Terror movies and TV shows – page 2

List of terror movies

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 7.5
 61K
Repulsion (1965)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In Roman Polanski's first English-language film, beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian ...
Style: atmospheric, disturbing, cerebral, surreal, cult classic ...
Plot: mental illness, surrealism, rape, insanity, schizophrenia, murder, isolation, delusion, hallucination, fear, nightmare, claustrophobia ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, 60s
Place: england, london, europe, britain, eastern europe ...
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 6.8
 364K
Insidious (2010)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.
Style: scary, suspenseful, atmospheric, twist ending, frightening ...
Audience: teens, horror for children
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, demon, fear, afterlife, nightmare, paranormal activity, boy, psychic, danger, evil spirit, supernatural horror ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, year 2000, year 2011, 2010s ...
Place: america, usa
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 6.1
 54K
The Hunted (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. Former Special Operations instructor, L.T. Bonham is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum, his former student, who has 'gone rogue' ...
Style: suspense, slasher, intense, brutal, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: one man army, manhunt, commando, wilderness, hitman, lone hero, homicidal maniac, swat team, psychopath, conspiracy, chase, murder ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: oregon, portland oregon, kosovo, usa, british columbia ...
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 6.8
 296K
It Follows (2014)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa, california
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 6.8
 268K
The Babadook (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Style: psychological, scary, tense, spooky, dark ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: supernatural, macabre, ghost, nightmare, monster, fear, danger, trauma, book, single mother, nightmare comes true, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, oceania, new zealand
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 7.1
 400K
The Ring (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: It sounded like just another urban legend: A videotape filled with nightmarish images, leading to a phone call foretelling the viewer's death in exactly seven days. As a newspaper reporter, Rachel Keller was naturally skeptical of the story, ...
Style: scary, atmospheric, suspense, creepy, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, ghost, life is a bitch, supernatural horror, death, twists and turns, urban legend, female protagonist, danger, investigation, curse, paranormal phenomena ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: seattle, astoria oregon, washington state, fictional island
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 5.4
 193K
The Nun (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young nun at a cloistered abbey in Romania takes her own life, a priest with a haunted past and a novitiate on the threshold of her final vows are sent by the Vatican to investigate. Together they uncover the order’s unholy secret. Risking ...
Style: scary, demonic, religious horror, suspense, spooky ...
Audience: adult
Plot: supernatural, exorcism, supernatural horror, ghost, nun, demon, paranormal, priest, evil nun, suicide, blood, demonic possession ...
Time: year 1952, 2010s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: romania, rome italy, xian
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A Quiet Place Part II (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Following the events at home, the Abbott family now face the terrors of the outside world. Forced to venture into the unknown, they realize that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, apocalyptic, disturbing ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, teens, adult
Plot: post apocalypse, creature, deaf, monster, alien, survival horror, silence, survival, alien creature, alien invasion, deafness, alien monster ...
Time: near future, future, 2010s, 2020s
Place: usa, new york, atlantic ocean, new york state, america
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Mischief Night (2013)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young Emily Walton, who has suffered from psychosomatic blindness ever since the car accident that took her mother's life, must summon every instinct at her disposal to protect herself and her loved ones from a mysterious intruder
Style: slasher, suspenseful, serious, realistic, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: asthma, halloween, masked man, home alone, home invasion, blindness, masked killer, blind woman, intruder, female protagonist, terror, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.4
 1.2M
The Shining (1980)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jack Torrance accepts a caretaker job at the Overlook Hotel, where he, along with his wife Wendy and their son Danny, must live isolated from the rest of the world for the winter. But they aren't prepared for the madness that lurks within.
Style: psychological, suspense, scary, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: isolation, hotel, insanity, supernatural, psychopath, stephen king, ghost, snow, imaginary friend, danger, evil, haunting ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 80s, 1920s, 70s
Place: colorado, denver colorado, persia, usa, miami ...
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 7.3
 448K
Hereditary (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: After their reclusive grandmother passes away, the Graham family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry. The more they discover, the more they find themselves trying to outrun the sinister fate they seem ...
Style: psychological horror, satanic, psychological, demonic, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dysfunctional family, fear, supernatural horror, supernatural, occult, demon, grief, trauma, seance, ghost, attic, possession ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: utah, america
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The Kirlian Frequency (2017)
Genre: Animation, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 9 min.
TV show
Story: In the midnight hour, a lone DJ broadcasts the strangest - and scariest - tales from the outer edges of Kirlian, a lost city somewhere in Argentina.
Style: suspenseful, enigmatic, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: terror, radio, propaganda, cold war, culture clash, rivalry, danger, escapades, society, storytelling, government, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: argentina
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 7.3
 194K
Poltergeist (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Steve Freeling lives with his wife, Diane, and their three children, Dana, Robbie, and Carol Anne, in Southern California where he sells houses for the company that built the neighborhood. It starts with just a few odd occurrences, such as broken ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: kids, horror for children, adult
Plot: poltergeist, haunted house, supernatural, ghost, psychic, suburban life, suburbs, child in peril, children, parallel world, television, supernatural power ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: california
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 6.5
 111K
Halloween II (1981)
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After failing to kill stubborn survivor Laurie and taking a bullet or six from former psychiatrist Dr. Sam Loomis, Michael Myers has followed Laurie to the Haddonfield Memorial Hospital, where she's been admitted for Myers' attempt on her ...
Style: slasher, bloody, medical horror, perverse, grindhouse ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, hospital, halloween, murder, holiday horror, masked killer, masked villain, stalking, killer, masked man, psycho killer, voyeur ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: illinois, midwest, chicago, usa
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 7.6
 825K
American Psycho (2000)
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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 6.3
 172K
The Visit (2015)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The terrifying story of a brother and sister who are sent to their grandparents' remote Pennsylvania farm for a weeklong trip. Once the children discover that the elderly couple is involved in something deeply disturbing, they see their chances ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, atmospheric, dark ...
Audience: teens, kids, horror for children
Plot: danger, elderly, murder, kids in trouble, siblings relations, found footage, grandmother granddaughter relationship, plot twist, basement, farm, parents and children, child protagonist ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When a cop who is just out of rehab takes the graveyard shift in a city hospital morgue, she faces a series of bizarre, violent events caused by an evil entity in one of the corpses.
Style: scary, demonic, suspense, mystical, satanic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: demonic possession, morgue, corpse, exorcism, demon, hospital, supernatural, terror, fear, police officer, priest, delusion ...
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 6.7
 111K
Run (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Chloe, a teenager who is confined to a wheelchair, is homeschooled by her mother, Diane. Chloe soon becomes suspicious of her mother and begins to suspect that she may be harboring a dark secret.
Style: scary, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, psychological ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: overprotective parent, bad mother, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, woman in a wheelchair, single mother, terror, lie, revenge, female antagonist, disability, teenage life ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington state
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 7.0
 254K
Barbarian (2022)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In town for a job interview, a young woman arrives at her Airbnb late at night only to find that it has been mistakenly double-booked and a strange man is already staying there. Against her better judgement, she decides to stay the night anyway, but ...
Style: psychological horror, scary, suspense, spooky, slasher ...
Audience: adult
Plot: basement, secret passageway, locked in a room, fear, kidnapping, secret room, locked in, psychopath, rape, serial rapist, terror, serial killer ...
Time: 2020s, 80s
Place: detroit, brooklyn new york city, usa
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 5.9
 203K
Hostel (2005)
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
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 7.6
 424K
The Others (2001)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Grace is a religious woman who lives in an old house kept dark because her two children, Anne and Nicholas, have a rare sensitivity to light. When the family begins to suspect the house is haunted, Grace fights to protect her children at any cost in ...
Style: twist ending, surprise ending, scary, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, adult, horror for children
Plot: ghost, haunted house, supernatural, afterlife, plot twist, isolation, supernatural horror, nightmare, mansion, mysterious character, spiritualism, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1945, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: persia, america, europe, english channel, england
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Paranormal Activity (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially ...
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, atmospheric, dark ...
Plot: haunted house, supernatural, fear, paranormal activity, panic, ghost, found footage, demon, supernatural horror, evil force, demonic possession, couples ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: america, los angeles, california, usa, san diego california
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 5.6
 87K
Unfriended (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While video chatting one night, six high school friends receive a Skype message from a classmate who killed herself exactly one year ago. A first they think it's a prank, but when the girl starts revealing the friends' darkest secrets, ...
Style: scary, psychological, suspenseful, teen horror, teen ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen fantasy, teen drama
Plot: bullying, internet, found footage, teenager, suicide, youth, ghost, cyberbullying, computer, social media, revenge, supernatural ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
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 6.0
 108K
The Boy (2016)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A nanny, working for a family whose son has just passed away, finds herself put in charge of caring for a lifelike doll that the couple treat as a real child.
Style: scary, psychological, suspense, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doll, haunted house, supernatural, plot twist, haunted, violence, nanny, mansion, old dark house, macabre, murder, governess ...
Time: year 2016, 18th century, 21st century
Place: england, america, usa
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 6.6
 168K
Hush (2016)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A deaf woman is stalked by a psychotic killer in her secluded home.
Style: slasher, suspense, dark, psychological thriller, scary ...
Audience: date night
Plot: serial killer, trapped, home invasion, deaf, survival, brutality, deafness, violence, macabre, deaf mute, masked killer, writers ...
Time: year 2016, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, california
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Landmine Goes Click (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Georgia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: After an American tourist steps on a landmine, he is forced to watch his girlfriend get assaulted.
Style: realistic, disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, rape, rape and revenge, survival, terror, nudity, regret, friendship, tourist, girlfriend, home invasion, sexual assault ...
Place: eastern europe
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 3.9
 2K
The Forest (1982)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A cannibal hermit living in the woods preys on campers and hikers for his food supply.
Style: suspense, sadistic, slasher, rough, grindhouse ...
Plot: cannibal, cannibalism, murder, eating human flesh, woods, psychopath, terror, violence, serial killer, redneck, survival, sadism ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california
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 7.8
 263K
Misery (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place: colorado, persia, usa, new york
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The Queen of Black Magic (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Families were terrorized at the orphanage. Someone wants them dead, apparently with black magic that is very deadly. She has a grudge and she was also born because of the sins of the orphans who formed her into the queen of black magic.
Style: bloody, suspense, psychotronic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: black magic, terror, ghost, supernatural, revenge, blood, murder, supernatural power, killing, paranormal investigation, victim, supernatural ability ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: indonesia
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 7.5
 651K
A Quiet Place (2018)
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
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