| Fauda (2015) | 8.3 | |
| Dawn of the Dead (2004) | 7.2 | |
| The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) | 7.4 | |
| Scream (1996) | 7.4 | |
| Ghoul (2018) | 7.0 |
Terror movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant terror movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense and slasher films and TV shows about / with terror, blood, danger, murder, fear, monster, supernatural, gore, death and serial killer 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 terror: The Green Inferno (2013), The Collector (2009), Roadkill (2011), Black Serenade (2001), Braindead (1992), Veronica (2017), The Terror Live (2013), Funny Games (1997), Five Nights at Freddy's (2023), Get Out (2017).
Best films
New films
Genre: Adventure, Horror
Country: Chile, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of student activists travel from New York City to the Amazon to save the rainforest. However, once they arrive in this vast green landscape, they soon discover that they are not alone… and that no good deed goes unpunished.
Style:
bloody, scary, disturbing, brutal, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, cannibal, cannibalism, torture, gory, eating human flesh, sadistic horror, survival, ant, decapitation, sadistic violence, amazon ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
south america, peru, america, chile, latin america ...
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A chilling story of terror, murder and unknown evil that shocked even experienced real-life paranormal investigators Ed and Lorraine Warren. One of the most sensational cases from their files, it starts with a fight for the soul of a young boy, then ...
Style:
scary, dark, demonic, spooky, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
exorcism, ghost, demon, paranormal phenomena, paranormal investigation, supernatural, psychic, terror, possession, demonic possession, supernatural horror, paranormal activity ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 2020s, 20th century
Place:
usa, connecticut, massachusetts
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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
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Six young friends on a road trip in Ireland run afoul of gypsies who curse them for accidentally running down an old woman. The curse takes the form of a terrifying flying beast that tries killing them all.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, natural horror ...
Plot:
killer animal, deadly creature, curses spells and rituals, friends, accident, giant bird, redneck, brutality, creature, terror, ogre, curse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Students of the university of Salamanca are brutally murdered by a black masked minstrel. Alex, an architecture student who has recently moved to Salamanca discovers a pattern behind the killings; it seems as if the killer strikes regularly after ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, secretly observing, terror, religion, mutilation, urban legend, college, nudity, female nudity, sadism, damsel in distress, characters murdered one by one ...
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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
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53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1990s. After making a Ouija with friends, a teenager is besieged by dangerous supernatural presences that threaten to harm her whole family. Inspired by terrifying police files never solved.
Style:
scary, suspense, demonic, psychotronic, spooky ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
possession, terror, ouija board, occult, demonic possession, nightmare, blind woman, haunted house, ouija, possessed girl, occult ritual, nun ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place:
europe, madrid, spain
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
"I'll blow up Mapo Bridge." An anonymous call comes into a radio station one day. When it turns out to be legitimate, a terrorist's threats end up getting broadcast live throughout the country.
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
radio, terrorist, terrorism, reporter, terror, negotiation, media sensation, media, danger, once in a lifetime opportunity, justice, threat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, bad guy wins, home invasion, torture, sadism, torment, family in danger, husband wife relationship, evil wins, violence, holiday horror ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, near future, year 1997
Place:
austria, germany, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A troubled security guard begins working at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. While spending his first night on the job, he realizes the night shift at Freddy's won't be so easy to make it through.
Style:
supernatural thriller, captivating, suspenseful, scary, dread ...
Plot:
robot, security guard, terror, restaurant, supernatural horror, killer robot, abandoned building, night, dinner, job, missing child, ghost ...
Time:
year 1980, year 2000, 2000s, 80s
Place:
north america
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804K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
twist ending, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
racism, hypnosis, brainwashing, interracial romance, kidnapping, paranoia, survival, female villain, african american, revenge, african american protagonist, neurosurgeon ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, southern usa, indiana, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Three American tourists follow a mysterious map deep into the jungles of Japan searching for an ancient temple. When spirits entrap them, their adventure quickly becomes a horrific nightmare.
Style:
demonic, bleak, disturbing, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
travel, temple, curse, tourist, terror, evil spirit, jungle adventure, children, murder, violence, able to see the dead, friendship ...
Place:
japan, america
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Four friends gather at an elegant home during the Summer of Love, 1969. Unbeknownst to them, deadly visitors are waiting outside. What begins as a simple farewell party turns to a night of primal terror as the intruders stalk and torment the four, ...
Style:
slasher, suspense, bleak, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
home invasion, terror, serial killer, killing spree, husband wife relationship, group of friends, mercilessness, murder, police officer, killer, pursuit, danger ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980s Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, sinister, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
haunted house, husband murders wife, ghost, terror, supernatural, haunted, supernatural horror, nightmare, small town, doll, paranormal activity, dark secret ...
Time:
80s, 2020s, year 1980, year 1979, 20th century ...
Place:
manhattan new york city
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Teenagers in a small town are dropping like flies, apparently in the grip of mass hysteria causing their suicides. A cop's daughter, Nancy Thompson (Heather Langenkamp) traces the cause to child molester Fred Krueger (Robert Englund), who was ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, classic horror, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
murder, supernatural, supernatural horror, nightmare, fear, dream, serial killer, gory, sleep deprivation, teenager, nightmare comes true, high school ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
ohio, usa, canada
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.
Style:
scary, dark, creepy, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
supernatural, haunted house, demonic possession, demon, child in peril, ghost, fear, psychic, family in danger, paranormal investigation, haunting, possession ...
Time:
70s, year 2016, 2010s, 2000s, year 2003 ...
Place:
england, peru, london
Is relevant?
16K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: India, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
A newly minted military interrogator arrives at a covert detention center to discover that some of the terrorists held there are not of this world.
Style:
demonic, political, suspense, saga, neo noir ...
Plot:
terror, demon, political prisoner, female protagonist, interrogation, demonic possession, islam, military prison, loyalty, revenge, investigation, danger ...
Time:
near future
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A rebellious teenage boy embarks on a gutsy crusade to stop the terrifying evil he suspects has possessed his neighbor in this bone-chilling occult thriller.
Style:
dark, demonic, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
witch, teenage boy, neighbor, supernatural, forest, creature, teenage protagonist, missing child, terror, teenager, possession, father son relationship ...
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
As midnight falls, all manner of terror invades the Earth. demons, cannibals, killers, ghosts and monsters swarm the world in these tales of the supernatural, the fantastic, and the just plain horrific. Featuring nine stories of horror.
Style:
anthology, bleak, scary, rough, slasher ...
Plot:
creature, serial killer, terror, ghost, monster, cannibalism, alien parasite, haunting, mythical creature, cannibal, voice over narration, babysitter ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspired by the Thai horror radio show "Angkhan Khlumpong," this series presents eight stories based on real-life experiences shared by listeners.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, anthology, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
terror, haunting, ghost, supernatural, paranormal, paranormal activity, supernatural horror, supernatural being, paranormal phenomena, super powers, precognition, supernatural power ...
Time:
70s
Is relevant?
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Western
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The sequel to House of 1000 Corpses – the Firefly family are ambushed at their isolated home by Sheriff Wydell and a squad of armed men guns blazing – yet only Otis and his sister, Baby, manage to escape the barrage of bullets unharmed. Hiding ...
Style:
scary, bloody, suspense, cult classic, dark ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, revenge, torture, brutality, psychopath, sheriff, kidnapping, maniac, violence, female villain, hostage, killer clown ...
Time:
70s, year 2005, 2000s, y2k, year 2000 ...
Place:
texas, bolivia, austin texas, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
Brilliant young actress Charlie strikes up an acquaintance with an intriguing stranger while on holiday in Greece, but it rapidly becomes apparent that his intentions are far from romantic.
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, captivating, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
arab israeli conflict, double agent, female spy, espionage, terrorism, mossad, sting operation, actress, terrorist, recruitment, female agent, terror ...
Time:
70s
Place:
israel, palestine, greece
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, twist ending, surreal ...
Plot:
twins, mental illness, brother brother relationship, torture, divorce, dead child, boy, animal mask, children, isolation, single parent, supernatural ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
austria, germany, central europe
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
It's been many years since Freddy Krueger's first victim, Nancy, came face-to-face with Freddy and his sadistic, evil ways. Now, Nancy's all grown up; she's put her frightening nightmares behind her and is helping teens cope with ...
Style:
slasher, scary, bloody, surreal, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen fantasy, kids, adult
Plot:
serial killer, mental institution, supernatural horror, nightmare, killer, dead teenager, dream, supernatural, group of teenagers, trapped, maniac, serial murder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1990, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, ohio
Is relevant?
336K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In John Carpenter's horror classic, a psychotic murderer, institutionalized since childhood for the murder of his sister, escapes and stalks a bookish teenage girl and her friends while his doctor chases him through the streets.
Style:
slasher, scary, suspenseful, slasher horror, spooky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
halloween, serial killer, psychopath, murder, holiday horror, babysitter, death, masked killer, killer, small town, psychiatrist, female nudity ...
Time:
year 1978, year 1963, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america, midwest, california
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980s, an estranged family hires a cult deprogrammer to take back their teenage son from a murderous cult, but find themselves under siege when the cultists surround their cabin, demanding the boy back.
Style:
slasher, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
isolated house, brother brother relationship, terror, family in danger, baby, kidnapping, family home, night, father son relationship, home invasion, siege, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1983
Is relevant?
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that ...
Style:
retro, semi serious, suspenseful, scary, splatter ...
Plot:
house, poison, terror, obsession, animal attack, danger, mind game, killer animal, creature feature, creature, home invasion, alone ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, vermont
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A family's getaway to a luxurious rental home takes an ominous turn when a cyberattack knocks out their devices—and two strangers appear at their door.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, psychological, sinister ...
Plot:
blackout, catastrophe, chaos, crisis, anxiety, apocalypse, terror, vacation gone wrong, vacation, problem, civil war, social issues ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. ...
Style:
political, talky, epic, anthology, art film ...
Plot:
french revolution, revolutionary, french history, revolution, politics, biopic, execution, guillotine, terror, death row, power struggle, french politics ...
Time:
18th century, ancient times, 1790s, year 1983, georgian era ...
Place:
france, paris france, poland, eastern europe, europe ...
Is relevant?
390K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.
Style:
psychedelic, suspense, disturbing, mindfuck, medical horror ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
female protagonist, cosmic horror, dna, creature, mutation, scientist, scientific experiment, biologist, expedition, research, genetics, terror ...
Time:
2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
west virginia, arkansas, maine, england, louisiana ...
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