Horror: Prison/Jail/Juvie/House Arrest
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1. The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015)
Not Rated | 102 min | Comedy, Horror
Taking inspiration from The Human Centipede films, the warden of a notorious and troubled prison looks to create a 500-person human centipede as a solution to his problems.
Director: Tom Six | Stars: Dieter Laser, Laurence R. Harvey, Eric Roberts, Robert LaSardo
Votes: 19,749
2. The Task (2011)
R | 94 min | Horror
A group of reality show contestants must survive the night in a haunted jail.
Director: Alex Orwell | Stars: Alexandra Staden, Victor McGuire, Sean McConaghy, Adam Rayner
Votes: 3,706
3. Prison (1987)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
The spirit of a long-dead prisoner returns for revenge, haunting the prison's new governor.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Lane Smith, Viggo Mortensen, Chelsea Field, Lincoln Kilpatrick
Votes: 4,767 | Gross: $0.35M
4. Haunting of Cellblock 11 (2014)
R | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of ghost hunters must up their game to compete in the competitive world of paranormal TV shows, leading them to a truly haunted prison with a grisly past that proves to be more than they bargained for.
Director: Andrew P. Jones | Stars: Jeffrey Johnson, Linara Washington, Charley Koontz, John Zderko
Votes: 846
5. Jeepers Creepers (2001)
R | 90 min | Horror, Mystery
A brother and sister driving home through isolated countryside for spring break encounter a flesh-eating creature which is in the midst of its ritualistic eating spree.
Director: Victor Salva | Stars: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher
Votes: 142,598 | Gross: $37.90M
6. 30 Days of Night (2007)
R | 113 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
Director: David Slade | Stars: Josh Hartnett, Melissa George, Danny Huston, Ben Foster
Votes: 189,470 | Gross: $39.57M
7. The Experiment (2001)
R | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
For two weeks, 20 male participants are hired to play prisoners and guards in a prison. The "prisoners" have to follow seemingly mild rules, and the "guards" are told to retain order without using physical violence.
Director: Oliver Hirschbiegel | Stars: Moritz Bleibtreu, Christian Berkel, Oliver Stokowski, Wotan Wilke Möhring
Votes: 96,103 | Gross: $0.14M
8. The Experiment (2010)
R | 96 min | Drama, Thriller
26 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Director: Paul T. Scheuring | Stars: Adrien Brody, Cam Gigandet, Forest Whitaker, Maggie Grace
Votes: 57,182
9. Stoic (2009)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama
A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
Director: Uwe Boll | Stars: Edward Furlong, Shaun Sipos, Sam Levinson, Steffen Mennekes
Votes: 2,882
10. Wilderness (I) (2006)
R | 93 min | Action, Horror
Juvenile delinquents are sent to a small British island after a fellow prisoner's death, where they have to fight for survival.
Director: M.J. Bassett | Stars: Sean Pertwee, Alex Reid, Toby Kebbell, Stephen Wight
Votes: 10,345
11. The Crazies (2010)
R | 101 min | Horror
After a strange and insecure plane crash, an unusual toxic virus enters a quaint farming town. A young couple are quarantined, but they fight for survival along with help from a couple of people.
Director: Breck Eisner | Stars: Radha Mitchell, Timothy Olyphant, Danielle Panabaker, Joe Anderson
Votes: 128,954 | Gross: $39.12M
12. Hold Your Breath (2012)
R | 87 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of friends on a weekend camping trip find themselves being picked off one by one when one member of the group refuses to abide by the urban myth that you can breathe in evil spirits when passing cemeteries.
Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Katrina Bowden, Randy Wayne, Erin Marie Hogan, Steve Hanks
Votes: 2,124
13. Inside (I) (2012)
Unrated | 85 min | Horror
Locked in a prison cell Milles Berret must face something worse than he could ever imagine. As everyone around him is violently massacred by an in-explainable force Miles must do all he can to get out from INSIDE.
Director: Daryn Tufts | Stars: Luke Goss, Paul Rae, Isaac C. Singleton Jr., Derek Phillips
Votes: 473
14. Last Shift (I) (2014)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery
A rookie cop is tasked with taking the last shift at a police station before it is permanently closed, but it turns into a living nightmare.
Director: Anthony DiBlasi | Stars: Juliana Harkavy, Joshua Mikel, Hank Stone, J. LaRose
Votes: 23,569
15. Shocker (1989)
R | 109 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
After being sent to the electric chair, a serial killer uses electricity to come back from the dead and carry out his vengeance on the football player who turned him in to the police.
Director: Wes Craven | Stars: Michael Murphy, Mitch Pileggi, John Tesh, Heather Langenkamp
Votes: 17,713 | Gross: $16.55M
16. Death Row (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Crime, Horror
A documentary film crew gets trapped in an abandoned prison.
Director: Kevin VanHook | Stars: Jake Busey, Kyle Schmid, Stacy Keach, Claire Coffee
Votes: 737
17. Death Row (2007 Video)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
As eight convicts serve their sentences in a work-release program at a creepy, abandoned prison, an unknown killer stalks them in the darkness. One by one the prisoners are slaughtered in the most brutal ways.
Directors: Eduardo Quiroz, Jose Quiroz | Stars: Joe Estevez, Todd Bridges, Elias Castillo, Chris Angelo
Votes: 608
18. Beyond Re-Animator (2003)
R | 96 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
After 13 years in prison, the mad scientist from Re-Animator (1985) gets a new chance to experiment with the arrival of a young prison doctor, who secretly hopes to learn to reanimate dead people. Good intentions turn to horror.
Director: Brian Yuzna | Stars: Jeffrey Combs, Tommy Dean Musset, Jason Barry, Bárbara Elorrieta
Votes: 13,032
19. Let Us Prey (2014)
Not Rated | 92 min | Horror, Thriller
Held in a remote police station, a mysterious stranger takes over the minds and souls of everyone inside.
Director: Brian O'Malley | Stars: Liam Cunningham, Pollyanna McIntosh, Bryan Larkin, Hanna Stanbridge
Votes: 10,749
20. Boa (2001)
R | 96 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
As a result of a drilling accident, a giant man-eating boa constrictor is released into a maximum security prison in Antarctica.
Director: Phillip J. Roth | Stars: Dean Cain, Elizabeth Lackey, Mark Sheppard, Dean Biasucci
Votes: 1,844
21. Asylum Blackout (I) (2011)
Not Rated | 85 min | Horror, Thriller
A group of cooks at an asylum for the criminally insane get locked in with the inmates during a massive thunderstorm.
Director: Alexandre Courtès | Stars: Rupert Evans, Kenny Doughty, Joseph Kennedy, Dave Legeno
Votes: 5,314
22. Reel Evil (2012)
Not Rated | 78 min | Horror
Struggling filmmakers - Kennedy, Cory and James - finally catch the break they were looking for when they are hired to shoot a 'behind-the-scenes' documentary for a major studio production.... See full summary »
Director: Danny Draven | Stars: Jessica Morris, Kaiwi Lyman, Jeff Adler, Jamie Bernadette
Votes: 766
23. The Stand (1994)
Not Rated | 90 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
After a deadly plague kills most of the world's population, the remaining survivors split into two groups - one led by a benevolent elder and the other by a malevolent being - to face each other in a final battle between good and evil.
Stars: Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwald, Jamey Sheridan, Laura San Giacomo
Votes: 38,424
24. The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1971, twenty-four male students are selected to take on randomly assigned roles of prisoners and guards in a mock prison situated in the basement of the Stanford psychology building.
Director: Kyle Patrick Alvarez | Stars: Ezra Miller, Tye Sheridan, Billy Crudup, Olivia Thirlby
Votes: 46,133 | Gross: $0.64M
25. Silent Retreat (2013)
Not Rated | 84 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Janey is sent to a silent meditation retreat, in the woods, for rehabilitation, only to realize that the men who run it are brainwashing women, and if she breaks the rules, she'll discover what lurks beyond the trees.
Director: Tricia Lee | Stars: Chelsea Jenish, Sofia Banzhaf, Robert Nolan, Jen Pogue
Votes: 900
26. 100 Feet (2008)
R | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
After Marnie Watson kills her abusive husband in self-defense, she is condemned to house arrest... only to discover that the house is possessed by the enraged and violent spirit of her dead husband.
Director: Eric Red | Stars: Famke Janssen, Bobby Cannavale, Ed Westwick, Michael Paré
Votes: 13,195
27. Hatchet III (2013)
R | 81 min | Action, Comedy, Horror
A search and recovery team heads into the haunted swamp to pick up the pieces, and Marybeth learns the secret to ending the voodoo curse that has left Victor Crowley haunting and terrorizing Honey Island Swamp for decades.
Director: BJ McDonnell | Stars: Danielle Harris, Kane Hodder, Zach Galligan, Caroline Williams
Votes: 10,548
28.
Fear Itself (2008–2009)
Episode:
Eater
(2008)
TV-14 | 41 min | Horror
Nothing is as it seems when a rookie cop is assigned to watch over a serial killer known as the "Eater".
Director: Stuart Gordon | Stars: Elisabeth Moss, Russell Hornsby, Stephen Lee, Stephen R. Hart
Votes: 1,053
29. Friday the 13th: A New Beginning (1985)
R | 92 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Still haunted by his past, Tommy Jarvis, who, as a child, killed Jason Voorhees, is sent to a secluded halfway house in the countryside, where the killing of a young man triggers a brutal series of murders in the area.
Director: Danny Steinmann | Stars: Melanie Kinnaman, John Shepherd, Anthony Barrile, Suzanne Bateman
Votes: 43,927 | Gross: $21.93M
30. Desperation (2006 TV Movie)
R | 131 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a sheriff arrests a writer, a family, a couple, and a hitchiker and throws them in a jail cell in the deserted town of Desperation, they must fight for their lives.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Tom Skerritt, Steven Weber, Annabeth Gish, Charles Durning
Votes: 11,768
31. Malefique (2002)
Not Rated | 90 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Four prisoners find an ancient diary in the wall of their cell which might be the key to getting out.
Director: Eric Valette | Stars: Gérald Laroche, Philippe Laudenbach, Clovis Cornillac, Dimitri Rataud
Votes: 4,534
32. Bleed (I) (2016)
TV-MA | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
It seemed perfect - a new house, a new marriage, a child soon to be born. But when Sarah and Matt invite their friends to celebrate, the situation turns deadly as they enter a burned-out prison on a ghost hunt.
Director: Tripp Rhame | Stars: Chelsey Crisp, Riley Smith, Michael Steger, Lyndon Smith
Votes: 1,733
33. Billy Club (2013)
Unrated | 94 min | Comedy, Horror
4 friends who played Little League have reunited to pay tribute to their teammates who were murdered 15 years earlier, only to have a vengeful masked killer with a weaponized baseball bat targeting them.
Directors: Drew Rosas, Nick Sommer | Stars: Marshall Caswell, Erin Hammond, Nick Sommer, Max Williamson
Votes: 499
34. Sharkansas Women's Prison Massacre (2015 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 84 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
When a fracking environmental accident rips apart the earth's crust, the resulting hole lets out prehistoric sharks from underground that target a group of women and trap them in a cabin.
Director: Jim Wynorski | Stars: Dominique Swain, Traci Lords, Christine Nguyen, Cindy Lucas
Votes: 1,450
35. Johnny Frank Garrett's Last Word (2016)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
When a young man is executed for committing murder, he leaves behind a curse letter, promising vengeance for all those connected to his unfair trial.
Director: Simon Rumley | Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Mike Doyle, Erin Cummings, Mike Gassaway
Votes: 1,536
36. Dances with Werewolves
Action, Horror, Western | Announced
Winter, 1864. William Singer and his young brother Henry, along with four other Confederate POWs, escape from a Union prison camp outside Chicago. They seek refuge in the storage car of a ... See full summary »
37. Furnace (2007)
Unrated | 86 min | Crime, Horror, Mystery
Detective Michael Turner investigates mysterious deaths that occur in and around a maximum-security prison. What begins as just another suicide and murder case unfolds into a furious ... See full summary »
Director: William Butler | Stars: Michael Paré, Ja Rule, Jenny McShane, Danny Trejo
Votes: 768
38. Watchers III (1994)
R | 84 min | Sci-Fi, Horror
When a new and dangerous "Outsider" chases an intelligent golden retriever in the South American jungles, Terror grips a team of ex-Military convicts sent to capture the creature.
Director: Jeremy Stanford | Stars: Wings Hauser, Gregory Scott Cummins, Daryl Keith Roach, John Linton
Votes: 858
39. Alien³ (1992)
R | 114 min | Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Returning from LV-426, Ellen Ripley crash-lands on the maximum-security prison Fiorina 161, where she discovers that she has unwittingly brought along an unwelcome visitor.
Director: David Fincher | Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance, Paul McGann
Votes: 319,506 | Gross: $55.47M
40. Fallen Angels (2006)
Not Rated | 82 min | Horror, Thriller
When a turn of the century prison reformatory is slated for demolition, a grisly discovery is made. Hidden deep underground beneath the west cell block is a sub-basement structure that has ... See full summary »
Director: Jeff Thomas | Stars: Michael Dorn, Bill Moseley, Adrianne Curry, Michael Kaliski
Votes: 483
41. The Ruins (2008)
R | 90 min | Adventure, Horror, Thriller
A leisurely Mexican holiday takes a turn for the worse when a group of friends and a fellow tourist embark on a remote archaeological dig in the jungle, where something evil lives among the ruins.
Director: Carter Smith | Stars: Shawn Ashmore, Jena Malone, Jonathan Tucker, Laura Ramsey
Votes: 84,313 | Gross: $17.43M
42. Wrong Turn 4: Bloody Beginnings (2011 Video)
R | 93 min | Adventure, Horror
A group of college students gets lost in a storm during their snowmobiling trip and takes shelter in an abandoned sanitarium which, unbeknown to them, is home to deformed cannibals.
Director: Declan O'Brien | Stars: Sean Skene, Blane Cypurda, Dan Skene, Tristan Carlucci
Votes: 27,995
43. Delirium (I) (2018)
R | 96 min | Horror, Thriller
A man recently released from a mental institute inherits a mansion after his wealthy parents die. After a series of disturbing events, he comes to believe it is haunted.
Director: Dennis Iliadis | Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Genesis Rodriguez, Topher Grace, Callan Mulvey
Votes: 8,492
44. Aftershock (2012)
R | 89 min | Action, Adventure, Horror
In Chile, a group of travelers who are in an underground nightclub when a massive earthquake hits quickly learn that reaching the surface is just the beginning of their nightmare.
Director: Nicolás López | Stars: Eli Roth, Ariel Levy, Nicolás Martínez, Andrea Osvárt
Votes: 12,442 | Gross: $0.04M
45. Open 24 Hours (2018)
R | 102 min | Horror
After setting her serial killer boyfriend on fire, a paranoid delusional woman gets a job at an all-night gas station.
Director: Padraig Reynolds | Stars: Vanessa Grasse, Brendan Fletcher, Emily Tennant, Cole Vigue
Votes: 4,882
46. The Exorcism of Emily Rose (2005)
PG-13 | 119 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A lawyer takes on a negligent homicide case involving a priest who performed an exorcism on a young girl.
Director: Scott Derrickson | Stars: Laura Linney, Tom Wilkinson, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Campbell Scott
Votes: 140,087 | Gross: $75.07M
47. The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
GP | 96 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
An American expatriate in Rome attempts to unmask a serial killer he witnessed in the act of an attempted murder - and is now hunting him and his girlfriend.
Director: Dario Argento | Stars: Tony Musante, Suzy Kendall, Enrico Maria Salerno, Eva Renzi
Votes: 24,101 | Gross: $0.42M
48. Black Sabbath (1963)
Approved | 97 min | Horror
Boris Karloff hosts a trio of horror stories concerning a stalked call girl, a vampire-like monster who preys on his family, and a nurse who is haunted by her ring's rightful owner.
Director: Mario Bava | Stars: Michèle Mercier, Lidia Alfonsi, Boris Karloff, Mark Damon
Votes: 13,914
49. Leatherface (2017)
R | 90 min | Crime, Horror, Thriller
A teenage Leatherface escapes from a mental hospital with three other inmates, kidnapping a young nurse and taking her on a road trip from hell, while being pursued by a lawman out for revenge.
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo, Julien Maury | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Lili Taylor, Sam Strike, Vanessa Grasse
Votes: 27,857
50. Dachra (2018)
114 min | Horror
An investigation into witchcraft leads a trio of journalism students to a mysterious town marked by sinister rituals. Inspired by true events.
Director: Abdelhamid Bouchnak | Stars: Yassmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed, Aziz Jebali, Bilel Slatnia
Votes: 1,798
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