Best Portuguese horror movies

Royal Air Force pilot Lt. Kate Sinclair is on her final flight mission when her jet is shot down over one of the most dangerous rebel strongholds in Afghanistan. She finds refuge in an abandoned underground bunker where deadly man-made creatures known as Ravagers — half-human, half-alien, and hungry for human flesh — are awakened.

When Edward’s search for his biological family leads him and his girlfriend Ryley to a magnificent villa high in the mountains of Northern Portugal, he is full of excitement at meeting his long-lost mother and twin brother. Finally, he will discover who he is and where he comes from. But nothing is as it seems, and Edward will soon learn that he is linked to them by a monstrous secret.

In the course of one afternoon, Raphael's paradise turns into a spiral of guilt and paranoia.

An urban family inherits an old country house located in a small village. Upon their arrival they try to adapt to the new lifestyle, but they soon learn that the village is overshadowed by superstition and mysterious folklore. As they are plagued by strange events, they learn more about the history of their family, and slowly begin to believe by inheriting the house, they also inherited a curse.

The film is set in a small rural town that is haunted by the undead. Only one man seems to be able to stop them, and that is Lúcio, a worker whose wife recently turned into a zombie, forcing him to keep her locked in the basement. In a local tavern he finds a second shot at true love, but this blooming romance is threatened by the situation plaguing the town.

A group of nuns become possessed by demons and are then tortured in a dungeon of horrors during the Inquisition.

The Forest of the Lost Souls is a dense and remote forest, Portugal's most popular place for suicide. In a summer morning, two strangers meet within the woods.

Seven years ago a young man murdered his parents, was sent to a mental institute after his departure from it, he returns to his life surrounded by crime, with an insatiable desire for revenge.

Explores the ambiguity of sensations, the boundaries between pleasure and pain, a filmmaker's piece about death as the final fetish and the ritual suicide Seppuku.

In a terrifying Portuguese village, there is a legend. The legend of the wolf child. Desired and born on a full moon night, it all started when a young peasant girl, desperate for a child, asked a creature of the forest for a wish. The desire? A child she could call hers. But the forest creature curses the woman. When grow up, the child will bring teeth and blood to the village. Years pass, the child becomes a man, tormented and persecuted by the villagers, torn between his animalistic nature and a friendship with a young witch. The boy has to find out who, or what, he is. Together, the wolf child and the witch will try to break the curse and find their place in the world. 16 years after "Coisa Ruim", Frederico Serra returns to the legends and traditions of deep Portugal.

Edgar is a jaded photographer. One evening he witnesses a murder. The culprit escapes. Edgar, instead of helping the victim, becomes mesmerized by the expression of pure terror in her face.

Six adventurers go on a quest for a mystical cemetery. After disturbing the dead, they trigger an ancient curse that will destroy the entire world.

A school inspector travels to the baron’s fiefdom to write a report on a heathen teacher. Having arrived, he is invited to stay with the baron, who makes predictions about women, horses and politics while the mysterious Idalina serves food and drink. The inspector becomes inextricably entangled in the baron’s world.

K just crashed his Mercedes-Benz into a tree, moments after trying to avoid running down a small wild animal that ran across his path. He is on a backwater road in the countryside and it’s a very dark night. His evening has only just begun...

Inspired by popular cult, O COVEIRO is part light part darkness, a bedtime story and almost a nightmare. A child is born and his parents die of fright just to see him. André Gil Mata revisits the traditional Portuguese tale, in a fantastic movie where heads bounce, but you hear a song.

After an excessive night, Mafalda e Filipe return home. When they fall asleep, something sinister awakens.

Zeca is a loser. He lives with his grandmother and works as an exterminator. One day, while working, Zeca has an accident which will spawn the meanest, most horrible monster ever.

Trapped inside the Space Freighter/Refinery Dédalo, Siena tries to survive an infestation of diabolic creatures.

A big house can be scary... especially when it's empty.

Freddy manages to escape from hell, and is now in Lisbon, ready to collect more souls to gain more power.

This event gave rise to the portuguese perverse murderer known as the Muppet-Face, a psychological descent to his sick and perfidious motivation.

Locked away in a dungeon, an heretic prepares a witchcraft to escape.

After a night out partying hard, a girl wakes up drunk at her house. Dazed and confused, she is not sure she came home alone.

A man is taken by a beautiful woman to a house in the countryside, as soon as he enters, a horde of creatures is waiting for him, where the hellbox creation ceremony will take place.

In a world polluted by atomic radiation, five survivors find shelter in an underground bunker. The sudden discovery of a rare and miraculous medicine will become a source of quarrel within the group.

Wayward boy punishes his mother’s lover. Beauty and horror fondle each other. Young gods callously abjure conventional morality. Death goes whoring in child’s guise.

An elderly woman and a hormone-charged teenager arrive to a beach hut where, during her brief moments of clarity, she will persuade him to kill her.

Alastor remains trapped inside the Hellbox, when he feels a child approaching, and uses his tricks to be released, once outside, he wants revenge on the priest who imprisoned him.

Two Angola, the colonial and the contemporary, spaced 60 years, share the curse of a mysterious island. In the past, the epicenter of the tragedy is an evil fortress, tomb of revolutionaries deported from the mainland. In the present, the building of a luxurious resort awakens the relentless jaw of justice. Soon after, workmen lacerated dead bodies, begin to appear. The horror spreads rapidly. Pedro Mbala is sent to the island to solve the problem. His target is a pack of stray dogs.

A bunch of spectators trapped in a cinema theatre.

At the peak of Summer, in a realm where circuits intertwine with consciousness, Martha and David question whether a menacing algorithm conceals the whispers of spirits, blurring the boundaries between technology and ethereal existence.

A horror micro short film about scream queens and bloody casting auditions.

In the vein of Troma trash cult pieces and Italian rip-offs, comes an all new trash "disasterpiece". Dentes e Garras!(Fangs & Claws!) A drunk military recruit accidentally sets free a terrifying prehistoric monster, which will devour and destroy everyone who dares to cross his path. Throughout the carnage a hero rises to end the creature's reign of terror.

The quiet life of a serial killer in Lisbon is disrupted when an unusual incident suddenly turns him into a social media star.

A 70-year-old man is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.

A film of a dying world populated by mythic creatures and spirits, our personal meditation on nature and the environment captured on Super 8 film.

Man and boy play a futile game of chess in the middle of nowhere. An internal struggle between what is and what can no longer be.

A Visigoth count conquers a small village town from the Moors in the Lusitanian mountains, only to loose his possessions through the mysterious workings of a woman from parts unknown.

A middle aged woman is desperately wondering in the streets looking for her daughter. A man finds her before she does.

It has been almost 2 years since the small town of Santa Carla had suffered in the hands of the raging maniac, Cameron Crowe. Legend around town had it as that he may have been burnt in a fire he started. No one expected that he'd ever come back to reek havoc once again. And this time with a vengeance. They're only hope is to conjure spirits from beyond for help.

Set in a Kafka-esque world, we follow the life of Miguel, a famous fisherman that suffers a vengeance from a former prey.

When is one life more valuable then another? A boy (Fabio Santos) and a girl (Cristina Gomes) will have to discover the answer in a few seconds, but ... Not everything is what it seems! A story of Tony Simoes with the directing of Eduardo Rodrigues, comes END, the new short film from the duo!

In a dark forest, a man finds and rescues a demonic doll with whom he tries to develop a love affair, only to return her to where she was found due to irreconcilable differences.

A man that dismembers bodies finds his life in danger when one of the corpses isn't really dead.

In California, Maria has awful nightmares and visions of her sister who committed suicide one year ago. Her roommate Chris invites Maria to travel with her and her friends Tanya and Rose on vacation to her uncle's house in Saguaro, Arizona, to relax. When the group arrives in the house, they immediately go to a night-club to have fun and chase some local guys for sex; however, the evil El Charro is seeking Maria, killing her friends with his machete.

Julião is a young farm worker who, one day, contracts leprosy. Overnight, the good mountaineers that were so friendly with him refuse to see him again, and he must be by himself in the far woods. Bathing in olive oil, as suggested by an old woman, proves ineffective. Now, he becomes violent, expressing his anguish against those who expelled him from the village. Production date is 1975. Had its first major public release in 2009, at MotelX, Lisbon's International Horror Film Festival in the section "Lost Room". The movie was suggested to the MotelX production by the portuguese director António Macedo who knew about the existence of this and other portuguese movies about popular legends and myths of the portuguese imaginary. The movie was archived and conserved by the portuguese Cinematheque.

A community in the Brazilian countryside has its order disturbed by the arrival of outsiders: a group of teenagers who find out, the hard way, that the Devil exists.

Whilst a university student prepares to go to sleep, he finds a spirit already on his bed.

She arrives home at the end of the day, tired. While she prepares dinner, he reads the newspaper. Finally, she decides to bake some special cookies.

In 1200, a sacred relic is sought by the Mad Bishop, surrounded by the Knights Templars, he sends them on a mission to recover it, but that won't be so easy to achieve.

A group of mercenaries, goes on a rescue mission to save a group of soldiers in enemy lines, but when they get there, they find something never seen before, now they must join forces to survive this hellish nightmare.

A young girl is taken in chains to an abandoned house. What does her jailer hide?

One of the archetypes and visual icons of cinema, the skull, and what it means, as a representation in the visual arts and in cinema. Experimental Cinema.

After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic.

Rafael wakes up in a house he has never seen before. He suspects he has been kidnapped, but manages to escape from the house. While escaping, he finds an open house, with no one there, and no cars. Due to his desperation, he enters the house without thinking and spends a few days there. After regaining his sanity and access to the internet, he manages to ask a trusted relative for a ride. But when he gets home, he begins to feel changes in his body and begins to suspect that he has been the victim of a ritual. From that moment on, things initially become strange.

A small group of well-to-do vacationers go on a hiking trip into the woods. Foolishly unprepared to deal with Mother Nature and their situation, they wander around lost for days and weeks, becoming more and more fatigued, hungry, and desperate. A brief encounter with a pair of epicureans on a bridge fails to garner them any of the gluttons' feast due to a language barrier. Eventually their party begins to die, and the survivors ration their meat among them, attaching a religious-type ritual to its dispensation.

A man walks out of a restaurant and comes across a news reporter.

A debate arises between Jesus Christ and a beautiful nun about her nightlife and whether the scriptures address any punishment for her sins.

A horror film based on a book by Dick Haskins.