Best Brazilian horror movies

The Nightshifter (2019)

Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.

At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)

Zé do Caixão is an undertaker in a small Brazilian town, searching for the perfect woman to bear him a superior child. Unable to conceive with his wife, he kills her and sets out to find someone else.

A Mother's Embrace (2024)

In 1996, during one of the biggest tropical storms ever to hit Rio de Janeiro, Ana and her firefighter team must evacuate a nursing home at risk of collapsing — but they soon discover the place’s mysterious residents have other plans with the arrival of the rain.

The Awakening of the Beast (1970)

A psychiatrist experiments on four volunteers with LSD to examine 60's drug culture, soon unleashing an expert in depravity.

Harrison Kinder: trampoline (0)

A boy named Harrison Kinder ventures upon the world of trampolines, and creates a short film about them. Little did he know the video would be known and seen as art by many media experts around the globe. Everything about this film is true art and resembles many significant quotes that are still used by directors today; such as "see you lattterrr guys tch tch tch" and "i always do a kick just to see if you like it"

Daughters of Fire (1978)

A young woman living in São Paulo goes to Gramado to visit a friend of hers. Together, they meet an odd woman who engages in strange experiences in parapsychology. From then on, bizarre events are bound to happen.

The Black Forest (2018)

In a forest based in the heart of Brazil, a girl sees her life – and everyone’s around her – change terribly, when she finds the Lost Book of Cypriano, whose Dark Magic, besides bestowing power and wealth on its possessor, is also able to deliver a terrible evil upon the Earth.

This Night I'll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

Coffin Joe, the unholy undertaker, is back in town to continue his quest for the perfect woman, embarking on an even more brutal campaign of terror, aided and abetted by his hunchbacked assistant.

Love from Mother Only (2003)

Filho is a miserable bastard. He's divided between the duty of nursing his fanatic mother and his obsessive lust for Formosa - a whore of Satan . His dilemma casts him into an abyss of violence, witchcraft, death and demonic trance.

Invoked (2015)

Five friends head out for a holiday to a remote island off the coast of Ireland and visit an abandoned hostel. As the night draws in and they fool around with a séance, the friends come to realise they are not alone...

The Infernal Machine (2021)

A tale about the apocalypse of the working class.

Ritual de Beleza (2020)

Isabel ritually invokes dark forces to keep herself the prettiest and disfigure anyone who threatens her superiority. A date becomes a bloody feast. Moved by, Isabel poisons a friend and makes her whole body burn. These are just some of Isabel's victims on this self-centered journey.

Mud Zombies (2008)

In a polluted mangrove swamp, dead bodies raise during the night, attacking and biting the dwellers that transform into aggressive zombies. Local fisherman Luís fights against the monsters to survive and save the lives of those around him.

Kill Me Please (2015)

Barra da Tijuca, West Side Zone of Rio de Janeiro. A wave of murderers plague the area. What starts off as a morbid curiosity for the local youth, slowly begins to spoil away at their lives. Among them is Bia, a 15-year-old girl. After an encounter with death, she will do anything to make sure she is alive.

Tirarei as Medidas do Seu Caixão (2015)

Josiel is a fan of José Mojica Marins, Coffin Joe. So a fan that will do anything to become a cover of Joe.

THE WORLD IS CONSUMING ME AND I CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM THE FALL (2023)

Gruesome Christmas (2024)

A young group of six former high school classmates, realizing they would spend Christmas alone, decides to plan a trip to a campsite to celebrate the holidays together. However, what they don’t know is that the Acampamento Lua da Benquerença is the birthplace of a fervent killing spree, driven by an unrelenting thirst for their blood.

El Canto del Urutau (2023)

Luisa and Rafael are a couple who live in a rural area and use various elements of nature surrounding their home to try to protect their newborn baby, who is at risk of being stolen by an evil entity. The characters rely on their memories and ancestral rituals to save their child from the entity, generating a radical change in their lives.

The Trace We Leave Behind (2017)

A young physician coordinating the transfer of patients between state-run hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro struggles with a mystery: a patient goes missing one night and completely disappears from the system. As the doctor attempts to find out the truth, he slowly loses his sense of reality.

Embodiment of Evil (2008)

Released from the Mental Health Wing of São Paulo State Penitentiary after forty years, the sadistic undertaker Zé do Caixão is back on the streets, haunted by ghostly visions and spirits of past victims but still set upon the goal that sent him to prison in the first place: finding a woman who can give him the perfect child.

abdução na favela (2024)

Jeca vs. the Devil (1976)

Jeca has to face a rich farmer woman that wants his love. At the same time, his wife seems to be possessed by the Devil. Made after the huge success of 'The Exorcist', Mazzaropi created his version of the Blockbuster.

When I Was Alive (2014)

After losing his job and the end of his marriage, Júnior returns to his father's house. But that is not his childhood house anymore. His old room has been rented by a young woman and the place feels unwelcome and oppressive. Júnior develops and obsession for his family history, as strange things start happening in the house.

OS EXTERMINADORES DO ALÉM CONTRA A LOIRA DO BANHEIRO (2018)

Through the Shadow (2015)

Laura makes spooky observations as soon as she starts her job as a teacher for two orphan students at a plantation. She concludes that it has something to do with the former caretaker and his romantic partner.

Isolados (2014)

A couple, Lauro and Renata, travels to a remote area surrounded by rain forest in Rio De Janeiro. Once they are there, Lauro is told by a bar owner that gruesome murders are taking place in that area. Intending to keep this information hidden from his girlfriend, Lauro and Renata discover they might be not alone when staying in a isolated house.

Killed the Family and Went to the Movies (1991)

In Rio de Janeiro, after an altercation with his father and mother, a young man named Bebeto kills his family and goes to a movie theater, where he watches four weird vignettes.

Macabre (2019)

In the 1990s, two brothers were accused of murdering eight women, one man and one child in the Serra dos Órgãos region. In the eyes of the suspects, Sergeant Téo realizes that the trial of the press, police and local society is fundamentally racist, and begins to have doubts about the conviction of one of them. Based on a true story, the film is a work of fiction about the famous case of the "Necrophil Brothers."

O Juízo (2019)

Augusto moves with his family to an abandoned farm, inherited from his grandfather, hoping to put his life back on track. The property, however, carries the karma of the betrayal of the slave Couraça who seeks revenge against Augusto's family.

The Strange World of Coffin Joe (1968)

Zé do Caixão hosts this anthology of three short horror stories which feature a strange dollmaker, a necrophiliac balloon seller with a foot fetish, and a psychotic professor involved in sadistic rituals.