Best Norwegian horror movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch horror films from Norway, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for Troll Hunter

    Troll Hunter 2010

    A group of students investigates a series of mysterious bear killings, but learns that there are much more dangerous things going on. They start to follow a mysterious hunter, learning that he is actually a troll hunter.

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  • Poster for Dead Snow

    Dead Snow 2009

    Eight medical students on a ski trip to Norway discover that Hitler's horrors live on when they come face to face with a battalion of zombie Nazi soldiers intent on devouring anyone unfortunate enough to wander into the remote mountains where they were once sent to die.

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  • Poster for The Trip

    The Trip 2021

    A dysfunctional couple head to a remote lakeside cabin under the guise of reconnecting, but each has secret designs to kill the other. Before they can carry out their respective plans, unexpected visitors arrive and the couple is faced with a greater danger than anything they could have plotted.

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  • Poster for Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead

    Dead Snow 2: Red vs. Dead 2014

    The gruesome Nazi Zombies are back to finish their mission, but our hero is not willing to die. He is gathering his own army to give them a final fight.

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  • Poster for Cadaver

    Cadaver 2020

    In the aftermath of a nuclear disaster, a starving family find hope in a charismatic hotel owner. Lured by the prospect of a free dinner, they discover that the evening's entertainment blurs the lines between performance and reality. Will they wind up the spectators or the spectacle?

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  • Poster for The Ugly Stepsister

    The Ugly Stepsister 2025

    In a fairy-tale kingdom where beauty is a brutal business, Elvira battles to compete with her incredibly beautiful stepsister, and she will go to any length to catch the prince’s eye.

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  • Poster for Sick of Myself

    Sick of Myself 2022

    Increasingly overshadowed by her boyfriend's recent rise to fame as a contemporary artist creating sculptures from stolen furniture, Signe hatches a vicious plan to reclaim her rightfully deserved attention within the milieu of Oslo's cultural elite.

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  • Poster for Viking Wolf

    Viking Wolf 2022

    After witnessing a grotesque murder at a party in her new town, a teenager starts having strange visions and bizarre desires.

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  • Poster for Cold Prey

    Cold Prey 2006

    When one of them breaks a leg, five friends snowboarding in the Norwegian mountains take shelter in an abandoned ski lodge and soon realize they’re not alone.

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  • Poster for Handling the Undead

    Handling the Undead 2024

    On a hot summer day in Oslo, the dead mysteriously awaken, and three families are thrown into chaos when their deceased loved ones come back to them. Who are they, and what do they want?

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  • Poster for Good Boy

    Good Boy 2022

    Christian – a millionaire heir, meets Sigrid – a young student, on a dating app. They hit it off quickly, but there's only one problem: Christian lives with Frank, a man who dresses up and constantly acts like a dog.

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  • Poster for Cold Prey II

    Cold Prey II 2008

    After surviving the events in the Jotunheimen mountains in which four of her friends were murdered, the badly injured Jannicke is brought to the local hospital. But when she wakes up, the building is dark and deserted... and she soon realizes that her nightmare isn’t over yet.

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  • Poster for Thale

    Thale 2012

    Norwegian folklore turns out to be real when Leo and Elvis encounter a girl called Thale in a basement. A regular cleaning job turns into a struggle for survival, while they're trying to figure out what or who Thale is. Could Thale be a huldra? A seductive forest spirit who appears from the front to be a beautiful young woman, but who also has a cow's tale and whose back appears to be like a hollowed out tree. The huldra has been known to offer rewards to those who satisfy them sexually, while death to those who fail to do so and are also prone to stealing human babies.

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  • Poster for Leave

    Leave 2022

    A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.

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  • Poster for Cold Prey III

    Cold Prey III 2010

    In 1988, a group of teenagers go to visit an abandoned hotel, only to find themselves hunted by a psychotic killer through the Norwegian woods.

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  • Poster for Dark Woods II

    Dark Woods II 2015

    An old sanatorium is deteriorating in an isolated forest in the mountains. Five contract workers have taken on the task of tracking the huge building for hazardous waste before it's demolished. They realize that the job is more than a search for asbestos and mercury when they encounter the building's frightening past. You can demolish a building, but never remove the past.

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  • Poster for Dark Windows

    Dark Windows 2023

    A group of teenagers grieving the death of their friend takes a trip to an isolated summerhouse in the countryside. What starts as a peaceful getaway turns into a horrific nightmare when a masked man begins to terrorize them in the most gruesome ways.

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  • Poster for Dark Woods

    Dark Woods 2003

    Five Norwegians head for a cabin in the wilderness for a few days of teambuilding. But strange things start happening — especially down by the water where they find an abandoned tent. Is there someone else?

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  • Poster for Manhunt

    Manhunt 2008

    Its the summer of 1974. Four friends have planned a recreational weekend hiking and camping in the forest. At a remote truck stop they pick up an anxious hitchhiker who only after a short ride demands they stop the vehicle. She is clearly frightened of somethingbut what she cant begin to describe in her carsick terror. Suddenly the group are ambushed and left unconscious.

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  • Poster for Hidden

    Hidden 2009

    Painful memories arise when Kai Koss inherits his dead mother's house and goes back to his childhood home after 19 years.

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  • Poster for Lake of Death

    Lake of Death 2019

    A small group of friends battle to survive in the middle of the forests and fjords of Norway. The story is based on Norwegian legend thought to be innocent folklore.

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  • Poster for Haunted

    Haunted 2017

    Set in the beautiful winter landscape of Norway, Haunted follows Catherine as she travels back to her old family estate after her father's death. When locals start telling stories of disappearances and possible murders, she is forced to confront her family's mysterious past.

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  • Poster for Lake of the Dead

    Lake of the Dead 1958

    A group of friends travel to a cabin in the Norwegian forest. It's a rumour that at night a crazy man can be heard screaming at a lake nearby the cabin.

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  • Poster for NightMare

    NightMare 2022

    A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.

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  • Poster for Valley of Shadows

    Valley of Shadows 2017

    A young boy ventures into the forest in search of mysterious creatures that eat sheep, in this delightfully creepy Scandinavian Gothic fable from Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen.

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  • Poster for Detour

    Detour 2009

    Driving back to Norway, Lina and Martin reach a roadblock where a policeman tells them to take a detour deep into the Swedish forest. But soon one creepy incident after another leaves them stranded in the dark woods and everything seems much too bizarre to be accidental.

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  • Poster for Vidar the Vampire

    Vidar the Vampire 2017

    A Christian farmer searching for a higher purpose to life, falls into sin and wakes up as the Prince of Darkness in the city of Stavanger, Norway.

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  • Poster for The House

    The House 2016

    Two German soldiers has taken a Norwegian soldier as prisoner, during one of the cold Scandianvian winter nights during WW2. They are thankful that they find a lonely house out in the wilderness, but the houses aren't that cozy after all.

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  • Poster for Tidtakeren

    Tidtakeren 2024

    A hunter travels through the Norwegian wilderness to track down a creature meddling with time.

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  • Poster for Dark Souls

    Dark Souls 2010

    A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated and becomes pale and unresponsive. Similar attacks begin to happen, and Johanna’s father takes it on himself to find out the truth. He embarks on a dark thrill ride of lost memories, conspiracy, and zombie-like symptoms. Finding the mysterious darkness within is the source of the bizarre world he has uncovered.

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  • Poster for Homecoming

    Homecoming 2018

    A man babysits his girlfriends kid, and after a short while screams come from her room. Apparently she believes there's a monster under her bed.

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  • Poster for Possession

    Possession 2022

    A priest has been tasked with deciding the location of a new church for the local mining company, which reveals itself to be on top of an old Sami burial ground. After removing the remains, the dead come alive and haunt the settlers.

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  • Poster for Polaroid

    Polaroid 2015

    Two friends are playing with an old Polaroid camera they found in the closet.

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  • Poster for Creaker

    Creaker 2019

    A girl has an unexpected visitor one night when her bedroom door creaks open.

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  • Poster for Angst, Piss & Shit

    Angst, Piss & Shit 2012

    A black comedy that deals with twisted, complicated love between two murdering psychopaths. A young couple that once shared a fascination for mass murder and torture, but now resemble a sad and lifeless parody on relationships.

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  • Poster for Tistlebu

    Tistlebu 2022

    As a young urban couple on a working holiday hopes to connect with nature at Tistlebu farm, a primordial power comes into play, changing them both forever.

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  • Precocious Movie Kids 2014

    During the shoot for an abandoned movie project set in Stavanger, Norway, something went terribly wrong. A sarcastic ping-pong verbal exchange between the selfie-taking father and his precocious nine year old daughter takes an unexpected turn.

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  • Poster for Verden venter

    Verden venter 2014

    Three Swedish actresses work as waitresses in Oslo one summer. They use all their wits to get as much tips as possible. They plan to start a company and buy a house. They come to be our guides in the film and reveal a world of people doing things they don't want to do, playing roles they don't know why they're playing.

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  • Poster for The Beast of Beauty

    The Beast of Beauty 2003

    Lotte and her father moves in with Kristin, a former beauty queen, and her daughter, Vendela. Kristin is grooming Vendela to win the Little Miss Norway contest, and as a result both girls get more and more preoccupied with their looks. When Lotte is allowed to participate in the contest, it soon becomes clear that being too vain can be a frightening experience.

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  • Poster for Christmas Blood

    Christmas Blood 2017

    Christmas Blood is a thriller-slasher about a feared serial killer, called Nissen, who has struck Norway's countryside every Christmas Eve for over 13 years. Investigators Rasch and Hansen are trying to solve the riddle before he returns. This time it appears that it is northern Norway that will face Nissen's bloodbath.

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  • Poster for Hope

    Hope 2017

    A senseless wandering ghoul roaming through a world of the hunger-less undead and accepting yet resentful humans will soon discover a craving that leaves him completely and utterly without hope.

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  • Poster for Children of Satan

    Children of Satan 2019

    Two paranoid, God-obsessed little girls are asked to welcome a new arrival, Erna, at their Christian summer camp. Erna's strange behaviors– blank stares, convulsions, mutism– lead them to become certain of one thing only: She must be possessed by Satan. Children of Satan is a story about children's desire to belong, their overactive imaginations, and how a combination of the two can quickly become fatal.

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  • Poster for Don't Hang Up

    Don't Hang Up 2025

    Summer travels to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the wedding of a college friend. Her boyfriend Chris couldn’t make it, but she keeps in contact with him via FaceTime. After the wedding, Summer and her two friends Vicky and Eva head back to the AirBnB they’ve rented for the weekend, unaware that their presence in the house has unleashed the ghosts of a family who were killed there during the Tulsa race massacre in 1921. Now, they’re looking for justice...

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  • Poster for Nameless

    Nameless 2004

    Experimental gore horror film with music and samples from Merzbow, Tool and Aleister Crowley.

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  • Poster for The Absence of Eddy Table

    The Absence of Eddy Table 2016

    Eddy Table, known from the comics of Dave Cooper, makes his screen debut in this animated short. One day, Eddy gets lost in a dark forest. There he meets an alluring girl infected by a mysterious parasite. Love and violence ensues.

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  • Poster for Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch

    Kurt Josef Wagle and the Legend of the Fjord Witch 2010

    Is The Fjord Witch superstition, or is it true that Satan's bride lives across Melkelva in the forest by Grytefjord? Does Tordenskjold find himself or someone else entirely? Who would win in a magic battle between Jesus and Harry Potter? These and other questions are answered in Kurt Josef Wagle's lost video footage.

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  • Poster for Antikk

    Antikk 2020

    Anjelica loves everything old-fashioned and vintage, but when she buys an antique bathtub from a dead person's estate, she learns that some old things have more soul than others.

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  • Poster for Hospital Dumpster Divers

    Hospital Dumpster Divers 2020

    Chaos breaks out at the hospital when a mutant dumpster troll is accidentally brought to life, as a result of shoddy waste management, by the shuffle dancing young man Rasmus. Hospital Dumpster Divers is a bat shit crazy medical waste themed mini-monster splatter melted together as a practical special effects gore feast.

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  • Poster for All Must Die

    All Must Die 2020

    Gina who is about to get married, when her friends “kidnap” her for a last all-out bachelorette party. Dressed in red latex and all on her own in the Norwegian woods, Gina has to complete a creepy game of challenges. But what starts off as fun soon turns seriously weird, when disturbing events start occurring. Is it part of the planning – or is Gina about to lose her grip of reality?

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  • Poster for Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta

    Kurt Josef Wagle and the Murder Mystery on the Hurtigruta 2017

    The crazy fisher man Kurt Josef, an early pensioner, and his odd musical friend Rock Fjellstad has landed a job at Hurtigruta, only to discover that someone has killed off a famous artist, the former M2M-member Marion Ravn.

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  • Poster for Dunderland

    Dunderland 2012

    Dunderland Valley, 1695. A young maiden is accused of witchcraft. Her persecutors end her life in the bottomless pits of the Djupkista Waters. In the years to follow, numerous horrendous events and tragedies strike the valley. In 2011, the young, aspiring theater director Laura arrives in the valley with an ensemble of Norway’s premier actors. They are soon made aware of the valley's dark and bloody history. Then the star actor disappears.

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  • Poster for Project Z

    Project Z 2021

    A group of film students take three unemployed actors to an abandoned motel in the Norwegian mountains to make a zombie film. Fiction suddenly becomes reality when an unknown creature begins to terrorize the film set.

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  • Poster for Bread and Circus

    Bread and Circus 2003

    One man's courage and will to break loose from the system, and the ability of one individual to bring down the kingdom.

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  • Poster for The Thrill of a Kill

    The Thrill of a Kill 2012

    After fighting with her mom, Kimsy runs into the woods to cool off, where she meets a friendly photographer. A day of bloodshed and murder follows...

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  • Poster for Nightmare on 34th Street

    Nightmare on 34th Street 2023

    A mysterious and psychopathic Santa Claus visits a small, rural town with a bag full of unusual gifts and twisted holiday stories.

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  • Poster for The Whore

    The Whore 2009

    The young and aspiring writer, Rikke, heads out to the old and abandoned parental house in the remote Norwegian countryside. A girl, not even particularly beautiful one, all alone in a town full of sexually deviant yokels, that's just asking for trouble. After a couple of tense and unsettling encounters, three dimwits rape the poor girl and she plots an excruciatingly painful vengeance for all of them.

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  • Poster for Kraken

    Kraken 2025

    Marine biologist Johanne is doing research on a fish farm in Vangsnes, a rural community located by the fjord, when she encounters several strange occurrences. Along with the brutal deaths of two local teenagers, all signs point to the deep fjord; can there be more to the depths than the eye can see? At the bottom of the deepest fjord rests a mythical monster as large as a mountain, with a myriad of arms ready to crush and devour anything they can grab.

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  • Poster for SNOT

    SNOT 2024

    A man uses nasal spray excessively in an attempt to cure his runny nose. But as his congestion worsens, the evening quickly turns into horrid chaos.

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  • Poster for Pandemonic

    Pandemonic 2021

    The movie that never got made is a story about a man who is willing to risk anything for the next rush. Even his testicles.

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  • Poster for Boy Gets Eaten

    Boy Gets Eaten 2018

    A boy is pressured to lose his virginity, and now his childhood trauma will no longer be ignored.

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  • Poster for The Dreamer

    The Dreamer 2019

    A mother struggles to deal with her daughter's violent sleeping disorder.

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  • Poster for Instapocalypse

    Instapocalypse 2016

    Two friends find a working iPhone during the zombie apocalypse, but their longing to post pictures on Instagram soon turns them against each other.

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  • Poster for The Wesley Verbank Octagon

    The Wesley Verbank Octagon 2020

    A girl goes on the computer to download a shape

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  • Poster for From.Beyond

    From.Beyond 2022

    A kaleidoscopic vision portraying mankind’s first meeting with alien life, told through faux archival footage combined with practical FX, miniatures and old school in-camera trickery.

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  • Poster for Autumn Harvest

    Autumn Harvest 2014

    A grief-stricken sailor answers a mysterious call from the sea.

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  • Poster for Christmas Cruelty

    Christmas Cruelty 2013

    We follow a serial killer and his victims as they all prepare for Christmas in their own ways. This year it doesn't matter if you have been naughty or nice, Santa is coming to town no matter what, and he knows where you live.

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