Ancient Evil Awakened
Community ListCurated by the horror codex · 149 films
Some things were buried for a reason.
About this list
An archaeologist breaks a seal, a research team digs something out of the ice, a ritual gets read aloud for fun. Horror loves the idea that the world is older and stranger than we are, and that something has been waiting. This is a list for films where an ancient evil has slept for centuries until someone wakes it up.
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The Thing
1982 ★ 4.5
The Evil Dead
1981 ★ 4.4
Evil Dead II
1987 ★ 4.3
Godzilla
1954 ★ 4.3
The Mummy
1999 ★ 4.0
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
2010 ★ 3.8
The Borderlands
2014 ★ 3.8
Quatermass and the Pit
1967 ★ 3.7
The Mummy
1959 ★ 3.8
The Mummy
1932 ★ 3.5
Blood on Satan's Claw
1971 ★ 3.8
Prince of Darkness
1987 ★ 3.8
The Deep Dark
2023 ★ 3.3
The Church
1989 ★ 4.0
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
1956 ★ 3.5
Boys from County Hell
2021 ★ 3.8
The Great Yokai War: Guardians
2021
The Lair of the White Worm
1988 ★ 3.5
The Creeping Flesh
1973
Starve Acre
2024 ★ 3.4
All You Need Is Death
2024 ★ 3.3
Rodan
1956 ★ 3.5
Troll
2022 ★ 3.0
The Empty Man
2020 ★ 3.3
Blood Diner
1987 ★ 3.7
The Beach House
2020 ★ 3.3
Black Mountain Side
2016 ★ 3.3
Burial Ground
1981 ★ 3.8
Batman: The Doom That Came to Gotham
2023
Stigma
1977 ★ 3.5
Maligno
2016 ★ 3.5
Manhattan Baby
1982 ★ 3.5
Cockneys vs Zombies
2012
X: The Unknown
1956 ★ 3.0
Lee Cronin's The Mummy
2026 ★ 3.1
The 8th Night
2021
Blood from the Mummy's Tomb
1971 ★ 3.5
Yokai Monsters: Spook Warfare
1968
GARO Side Story: The Tougen Flute
2013
The Witch
1952
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
2021 ★ 2.8
Howard Lovecraft & The Kingdom Of Madness
2018
Eko Eko Azarak II: Birth of the Wizard
1996
Blutsschwestern - Jung, magisch, tödlich
2013
Unearth
2020
Gamera, the Giant Monster
1965 ★ 4.0
Samurai Zombie
2008
The Tomb
2006
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
1959
Horror Rises from the Tomb
1973 ★ 3.0
Evilspeak
1981 ★ 3.0
Playroom
1990
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
1964 ★ 3.0
Itsy Bitsy
2019 ★ 3.0
The Mask of Satan
1990
Sound of Horror
1967
The Mummy's Hand
1940 ★ 2.5
Asvins
2023 ★ 3.0
Lady Terminator
1988
The Mummy's Shroud
1967
The Last Lovecraft: Relic of Cthulhu
2009
Stagknight
2007
The Werewolf Versus the Vampire Woman
1971
The Runestone
1991
The Keep
1983 ★ 3.0
Grey Knight
1993
Demon Hole
2017
Frostbiter: Wrath of the Wendigo
1995
Pharaoh's Curse
1957
Within the Rock
1996
Curse of the Faceless Man
1958
Catacombs
1988
The Mummy Lives
1993
Varan the Unbelievable
1962
Specters
1987
AVP: Alien vs. Predator
2004 ★ 3.0
Giant from the Unknown
1958
Children of the Night
1991
Desperation
2006