Top rated brutal killing movies on Shudder

Check out today’s highest ranked brutal killing movies on Shudder! Looking for the greatest movies of all times? Here is the list of the best brutal killing movies on Shudder, based on the crowd's interest and popular searches from the country.

1 The Innocents (2021)

Four children become friends during the summer holidays, and out of sight of the adults they discover they have hidden powers. While exploring their newfound abilities in the nearby forests and playgrounds, their innocent play takes a dark turn and strange things begin to happen.

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2021-09-03 | Horror / Drama

Cast

Rakel Lenora Fløttum, Alva Brynsmo Ramstad

Rating

rating icon 6.917
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    director with natural ability
  2. Ranked #1 for
    cruel
  3. Ranked #1 for
    class act

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2 A Good Woman Is Hard to Find (2019)

The recently widowed mother of two, Sarah, is desperate to know who murdered her husband in front of her young son, rendering him mute. Coerced into helping a low-life drug dealer stash narcotics stolen from the local Mr. Big, she's forced into taking drastic action to protect her children, evolving from downtrodden submissive to take-charge vigilante.

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2019-10-25 | Thriller / Crime

Cast

Sarah Bolger, Edward Hogg

Rating

rating icon 6.109
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    different approach
  2. Ranked #2 for
    shattering climax
  3. Ranked #3 for
    social realism

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A Good Woman Is Hard to Find trailer
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3 My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To (2020)

Dwight and his sister Jessie reach a crossroads over what to do about their little brother Thomas, a sickly child with a mysterious affliction.

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2020-10-13 | Drama / Horror

Cast

Patrick Fugit, Ingrid Sophie Schram

Rating

rating icon 5.96
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    plot hinges
  2. Ranked #2 for
    kind of boring
  3. Ranked #2 for
    appropriately creepy

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My Heart Can't Beat Unless You Tell It To trailer
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4 Detention (2019)

In the 1960s, two classmates go looking for their missing friends and teachers, all of whom took part in an illegal book club, only to come face to face with ghosts and deformed monsters that have taken over their school.

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2019-09-20 | Horror / Mystery

Cast

Gingle Wang, Jing-Hua Tseng

Rating

rating icon 6.714
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    natural light
  2. Ranked #2 for
    fragmented narrative
  3. Ranked #2 for
    precious

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Detention trailer
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5 The Mortuary Collection (2020)

In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.

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2020-09-25 | Fantasy / Horror

Cast

Clancy Brown, Caitlin Custer

Rating

rating icon 6.7
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unpunished character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    pretty neat
  3. Ranked #1 for
    nice

Trailer

The Mortuary Collection trailer
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6 The Furies (2019)

A young woman faces her darkest fears with seven other unwilling participants in a deadly game — a game that can only have one winner.

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2019-04-12 | Horror / Action

Cast

Airlie Dodds, Linda Ngo

Rating

rating icon 5.482
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    explicitly gore
  2. Ranked #1 for
    rounded character
  3. Ranked #2 for
    gore factor

Trailer

The Furies trailer
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7 Speak No Evil (2022)

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic weekend slowly starts unraveling as the Danes try to stay polite in the face of unpleasantness.

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2022-03-17 | Horror / Thriller

Cast

Morten Burian, Sidsel Siem Koch

Rating

rating icon 6.617
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    unreasonable character
  2. Ranked #1 for
    deeply unpleasant
  3. Ranked #1 for
    maddening

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Speak No Evil trailer
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8 Belzebuth (2019)

While leading a police investigation of a massacre in a public school at the border of Mexico and U.S.A, special Agent Emanuel Ritter links this strange case to the coming and rising of the ancient demon Belzebuth. But in order to stop the trail of upcoming infanticides, Ritter shall have to confront himself before dealing with the forces of good and evil.

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2019-01-11 | Horror / Fantasy

Cast

Joaquín Cosío, Tobin Bell

Rating

rating icon 7.187
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    shock factor
  2. Ranked #1 for
    nearly non-existent
  3. Ranked #1 for
    brutal attack

Trailer

Belzebuth trailer
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9 La Llorona (2019)

Accused of the genocide of Mayan people, retired general Enrique is trapped in his mansion by massive protests. Abandoned by his staff, the indignant old man and his family must face the devastating truth of his actions and the growing sense that a wrathful supernatural force is targeting them for his crimes.

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2019-07-25 | Thriller / Horror

Cast

María Mercedes Coroy, Sabrina De La Hoz

Rating

rating icon 6.417
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #1 for
    slow and plodding
  2. Ranked #1 for
    ominous tone
  3. Ranked #1 for
    haunting

Trailer

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10 The Nightingale (2018)

In 1825, Clare, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past.

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2018-09-23 | Drama / Thriller

Cast

Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin

Rating

rating icon 7.09
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People's Taste Ranking

  1. Ranked #23 for
    like The Revenant
  2. Ranked #109 for
    cathartic
  3. Ranked #173 for
    gaslighting

Trailer

The Nightingale trailer
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