is a bloody killing spree with the ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, cult horror, creepy, terrifying ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
prank, revenge, summer camp, stalking, serial killer, lake, survival, disfigurement, evil man, forest, fear, killer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york state, new york, canada
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Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a series of gory murders commited by mobs of townspeople against visiting tourists, the corpses appear to be coming back to life and living normally as locals in the small town.
Style:
frightening, slasher, surprise ending, detective, grindhouse ...
Plot:
small town, murder, violence, zombie, mortician, supernatural, murder investigation, sheriff, mysterious death, reanimation, black magic, insanity ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
new england
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rebellious teen Amy defies her parents by going to a trashy carnival that has pulled into town. In tow are her boyfriend, Buzz, and their friends Liz and Richie. Thinking it would be fun to spend the night in the campy "Funhouse" horror ...
Style:
suspense, bloody, scary, slasher, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
carnival, violence, halloween, murder, killer clown, amusement park, clown, serial killer, runaway, blood, teenager, danger ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 5th century, year 1975, 15th century
Place:
usa, texas
Is relevant?
272K
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
black comedy, frightening, funny, horror comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family friendly, family outing, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, monster, small town, supernatural, transformation, creature, holiday, gremlin, father son relationship, winter, swimming pool, bank ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, 90s, future
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
29K
Genre: Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of people are trapped in a West Berlin movie theater infested with ravenous demons who proceed to kill and possess the humans one-by-one, thereby multiplying their numbers.
Style:
demonic, scary, satanic, perverse, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
demon, zombie, plague, body horror, gory, death, demonic possession, supernatural, panic, survival horror, danger, chaos ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west germany, europe, berlin germany, germany, italy ...
Is relevant?
51K
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A team from the intergalactic fast food chain Crumb's Crunchy Delights descends on Earth, planning to make human flesh the newest taste sensation. After they wipe out the New Zealand town Kaihoro, the country's Astro-Investigation and ...
Style:
grindhouse, humorous, dark comedy, surreal, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gory, alien invasion, violent, space and aliens, ufo, food, extreme, exploitation, small town, alien, chainsaw, stoned ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, year 2016, near future, 20th century
Place:
new zealand, pacific ocean, oceania
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
While conducting a seance during a Halloween party, high-school seniors unlock the demon that remains locked in the crematorium.
Style:
scary, gothic, demonic, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, demon, halloween, gory, demonic possession, killed during sex, dark humor, teenager, voyeur, supernatural, old dark house, halloween party ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Doctor Channard is sent a new patient, a girl warning of the terrible creatures that have destroyed her family, Cenobites who offer the most intense sensations of pleasure and pain. But Channard has been searching for the doorway to Hell for years, ...
Style:
bloody, frightening, medical horror, slasher, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
demon, hell, gory, hellraiser, cursed object, violent, monster, maze, body horror, doctor, puzzle, psychiatric hospital ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
england, europe, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, twists and turns, missing person, gas station, obsession, road trip, disappearance, murder, literary, police investigation, character study ...
Time:
20th century, near future, 80s, year 1988
Place:
france, europe, holland, netherlands, california
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set fifteen years after the original film, The Exorcist III centers around the philosophical Lieutenant William F. Kinderman who is investigating a baffling series of murders around Georgetown that all contain the hallmarks of The Gemini, a deceased ...
Style:
demonic, frightening, satanic, scary, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, violence, possession, exorcism, demon, blood, priest, investigation, murder, supernatural, police detective, decapitation ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, year 1990, year 1998
Place:
virginia, washington d.c., usa, copenhagen, richmond virginia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
children, psychopath, death, evil child, manipulation, murder, problem child, killer child, deception, disbelieving adult, parents and children, brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa, asia, japan, new england ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, bloody, twist ending ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, insanity, sociopath, satire, violence, dark humor, psycho killer, materialism, yuppie, nihilism, millionaire ...
Time:
year 2000, 80s, 2000s, year 1987, y2k ...
Place:
new york, yale university, manhattan new york city, america, seattle ...
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, suspense, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, torture, home invasion, trap, psychopath, gory, maniac, macabre, massacre, sadistic horror, terror, psycho killer ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Is relevant?
48K
Genre: Horror
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.
Style:
disturbing, slasher, dark, brutal, christmas horror ...
Plot:
home invasion, female killer, female psychopath, blood, gory, pregnancy, serial killer, violent, sadism, danger, insanity, extreme ...
Time:
year 2007, year 2000, turn of the century
Place:
france
Is relevant?
118K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
home invasion, survival, gory, masked killer, murder, massacre, twists and turns, strong female lead, deathtrap, masked man, parents and children, blood ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Lured by the promise of an Australian holiday, backpackers Rutger, Katarina, and Paul visit the notorious Wolf Creek Crater. Their dream Outback adventure soon becomes a horrific reality when they encounter the site’s most infamous local, the last ...
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, terrifying, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, sadistic horror, killing spree, torture, tourist, gory, escape attempt, violence, chase, decapitation, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the Iranian ghost-town Bad City, a place that reeks of death and loneliness, the townspeople are unaware they are being stalked by a lonesome vampire.
Style:
dark, surreal, creepy, biting, art house ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, cat, prostitute, loneliness, murder, father son relationship, drug addict, following someone, drug use, women, feminist ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, year 2014
Place:
middle east, iran, persia, maghreb, california
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16K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Infected through the respiratory system, there is a new kind of disease that kills in 36 hours once infected. The people of the city struggle to survive this. The worst epidemic ever seen is sweeping through Bundang, the suburb of Seoul. After ...
Style:
suspenseful, terrifying, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
epidemic, quarantine, plague, deadly virus, virus, infected, disaster, survival, pandemic, infection, chaos, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, scary, creepy, terrifying ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, afterlife, mysterious character, uncover truth, haunted house, danger, who done it, haunted by the past, murder, haunted, small town life ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, edwardian era
Place:
europe, england
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After Laura and John Baxter lose their only child in a horrible drowning, they are greeted by strange sightings of her throughout their everyday lives. When two old ladies approach them in Italy with news that their daughter may still be alive, it ...
Style:
sexy, twist ending, erotic, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drowning, sex scene, blindness, serial killer, haunted by the past, hallucination, death of daughter, supernatural, psychic, grief, loss of child, marriage ...
Time:
70s, near future, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
italy, venice, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Parents are in a panic as their children mysteriously disappear. Little do they know that the only thing worse than their children disappearing would be them coming back. After the youngsters of Tromaville fall under the ruthless control of a cult ...
Style:
grindhouse, slasher, spooky, terrifying, serious ...
Plot:
evil child, mother kills own child, youth, creepy kid, bad kids, murder, killer child, serial killer, psychopath, parents and children, gory, kidnapping ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In 1965 Mexico City, Fabiola, a wealthy yet lonely schoolgirl, befriends Graciela, a young orphan girl who has an unhealthy fascination with witchcraft. Fabiola is convinced that she, herself, is a witch by Graciela, who then uses the fear that ...
Style:
modern fairy tale, gothic, terrifying, deep, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
occult, witchcraft, witch, evil child, spell, pagan, teenager, religion, child, 666, creepy child, murder ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
Is relevant?
616K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
scary, dark, suspenseful, creepy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
haunted house, supernatural, ghost, exorcism, paranormal investigation, fear, witch, danger, supernatural horror, possession, doll, investigation ...
Time:
year 2013, 70s, year 2000, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
rhode island, new england, connecticut, usa
Is relevant?
103K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, sexy, satanic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
private detective, investigation, twists and turns, satan, devil, voodoo, amnesia, satanic ritual, incest, supernatural, occult ritual, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1987, 50s, 20th century, year 1918, year 1942 ...
Place:
new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
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