20+ Best Horror Movies that Start with D (2024)

Calling all horror enthusiasts! Are your prepared to join us in exploring cold movie flicks starting with the letter D? This list of horrors is a frighteningly great choice for both the experienced horror enthusiast and the aficionado to be.

It’s time to roll up the sit-cozy blanket and let’s take a journey through a wide selection of movies that includes classic horror films such as paralyzing psychological thrillers and spine-chilling creature features.

Get ready to face crazy murderers, spirits with a score to settle, and evil creatures from the hereafter. First and foremost, we will look at the plots of both movies and discuss their genres.

Then, it will be our pleasure to present to you the eerie casts and crews of these horrifying flicks. Turn off the lights, take your popcorn if you can stand it and sit tight as we take you through the list of the most lovable horror movies that begin with D.

List of Horror Movies that Start with D: Top Horror Films

Here is the list of horror films that start with D

1. Dawn of the Dead (2004) – Horror, Action

• Director: Zack Snyder
• Cast: Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, Tyrese Gibson
• Runtime: 113 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.3

Synopsis: A woman named Sarah becomes a nurse and works with other people who survived the apocalypse and took shelter in a besieged shopping center. They have to deal with actions and feelings associated with the attempts to find the place to feed, water, and protect themselves from the infected; actions and feelings connected with distrust and fear of the other members of the group.

The concept and themes of the film include the nature of human beings and their ability to survive during the outbreak of a deadly disease that disrupts societies’ social bonds.

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2. The Descent (2005)

• Genre: Horror, Thriller
• Director: Neil Marshall
• Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Dan Fogler, Alex Reid
• Runtime: 100 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.3

Synopsis: This is a story of several women who dare to undertake a cave exploring trip in the Appalachian region.

Having got in the mine when the cave in occurs they have to survive in horrific network of tunnels filled with creeps adapted for living in the dark. They have to kill in order to survive and they are hunting in not only the caves but also their souls and their faith.

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3. The Devil’s Backbone (2001) Gothic Fantasy, Horror

• Director: Guillermo del Toro
• Cast: Marisa Paredes, Fernando Tielve, Eduardo Noriega, Federico Luppi
• Runtime: 105 min
• IMDb Rating: 8.0

Synopsis: The movie is based in a backdrop of Spanish civil war; it portrays Carlos, a child, who is admitted to a remote and restrictive boarding school. The orphanage is mysterious as strange things have been happening in the place following rumors of the ghost.

Carlos gains a friend in a fellow orphan who proceeds to tell the tale of a Republican soldier that perished on the compound and now roams around the orphanage as a vengeful spirit. The film offers the viewers a very timely and universal themes of loss, childhood, and the inhumanity of war in the surreal and picturesque scenery.

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4. Dog Soldiers (2002) – Action, Horror, Comedy

• Director: Neil Marshall
• Cast: Sean Pertwee, Liam Cunningham, Kevin McKidd, Darren Boyd
• Runtime: 100 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.0

Synopsis: A team of British soldiers in a manoeuvre exercise restrain in the Scottish moorlands wake up to find themselves combat with ferocious werewolves.

This judgment is well deserved as the characters get stranded and start becoming the prey of the creatures around them and in order to stay alive they have to use all of their creativity and intelligence. It is an intense, violent and to some extent bloody horror comedy film that does not shy from slap stick comedy.

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5. Don’t Breathe (2016) – Horror, Thriller

• Director: Fede Alvarez
• Cast: Jane Levy, Stephen Lang, Dylan Minnette, Daniel Zovatto
• Runtime: 88 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.4

Synopsis: There are three young boys in Detroit spearheading a robbery expedition in search of money, at the house of a blind war veteran known to be rich.

Touted as a mere robbery mission, the situation spirals into horror when the experienced will not yield easily but struggles to fight back. They are confined inside a house and are required to outsmart and out run a psychotic and merciless killer who has sharper senses compared to them.

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6. Day of the Dead (1985) Horror

• Director: George A. Romero
• Cast: Lori Cardille, John Amplas, Terry Alexander, Sherman Howard
• Runtime: 102 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.1

Synopsis: The story is situated several years after Night of The Living Dead and is about the evolution of zombies into intelligent beings.

Small group of scientists and soldiers try to survive, and find the cure for the zombie virus in the underground military bunker while a struggle for the leaders’ position happens and zombies are evolving.

On the social level, the audience is able to witness commentaries on war, politics, and human condition as they face an unstoppable apocalypse.

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7. Deadstream (2020) – Horror, Comedy

• Director: Vanessa Flanagan, Joseph Winter
• Cast: Joseph Winter, Janine Burke, Melanie Stone, Rokiah Khasarna
• Runtime: 88 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.2

Synopsis: This film is a reboot of the 2012 horror movie of the same title: A YouTuber who lost his popularity wants to become famous again and organizes a live broadcast in an abandoned building where people claim to have witnessed paranormal phenomena.

However, it turns out the building was unsuitable for living, and the danger he expects are far greater than he thought. Many of them appear as intriguing anomalies and, at times, the author comes across what may be actual spirits or demons, his viewers become more engrossed with the broadcasts, eradicating the line between the live stream and performance.

What makes the film is not only comedic horror: it has taken the situation with the influencer Bake and the desire for attention as a subject for satire.

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8. Deliver Us from Evil (2014) – Horror, Thriller

• Director: Scott Derrickson
• Cast: Eric Bana, Edgar Ramírez, Olivia Munn, Sean Harris
• Runtime: 118 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.0

Synopsis: An ex-military man working as a police officer in New York, struggling with memories of his past, works alongside with the priest, who specializes in cases connected with demonic possession. Together they end up in a nerve-shredding case of a family troubled by an evil spirit.

The deeper they get into it, they are met with a force that seems to have the potential of swallowing them both. The viewers open the film with seeing the film’s major motifs concerning faith and doubt, and the conflict of the spiritual forces in a contemporary metropolis.

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9. The Devil Rides Out (1968) – Supernatural Thriller

• Director: Terence Fisher
• Cast: Christopher Lee, Charles Gray, Nicol Williamson, Leon Greene
• Runtime: 91 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.8

Synopsis: Two scholars of occultism work on a case of a satanic ceremony to be conducted by a couple of businesspersons. The children are exposed to devil worships and black magical practices and they have to apply what they learned and fear they have gained to save themselves and stop the most gruesome of all sacrifices.

The presented movie is a sixties flick where Christopher Lee portrays yet another formidable adversary to the powers of evil.

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1 0. Demons (1985) – Horror

• Director: Lamberto Bava
• Cast: Nathalie Boltt, Urbano Barberini, Fiore Argento, Francesca Ricci
• Runtime: 90 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.3

Synopsis: Teenagers go to a birthday party in a gloomy Berlin based house. Nevertheless, the party gets even worse when Costello discovers a mask in the basement, which releases a demon that recreates one of the guests.

The movie is a quintessential 80s Italian horror film that goes straight for the kill through rapid shots and free-wheeling special effects and creature concept.

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11. The Devil’s Rejects (2005) – Horror, Crime

• Director: Rob Zombie
• Cast: Sheri Moon Zombie, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Matthew McGrory
• Runtime: 101 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.2

This is a horror movie that came after House of 1000 Corpses and this movie focuses on the Firefly family; a group of serial killing family who are on the run from the police.

As they kill anyone who gets in their way across the country, they are being chased by an experienced sheriff and a vengeful bounty hunter.

The movie is a violent, rough and twisted vision of the evil in man that is interspersed with black comedy and the exploitation style sensibilities.

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12. Dead Snow (2009) – Horror, Comedy

• Director: Tommy Wirkola
• Cast: Vegar Hoel, Stig Henrik Hoff, Frode Andresen, Ingrid Bolsø Berdal
• Runtime: 87 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.8

Synopsis: Seems like a team of medical students during their skiing holiday in the Norwegian sceneries turns to be on the menu of Nazis’ prototype of the living dead. While struggling to survive they have to face the flesh eating undead soldiers along with the freezing climate.

It turns out that served with horror and, at times, even black humor, the film effectively uses sequences of violent actions as well as a snowy environment.

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13. Dead Silence (2007) – Horror

• Director: James Wan
• Cast: Ryan Kwanten, Amber Valletta, Donnie Wahlberg, Joan Henrickson
• Runtime: 91 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.2

Synopsis: Once a happy young man loses his wife, the latter dies in rather mysterious circumstances, so the young man goes to his wife’s village to reveal the truth.

He quickly learns the tale of a local man whose horror at the town’s past inspires a murderous ventriloquist dummy that has the power to kill anyone daring to say the dummy’s name.

When he investigates further into the incidents of the town, he spirals into its mystery and becomes a part of a vicious cycle of deadly curse and is about to become its next victim, thus he must end the silence.

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14. Death Becomes Her (1992) – Dark Comedy, Horror

• Director: Robert Zemeckis
• Cast: Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis, Isabella Rossellini
• Runtime: 104 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.6

Synopsis: It is a story of two celebrities, both actresses, Madeline and Helen shifting focus between a man and a recently discovered elixir for eternal youth. He comes across a potion where he finds out that he can make Madeline young again and this idea sparks interest in Helen and she wants to have it.

This movie could be characterized as a black comedy in relation to Hollywood clichés, narcissism, and what human being is ready to do for the sake of beauty.

However, Rowan Joffé has filmed an intense, black comedy in which obsession and jealousy are shown somewhat in a farcical light, while the story of a man who corrects nature is basically horrifying.

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15. The Deadly Spawn (1983) – Science Fiction Horror

• Director: Douglas Hickox
• Cast: Kevin Connor, Barbara Carrera, Robert Vaughn, Richard Libertini
• Runtime: 93 min
• IMDb Rating: 4.7

Synopsis: An attempt by the government to dispose toxic waste goes wrong in a big way creating a monster that wreaks havoc on a sleepy fishing village.

The marine biologist as well as the local sheriff are forced to join forces in order to stop the creature before it destroys all that lies in its path.

Compared to other films in the same genre, this film is closer to science fiction with elements of horror and contains scenes of a creature and a storyline that focuses on the interfacing with the risks of conducting experiments.

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16. The Dunwich Horror (1970) –  Psychological Horror

• Director: Daniel Haller
• Cast: Sandra Dee, Dean Stockwell, Ed Begley Jr., Warren Oates
• Runtime: 90 min
• IMDb Rating: 5.3

Synopsis: A set of professors go to a small town of Massachusetts to study a book which is believed to be dangerous, containing information, which must not be revealed to anyone. They encounter a family with a dark unknown and a frightening being referred to as the Dunwich Horror.

The movie is more of a psychological horror, based more on suspense than horror and has a significantly built up on the theme of dread. It is concerned with such topics as sin, occultism, and the more sinister side of the rural region.

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17. Drag Me to Hell (2009) – Horror

• Director: Sam Raimi
• Cast: Alison Lohman, Justin Long, Lorna Raver, Dileep Rao
• Runtime: 96 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.3

Synopsis: Loan officer Christine who is in it for the promotion commits a big mistake when she rejects a loan application from an elderly woman who turns out to be a witch. The woman brings hell on Christine and sends her to the eternal fire with the help of a demonic force. Poor Christine who has to defy it in three days or else she will be escorted to the underworld with the rest of the spirits.

The film is a ‘B’ rated horror comedy with handed over the megaphone to Sam Raimi with elements of black humor and practical monsters.

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18. Dead Alive (1992) – Comedy Horror

• Director: Peter Jackson
• Cast: Timothy Balme, Diana Kent, Ian Athfield, Benito Roberti
• Runtime: 101 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.4

Synopsis: This is one of the most bizarre cult movies of all times, directed by Peter Jackson, who hails from New Zealand; the main character, Lionel Cosgrove, is a timid, mama’s boy, who transforms his overprotective mother into a zombie that feasts on Sumatran rat monkey brains.

As zombies start to overrun Lionel’s city, he now has to ensure that he kills his undead mother and other zombies before they get to him. The film is a black comedy slaphappy gore movie with vigorous and unorthodox rare deadly effects.

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19. Dead Ringers (1988) – Psychological Horror

• Director: David Cronenberg
• Cast: Jeremy Irons (dual role), Geneviève Bujold, Heidi Von Zerneck, Shirley Douglas
• Runtime: 120 min
• IMDb Rating: 7.3

Twin brothers Elliot and Beverly Mantle are involved in gynecology, their business, their obscene profits, and it even appears that they share their mistresses. Nevertheless, there develops a raw bond between them as they both become more and more dependent on drugs and the characters become more and more dissolute.

Their business careers are at risk, while their personal lives gradually turn into a play of passion, jealousy, and gradual self-destruction. The movie is effectively a psychoanalysis of the human persona in relation to controllable vices as well as the interpersonal interactions between people.

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20. The Devil’s Advocate (1997) – Supernatural Thriller

• Director: Taylor Hackford
• Cast: Keanu Reeves, Al Pacino, Charlize Theron, Connie Nielsen
• Runtime: 144 min
• IMDb Rating: 6.7

Synopsis: Kevin Lomax is a hard working but rather greedy Florida lawyer who gets the chance of a lifetime at one of New York’s more influential law firms which is owned by the mysterious John Milton. However, Kevin soon learns all the firm and it’s clients have skeletons in their closet, and Milton could actually be an imposter.

As Kevin gets tied up more and more with different peculiar and cruel cases, it becomes harder to discern between the world of the living and the world of the dead. There is a focus on such elements as greed, lust and the cost of attaining one’s goal being conveyed in the movie, with some demonic overtones.

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21. Diabolique (1955) – Psychological Thriller, Suspense

• Director: Henri-Georges Clouzot
• Cast: Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Charles Vanel, Paulo Afonso
• Runtime: 105 min
• IMDb Rating: 8.0

Synopsis: Two psychotic degaga girls of a remoted school for juvenile delinquents, and a tyrant headmistress and a downtrodden teacher, plot together to kill the headmistress. Living only for revenge, they have an impressive plan, which, however, fails because the body disappears and the spirit of the headmistress begins to wander around the school.

The movie is a well-made suspenseful movie of the thriller kind with the principle motifs of revenge, guilt, and post-traumatic stress disorder represented to the full.

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Last Thoughts

Well, that wraps it up for our spot aurally fun examination of horror films beginning with the letter D! Starting from the psychological horror of “Dead Ringers” up to the dark secrets of “Diabolique,” this varied list provided the audiences with a glimpse of what this brutality has to offer.

We hope that this list can help assist in finding a horror movie for your next horror movie night. Of course, to fully appreciate these flicks, one must watch them in the dark with the volume turned up loud. Well, get your bravest pals, decide what you will drunkenly watch from our selected list, and be scared in style! However, the caveat: Some of these movies never really leave like that movie that, no matter how hard you try to forget, keeps playing in your head. Happy haunting! You may watch these movies on Netflix.

FAQs

Q: What is the top 1 horror movie?

Horror films are not definitive, meaning there is no close-end product that can be considered the best from the rest of the whole genre. Nevertheless, some ultra-popular horror movies include The Exorcist, Psycho, Silence of Lambs, and Hereditary; however, the list of movies is filtered for the films starting with the letter D and does not make any of them the best.

Q: What horror movie was the scariest?

These are subjective questions. This list presents a selection of horror movies starting with the letter D, however, everyone has something what he is afraid of, everyone individually. While for some it may be psychological chills, as seen in the case of “Dead Ringers”, or gothic horror feel, as experienced in “Drag Me to Hell.

Q: What horror movie starts with J?

This list focuses on horror movies that start with D, but some chilling horror movies start with J options include “Ju-On: It style are similar to the grudge (2002) and pulse (2001).

Q: What is a very horror movie?

This depends and what may be heart stopping to you Precisely, I have heard quite a lot of Horrors stories. This list provides the reader several kinds of horror subgenres.

If you seeking for something aggressive, more powerful then watch the movie “Day of the Dead”, released in 1985. If you like psychological horror, then, perhaps, you will like “The Devil’s Backbone” movie released in 2001.

Q: What horror movie starts with N?

Here are a couple of horror movie options starting with N: Some of the well known movies of this genre are ‘Night of the Living Dead’ (1968) which is an early zombie film and ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ (1984) which was the film which featured the ultimate iconic menace of the dream world – Freddy Krueger.

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