Best Romanian horror movies
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch horror films from Romania, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
High Tension 2003
Best friends Marie and Alexia decide to spend a quiet weekend at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But on the night of their arrival, the girls' idyllic getaway turns into an endless night of horror.
68Anacondas: Trail of Blood 2009
A genetically created Anaconda, cut in half, regenerates itself into two new aggressive giant snakes, due to the Blood Orchid.
39Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis 2005
In an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, a group of teenagers end up releasing a horde of bloodthirsty zombies.
40Be My Cat: A Film for Anne 2015
An aspiring filmmaker goes to shocking extremes to convince Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway to star in his film. First entry in Adrian Țofei's spiritual trilogy which includes We Put the World to Sleep and Pure.
54The Goat and Her Three Kids 2022
Secluded from the world, a single mother of three must defend what's left of her family from a cold-blooded killer, at all costs.
74Retro Puppet Master 1999
Andre Toulon, living a peaceful life as a puppeteer in pre-WWI Paris, encounters the renegade sorcerer Afzel, who has stolen the mysterious secrets of life from the dark god Sutekh.
41Subspecies V: Blood Rise 2023
Stolen by crusaders on the night of his birth, Radu (Anders Hove) has no knowledge of his bloodline: his mother is a demon; his father is a vampire. Trained and exploited by a brotherhood of mystic monks to slay all enemies of the church, fate brings him back one night to the castle of his father, armed with the monster-slaying Sword of Laertes, to destroy the vampire Vladislas and reclaim a holy relic: The Bloodstone. The events of that night turn Radu from a noble man into a vampire with no master, setting him on a centuries-long quest for sustenance, and companionship, for the treacherous one who stole him from the sun, and for the Bloodstone he hopes will bring him peace.
54Miss Christina 2013
The film is an adaptation of the well known short story "Miss Christina" by Mircea Eliade. Moscu arrived at the mansion with his girlfriend, Sanda, the young artist Egor Paşchievici notes that her entire family worships Miss Christina, her aunt murdered in unclear circumstances when she was just 20 years old, during the riots of 1907. Egor is inexplicably drawn into a portrait of Miss Christina and begins to dream. Soon, however, the boundary between dream and reality is blurred and Miss Christina, love Egor, is brought back to life through occult rituals even by her family. When realized, however, that life is in danger Egor Sanda decides to fight the ghost.
71Buzz House: The Movie 2024
The next season of Buzz House is the most ambitious yet. Selly has prepared many surprises for the participants: secret competitors, an isolated villa in the forest that can only be reached by boat and a costumed employee, set to scare them, to have a thrilling exit. Everything is planned in detail. What's not in the plan, though, is for a real psychopath to show up, kill the "scary" employee, take his costume and terrorize our competitors for real. Do rivalries still matter when you're being run over with an axe? Do friendships still matter when you have to risk your life for them? Who will manage to escape and how?
46Ghost Train 1933
This earliest surviving Romanian horror-thriller is distinctly un-Romanian in several ways: an adaptation of Arnold Ridley’s play of the same name (best known through its 1941 film version starring Arthur Askey), TRENUL FANTOMĂ was shot in Hungary as an alternate-language version of KÍSÉRTETEK VONATA (1933), with both films using footage taken from the 1931 British movie adaptation.
75Buzz House: The Movie 2 2025
After waking from a coma, Selly realizes he can't lie anymore. His friend Costi sees this as a chance to create a hit show, but things spiral out of control when they try to launch a new season of BuzzHouse.
70Lost Footage 2022
How would a found footage film look if the footage was never found? This conceptual art experiment questions the very nature of film and cinema while serving as an ironic tribute to the found footage horror pop culture. The found footage format provides the narrative justification for such a film to exist: the non-existence exists because the footage existed yet it was lost and never found.
60Frankenstein Reborn! 1998
Thirteen-year-old Anna is intrigued by the secret experiments of her eccentric uncle Victor, but her curiosity soon turns to total terror when she's confronted by Uncle Victor's latest creation - a hideous-looking monster with the soul of a man, stitched together and reanimated from the bodies of the dead.
45Miss Christina 1992
Christina's ghost haunts the mansion where she was born.
45The Visitor 2017
Luca and Otilia,two young people just beginning their lives, move in the big city, helped by their childhood friend, Vlad. They rent a flat in an old building, in which only one old man lives, Felix. The flat has a peculiar past: a former tenant, Irina, disappeared mysteriously 6 months ago. One night, after a big fight, Luca falls asleep in the living room and leaves Otilia alone in the bedroom. During the night, Luca hears the scream of his wife coming from the bedroom. Scared, Luca goes to the room where he had heard the scream from. He notices that his wife has disappeared, just like the previous tenant, without any warning. A crazy game begins: Luca has to find out what happened to his wife and face the accusations that others bring on him, especially to Vlad's, who was in love with Otilia.
50The Night Practice 2023
The new goalkeeper on a youth soccer team faces bullying and hostility from nearly all of his teammates. Only one of the boys, Robert, is nice to him, and they become friends. As the two grow closer, however, unassuming Robert turns out to be guarding a bloody secret.
50Ghouls 2008
Stefan invites his daughter, Jennifer, to travel to Romania for the funeral of his mother. His mystic girlfriend Liz travels with them to the cursed village of Pelosoara, where they are welcomed by Stefan's brother Vladimir, and Jennifer finds the locals are very peculiar people. Jennifer learns that she is the only woman from the bloodline of her father. At the funeral a stranger approaches and asks Jennifer to meet him in the square in one hour. When Jennifer arrives at the meeting place, she sees a creature devouring the man she was there to meet and is saved by Thomas. The man tells her that he is the last druid on Earth, protecting the world against the evil ancients. They were defeated by the druids in the past and banished to the spiritual world. That night, there was to be a reclamation ceremony where the evil queen possesses a vessel to open a vortex between the spiritual and the real world to bring the ancients back to Earth...
33Joker Scarecrow 2020
A family are hunted down by a masked killer that hands each member the Joker card thus beginning the twisted games that are to begin.
26Paranormal Activity In Eastern Europe 2016
A Romanian fan-made spin-off of the Paranormal Activity series.
20Scopophobia 2022
The paranoia and dilemma of a teenager who is stalked in his own house.
15Freshman's Ballad 2022
The story of a lonely, emotional and almost psychotic freshman's in his first year of High School.
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