Best Extreme Horror Movies & Films Subgenre

Top 37 must-see best extreme horror movies from extreme horror movies, including The Substance, Tesis, Tetsuo, The Sadness, The Platform, Excision, Megalomaniac, Alive, Dahmer, and Begotten ranked and rated by score.


Click any of the movies below to see that films' synopsis, plot, cast/actors, directors, full poster, movie trailer, and review.

Extreme Horror Movies List

Showing 1 to 15 from Page 1 of 3

1). The Substance (2024) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

The Substance poster
Score: 7.97/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 314,073 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.9/10 | Metascore: 7.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $17,584,795
Plot / Synopsis: A fading celebrity decides to use a black market drug, a cell-replicating substance that temporarily creates a younger, better version of herself. Tagline: If you follow the instructions, what could go wrong? Demi Moore gives a career best performance as Elisabeth Sparkle, a former A-lister past her prime and suddenly fired from her fitness TV show by repellent studio...

Director: Coralie Fargeat
Stars: Margaret Qualley, Dennis Quaid, Demi Moore, Hugo Diego Garcia, Joseph Balderrama


2). Tesis (1996) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

In-Depth Tesis ReviewTesis poster
Score: 7.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.4/10 | IMDB Votes: 44,740 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Why is death and violence so fascinating? Is it morally correct to show violence in movies? If so, is there a limit to what we should show? That's the subject of ?ngela's examination paper. She is a young student at a film school in Madrid. Together with the student Chema (who is totally obsessed with violent movies) they find...

Director: Alejandro Amenábar
Stars: Ana Torrent, Fele Martínez, Eduardo Noriega, Xabier Elorriaga, Miguel Picazo


3). Tetsuo (1989) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Tetsuo poster
Score: 7.55/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 28,013 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.2/10 | MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Plot / Synopsis: A businessman accidentally kills The Metal Fetishist, who gets his revenge by slowly turning the man into a grotesque hybrid of flesh and rusty metal...

Directors: Shin`ya Tsukamoto, Shin''ya Tsukamoto
Stars: Tomorô Taguchi, Kei Fujiwara, Nobu Kanaoka, Shin`ya Tsukamoto, Shin''ya Tsukamoto


4). The Sadness (2021) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

The Sadness poster
Score: 7.33/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 23,157 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.7/10 | Metascore: 6.8/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: After a year of combating a pandemic with relatively benign symptoms, a frustrated nation finally lets its guard down. This is when the virus spontaneously mutates, giving rise to a mind-altering plague. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact the most cruel and ghastly things they can think of. Murder, torture, r*pe...

Director: Rob Jabbaz
Stars: Regina, Ying-Ru Chen, Tzu-Chiang Wang, Ralf Chiu, Berant Zhu


5). The Platform (2019) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

The Platform (2019) ReviewThe Platform poster
Score: 7.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 7.0/10 | IMDB Votes: 311,634 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.1/10 | Metascore: 7.3/10 | MPAA Rating: TV-MA
The Platform is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: A mysterious place, an indescribable prison, a deep hole. An unknown number of levels. Two inmates living on each level. A descending platform containing food for all of them. An inhuman fight for survival, but also an opportunity for solidarity...

Director: Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
Stars: Ivan Massagué, Zorion Eguileor, Antonia San Juan, Emilio Buale, Alexandra Masangkay


6). Excision (2012) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Excision poster
Score: 7.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.1/10 | IMDB Votes: 25,851 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.5/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: A disturbed and delusional high school student with aspirations of a career in medicine goes to extremes to earn the approval of her controlling mother. Tagline: Heal the sickness...

Director: Richard Bates Jr.
Stars: AnnaLynne McCord, Roger Bart, Ariel Winter, Traci Lords, Matthew Gray Gubler


7). Megalomaniac (2022) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Megalomaniac poster
Score: 6.9/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.5/10 | IMDB Votes: 1,368 | Rotten Tomatoes: 8.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Martha and Félix are the children of the Butcher of Mons, a notorious Belgian serial killer from the 1990s. Unstable and riddled with insecurities, Martha lives vicariously through social media. Her brother, crushed by the family legacy, takes over their father's killings. Harassed and violently assaulted at work, the docile Martha falls into madness and goes through the looking...

Director: Karim Ouelhaj
Stars: Eline Schumacher, Wim Willaert, Benjamin Ramon, Pierre Nisse, RaphAËlle Lubansu


8). Alive (2020) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

What We Thought of AliveAlive poster
Score: 6.9/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.3/10 | IMDB Votes: 52,331 | MPAA Rating: TV-MA
Alive is Streaming on Netflix
Plot / Synopsis: Without warning, people in the streets of Seoul become extremely violent, cannibalistic, attacking passersby, behaving like zombies. A young man alone in his parents' 4th floor apartment becomes spectator to all this. There're no groceries left in the apartment. He foolishly opens the door and a neighbor forces himself in. He's infected but is finally forced out. TV informs...

Director: Il Cho
Stars: Ah-In Yoo, Park Shin-Hye, Bae-soo Jeon, Hyun-Wook Lee, Hye-Won Oh


9). Dahmer (2002) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Dahmer poster
Score: 6.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 12,141 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.3/10 | Metascore: 6.3/10 | MPAA Rating: R | Gross: $144,008
Plot / Synopsis: Biopic about notorious American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer, taking place in both the past and the present. Tagline: The mind is a place of its own...

Director: David Jacobson
Stars: Jeremy Renner, Bruce Davison, Artel Great, Matt Newton, Dionysio Basco


10). Begotten (1989) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Begotten poster
Score: 6.3/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.6/10 | IMDB Votes: 12,333 | Rotten Tomatoes: 7.0/10 | MPAA Rating: Unrated
Plot / Synopsis: God disembowels himself with a straight razor. The spirit-like Mother Earth emerges, venturing into a bleak, barren landscape. Twitching and cowering, the Son Of Earth is set upon by faceless cannibals...

Director: E. Elias Merhige
Stars: Brian Salzberg, Donna Dempsey, Stephen Charles Barry, James Gandia, Daniel Harkins


11). Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom poster
Rotten Tomatoes: 7.0/10 | MPAA Rating: 0
Plot / Synopsis: Nazi-Fascist Northern Italy, 1943-44. Four senior members of government, aided by henchmen and N*zi soldiers, kidnap a group of young men and women. They hold them for 120 days, subjecting them to all manner of torture, perversion and degradation. Tagline: Banned in Australia for 17 years - Now for the first time Australian audiences have the opportunity to judge...

Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini
Stars: Paolo Bonacelli, Giorgio Cataldi, Umberto Paolo Quintavalle, Aldo Valletti, Caterina Boratto


13). American Mary (2012) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Detailed Review: American Mary (2012)American Mary poster
Score: 5.76/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.2/10 | IMDB Votes: 30,002 | Rotten Tomatoes: 6.1/10 | Metascore: 4.6/10 | MPAA Rating: R
American Mary is Streaming on Tubi
Plot / Synopsis: Xlrator Media will release this Jen Soska and Sylvia Soska (Twisted Twins) follow-up to their indie hit "Dead Hooker in a Trunk". American Mary stars Katharine Isabelle as Mary who is an American student who is running out of money fast. Easy money sends her into the underground surgery world where Mary soon starts to become more demented than her...

Directors: Jen Soska, Sylvia Soska
Stars: Katharine Isabelle, Antonio Cupo, Tristan Risk, David Lovgren, Paula Lindberg


14). Kimyo na sakasu (2005) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Kimyo na sakasu poster
Score: 5.61/10 | IMDB Rating: 6.9/10 | IMDB Votes: 6,602 | MPAA Rating: Unrated
Plot / Synopsis: The er***c novelist Taeko is writing a morbid story of a family destroyed by incest, murder and abuse. Her assistant, Yuji, sets on a mission to uncover the reality of this story, but the reality might be too much to bear...

Director: Sion Sono
Stars: Masumi Miyazaki, Issei Ishida, Rie Kuwana, Seiko Iwaidô, Fujiko


15). Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie (2004) (Movie Info + Poster + Trailer)

Tales of Terror from Tokyo and All Over Japan: The Movie poster
Score: 5.4/10 | IMDB Rating: 5.7/10 | IMDB Votes: 435 | MPAA Rating: R
Plot / Synopsis: Based on stories collected throughout Japan by writers Hirokatsu Kihara and Ichiro Nakayama, and japanese horror TV show: "Kaidan Shin Mimibukuro". It compiled eight stories by seven directors: "Yakei no hôkokusho" ("The Night Watchman"), "Zan'en" ("Wisps of Smoke"), "Tebukuro" ("Gloves"), "Omoi~tsu!" ("The Weight"), "Sugatami" ("Full-Length Mirror"), "Shisen" ("Line of Sight"), "Yakusoku" ("The Promise") and "Hisao"...

Directors: Keita Amemiya, Shun`ichi Hirano, Ryûta Miyake …
Stars: Naoto Takenaka, Yasufumi Hayashi, Kazunari Shigesawa, Satoshi Ôgida, Daisuke Shima


Showing 1 to 15 from Page 1 of 3

Click Here to request a movie added to this "Extreme Horror" movies list