Stalker horror movies are the best thrillers because they expertly blend realistic psychological horror with nail-biting suspense. Stories about stalkers are usually popular because they create suspense and play on the fear that everyone has that someone or something is following them. Creepy suspense films capitalize on the common worry that someone is watching you from afar or that a stranger is stalking you.
Here is the list of the top stalker films, including the terrifying slasher flicks, the most interesting art house stalking films, and even the creepiest films about stalking a boyfriend.
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10 Best Stalker horror movies
Greta
Release Date: 6 September 2018
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Isabelle Huppert, Chloë Grace Moretz, Maika Monroe, Colm Feore, Stephen Rea, Zawe Ashtona, Thaddeus Daniels, Jeff Hiller, Parker Sawyers
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Movie Plot: Greta is a relatively traditional stalker tale by Neil Jordan. When Frances returns, a handbag is found on the subway to its owner. A French piano instructor who enjoys music. The two become friends, but Frances quickly becomes frightened when her new friend begins stalking her. The picture includes a superb cast that offers good performances, including
Chlo Grace Moretz, Isabelle Huppert, and Maika Monroe. Jordan also does an excellent job of building tension and suspense. The plot is predictable, employing several common obsession/stalker themes. Despite its flaws, Greta remains a terrifying and disturbing horror picture.
The Strangers
Release Date: 30 May 2008
Director: Bryan Bertino
Cast: Liv Tyler, Scott Speedman, Gemma Ward, Kip Weeks, Laura Margolis, Glenn Howerton
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Movie Plot: Kristen (Liv Tyler) and James (Scott Speedman) think they’ll have a peaceful weekend at a family vacation home, but things don’t go as planned. First, while James is out doing daily tasks, a mysterious and dangerous woman shows up at the door. When he returns, he mistakes his friend Mike (Glenn Howerton) for a burglar and kills him by accident. The real danger comes from three torturers in masks, and Kristen and James have to fight to stay alive.
The Strangers may not be the most terrifying or unique horror picture, but it is certainly a worth-watching stalking horror movie that will make you afraid to be alone at home.
The Girl on the Train
Release Date: 20 September 2016
Director: Tate Taylor
Cast: Emily Blunt, Rebecca Ferguson, Haley Bennett, Justin Theroux, Luke Evans, Allison Janney, Édgar Ramírez, Lisa Kudrow, Laura Prepon, Darren Goldstein
IMDB Rating: 6.5
Movie Plot: Rachel Watson’s post-divorce life is the subject of The Girl on the Train. She goes to work by train daily in New York, and the train always passes by her former home. She begins observing Megan and Scott Hipwell, a couple living a few homes down, while she tries to block out her agony. In her mind, she imagines them living a wonderful dream life as the ideal, content family. She then witnesses something horrific one day as the train passes, which upsets her. The next morning, she wakes up with a terrible headache, several cuts and bruises, and no idea what happened the night before. She merely has an instinct that something negative has occurred. Then, Megan Hipwell is reported missing on television. Rachel becomes involved in the investigation and sets out to learn what happened to Megan, where she is, and what specifically she was doing the night Megan vanished.
The movie combines realistic psychological horror with nervous tension, making for the perfect recipe for a stalker horror movie.
It Follows
Release Date: 17 May 2014
Director: David Robert Mitchell
Cast: Maika Monroe, Olivia Luccardi, Keir Gilchrist, Lili Sepe, Daniel Zovatto, Jake Weary, Bailey Spry, Debbie Williamsaa, Ruby Harris
IMDB Rating: 6.8
Movie Plot: The idea for the movie came from a night terror the director had, in which he was being stalked by a predator who kept walking slowly toward him.
The home she shared with her ex-husband, his new wife, and their young child. The house where she had lived with her ex-husband, his new wife, and their small child. Jay (Maika Monroe), an easygoing teenager, finds out that she is the newest victim of a deadly curse carried from one person to the next through sexual contact when she has her first sexual experience with Hugh (Jake Weary). Jay discovers that death might come to her in the form of a familiar face or a stranger. When Jay starts talking about seeing the ghost killers, her friends don’t believe her since she seems insane. They then work together to help her escape or defeat her attackers.
Quite impressive! A classic horror movie that takes its time and makes good use of the most basic ways to scare people.
Secret Obsession
Release Date: 18 July 2019
Director: Peter Sullivan
Cast: Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Scott, Paul Sloan, Daniel Bookoa, Scott Peat, Blair Hickey, Michael Patrick McGill, Casey Leach, Jim Hanna, Ciarra Carter, Eric Etebari, Kati Salowskyac, Jennifer Peo
IMDB Rating: 4.4
Movie Plot: Secret Obsession is one of the best stalking horror movies.
As Jennifer awakens to a life she can’t remember, she is still in danger. A newlywed named Jennifer (Brenda Song) is brutally attacked in a dusky rest area. She can’t recollect anything from her background, including the trauma, while she recovers from her injuries. Her husband, played by Mike Vogel, is happy to learn that she is alive and eager to reunite. Detective Page (Dennis Haysbert) chases Jennifer’s attacker while he reintroduces her to their isolated mountain estate. His daughter went missing and was never discovered. Jennifer faces the same fate unless someone notices that her beloved guardian is her kidnapper.
The film has the same great pacing, dark atmosphere, and terrifying scenes as the horror stalker film.
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The Night Clerk
Release Date: 21 February 2020
Director: Jennifer Peo
Cast: Tye Sheridan, Helen Hunt, Ana de Armas, John Leguizamo, Johnathon Schaech, Jacque Gray, Austin Archer
IMDB Rating: 5.6
Movie Plot: When a woman is killed while he is working at a hotel, he is the main suspect. As the police investigation heats up, he gets close to a visitor, but he soon realizes that he has to stop the killer before she becomes the next victim.
‘The Night Clerk’ studies a character with Asperger’s syndrome. Tye Sheridan does an excellent job as the lead. The film is a little apparent in setting up and surprising the viewer.
One Hour Photo
Release Date: 21 August 2002
Director: Mark Romanek
Cast: Robin Williams, Michael Vartan, Connie Nielsen, Gary Cole, Eriq La Salle, Clark Gregg, Paul H. Kim, Erin Daniels, Dylan Smith, David Moreland, Jim Rash, Nick Searcy
IMDB Rating: 6.8
Movie Plot: Technician Sy Parrish works at a one-hour picture lab inside a SavMart in a suburban shopping center. Sy has never had friends, making him a lonely man. He may learn a lot about his clients by looking at the photos they’ve created. However, he is more knowledgeable than anybody else in the Yorkin family, particularly about Nina Yorkin and her teenage son Jake Yorkin. They drop off and pick up the family’s photofinishing. Since Sy has only ever seen Will Yorkin in pictures, he is incidental to his fixation. Sy has an addiction where he imagines himself as their beloved “Uncle Sy.” Even for himself, he has been producing an extra set of prints.
One Hour Photo is an excellent thriller stalking movie. It demonstrates Robin Williams’ acting repertoire expanding into odd and scary topics. Its last reels are very scary and have a stronger moral message than most movies in its genre.
Unhinged
Release Date: 16 July 2020
Director: Derrick Borte
Cast: Russell Crowe, Caren Pistorius, Gabriel Bateman, Jimmi Simpson, Austin P. McKenziea, Juliene Joyner, Stephen Louis Grush, Anne Leighton, Michael Papajohn, Lucy Faust, Devyn A. Tyler, Samantha Beaulieu, Andrew Morgado
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Movie Plot: In Russell Crowe’s psychological thriller Unhinged, which won an Oscar, dangerous driving is taken to a very dangerous level. Rachel (Caren Pistorius) is late for work when she starts talking to A person who thinks he is invisible and tries to leave his mark on the world by teaching Rachel a series of hard lessons. Soon, Rachel and everyone she cares about become his targets. What happens next is a high-stakes game of cat and mouse that proves you can never trust the person sitting next to you in a car. The story of Unhinged may seem simple, but Russell Crowe’s chilling performance in the lead role still makes this loud road rage thriller scary.
The invisible man
Release Date: 27 February 2020
Director: Leigh Whannell
Cast: Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Aldis Hodge, Storm Reid, Harriet Dyer, Michael Dorman
IMDB Rating: 7.1
Movie Plot: Cecilia Kass is in a violent marriage with her husband, Adrian Griffin. She fled him in the middle of the night with the aid of her sister Emily. Cecilia has a weird sense of being followed and stalked by an unknown power. Cecilia attends a job interview for the role of architect. Cecilia faints when she opens her portfolio to show off her work. Cecilia Kass, a hurt architect, sneaks away in the middle of the night from Adrian Griffin, a smart but dangerously controlling optics engineer, and her lover, who lives in a beautiful seaside mansion. However, no location is safe from manipulating Adrian. Even though Cecilia has taken shelter in the home of a beloved friend, she knows she will have to confront him again sooner or later. Then, out of the blue, strangely happy news comes to Kass, and she feels free for the first time in a long time. However, scary incidents of an invisible presence following her around and watching her every move show that this is not the case. But fear is the deadly foe of all. Cecilia seems to have lost touch with reality; did the mysterious man find a way to pick up where he left off?
Lover’s Lane
Release Date: 31 December 1999
Director: Jon Steven Ward
Cast: Erin Dean, Riley Smith, Sarah Lancaster, Anna Faris, Billy O’Sullivan, Matt Riedy, Suzanne Bouchard, Richard Sanders, Megan Hunt, Collin F. Peacock, Ben Indra, Michael Shapiro, Ed Bailey, Diedre Kilgore, Carter Roy
IMDB Rating: 4.0
Movie Plot: The town’s most romantic spot in this tense thriller is a slaughterhouse. Mandy Anderson (Erin J. Dean), a lovely teen, is struggling emotionally. A lunatic killed Mandy’s mother when she was five. Mandy’s shame was compounded by her mother’s death while having sex with her lover in a prominent neighborhood. Mandy accompanied her mother’s spouse, Tom (Matt Riedy), on his murder investigation patrol. Thirteen years later, Mandy, Michael Lamson (Riley Smith), and Chloe are high schoolers (Sarah Lancaster). Mandy distances herself from Michael and Chloe to avoid her past trauma. When Mandy finds the man who killed her mother fled a mental institution, they must work together. The actress playing Mandy’s mother looked like Erin J. Dean because she played both parts and identified herself as Ann Jeider during the movie’s opening flashback sequence.
Conclusion
We hope you like our collection of the best films on stalking, which range from thrillers to art house experiments to films about stalking between lovers. All of the best movies in psychological thrillers and horror are here. Many of the following films don’t have traditional horror elements like jump scares, ghosts, or loads of blood. Still, they’re included because they capture the universal agony of dealing with someone who can’t handle rejection and will stop at nothing to destroy you.