Highest-Rated Movies about 'Evil'

The Evil Dead (1981), The Innocents (1961), The Dead Center (2018), Marianne (2019), The Witch (2015), Kiss of Evil (1963), Graves End (2005), The Silence of the Lambs (1991) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Evil movies.

#2. The Innocents (1961)

  • Rating: 9.5/10
  • Length: 100 mins
  • Genre: Horror
  • Director: Jack Clayton

Storyline: Based on the Henry James story "The Turn of the Screw," a psychological thriller about a woman who takes a governess job for two orphans in a Victorian home. She begins to see what she believes are ghosts and suspects the children's bizarre behavior is the result of supernatural powers.

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, gothic, haunted house, supernatural, black and white, british film ...

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#5. The Witch (2015)

  • Rating: 9.0/10
  • Length: 92 mins
  • Genre: Drama, Horror, History, Mystery, Thriller
  • Director: Robert Eggers

Storyline: In 1630 New England, panic and despair envelops a farmer, his wife and their children when youngest son Samuel suddenly vanishes. The family blames Thomasin, the oldest daughter who was watching the boy at the time of his disappearance. With suspicion and paranoia mounting, twin siblings Mercy and Jonas suspect Thomasin of witchcraft, testing the clan's faith, loyalty and love to one another.

Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, historical, supernatural, family tragedy, psychological horror, folklore ...

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#7. Graves End (2005)

  • Rating: 8.8/10
  • Length: 90 mins
  • Genre: Mystery, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
  • Director: James Marlowe

Storyline: In Graves End, the four year-old son of the wealthy financier Tag Graves is kidnapped and the criminals demand a ransom of six million dollars. FBI agent Paul Rickman is assigned to the case that ends with the cruel death of the child and the disappearance of the requested amount. The kidnapper Luke Devilyn is arrested but is released after his trial due to fails in the evidences. He returns to Graves End, a place where the 666 dwellers welcome ex-cons rejected by other towns. When Luke Devilyn is found dead in the woods nearby the town, agent Rickman notes that the criminals that move to Graves End simply vanish, and he returns to the town for further investigation. He meets Sheriff Hooper and recognizes him from a case of bad temper and attitude with great repercussion in the past. Meanwhile, the psychopath Billy also comes to the town leaving a trail of blood behind.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, ghosts, revenge, murder, mystery ...

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#8. The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

  • Rating: 8.6/10
  • Length: 1h 58min
  • Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
  • Director: Jonathan Demme

Storyline: F.B.I. trainee Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster) works hard to advance her career, while trying to hide or put behind her West Virginia roots, of which if some knew, would automatically classify her as being backward or white trash. After graduation, she aspires to work in the agency's Behavioral Science Unit under the leadership of Jack Crawford (Scott Glenn). While she is still a trainee, Crawford asks her to question Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Sir Anthony Hopkins), a psychiatrist imprisoned, thus far, for eight years in maximum security isolation for being a serial killer who cannibalized his victims. Clarice is able to figure out the assignment is to pick Lecter's brains to help them solve another serial murder case, that of someone coined by the media as "Buffalo Bill" (Ted Levine), who has so far killed five victims, all located in the eastern U.S., all young women, who are slightly overweight (especially around the hips), all who were drowned in natural bodies of water, and all who ...

Plot Keywords: thriller, crime, psychological, suspense, horror, serial killer, fbi ...

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#9. The Night Stalker (1971)

  • Rating: 8.6/10
  • Length: 75 mins
  • Genre: Horror
  • Director: John Llewellyn Moxey

Storyline: After several high-profile newspapers fire him for his difficult attitude, investigative journalist Carl Kolchak (Darren McGavin) finds a job following the police beat for a small Las Vegas publication. When Carl discovers a series of dead showgirls drained of blood with bite marks on their necks, the police hesitate to take the case any further, and his boss (Simon Oakland) wants nothing to do with the story, leading Carl to believe there may be a real vampire prowling the city streets.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, crime, mystery, vampire, supernatural, serial killer ...

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#10. The Grim Reaper (1962)

  • Rating: 8.6/10
  • Length: 94 mins
  • Genre: Drama
  • Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Storyline: Roman police detectives interrogate a series of potential perpetrators in their struggle to determine whom to arrest for the brutal murder of a beautiful prostitute whose body is discovered in a park on the day of a torrential rainstorm. One by one, the prime suspects -- girl-crazy teenager Nino (Giancarlo De Rosa), pickpocket Canticchia (Francesco Ruiu), a soldier on leave, a tourist and a pimp -- recount the events of the day to the police, each insisting he is innocent.

Plot Keywords: horror, thriller, supernatural, death, curse, mystery, dark ...

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#12. The Shining (1980)

  • Rating: 8.4/10
  • Length: 2h 26min
  • Genre: Horror, Drama
  • Director: Stanley Kubrick

Storyline: Signing a contract, Jack Torrance, a normal writer and former teacher agrees to take care of a hotel which has a long, violent past that puts everyone in the hotel in a nervous situation. While Jack slowly gets more violent and angry of his life, his son, Danny, tries to use a special talent, the "Shining", to inform the people outside about whatever that is going on in the hotel.

Plot Keywords: horror, psychological thriller, supernatural, isolation, madness, hotel, writer ...

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