We discuss 10 horror movies set in a morgue you must watch. Add these well-recommended and highly-rated films to your watch list.
Morgues and mortuaries are inherently scary places where dead bodies are taken to be stored before they’re buried or cremated. It’s somewhere no one alive wants to be.
Horror movies have jumped on this idea, with several movies using the fear of the dead to tell spooky tales of reanimated corpses or stories of brutal murder.
If you’re a fan of films set in a morgue, then here are ten horror films featuring the setting that you must watch.
10 Horror Movies set in a Morgue
Necropolis: Legion (2019)
Necropolis: Legion tells the story of the satanic vampire sorceress Eva (Ali Chappell), whose midnight rituals are interrupted when she’s murdered. Decades later, Lisa (Augie Duke) moves into the cabin where Eva was killed, intending to write about the haunted history.
Lisa starts having nightmares, and Eva begins to take over Lisa’s body, using it to complete her ritual.
The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018)
An unfortunate exorcism on Hannah Grace (Kirby Johnson) goes wrong, leading to her death. Months later, Megan Reed (Shay Mitchell), an ex-cop and now a morgue worker, takes charge of Hannah’s mutilated body and starts to have haunting visions about it.
These visions convince her that the body is possessed by demons.
Mortuary (2005)
After the death of their father, Leslie Doyle (Denise Crosby) moves to the Fowler Mortuary in a new town in the countryside. Unfortunately for them, the building is, of course, haunted by Bobby Fowler, an abused and deformed boy who lived in the mortuary. They soon have to fight this nightmare for their lives.
The Morgue (2008)
Margo Dey (Lisa Crilley) is a young college girl taking part-time shifts in a morgue to help her with her bills. Her only living companion during the long and eerie nights is the night watchman George (Bill Cobbs), who is grief-stricken over the death of his daughter.
The pair soon find out they have a supernatural companion spending time with them, too, one intent on killing them.
The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016)
Coroner Tommy Tilden (Brian Cox) and his son Austin (Emile Hirsch) have to conduct an autopsy on an unidentified and beautiful young woman (Olwen Kelly) after her body was found at the scene of an inexplicable multiple homicide.
As their investigation into the cause of her death unfolds, they both experience supernatural phenomena.
The Mortuary Collection (2019)
Young and desperate for a job, Sam (Caitlin Custer) applies for work at the local mortuary on the outskirts of town.
There she meets the eccentric mortician Montgomery Dark (Clancy Brown), who tells her about the strange and terrifying history of the town in a series of dark and scary tales.
Nightwatch (1997)
Martin Bells (Ewan McGregor) desperately needs money to help fund his law degree, so he takes a side job as a night watchman at the local morgue. He thinks it will be easy and that he will have time to study, but he soon learns that he has to stay alert.
There’s a serial killer on the loose and one with a propensity for necrophilia, and Martin soon realizes that the police think he’s the suspect.
Asylum Blackout (2011)
George (Rupert Evans), Max (Kenny Doughty), and Ricky (Joseph Kennedy) are cooks at a high-security prison for mentally ill criminals. Their lives are soon put at risk when a storm cuts the power and lets the inmates take over the prison.
The three chefs must run for their lives and try and hold out against a horde of bloodthirsty psychopaths until help arrives.
The Lazarus Effect (2015)
Scientist Frank (Mark Duplass), his fiancee Zoe (Olivia Wilde), and their team have managed to develop a serum that can bring back the dead. But after Zoe dies during an accident, a desperate and grief-stricken Frank uses the serum to bring her back. But something isn’t right with Zoe; there’s something dangerous inside her.
Dark Places (2005)
Libby Day (Charlize Theron) has to confront a series of traumatic childhood memories, casting her mind back to the murder of her mother and two sisters when she considers the possibility that the murderer, her brother Ben Day (Corey Stoll), is innocent of the crime.
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