Top Macabre Movies & TV Shows

Cast

David Dastmalchian

Laura Gordon

Ian Bliss

Fayssal Bazzi

Late Night with the Devil (2024)

7.1 2.2K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Australia, United Arab Emirates

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A live broadcast of a late-night talk show in 1977 goes horribly wrong, unleashing evil into the nation's living rooms.

Style: provocative

Plot: new york city, talk show, supernatural, halloween, possession, hallucination, hypnosis, gore, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Edward Norton

Anthony Hopkins

Ralph Fiennes

Emily Watson

Red Dragon (2002)

7.0 4.8K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Country: Germany, Italy

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: Former FBI Agent Will Graham, who was once almost killed by the savage Hannibal 'The Cannibal' Lecter, now has no choice but to face him again, as it seems Lecter is the only one who can help Graham track down a new serial killer.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, psychopath, fbi, murder, serial killer, psychological thriller, cannibal, biting, ...

Cast

William L. Petersen

Tom Noonan

Dennis Farina

Brian Cox

Manhunter (1986)

7.0 1.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: R

Story: FBI Agent Will Graham, retired after catching notorious cannibal Hannibal Lecter, returns to duty to engage in a risky cat-and-mouse game with Lecter to capture a new killer.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: journalist, based on novel or book, loss of loved one, psychopath, fbi, investigation, covered investigation, full moon, ...

Time: 1980s

Cast

Mark Fischbach

Caroline Kaplan

Troy Baker

Elsie Lovelock

Iron Lung (2026)

7.0 333 votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

Story: In a post-apocalyptic future where an event known as "The Quiet Rapture" caused all known stars and habitable planets in the universe to disappear, a convict is sent to search an ocean of blood discovered on a desolate moon, using a small submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung".

Style: claustrophobic, slow burn, intimate, suspenseful, tense, ...

Plot: moon, submarine, expedition, post-apocalyptic future, hallucination, gore, space, underwater, ...

Time: future

Cast

Anjelica Huston

Rau00fal Juliu00e1

Christopher Lloyd

Joan Cusack

Addams Family Values (1993)

7.0 3.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.

Plot: dancing, jealousy, baby, sibling relationship, summer camp, yuppie, butler, nanny, ...

Cast

Graham McTavish

Vanessa Branch

Peter Jessop

Steve Blum

Dante's Inferno: An Animated Epic (2010)

7.0 573 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Animation

Country: United States of America, Japan

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

Style: shocking, philosophical

Plot: based on novel or book, traitor, greed, crusade, hell, heresy, thief, lucifer, ...

Cast

Blake Lively

Justin Baldoni

Jenny Slate

Brandon Sklenar

It Ends with Us (2024)

7.0 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When a woman's first love suddenly reenters her life, her relationship with a charming, but abusive neurosurgeon is upended, and she realizes she must learn to rely on her own strength to make an impossible choice for her future.

Style: satirical, absurd

Plot: based on novel or book, love triangle, abusive father, trauma, florist, flashback, love, domestic abuse, ...

Cast

Jonas Dassler

Margarethe Tiesel

Katja Studt

Martina Eitner-Acheampong

The Golden Glove (2019)

6.9 650 votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror

Country: Germany, France

Duration: 110 min.

Story: A serial killer strikes fear in the hearts of residents of Hamburg during the early 1970s.

Style: shocking

Plot: prostitute, based on novel or book, red-light district, based on true story, alcoholism, serial killer, teenage girl, misogyny, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Rupert Everett

Franu00e7ois Hadji-Lazaro

Anna Falchi

Mickey Knox

Cemetery Man (1994)

6.9 577 votes

Genre: Comedy, Horror

Country: Italy, France

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: R

Story: Francesco Dellamorte is the groundskeeper at a cemetery where the dead just won’t stay dead—and it’s up to him to deal with those who come back to life with a hunger for human flesh. But Dellamorte’s job soon becomes much more complicated when he falls for an enigmatic young woman whose husband has recently died.

Plot: insanity, undead, grim reaper, zombie, macabre, grotesque, euphoric, ominous

Cast

Kim Higelin

Jean-Paul Rouve

Laetitia Casta

u00c9lodie Bouchez

Consent (2023)

6.9 238 votes

Genre: Drama, History

Country: Belgium, France

Duration: 119 min.

Story: In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation: sexual, literary, and psychic, there's more beyond her individual story. She questions the excesses of an era, and the complacency of an environment blinded by talent and celebrity.

Style: shocking

Plot: pedophilia, sexual abuse, based on true story, sodomy, teenage girl, based on memoir or autobiography, older man younger woman relationship, misogyny, ...

Time: 1980s, 2010s

Cast

Anthony Hopkins

Julianne Moore

Gary Oldman

Ray Liotta

Hannibal (2001)

6.8 5.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 131 min.

Audience: R

Story: After having successfully eluded the authorities for years, Hannibal peacefully lives in Italy in disguise as an art scholar. Trouble strikes again when he's discovered leaving a deserving few dead in the process. He returns to America to make contact with now disgraced Agent Clarice Starling, who is suffering the wrath of a malicious FBI rival as well as the media.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: based on novel or book, venice, italy, fbi, manipulation, sequel, serial killer, psychological thriller, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Heather Graham

Ian Holm

Robbie Coltrane

From Hell (2001)

6.7 3.0K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.

Style: absurd

Plot: london, england, loss of loved one, drug addiction, jack the ripper, based on comic, macabre, aggressive, ...

Place: united kingdom

Cast

David Howard Thornton

Lauren LaVera

Elliott Fullam

Sarah Voigt

Terrifier 2 (2022)

6.7 2.5K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A year after the Miles County massacre, Art the Clown is resurrected by a sinister entity. Art returns home, where he must hunt down and destroy teenage Sienna and her younger brother Jonathan on Halloween. As the body count rises, the siblings fight to stay alive while uncovering the true nature of Art's evil intent.

Plot: halloween, clown, gore, resurrection, sequel, slasher, killer, macabre, ...

Cast

Devon Sawa

Ali Larter

Kerr Smith

Kristen Cloke

Final Destination (2000)

6.6 6.8K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.

Plot: airport, time travel, omen, premonition, airplane accident, airplane crash, corpse, death, ...

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984)

6.6 1.5K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A surprise visit from Spock's father provides a startling revelation: McCoy is harboring Spock's living essence.

Plot: spacecraft, friendship, teleportation, genesis, starship, affectation, grave, resurrection, ...

Cast

Haley Bishop

Jemma Moore

Emma Louise Webb

Radina Drandova

Host (2020)

6.6 1.3K votes

Genre: Horror

Country: United Kingdom

Duration: 56 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Six friends hire a medium to hold a séance via Zoom during lockdown — but they get far more than they bargained for as things quickly go wrong. When an evil spirit starts invading their homes, they begin to realise they might not survive the night.

Plot: quarantine, computer, isolation, evil spirit, internet, psychic, internet chat, macabre, ...

Cast

Dan Castellaneta

Nancy Cartwright

Yeardley Smith

Hank Azaria

The Simpsons in Plusaversary (2021)

6.5 437 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 4 min.

Audience: G

Story: The Simpsons host a Disney+ Day party and everyone is on the list… except Homer. With friends from across the service and music fit for a Disney Princess, Plusaversary is Springfield's event of the year.

Style: absurd

Plot: beer, adult animation, macabre, short film, distressing, embarrassed

Cast

Georgina Campbell

James Preston Rogers

Malcolm McDowell

Logan Miller

Psycho Killer (2026)

6.5 159 votes

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery

Country: United States of America, Germany

Duration: 91 min.

Audience: R

Story: Following the brutal murder of her husband, a Kansas highway patrol officer sets out on a journey to track down the perpetrator. As the hunt progresses, she comes to realize the man responsible is a sadistic serial killer, and the depth of his mental depravity and his sinister agenda is more twisted than anyone could have imagined.

Plot: police, cult, cop, murder, priest, serial killer, slasher, church, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Frank Langella

Lena Olin

Emmanuelle Seigner

The Ninth Gate (1999)

6.5 3.4K votes

Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller

Country: Spain, France

Duration: 133 min.

Audience: R

Story: A rare book dealer finds himself at the heart of a string of paranormal events when he is hired to find the last two copies of a text, The Nine Gates of the Kingdom of Shadows, capable of summoning the Devil.

Style: irreverent

Plot: hotel, new york city, suicide, library, obsession, southern france, investigation, antiquary, ...

Place: portugal

Cast

Milla Jovovich

Dave Bautista

Arly Jover

Amara Okereke

In the Lost Lands (2025)

6.4 837 votes

Genre: Action, Fantasy, Western

Country: Germany, Switzerland

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: A queen sends the powerful and feared sorceress Gray Alys to the ghostly wilderness of the Lost Lands in search of a magical power, where she and her guide, the drifter Boyce, must outwit and outfight both man and demon.

Plot: witch, dystopia, sorcery, betrayal, based on short story, macabre, sorceress, high fantasy, ...

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