20 Best Horror Movies Starting With K

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Horror movies have been a popular genre in the film industry since their inception due to their appeal to fear, suspense, and the mysterious. They explore beyond the horizon of possibilities and go as low as the moral of a human being can get.

Now, out of the countless horror movies that have shaped and influenced the history of cinematograph, those that begun with the “K” possess the unique and quite a colorful charm. Be it demonic clowns or evil spirits, each of these movies presents separate storyline that is a part of a vast hedron of horrors.

It makes us enter lives where what once seemed normal is now a horror, where the everyday is terrifying, and where hope is often a bald thread. Let us follow step by step through these “K” horror movies, all of which prove the effectiveness of horror genre in scaring and stimulating the audiences’ imagination.

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20 Best Bloodcurdling Horror Movies Starting with K

1. The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

Genre: Psychological Horror, Drama
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Barry Keoghan
Runtime: 121 minutes
IMDb Rating: 7.0/10

Synopsis: A psychologically arresting horror film, The Killing of a Sacred Deer tells a story about a successful surgeon Steven who, one day, meets a teenage boy Martin. However, as things become intimate between them, a dark and deadly curse that is out to kill Steven’s family is inherited.

As a work of art, the use of graphics and lighting as well as dialogue presents guilt, sacrifice and the outcome of sin as an effect of previous actions in the course of the film.

2. Krampus (2015)

Genre: Horror, Comedy
Director: Michael Dougherty
Cast: Adam Scott, Toni Collette, David Koechner
Runtime: 98 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.2/10

Synopsis: It is a horror film with elements of black humor that gets to viewers as it navigates around the representatives of a family during the Christmas time. In the film, Max, who has lost his holiday spirit , stumbles across the ancient demon Krampus who punishes people who are no longer in the holiday spirit. This is followed by a gory survival between the family and Krampus along with the other evil Christmas creatures.

3. The Killer Shrews (1959)

Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Ray Kellogg
Cast: James Best, Ingrid Goude, Ken Curtis
Runtime: 69 minutes
IMDb Rating: 3.8/10

Synopsis: This is a 1957 fil B Sci-Fi horror in which a bunch of travelers stranded in a Pacific island are terrorized by oversized shrews that resulted from an experiment. When the monstrous shrews appear, the survivors must plot how to flee the island and avoid being the shrews’ food.

4. Killer Party (1986)

Genre: Horror, Comedy
Director: William Fruet
Cast: Martin Hewitt, Ralph Seymour, Elaine Wilkes
Runtime: 91 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.0/10

Synopsis: The film “Killer Party ” revolves around a group of college students who decide to have a party in a fraternity house they later discover is haunted. Towards the evening they start to notice the house really is populated with evil spirits with a purpose of revenge. The movie includes the typical features of a slasher picture but is quite silly and therefore belongs to the kitschy subgenre of horror films.

5. The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)

Genre: Thriller, Horror
Director: Luigi Cozzi
Cast: George Hilton, Antoine Saint-John, Femi Benussi
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10

Synopsis: A tight-knit and thrilling movie, “The Killer Must Kill Again” revolves around the life of a rich man who contracts the services of a killer to execute his cheating wife. However the twist begins when the hitwomen decides on moving on to her next target and blackmails the husband. When the tension rises, the movie raises such questions as betrayal, avarice, and the retribution of evil deeds outcomes.

6. Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)

Genre: Horror, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Director: Stephen Chiodo
Cast: Grant Cramer, Suzanne Snyder, John Allen Nelson
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.1/10

Synopsis: ”Killer Klowns from Outer Space” is a horror-comedy movie, where the extraterrestrial characters are clown-like creatures that attack a town. The clowns utilize ridiculous and lethal circus equipment and gadgets to abduct and/or kill their prey. In the meantime, the inhabitants of the town fight for their lives and the movie provides both the sense of horror, outrageous comedy, and splendid concept of the creatures’ appearance.

7. Killer Nun (1979)

Genre: Horror, Mystery
Director: Giulio Berruti
Cast: Anita Ekberg, Joe Dallesandro, Alida Valli
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.8/10

Synopsis: An Italian film, ‘Killer Nun’ takes place in a convent, seeing as it deals with the life of a nun – Sister Gertrude – who develops a morphine addiction following a surgery. Despite her condition getting worse, she starts a string of brutal killings within the convent. Here, some ideas that were depicted in the film are religious oppression, mental disorder, and the interconnection between spirituality and insanity.

8. Killer Tomatoes Strike Back (1991)

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: John De Bello
Cast: Debi Fares, Rick Rockwell, John Witherspoon
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDb Rating: 3.8/10

Synopsis: In this comedy film which is the follow-up to the “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,” the tomatoes are back again, and this time, they plan to get back at humankind. There is a group of high stimulating characters, and only they can save the world from the tomatoes. Indeed the movie can be best described as a low-grade comedy with some unintentional comedies in the form of low-quality special effects which is loved by the lovers of B-movies.

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9. Killer Tomatoes Eat France (1992)

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: John De Bello
Cast: Marc Price, Angela Visser, Steve Lundquist
Runtime: 94 minutes
IMDb Rating: 3.5/10

Synopsis: Like the previous films of this series, this movie focuses on killing tomatoes but this time the action was shifted to France. A team of agents from different parts of the world who ends up in the United States to take on the malicious tomatoes creates a comedy. The film does not shy away from using an obvious and ridiculous plot and excessive jokes.

10. Killer Tomatoes Strike Again (1996)

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: John De Bello
Cast: Debi Fares, John Witherspoon, Steve Lundquist
Runtime: 87 minutes
IMDb Rating: 3.5/10

Synopsis: It being the fourth video in the series and properly titled Killer Tomatoes from the original title, the genetically mutated tomatoes are back again and this round they parody action movies. A group of superheroes has to stop a destruction caused by tomatoes using the not so conventional tools. The movie fully accepts it as a camp movie and provides the laughs along with replay value of killer fruits.

11. Killer Tomatoes Kill Again (2002)

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: John De Bello
Cast: Marc Price, Steve Lundquist, Debi Fares
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDb Rating: 3.2/10

Synopsis: The story of killer tomatoes go on in the sequel of the movie known as “Killer Tomatoes Kill Again” where the tomatoes are back again. This installment is similar to the previous one and the show parodies spy and action films, and the tomatoes cunningly devise even more outrageous and ridiculous ways of threatening the world. The world is again threatened by the rampaging killer produce and a group of eclectic individuals have to step forward to fight again using their brains and comedy tactics.

12. Killer’s Moon (1978)

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Alan Birkinshaw
Cast: Anthony Forrest, Tom Marshall, Georgina Kean
Runtime: 90 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.2/10

Synopsis: ”Killer’s Moon” is a novel of psychological horror and thriller that is based on the subject of English country. A group of young girls and their teachers are marooned in an isolated hotel by the bus driver who is part of the group of four former mental patients; the actions of the latter are unpredictable after they received an experimental drug that eliminates all their fears. Which creates suspense because the characters must try to outsmart the psycho killers during the night of sheer horror and escape.

13. Killer’s Kiss (1955)

Genre: Film-Noir, Thriller
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Cast: Frank Silvera, Irene Kane, Jamie Smith
Runtime: 67 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.6/10

Synopsis: ‘Killer’s Kiss’ is a film-noir-thriller made by Stanley Kubrick. The plot is focused on the middle-aged boxer by the name Davey Gordon and a nightclub dancer, Gloria Price whom Gordon saves from her employer’s brutality. While following the fate of Davey and Gloria who try to free themselves from the man who is only eager to revenge on them, the film covers such topics as desperation, affection, and brutality in the Universe of New York.

14. Killing Ground (2016)

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Damien Power
Cast: Harriet Dyer, Ian Meadows, Aaron Pedersen
Runtime: 88 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.8/10

Synopsis: ‘Killing Ground’ is an Australian survival horror film, that centers around the Australian outback. During their camping trip two lovers find an abandoned camp and a crying child and soon they realize that horror is closer than they thought.

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In this process, they meet of two violent men involved in the cruelty of the incident. Also, its nontraditional story and, even more, the uninterrupted suspense make the audience worried while the couple struggles for their lives against the ruthless killers.

15. Killing Zoe (1993)

Genre: Crime, Thriller
Director: Roger Avary
Cast: Eric Stoltz, Julie Delpy, Jean-Hugues Anglade
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10

Synopsis: Killing Zoe is a black crime film, the plot of this movie which revolves around Zed – a skilled safecracker who travels to Paris to hold up a bank with his friend Eric. An affair with a beautiful prostitute, Zoe whom Zed comes across becomes a stumbling-block to the entire heist, which is worsened by Eric’s unstable character and his growing drug problem.

The setting and violent action of the film effectively portray the aftermath of the heist and the characters’ breaking down or becoming feral, while some of the ideas in the original film concerned with trust, treason, and making it in the brutal world are also seen here as well.

16. Killer Condom (1996)

Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: Martin Walz
Cast: Udo Samel, Peter Lohmeyer, Iris Berben
Runtime: 107 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.3/10

Synopsis: ‘Killer Condom is a horror-comedy however it has satire undertone and the story is based in New York. To be more stable, the film revolves around a story about a detective Luigi Mackeroni who is investigating a number of savage assaults where people are attacked by masques that are in a form of terrible, carnivorous condoms.

The pursuit of Mackeroni and all the incidents that happen around him are a form of black comedy and horror enriched with various political connotations referring to the conspiracy that lies behind the fatal condoms.

The movie explores the vein of sexual desire and, primarily, fear, which is presented in the Gustave’s and Marguerite’s story within the framework of extravagantly mannered and over-the-top story.

17. The Killing Room (2009)

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Jonathan Liebesman
Cast: Chloë Sevigny, Timothy Hutton, Nick Cannon
Runtime: 93 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.6/10

Synopsis: The called movie “The Killing Room” can be characterized as a psychological horror-thriller that tells the story of several individuals, who agreed to take part in an unknown psychologic test. They begin to see that they are plots in a deadly experiment that the government is carrying out where the subjects have to choose between the options where lives are put at risk.

The conflict is thus raised to the climax as they deal with the challenges of enduring the experiment and getting to the bottom of it. As for the themes, the film raises such topics as manipulation, behavior of people, and immoral actions when it comes to the survival.

18. The Killing Gene (2007)

Genre: Horror, Crime, Thriller
Director: Tom Shankland
Cast: Stellan Skarsgård, Melissa George, Ashley Walters
Runtime: 100 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.7/10

Synopsis: Coined as “WΔZ,” “The Killing Gene” is a gritty crime drama that revolves around the protagonist detective Eddie Argo and his newly-assigned partner, Helen Westcott, who enters the story as a witness with a psychological disorder to a series of brutal killings.

It is the victim’s face with a mathematical equation branded into their skin that directs the detectives into a realm of torture and agony. Its primary motifs include revenge, evilness, and ethics of the characters, being law enforcers as well as the criminals.

19. The Keep (1983)

Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Scott Glenn, Ian McKellen, Alberta Watson
Runtime: 96 minutes
IMDb Rating: 5.7/10

Synopsis: The movie Keep is a supernatural horror film in the period of the WW2. A unit of Nazis takes over a castle in Romania and releases a supernatural being that was imprisoned there.

While the soldiers suffer the consequences of the entity’s rage, a Jewish historian and a stranger hiding his identity, must embark on a mission to prevent the ancient threat. The historical and horror genre of the film demonstrates the nature of power and evilness and the fight between the two forces.

20. Kidnapped (2010)

Genre: Horror, Thriller
Director: Miguel Ángel Vivas
Cast: Fernando Cayo, Ana Wagener, Manuela Vellés
Runtime: 85 minutes
IMDb Rating: 6.5/10

Synopsis: “Kidnapped” is a home invasion movie in which the script depicts a real-life event of the violent attack where the members of a wealthy family are kidnapped in their own house. The nature of the shooting with the real time progression and prolonged, continuous scenes, only adds to the feature’s sense of confinement and urgency.

When the family members are being threatened and dominated they become powerless to do anything in front of their captors and are forced to succumb to whatever the captors want; the powerlessness and helplessness become two huge forums in the movie. This means that it is always tense, and at times chilling and unsavory to watch.

Last Thoughts

And so, as we wrap up our tour of the horror movies that began with a ‘K’, we aren’t merely telling narratives of fear – but pondering the feelings, too. Such films help to emphasize that fear is present in every person’s life, and it is always exciting to confront it in cinema.

They compel us to face our phobias, to identify with characters’ suffering, and to seek comfort in people’s ability to endure. From the psychological horror of “The Killing of a Sacred Deer” to the Italian black comedy “Killer Klowns from Outer Space,” and intense kidnapping drama of “Kidnapped,” the films permanently etch themselves in one’s mind.

Above all, horror films are not only those watching spooks, but those tales that linger in memories, the ones that make us shiver at night and inspire our creative minds. Thus, with the lights turned off and only the darkness left, these cinematic nightmares are said goodbye, but their grim tales will certainly remain the source of the nightmarish fascination for those who love the darkness for many a year to come. You may watch these movies on Netflix.

FAQs

Q: What’s a movie that starts with K?

There are many great horror movies that start with K! Here are a few examples:

Krampus (2015)
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988)
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
Kairo (2001)
Kuroneko (1968)

Q: What is the #1 horror movie?

There’s no single “best” horror movie as taste is subjective. However, some highly-rated horror films include:

The Exorcist (1973)
The Shining (1980)
Psycho (1960)
Hereditary (2018)
Get Out (2017)

Q: What horror movie starts with S?

Here are some horror movies that start with S:

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Scream (1996)
Sinister (2012)
Shaun of the Dead (2004) (comedy horror)
The Shining (1980)

Q: What horror movies start with O?

Here are some horror movies that start with O:

The Omen (1976)
The Others (2001)
Oculus (2013)
Orphan (2009)
Open Water (2003)

Q: What is the 1st scariest movie?

This is difficult to answer definitively as fear is subjective. However, some early horror films like Nosferatu (1922) or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) were considered very scary for their time.

Q: What is the scariest movie known?

Again, this depends on individual preferences. Some films consistently rank high on “scariest movie” lists, including:

The Exorcist (1973)
Sinister (2012)
Hereditary (2018)
Noroi: The Curse (2005) (Japanese horror)
Audition (1999) (Japanese horror)

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