Underwater and 4 Other Most Gripping Horror Action Movies for a Tense Night
These are the best examples of films shot at the intersection of the most exciting genres.
What happens when you combine the best of horror and action? You get dynamic, tense movies full of suspense and action.
1. Underwater, 2020
2050, the Mariana Trench. A powerful earthquake damages the equipment and compartment of the drilling complex. Engineer Norah, Captain Lucien, and several other employees are trapped inside and unable to contact the surface.
A group of survivors decides to risk walking to a neighboring station along the ocean floor in hopes of finding spacesuits for evacuation.
During the rescue mission, however, the crew begins to suspect that the complex was not damaged by an earthquake after all. Deep-sea drilling may have disturbed something terrible living in the ocean depths.
2. Mandy, 2018
Lumberjack Red and his beloved Mandy live happily in a secluded place in the mountains. Their peaceful existence is destined to be short-lived, however, as representatives of a dangerous cult have settled in the nearby forest.
The cult's leader, Jeremiah, caught a glimpse of Mandy once and has been obsessed with her ever since – the cultists kidnap Mandy. Red realizes that he has nothing more to lose and decides to take revenge on the cultists.
3. The Devil's Lair, 2023
In order to help her father pay off his debts, Alin decides to commit a crime. Together with her friends, Ghani and Fitrah, she entered a luxurious, secluded mansion in the forest.
Instead of valuables, however, they find a mountain of corpses and a woman barely alive and shackled. The friends decide to free the prisoner, unaware of the dangerous entity they will awaken.
4. Army of the Dead, 2021
An army convoy leaving Area 51 crashes near Las Vegas. A zombie escaped from a damaged container, killed the soldiers instantly, and headed straight for the city.
Bly Tanaka, the owner of the largest casino in Vegas, is not ready to part with his fortune so easily. He hires mercenary Scott Ward to collect $200 million from a storage facility in the quarantine zone before the city is destroyed by a nuclear bomb.
Scott and his squad are promised a generous reward, but is it worth it, considering the horrors that await them?
5. World War Z, 2013
Jerry, a former UN employee, and his family are evacuated from zombie-infested Newark to a US warship in the Atlantic Ocean.
To secure a place for his wife and daughters on the ship, Jerry is forced to take part in a rescue mission. His mission is to find Patient Zero, who can help scientists develop a vaccine against an unknown virus that turns people into aggressive monsters.