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Movies: Best Horror Movies

Horror is a film genre that seeks to elicit fear or disgust in its audience for entertainment purposes. Horror films often explore dark subject matter and may deal with transgressive topics or themes. Broad elements include monsters, apocalyptic events, and religious or folk beliefs. Horror films have existed for more than a century. Early inspirations from before the development of film include folklore, religious beliefs and superstitions of different cultures, and the Gothic and horror literature of authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Bram Stoker, and Mary Shelley. From origins in silent films and German Expressionism, horror only became a codified genre after the release of Dracula (1931). Many sub-genres emerged in subsequent decades, including body horror, comedy horror, slasher films, splatter films, supernatural horror and psychological horror. The genre has been produced worldwide, varying in content and style between regions. Horror is particularly prominent in the cinema of Japan, Korea, Italy and Thailand, among other countries. Despite being the subject of social and legal controversy due to their subject matter, some horror films and franchises have seen major commercial success, influenced society and spawned several popular culture icons. ()

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It(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 15min | Horror, Fantasy
3.6/5 (with 8,887 votes)

In a small town in Maine, seven children known as The Losers Club come face to face with life problems, bullies and a monster that takes the shape of a clown called Pennywise.

Get Out(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
3.8/5 (with 8,133 votes)

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 progresses, a series of increasingly disturbing discoveries lead him to a truth that he never could have imagined.

Split(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Horror, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 7,981 votes)

Though Kevin has evidenced 23 personalities to his trusted psychiatrist, Dr. Fletcher, there remains one still submerged who is set to materialize and dominate all the others. Compelled to abduct three teenage girls led by the willful, observant Casey, Kevin reaches a war for survival among all of those contained within him — as well as everyone around him — as the walls between his compartments shatter apart.

The Shining(1980)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 24min | Horror, Thriller
4.1/5 (with 7,965 votes)

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.

World War Z(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Action, Drama, Horror, Science Fiction, Thriller
3.4/5 (with 7,271 votes)

Life for former United Nations investigator Gerry Lane and his family seems content. Suddenly, the world is plagued by a mysterious infection turning whole human populations into rampaging mindless zombies. After barely escaping the chaos, Lane is persuaded to go on a mission to investigate this disease. What follows is a perilous trek around the world where Lane must brave horrific dangers and long odds to find answers before human civilization falls.

Black Swan(2010)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 48min | Drama, Thriller, Horror
3.8/5 (with 6,560 votes)

A journey through the psyche of a young ballerina whose starring role as the duplicitous swan queen turns out to be a part for which she becomes frighteningly perfect.

Alien(1979)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 57min | Horror, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 6,482 votes)

During its return to the earth, commercial spaceship Nostromo intercepts a distress signal from a distant planet. When a three-member team of the crew discovers a chamber containing thousands of eggs on the planet, a creature inside one of the eggs attacks an explorer. The entire crew is unaware of the impending nightmare set to descend upon them when the alien parasite planted inside its unfortunate host is birthed.

A Quiet Place(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 31min | Horror, Drama, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 6,298 votes)

A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.

Zombieland(2009)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 28min | Comedy, Horror
3.6/5 (with 5,654 votes)

Columbus has made a habit of running from what scares him. Tallahassee doesn't have fears. If he did, he'd kick their ever-living ass. In a world overrun by zombies, these two are perfectly evolved survivors. But now, they're about to stare down the most terrifying prospect of all: each other.

The Conjuring(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 52min | Horror, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 5,178 votes)

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.

Jaws(1975)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 4min | Horror, Thriller, Adventure
3.8/5 (with 4,828 votes)

When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.

Psycho(1960)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 49min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
4.2/5 (with 4,703 votes)

When larcenous real estate clerk Marion Crane goes on the lam with a wad of cash and hopes of starting a new life, she ends up at the notorious Bates Motel, where manager Norman Bates cares for his housebound mother.

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Saw(2004)

FSK: 18+ years
| 1h 43min | Horror, Mystery, Crime
3.7/5 (with 3,979 votes)

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 die trying...

Annihilation(2018)

3.2/5 (with 3,852 votes)

A biologist signs up for a dangerous, secret expedition into a mysterious zone where the laws of nature don't apply.

It Chapter Two(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 49min | Horror, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 3,851 votes)

27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

The Purge(2013)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 26min | Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 3,840 votes)

Given the country's overcrowded prisons, the U.S. government begins to allow 12-hour periods of time in which all illegal activity is legal. During one of these free-for-alls, a family must protect themselves from a home invasion.

Alien: Covenant(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Science Fiction, Horror, Mystery
3.0/5 (with 3,773 votes)

Bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, the crew of the colony ship 'Covenant' discovers what is thought to be an uncharted paradise, but is actually a dark, dangerous world—which has a sole inhabitant: the 'synthetic', David, survivor of the doomed Prometheus expedition.

The Conjuring 2(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 14min | Horror, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 3,756 votes)

Lorraine and Ed Warren travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Shaun of the Dead(2004)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Horror, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 3,750 votes)

Shaun lives a supremely uneventful life, which revolves around his girlfriend, his mother, and, above all, his local pub. This gentle routine is threatened when the dead return to life and make strenuous attempts to snack on ordinary Londoners.

10 Cloverfield Lane(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 3,717 votes)

After getting in a car accident, a woman is held in a shelter with two men, who claim the outside world is affected by a widespread chemical attack.

The Cabin in the Woods(2012)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 35min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 3,683 votes)

Five friends go for a break at a remote cabin, where they get more than they bargained for, discovering the truth behind the cabin in the woods.

The Meg(2018)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 53min | Action, Science Fiction, Horror
3.1/5 (with 3,570 votes)

A deep sea submersible pilot revisits his past fears in the Mariana Trench, and accidentally unleashes the seventy foot ancestor of the Great White Shark believed to be extinct.

The Exorcist(1973)

FSK: 18+ years
| 2h 2min | Horror
3.9/5 (with 3,444 votes)

12-year-old Regan MacNeil begins to adapt an explicit new personality as strange events befall the local area of Georgetown. Her mother becomes torn between science and superstition in a desperate bid to save her daughter, and ultimately turns to her last hope: Father Damien Karras, a troubled priest who is struggling with his own faith.

Don't Breathe(2016)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 29min | Thriller, Horror
3.5/5 (with 3,363 votes)

A group of teens break into a blind man's home thinking they'll get away with the perfect crime. They're wrong.

Directed by Fede Álvarez - With Jane Levy, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto, Stephen Lang, Jane May Graves

Life(2017)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 44min | Horror, Science Fiction, Mystery, Thriller
3.2/5 (with 3,287 votes)

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.

Train to Busan(2016)

3.9/5 (with 3,265 votes)

When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.

Directed by Yeon Sang-ho - With Gong Yoo, Kim Su-an, Jung Yu-mi, Ma Dong-seok, Choi Woo-shik, Sohee, ...

The Mummy(2017)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 50min | Fantasy, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Horror
2.8/5 (with 3,252 votes)

Though safely entombed in a crypt deep beneath the unforgiving desert, an ancient queen whose destiny was unjustly taken from her is awakened in our current day, bringing with her malevolence grown over millennia, and terrors that defy human comprehension.

Us(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 56min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 3,238 votes)

Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

Hereditary(2018)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 7min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
3.6/5 (with 3,238 votes)

When Ellen, the matriarch of the Graham family, passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.

Midsommar(2019)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 28min | Horror, Drama, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 3,167 votes)

Several friends travel to Sweden to study as anthropologists a summer festival that is held every ninety years in the remote hometown of one of them. What begins as a dream vacation in a place where the sun never sets, gradually turns into a dark nightmare as the mysterious inhabitants invite them to participate in their disturbing festive activities.

Directed by Ari Aster - With Jack Reynor, Florence Pugh, Will Poulter, William Jackson Harper, Vilhelm Blomgren, Archie Madekwe, ...
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