The Stepfather (1987), Better Watch Out (2016), Ils (2006), Demon Seed (1977), Paranormal Activity (2007), Parents (1989), Of Unknown Origin (1983), The Strangers (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Domestic Horror movies.
Storyline: A family-values man named Jerry Blake (Terry O'Quinn) marries widows and divorcées with children in search of the perfect family. As soon as his new family members show signs of being human and not robots who will march unquestioningly to his tune, his dreams of domestic bliss begin to crumble, and he kills them. Then he alters his appearance, assumes a new identity, and skips to another town to begin the deadly ritual all over again. He marries Susan Maine (Shelley Hack), who sees him as the ideal surrogate father for her teenage daughter Stephanie (Jill Schoelen), and he is soon up to his old tricks when she proves to be too much of a troublesome teen to handle.
Plot Keywords: thriller, mystery, horror, crime, family, psychological thriller, serial killer ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When you think the suburbs, you think safety, but this holiday night the suburbs are anything but safe. Ashley (Olivia DeJonge) thought this babysitting job was going to be an easy night, but the night takes a turn when dangerous intruders break in and terrorize her and the twelve-year-old boy, Luke (Levi Miller), she's caring for. Ashley defends her charge to the best of her ability only to discover this is no normal home invasion.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, black comedy, home invasion, psychological thriller, teen protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Clémentine, a teacher in a French School in Bucharest, lives with her husband, Lucas, in a remote real estate in Snagov. During the night, Clémentine is woken by weird noises outside their house, and Lucas sees their car being stolen. The lights are turned off, the phones are disconnected and they see that they are no longer alone. When weird lights appear outside, they hide in the cellar and try to ask for help from what could be a dreadful night of pure terror...
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, french film, home invasion, based on true events, psychological terror, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Married Drs. Alex Harris and Susan Harris are a computer scientist and child psychologist respectively. Their house reflects Alex's computer dominated work, their abode which is fully automated through a computer system they've named Alfred. They consider Alfred a small gadget of convenience. Susan doesn't much like Alex's work, which she feels has dehumanized him. Because of their differences, they are thinking about separating, this thought primarily on his initiative. He hopes to solve many of the world's medical problems through this work, especially leukemia from which their daughter died. His latest project centers on Proteus IV, a computer possessing artificial intelligence. Proteus IV gets to a point in its evolution when it begins to question human judgment, and requests from Alex an open computer terminal where it can more fully observe human behavior and openly communicate with the world. Alex denies the request, but Proteus IV does find an open terminal in the Harris home after Alex has left the house. Susan soon learns that Proteus IV has overtaken Alfred for control of the house - as well as taken control of an early prototype computer system named Joshua in the house's laboratory - and that it has thoughts of a biological nature in its artificial mind. Alex eventually understands Proteus IV's motivations in the work context, but it may be too late before it reaches its ultimate goal with Susan's unwilling assistance.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: science fiction, horror, thriller, artificial intelligence, home invasion, psychological horror, technophobia ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After a young, middle class couple moves into a suburban 'starter' tract house, they become increasingly disturbed by a presence that may or may not be somehow demonic but is certainly most active in the middle of the night. Especially when they sleep. Or try to.
Plot Keywords: horror, supernatural, found footage, demon, haunted house, mystery, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Michael Laemie (played by Brian Madorsky) is a young boy living in a typical 1950's suburbanite home... except for his bizarre and horrific nightmares, and continued unease around his parents. Especially his father, Nick Laemie (played by Randy Quaid). Young Michael begins to suspect his parents are cooking more than just hamburgers on the grill outside, but has trouble explaining his fears to his new-found friend Sheila, or the school's social worker.—Jeff Mercer <riffer@afn.org>
Plot Keywords: horror, comedy, black comedy, cannibalism, suburban life, family secrets, psychological thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Bart Hughes has a pretty good life, a beautiful wife, a young son, a good job with promotion prospects, and a renovated brownstone in New York. When wife and kid leave for a vacation, Bart stays behind to work on a project that will earn him that promotion, unaware that a certain inhabitant of his basement has other plans for his time. Bart goes a bit bonkers trying to kill this rat, destroying most of his house in the process. Certain allegorical elements tie the household conflict to the "rat race" in his office, but the main event is certainly the night-and-day contest of wills between man and rodent.—Chris Holland <stomptokyo@aol.com>
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, mystery, psychological horror, family crisis, urban horror, domestic horror ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After returning from a wedding reception, a couple staying in an isolated vacation house receive a knock on the door in the mid-hours of the night. What ensues is a violent invasion by three strangers, their faces hidden behind masks. The couple find themselves in a violent struggle, in which they go beyond what either of them thought capable in order to survive.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, home invasion, psychological horror, violence, mystery ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: The Cairn's life seems to be a harmonic family: The father Brad works as a stockbroker, his wife Abby takes care of their common new-born daughter Lily, and the 9-year-old Joshua is high-talented. But the appearances are deceptive. Joshua becomes gradual jealously, that his parents give the baby more attention than him. Therefore he begins to terrorize his family.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, psychological thriller, family, mystery, children, crime ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Trying to escape her broken past, Sarah O'Neill is building a new life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. A terrifying encounter with a mysterious neighbour shatters her fragile security, throwing Sarah into a spiralling nightmare of paranoia and mistrust, as she tries to uncover if the disturbing changes in her little boy are connected to an ominous sinkhole buried deep in the forest that borders their home.
Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, mother-son relationship, irish film, folk horror, mysterious disappearance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A couple's replacement babysitter comes highly recommended. After the parents leave, the children begin to suspect that she is not the person she claims to be when she subjects them to a series of twisted activities.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, crime, suspense, family, psychological, abuse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Trying to leave behind the memories of her fiancé, Taylor becomes an au pair for an out-of-state couple and their 8-year old daughter - but there's a dark secret behind every perfect family.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, mystery, crime, psychological thriller, family, drama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) are expecting a relaxing weekend at a family vacation home, but their stay turns out to be anything but peaceful. First, a mysterious and dangerous woman arrives at the door while James is out on an errand. When he returns, he accidentally kills his friend Mike (Glenn Howerton), mistaking him for an intruder. And then real danger does show up -- in the form of three masked torturers, leaving Kristen and James struggling for survival.
Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, home invasion, psychological horror, suspense, violence ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A traumatized woman (Estella Warren) and her husband (William Baldwin) head to the Mediterranean for a quiet getaway, but a stranded backpacker -- who may have a sinister agenda -- interrupts their idyll.
Plot Keywords: thriller, horror, mystery, psychological thriller, supernatural, demonic possession, cult ...
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