Lovecraftian/Cosmic Horror Movies, a list by Slander2328

8.5

/1050883/

83

/33745/

81

/15889/

4.2

/1656240/

93

/207/

94

/22400/

89

/34/

4.0

age 15+

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.

82

7.9

/22464/

76

/523/

77

/433/

4.2

/50771/

91

/46/

89

/336/

Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.

81

8.2

/72907/

78

/1242/

75

/304/

3.7

/41217/

87

/30/

95

/170/

India, 1918. On the outskirts of Tumbbad, a cursed village where it always rains, Vinayak, along with his mother and his brother, care of a mysterious old woman who keeps the secret of an ancestral treasure that Vinayak gets obsessed with.

79

7.2

/54867/

72

/2219/

73

/1256/

4.0

/408710/

86

/43/

76

/414/

75

/10/

4.0

A young woman left her family for an unspecified reason. The husband determines to find out the truth and starts following his wife. At first, he suspects that a man is involved. But gradually, he finds out more and more strange behaviors and bizarre incidents that indicate something more than a possessed love affair.

78

8.2

/518090/

81

/15609/

80

/7636/

4.3

/1151259/

85

/92/

92

/9671/

57

/13/

2.5

age 17+

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims.

78

7.7

/194244/

75

/6539/

75

/3370/

4.0

/409297/

88

/84/

89

/8053/

72

/18/

3.0

Ash Williams and his girlfriend Linda find a log cabin in the woods with a voice recording from an archeologist who had recorded himself reciting ancient chants from "The Book of the Dead." As they play the recording an evil power is unleashed taking over Linda's body.

NEW

77

7.5

/25235/

75

/1399/

74

/523/

4.0

/55225/

82

/305/

MAL

7.7

/54646/

A freighter crew responds to a distress call from a station run by an AI opera diva. The AI manipulates life support, VR, and nanosystems, posing dangers the crew must overcome to survive.

77

6.8

/19870/

67

/1375/

68

/517/

3.8

/141074/

92

/92/

69

/112/

80

/14/

4.0

A figure known as "The Assassin" descends from the heavens into a nightmarish pit full of monsters, titans, and cruelty.

77

7.4

/296421/

72

/11371/

75

/5357/

4.0

/1416425/

90

/397/

72

/413/

83

/51/

3.0

age 16+

Two lighthouse keepers try to maintain their sanity while living on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1890s.

76

7.1

/77672/

72

/2526/

70

/1621/

3.8

/169610/

90

/127/

82

/2048/

73

/14/

3.0

Conducting clandestine experiments within the morgue at Miskatonic University, scientist Herbert West reveals to a fellow graduate student his groundbreaking work concerning the re-animation of fresh corpses.

76

6.8

/384649/

70

/18758/

70

/7858/

3.6

/2122416/

93

/553/

61

/5322/

81

/56/

4.0

age 16+

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.

75

7.3

/248719/

72

/8522/

73

/4325/

3.6

/529046/

85

/86/

84

/9049/

71

/11/

age 16+

In 1979, a group of college students find a Sumerian Book of the Dead in an old wilderness cabin they've rented for a weekend getaway.

75

IMDb 88

7.3

/682419/

74

/34351/

72

/19983/

3.5

/2491726/

85

/391/

84

/6100/

69

/49/

3.0

age 15+

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.

74

6.8

/310777/

68

/16272/

68

/4654/

3.7

/1949398/

83

/479/

69

/3550/

77

/64/

3.5

age 16+

Residents in a lonely gulch of inland California bear witness to an uncanny, chilling discovery.

74

6.8

/389246/

68

/24597/

64

/9137/

3.6

/881757/

88

/333/

67

/3047/

79

/51/

3.5

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

77

74

7.1

/9542/

68

/297/

69

/172/

3.5

/7514/

100

/6/

85

/398/

A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.

74

6.8

/295296/

67

/13367/

65

/6750/

3.4

/790140/

95

/271/

66

/4380/

83

/37/

3.5

age 17+

A young woman is followed by an unknown supernatural force after a sexual encounter.

73

5.8

/42635/

60

/3111/

60

/603/

3.5

/726866/

85

/235/

71

/15/

86

/48/

4.0

age 13+

Teenager Owen is just trying to make it through life in the suburbs when his classmate Maddy introduces him to a mysterious TV show — a vision of a supernatural world beneath their own. In the pale glow of the television, Owen’s view of reality begins to crack.

73

6.5

/55757/

67

/3978/

63

/1231/

3.3

/85038/

91

/127/

67

/389/

80

/22/

3.5

Two brothers return to the cult they fled from years ago to discover that the group's beliefs may be more sane than they once thought.

73

7.0

/485219/

72

/19292/

66

/8319/

3.4

/822629/

92

/291/

74

/13124/

72

/40/

3.0

age 17+

Five friends set out for a weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, expecting nothing more than fun and relaxation. As night falls, they discover that something far more unsettling is at work and that nothing about their getaway is what it seems.

72

6.5

/97819/

64

/5149/

62

/2069/

3.6

/281903/

91

/253/

68

/830/

83

/30/

3.0

age 18+

The Shadow Mountains, 1983. Red and Mandy lead a loving and peaceful existence; but when their pine-scented haven is savagely destroyed, Red is catapulted into a phantasmagoric journey filled with bloody vengeance and laced with fire.

72

6.9

/41851/

68

/1310/

67

/724/

3.7

/68572/

86

/51/

71

/883/

58

/13/

3.5

A research scientist explores the boundaries and frontiers of consciousness. Using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic mixtures from native American shamans, he explores these altered states of consciousness and finds that memory, time, and perhaps reality itself are states of mind.

71

6.5

/164210/

67

/8388/

69

/3470/

3.1

/759191/

85

/241/

76

/1253/

69

/38/

3.0

age 17+

A reunion between two estranged sisters gets cut short by the rise of flesh-possessing demons, thrusting them into a primal battle for survival as they face the most nightmarish version of family imaginable.

71

6.8

/161219/

70

/13302/

68

/4583/

3.2

/362451/

86

/108/

72

/683/

65

/20/

3.0

age 17+

Father and son coroners receive a mysterious unidentified corpse with no apparent cause of death. As they attempt to examine the "Jane Doe," they discover increasingly bizarre clues that hold the key to her terrifying secrets.

71

6.1

/63795/

63

/4812/

61

/1608/

3.2

/148462/

86

/213/

82

/21/

70

/28/

3.5

age 16+

The Gardner family moves to a remote farmstead in rural New England to escape the hustle of the 21st century. They are busy adapting to their new life when a meteorite crashes into their front yard, melts into the earth, and infects both the land and the properties of space-time with a strange, otherworldly colour. To their horror, the family discovers this alien force is gradually mutating every life form that it touches—including them.

71

6.8

/112609/

69

/3924/

68

/2095/

3.6

/121916/

77

/75/

69

/1962/

70

/29/

3.0

A game designer on the run from assassins must play her latest virtual reality creation with a marketing trainee to determine if the game has been damaged.

73

70

6.9

/12159/

66

/252/

67

/206/

3.6

/14806/

78

/18/

79

/171/

85

/5/

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aboriginal people in a ritualised taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing truths about himself and premonitions.

69

7.4

/206441/

75

/6991/

72

/3399/

3.7

/295728/

68

/91/

87

/11662/

59

/32/

2.0

age 16+

Ash, a handsome, shotgun-toting, chainsaw-armed department store clerk, is time warped backwards into England's Dark Ages, where he romances a beauty and faces legions of the undead.

69

6.4

/21368/

66

/1263/

63

/434/

3.4

/25830/

81

/16/

65

/189/

80

/5/

A man imprisons his estranged junkie friend in an isolated cabin in the boonies of San Diego to force him through a week of sobriety, but the events of that week are being mysteriously manipulated.

69

6.7

/33533/

68

/1704/

66

/754/

3.5

/35263/

85

/59/

71

/285/

70

/13/

2.5

A young man in a personal tailspin flees the US to Italy, where he sparks up a romance with a woman harboring a dark, primordial secret.

69

6.5

/311976/

65

/9712/

64

/5250/

3.3

/857435/

86

/175/

57

/16475/

80

/33/

age 16+

In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

69

7.0

/440774/

69

/14650/

67

/7557/

3.4

/412552/

78

/214/

68

/59399/

64

/37/

3.0

age 14+

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 surreal, horrifying event of their lives.

70

68

7.2

/6215/

71

/347/

70

/182/

3.5

/9262/

The two remaining crew members of a mining operation in the Arctic Circle fight to survive against an alien creature.

68

6.5

/52791/

64

/3065/

63

/993/

3.6

/197895/

94

/226/

59

/16/

72

/28/

2.5

age 18+

Tasya Vos, an elite corporate assassin, uses brain-implant technology to take control of other people’s bodies to terminate high profile targets. As she sinks deeper into her latest assignment, Vos becomes trapped inside a mind that threatens to obliterate her.

68

5.9

/7984/

57

/392/

59

/218/

3.3

/12355/

83

/65/

45

/51/

77

/19/

4.0

age 16+

11-year-old Nicolas lives with his mother in a seaside housing estate. The only place that ever sees any activity is the hospital. It is there that all the boys from the village are forced to undergo strange medical trials that attempt to disrupt the phases of evolution.

68

6.2

/14926/

63

/517/

62

/283/

3.5

/32208/

86

/73/

58

/197/

73

/19/

3.0

age 16+

During the Civil War in 17th-Century England, a small group of deserters flee from a raging battle through an overgrown field. They are captured by an alchemist, who forces the group to aid him in his search to find a hidden treasure that he believes is buried in the field. Crossing a vast mushroom circle, which provides their first meal, the group quickly descend into a chaos of arguments, fighting and paranoia, and, as it becomes clear that the treasure might be something other than gold, they slowly become victim to the terrifying energies trapped inside the field.

68

6.6

/30433/

66

/1168/

67

/629/

3.7

/147421/

76

/54/

60

/811/

68

/21/

In the immense city of Tokyo, the darkness of the afterlife lures some of its inhabitants who are desperately trying to escape the sadness and isolation of the modern world.

68

6.5

/29357/

65

/1498/

67

/766/

3.1

/82073/

83

/12/

68

/104/

Police commissioner Funes and three researchers of supernatural phenomena investigate inexplicable events that are occurring in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.

68

6.2

/24839/

65

/1867/

62

/520/

3.3

/36213/

91

/44/

62

/189/

71

/6/

A determined young woman and a damaged occultist risk their lives and souls to perform a dangerous ritual that will grant them what they want.

68

7.1

/369492/

71

/11880/

69

/5641/

3.4

/421899/

74

/152/

65

/23167/

58

/29/

age 16+

After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that the mist conceals deadly horrors that threaten their lives, and worse, their sanity.

67

6.7

/158155/

71

/13641/

76

/3311/

2.9

/419165/

62

/149/

74

/1212/

57

/29/

3.0

age 14+

Two highly trained operatives grow close from a distance after being sent to guard opposite sides of a mysterious gorge. When an evil below emerges, they must work together to survive what lies within.

67

7.1

/259603/

71

/10312/

68

/5060/

3.3

/235848/

61

/41/

76

/4467/

61

/12/

A group of strangers find themselves trapped in a maze-like prison. It soon becomes clear that each of them possesses the peculiar skills necessary to escape, if they don't wind up dead first.

67

6.4

/340901/

67

/27907/

61

/9183/

3.1

/490730/

65

/408/

55

/4259/

65

/52/

4.0

age 15+

The crew of the colony ship Covenant, bound for a remote planet on the far side of the galaxy, discovers what they think is an uncharted paradise but is actually a dark, dangerous world.

67

6.2

/45423/

64

/3641/

63

/1043/

3.0

/59614/

79

/160/

76

/49/

64

/23/

3.0

age 15+

Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.

75

67

7.0

/4349/

66

/109/

64

/98/

3.7

/9164/

100

/8/

80

/88/

A blind sculptor kidnaps an artists' model and imprisons her in his warehouse studio – a shadowland of perverse monuments to the female form. Here a deranged passion play of sensual and sexual obsession is acted out in world where sight is replaced by touch.

67

6.4

/49211/

64

/1724/

62

/842/

3.4

/70413/

79

/98/

58

/987/

67

/22/

3.0

age 17+

Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.

66

5.8

/7750/

60

/564/

55

/128/

3.1

/25466/

97

/66/

56

/82/

70

/9/

3.0

A teen and her mother live simply in a home in the woods, spending their time making rock music. A chance encounter with a fellow teen causes her to uncover a connection between her family and witchcraft, which causes a rift with her mother.

66

6.0

/72314/

60

/3865/

61

/965/

3.1

/399013/

87

/237/

52

/146/

72

/46/