| The Mist (2007) | 7.1 | |
| Saw (2004) | 7.6 | |
| The Thing (2011) | 6.3 | |
| The Descent: Part 2 (2009) | 5.7 | |
| Pandorum (2009) | 6.7 |
Survival horror movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant survival horror movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense, slasher and disturbing films and TV shows about / with survival horror, survival, danger, gore, violence, death, blood, murder, brutality and monster plots mostly in Horror, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as survival horror: What the Waters Left Behind (2017), Killing Ground (2016), The Descent (2005), Frozen (2010), Preservation (2014), The Descent: Part 2 (2009), Vacancy (2007), The Last House on the Left (2009), Ready or Not (2019), Cube (1997).
Best films
New films
| Osiris (2025) | 4.7 | |
| Screamboat (2025) | 4.1 | |
| Uncontained (2025) | 4.6 | |
| The Last Frontier (2025) | 6.7 | |
| Cold Storage (2026) | 6.2 |
List of survival horror movies
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Argentina, New Zealand
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Epecuén was one of the most important touristic villages of Argentina. Thousands of people concurred, attracted by the healing properties of its thermal waters. On November 10th 1985, a huge volume of water broke the protecting embankment and the ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
survival horror, cannibal, flooding, dog, exploitation, sadism, graphic violence, ghost town, filmmaking, survival, manhunt, sex scene ...
Place:
argentina
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When young urbanites Ian and Sam decide to go camping, they arrive at their isolated destination to discover another tent already set up, but no sign of its owners. With the other campers at large, Ian and Sam's discovery of a child wandering ...
Style:
slasher, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, scary ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers
Plot:
serial killer, camping, rape, survival horror, backwoods, rape and murder, woods, dog, doctor, murderer duo, husband wife relationship, wilderness ...
Place:
oceania, australia
Is relevant?
270K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, suspense, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot:
monster, cave, survival horror, trapped, survival, creature, fear, expedition, claustrophobia, gory, group of friends, woman in danger ...
Time:
year 2005, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, appalachia
Is relevant?
87K
Genre: Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Three skiers are stranded on a chairlift and forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
Style:
suspense, scary, suspenseful, disturbing, natural horror ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, isolation, stranded, survival horror, ski resort, snow, frostbite, animal attack, danger, mountain, youth, sole survivor ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
antarctic, utah
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Three family members head deep into the woods for a hunting trip that doubles as a distraction from their troubles at home. When all of their gear is stolen, they turn on each other, but soon realize there are much more treacherous forces at work.
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
woods, survival, masked killer, survival horror, manhunt, camping, couple relations, dog, child with gun, forest, brother brother relationship, pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Distraught, confused, and half-wild with fear, Sarah Carter emerges alone from the Appalachian cave system where she encountered unspeakable terrors. Unable to plausibly explain to the authorities what happened - or why she's covered in her ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, intense, tense, lovecraft ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cave, sole survivor, survival, deadly creature, survival horror, supernatural, creature, monster, claustrophobia, gory, missing person, expedition ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
113K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and find hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, trapped, murder, hotel, survival horror, hostage, danger, voyeurism, kidnapped, estranged couple, motel, macabre ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, South Africa
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A group of teenage girls heading into the city hook up with a gang of drug-addled ne'er-do-wells and are brutally murdered. The killers find their way to the home of one of their victim's parents, where both father and mother exact a ...
Style:
scary, slasher, brutal, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
rape, revenge, psychopath, torture, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, violence, vengeance, sexualized violence, rape and revenge, violence against women ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
230K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A bride's wedding night takes a sinister turn when her eccentric new in-laws force her to take part in a terrifying game.
Style:
horror comedy, scary, suspense, brutal, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
game, rite, satanic cult, hide and seek, ritual, wedding, pursuit, family curse, fiancee, murder, woman kills a man, twists and turns ...
Time:
2010s, year 1989, year 2019, 80s
Place:
illinois, canada
Is relevant?
260K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Seven strangers are taken out of their daily lives and placed mysteriously in a deadly cube where they all agree they must find their way out.
Style:
psychological, surreal, suspenseful, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
survival, trap, trapped, claustrophobia, isolation, group of strangers, mathematics, maze, survival horror, death, fear, game of death ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In a twisted social experiment, a group of 80 Americans are locked in their high-rise corporate office in Bogotá, Colombia and ordered by an unknown voice coming from the company's intercom system to participate in a deadly game of kill or be ...
Style:
suspense, dark comedy, slasher, psychological thriller, bloody ...
Plot:
game of death, social experiment, killing spree, office, trapped in a building, last man standing, cruelty, human experiment, murder, mass murder, corporation, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
Is relevant?
505K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Obsessed with teaching his victims the value of life, a deranged, sadistic serial killer abducts the morally wayward. Once captured, they must face impossible choices in a horrific game of survival. The victims must fight to win their lives back, or ...
Style:
scary, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
torture, mind game, survival horror, serial killer, plot twist, gory, violent, trapped, fear, locked in a room, psychopath, macabre ...
Time:
year 2004, year 2000, 80s, 2000s, 21st century
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167K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two crew members wake up on an abandoned spacecraft with no idea who they are, how long they've been asleep, or what their mission is. The two soon discover they're actually not alone – and the reality of their situation is more ...
Style:
futuristic, scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
space travel, survival, isolation, creature, outer space, danger, survival horror, deadly creature, spacecraft, post apocalypse, spaceship, monster ...
Time:
future, year 2009, year 1969
Is relevant?
145K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Chris crashes into a carload of other young people, and the group of stranded motorists is soon lost in the woods of West Virginia, where they're hunted by three cannibalistic mountain men who are grossly disfigured by generations of inbreeding.
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cannibalism, gory, survival, forest, massacre, danger, youth, manhunt, blood, chase, disfigurement, brutality ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, texas
Is relevant?
151K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is ...
Style:
horror comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, slasher, bloody ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
manhunt, strong female lead, game of death, female protagonist, characters killed one by one, massacre, satire, danger, pursuit, murder, revenge, sniper ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
vermont, croatia, mississippi, arkansas
Is relevant?
442K
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five young New Yorkers throw their friend a going-away party the night that a monster the size of a skyscraper descends upon the city. Told from the point of view of their video camera, the film is a document of their attempt to survive the most ...
Style:
spooky, mysterious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
monster, disaster, found footage, giant monster, alien, survival, fear, survival horror, danger, creature, kaiju, deadly creature ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, september 11 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new york, bolivia, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young husband and wife must fight to return home in a post-apocalyptic mid-western landscape ravaged by gangs.
Style:
apocalyptic, suspense, suspenseful, futuristic, bleak ...
Plot:
survival horror, post apocalypse, cannibalism, supermarket, survival, dystopian future, gang, cannibal, chaos and mayhem, social decay, danger, violence ...
Time:
future
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, wisconsin
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Joel and Ellie, a pair connected through the harshness of the world they live in, are forced to endure brutal circumstances and ruthless killers on a trek across post-pandemic America.
Style:
exciting, suspense, apocalyptic, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, survival, infection, epidemic, survival horror, pandemic, post-apocalyptic future, survivor, violence, vestiges of humanity, zombie ...
Time:
2020s, future
Place:
usa, north america
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72K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Could you trust a jury of your peers with your life? The contestants of a mysterious death game must make harrowing decisions as they strategize for survival in this psychological sci-fi thriller.
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
survival, morality, execution, life & death, prejudice, game of death, plot twist, stranger, death, sole survivor, struggle for survival, twists and turns ...
Place:
los angeles
Is relevant?
651K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
Style:
suspense, scary, disturbing, visually stunning, frightening ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
creature, post apocalypse, sign language, monster, survival, creature feature, silence, survival horror, deafness, fear, alien invasion, self sacrifice ...
Time:
2010s, near future, distant future, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
new york state
Is relevant?
203K
Genre: Horror
Country: USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three backpackers head to a Slovakian city that promises to meet their hedonistic expectations, with no idea of the hell that awaits them.
Style:
slasher, scary, brutal, bloody, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
torture, gory, psychopath, survival, danger, captivity, sadistic horror, revenge, blood, tourist, torment, dismemberment ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
amsterdam, slovakia, europe, iceland
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Helen and her daughter Emily reluctantly accompany Helen’s father Stan on a family camping trip, driving deep into the forest for a real outdoors experience, only to have angry landowner Howard arrive and force them to leave. When their RV gets ...
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
survival horror, struggle for survival, backwoods, forest, family relations, secret, escape, isolation, danger, deathtrap, female protagonist, death threat ...
Is relevant?
141K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of college friends reunite for a trip to the forest, but encounter a menacing presence in the woods that's stalking them.
Style:
suspense, demonic, satanic, psychological, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forest, lost in the woods, creature, supernatural, paganism, guilt, hiking, ritual, folk horror, murder, supernatural horror, sacrifice ...
Place:
scandinavia, eastern europe
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275K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever expected.
Style:
scary, suspense, apocalyptic, tense, tragic ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
monster, mars, space, space station, space travel, space exploration, astronaut, survival horror, alien life-form, alien creature, first contact, death ...
Time:
2010s, near future, year 2017, future
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller, Western
Country: China, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
All the rules are broken as a sect of lawless marauders decides that the annual Purge does not stop at daybreak and instead should never end as they chase a group of immigrants who they want to punish because of their harsh historical past.
Style:
suspense, scary, saga, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
survival horror, killing spree, immigrant, social decay, desert, civil war, racist, racism, murder, dystopia, pregnant woman, distopia ...
Time:
2040s, 2020s, near future, 21st century
Place:
mexico, el paso texas, texas, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in contemporary Europe, the reimagining follows the pockets of humanity left on earth following an apocalyptic extra-terrestrial strike.
Style:
futuristic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, apocalyptic ...
Plot:
survival horror, alien contact, post apocalypse, alien abduction, post-apocalyptic future, interracial relations, alien attack, ex husband ex wife relationship, bonding, love interest, struggle for survival, evil alien ...
Time:
future, 2020s, 2010s
Place:
france
Is relevant?
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
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An adventure-loving couple convince their friends to explore a remote, uncharted cave system in the forests of Northern Australia. With a tropical storm approaching, they abseil into the mouth of the cave, but when the caves start to flood, tensions ...
Style:
rough, suspense, suspenseful, scary, exciting ...
Plot:
survival, animal attack, crocodile, survival horror, cave, hunting, underwater, stranded, dangerous animal, wilderness, adventurer, beast ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Is relevant?
102K
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
While struggling to save her father during a Category 5 hurricane, a young woman finds herself trapped inside a flooding house and fighting for her life against Florida’s most savage and feared predators.
Style:
suspense, natural horror, slasher, scary, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
animal attack, trapped, disaster, survival, flood, alligator, creature feature, natural disaster, hurricane, survival horror, crocodile, killer animal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
florida
Is relevant?
166K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Unravel the mystery of a nightmarish town in middle America that traps all those who enter. As the unwilling residents fight to keep a sense of normalcy and search for a way out, they must also survive the threats of the surrounding forest – ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, small town, trapped, supernatural, creature, supernatural horror, struggle for survival, survival horror, secret, fictional city, trap, undercover ...
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