Shock movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant shock movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, tense, independent film, disturbing, suspenseful and dark films and TV shows about / with shock, gore, isolation, violence, survival, murder, fear, macabre, body horror and blood plots mostly in Horror, Comedy and Drama genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as shock: Would You Rather (2012), The Reef (2010), Brüno (2009), Boulevard Voltaire (2017), Hibernatus (1969), Dangerous to Know (2020), I Came By (2022), The Devil (1981), Jackass Volume One (2005), Butchers Book Two: Raghorn (2024).
Best films
New films
| Nundead (2023) | 4.1 | |
| OMG! Oh My Girl (2022) | 6.8 | |
| I Came By (2022) | 6.2 | |
| Into the Labyrinth (2019) | 5.8 | |
| Peppermint (2018) | 6.5 |
List of shock movies
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman agrees to compete in a deadly game of "Would You Rather," hosted by a sadistic aristocrat.
Style:
scary, psychological, disturbing, bloody, sadistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
game of death, survival, group of strangers, danger, torture, game, deathtrap, mind game, psychopath, moral dilemma, confinement indoors, plot twist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
22K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A great white shark hunts the crew of a capsized sailboat along the Great Barrier Reef.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, scary, natural horror, underground horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
underwater, survival, ocean, shark, shark attack, killer shark, creature feature, panic, dangerous animal, death, tourist, diving ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Is relevant?
158K
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
Style:
mockumentary, funny, parody, satirical, humorous ...
Plot:
gay, gender, gay slur, satire, lgbt, gay marriage, social satire, gay lead character, fame, nudity, homosexuality, sex ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa, europe, austria, los angeles, vienna ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Chris Watts stoically yet smirkingly pleaded to television cameras for the safe return of his missing pregnant wife Shanann and their two young daughters, dark secrets loomed just beneath the surface.
Style:
suspense, emotional, disturbing, dark, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, dark secret, shock, murder, lie, deception, confession, true crime, mysterious disappearance, family problems, disappearance, family secret ...
Place:
colorado
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A circle of friends is getting together for a fun night out in Paris. It is Friday, the 13th of November, 2015.
Style:
heartbreaking, tense, black and white
Plot:
trauma, loss, grief, shock, massacre, terrorist attack, mourning, friendship, nightclub, violence, survivor, lgbtq ...
Place:
paris france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a scientific expedition in 1905. Perfectly conserved he is brought back to life in the 1960s. His descendants take care of him: to spare him the cultural ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, ironic, light ...
Plot:
time travel, fish out of water, abbey, hibernation, disorder, misfit, family life, culture clash, society, pretense, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandfather ...
Time:
60s, 1900s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
france, greenland, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
A young woman recovers from a suicide attempt in a secluded cabin, but things quickly go horrifyingly wrong when a series of unexplained incidents occur.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, apocalyptic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
suicide, stranded, self mutilation, rural setting, family in danger, confession, macabre, chaos and mayhem, extinction, paranoia, suicide by hanging, dark place ...
Is relevant?
39K
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A rebellious young graffiti artist, who targets the homes of the wealthy elite, discovers a shocking secret that leads him on a journey endangering himself and those closest to him.
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
gay subtext, elite, hidden room, missing son, hidden door, graffiti, target, secret, painter, fear, shock, street artist ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
245
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A hideously ugly witch casts spells on her victims which turns their insides into snakes and worms.
Style:
disturbing, sinister, creepy, grim, psychological horror ...
Plot:
body horror, occult, witch, supernatural, evil, witchcraft, body transformation, transformation, folk horror, graphic violence, visceral, macabre ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Johnny Knoxville stars. included are more than 100 never-before-seen segments and an uncensored commentary track.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, satirical, raunchy, non fiction
Audience:
teens
Plot:
jackass, prank, trick, absurd humor, joke, satire, humour, silly humor, shock, young adult, public humiliation, manhood ...
Time:
2000s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Book one followed a family of sadistic butchers, living in the backcountry, who see anyone that crosses their path as dead meat. In “Butchers Book Two: Raghorn,” the story continues when an accident leaves the captors in the hands of brutal ...
Style:
disturbing, brutal, slasher, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
bloodbath, cannibalism, violent, survival, shock, torture, savage, captivity, hunted, isolation, abduction, revenge ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Genre bending horror anthology featuring 5 tales of perversion, obsession, blasphemy, nihilism, and sadism!
Style:
anthology, disturbing, dark, tense, psychological horror ...
Plot:
fear, perversion, obsession, sadism, unsettling, violence, vicious, blasphemy, shock, nihilism, taboo, extreme ...
Is relevant?
206
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An explicit thriller detailing the feasibility of producing and distributing snuff films, which are still only considered to be an urban legend. Driven mad by his failure to sell a profitable film to the porn industry, a director decides to create ...
Style:
independent film, controversial, dark, transgressive, intense ...
Plot:
murder, graphic violence, violent, manipulation, exploitation, revenge, shock, torture, sexploitation, taboo, immorality, driven mad ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A reporter follows an incestuous brother and sister who kill tourists in the name of God.
Style:
controversial, bloody, dark, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
incest, murder, exploitation, violent, graphic violence, religious fanaticism, taboo, problem, murderer, reporter, brother sister relationship, shock ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Dark Night enigmatically unfolds over the course of a lazy summer day, as it traces the events leading up to a mass shooting in a suburban multiplex. Abandoning the narrative confines of the true crime genre, the story is told through fragmented ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
mass murder, massacre, tragedy, suburbs, killing, group of strangers, murder mystery, murder, mass death, stranger, night, mystery killer ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
All hell breaks loose when Peter Cottontail aka The Easter Bunny hears that the Catholic Church is about to do away with all Easter rituals not pertaining directly to the resurrection of Christ. With Father Asher (A warrior priest) hot on his trail ...
Style:
independent film, slasher, dark, controversial, religious horror ...
Plot:
holiday horror, exploitation, violence, rabbit, shock, masked killer, revenge, vigilante, cat and mouse, satire, profanity, easter ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Story:
A New Horror Anthology from Donald Farmer. Multiple twisted tales of gore all wrapped around the theme of Zombie Nun stories. These Cannibals of the Cloth have a blood lust that does not disappoint.
Style:
anthology, religious horror, demonic, independent film, gothic ...
Plot:
nun, zombie, undead, bloodlust, convent, graphic violence, church, cannibalism, unsettling, supernatural, macabre, shock ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A handsome stranger's claim that a couple's 15-year-old daughter was switched at birth throws their perfect family into turmoil, unearthing shattering secrets.
Style:
intense, suspenseful
Plot:
family drama, switched at birth, family secret, identity crisis, betrayal, revelation, teenage daughter, suspicion, parent child relationship, body swapping, investigation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2020s
Is relevant?
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A group of carpet fitters are sent on a job to an old Country house in the middle of nowhere. However they soon discover it's a trap set up by the savage, cannibalistic family, The Hannings. The carpet fitters are forced to fight for their ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, intense, scary, dark comedy, brutal ...
Plot:
cannibalism, cannibal, survival, body horror, fight, rescue, renovation, mansion, battles, monster, fight scenes, isolation ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Charlie has just inherited his recently deceased uncle's abandoned house on the outskirts of town. What is supposed to be a night of good, clean, Halloween fun becomes an outrageous nightmare of demoinic possession, as each of the hapless teens ...
Style:
teen horror, satanic, mysterious, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
halloween, paranormal, haunted house, supernatural, possession, demonic possession, fear, teenager, abandoned house, nightmare, ritual, zombie ...
Place:
austin texas, texas
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
Style:
bleak, grim, intense, art house
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, psychological trauma, claustrophobia, dehumanization, mental breakdown, shock, abuse of power, isolation, alienation, male nudity, obsession ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Meet Marry Murder explores several US homicide cases of spouses insidiously killed by their partners. Each story is told by the family, friends, and colleagues who best knew them, and the investigators committed to finding out the truth of twisted ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, true crime, marriage, homicide, murder investigation, crumbling marriage, spouse killer, troubled marriage, killing, unhappy marriage, marital problem, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
249
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 278 min.
TV show
Story:
This miniseries presents a cross-section of life in Pearl Harbor leading up to the Japanese attack and its immediate aftermath. Among the stories: A colonel's bitter wife seeks extramarital attention; a female doctor with painful memories ...
Style:
emotional, medical drama, suspense, period drama, tragic
Plot:
world war two, military, navy, aftermath, duty, trauma, shock, loss, grief, infidelity, survival, resilience ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
hawaii, pearl harbor
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Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: China, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A group of three friends head to a cabin in the woods for the weekend. On their way they discover an arm in the road, blood coming from something wrapped in the back of a truck, and other strange things that unfold before their eyes. They plan on a ...
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
cabin in the woods, road trip, woods, sexual relations, gory, on the road, women, blood, fear, killer, isolation, shock ...
Time:
21st century
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Bizarre, unusual and horrifying, Sex Rituals Of The Occult will shock and delight you. Travel with us to this side of hell and learn the sensual secrets kept by the worshippers of Satan. Witness the modern masters of the dark arts as they undertake ...
Style:
satanic, controversial, erotic, dark, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bestiality, occult, exploitation, nudity, sexploitation, ritual, striptease, taboo, shock, witchcraft, voyeur, single ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The story of 10-year-old boy and his family against the backdrop of the bloody events of 1956, in Budapest. Children do not yet understand what is going on, but they're happy because the schools are closed. But gradually, to adults and children ...
Style:
tension, emotional, bleak, melancholic, sad ...
Plot:
children, innocence lost, repression, political unrest, oppression, fear, loss, child protagonist, coming of age, violence, shock, urban ...
Time:
1950s, year 1956, 50s
Place:
budapest, eastern europe, europe, hungary
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Two girls pose as hookers for a sorority initiation, then turn into zombies and eat their neighbors.
Style:
splatter, grindhouse, retro, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cannibalism, sorority, prostitution, eating human flesh, zombie, exploitation, gory, undead, bloodbath, hooker, shock, sexploitation ...
Time:
80s
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 5 min.
TV show
Story:
BlackBoxTV Presents is an American horror anthology web series created by Tony E. Valenzuela and Philip DeFranco. The first season, which featured a cast of YouTube creators including DeFranco, iJustine and Shane Dawson, was self-funded by ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, anthology ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, cannibalism, murder, body horror, killing, murderer, killing spree, cannibal, serial murder, mature, macabre, blood ...
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
One night a year, a museum opens it's doors to exhibit a collection of cursed artifacts... But something hideous is roaming these halls, feasting on the flesh of the innocent. A cannibalistic horror is alive! The hunger is spreading, and the ...
Style:
suspense, dark, sinister, tense, grim ...
Plot:
zombie, museum, halloween, undead, maze, macabre, hunted, monster, cannibalism, survival horror, escape, supernatural ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The events on the night John Lennon was killed, seen through the eyes of those who lived it. The great men and women of NYC who did all they could to save a life, some without even knowing it was John Lennon himself. Based on a true story.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
murder, celebrity, biopic, fan, witnessing a crime, shooting, murder investigation, murder witness, forensics, historical figure, music, tragic event ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
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