Best Austrian horror movies

Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.

In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

A killer is released from prison and breaks into a remote home to kill a woman, her handicapped son and her pretty daughter.

A murderous, flesh-eating undead young girl haunting the remote stretch of woods where she was murdered decades earlier, discovers a kidnapped and abused boy hiding in the trunk of one of her victim’s cars. Her decision to let the boy live throws her aggressively solitary existence into upheaval, and ultimately forces her to re-examine just how much of her humanity her murderer was able to destroy.

In 1750 Austria, a deeply religious woman named Agnes has just married her beloved, but her mind and heart soon grow heavy as her life becomes a long list of chores and expectations. Day after day, she is increasingly trapped in a murky and lonely path leading to evil thoughts, until the possibility of committing a shocking act of violence seems like the only way out of her inner prison.

Grotesquely surreal offering charting three male generations of the same bizarre family, including a pervert who constantly seeks for new kinds of satisfaction, an obese speed eater, and a passionate embalmer.

In the 15th century, a young goatherd living alone in a mountain hut feels a dark presence in the woods.

When a big-city family moves to a remote town, two young brothers and their new friends try to solve the menacing mystery that haunts their home.

When lovelorn Michael arrives in Berlin to return a set of keys to his ex-girlfriend, Gabi, as an excuse to see her again, he finds her apartment empty save for a couple of plumbers making repairs to the central heating. Just as Michael learns from the plumber’s apprentice, Harper, that Gabi has popped out for a while but will return soon, the apprentice is attacked by his boss who has unexpectedly and inexplicably transformed into a raging madman. Together, Michael and Harper manage to bundle the crazed plumber out of the apartment and barricade themselves safely inside. Within minutes, they find themselves trapped in apartment block under siege from a horde of similarly insane people, apparently hungry for human flesh.

At a climate research station in the Alps, the scientists are stunned as the nearby melting glacier is leaking a red liquid. It quickly turns to be very special juice — with unexpected genetic effects on the local wildlife.

A young woman move towards a house that holds a potentially dangerous spirit that has been tormenting her. The woman tries to fight against the film itself as it starts to cause the world to collapse.

When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.

A feature-length anthology film. They are known as myths, lore, and folktales. Created to give logic to mankind’s darkest fears, these stories laid the foundation for what we now know as the horror genre.

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.

Overweight and insecure, Simi spends Easter weekend with her famous nutritionist aunt. The hope is that it’ll help her get on a healthier track, but as the aunt’s family’s icy dynamics and an increasingly malevolent atmosphere leave Simi feeling uneasy, weight isn’t the only thing she’s about to lose.

Julia and her friends, celebrating their high school graduation in Croatia, find themselves the targets of a masked killer who begins picking them off, one by one.

17-year-old Jakob wants nothing more than to feel alive. Uncontrollable anxiety attacks prevent him from doing so and force him to escape into virtual worlds. One night, he meets 26-year-old Kristjan in a cam chat. Their encounter marks the beginning of a transpersonal journey to the wounds of their souls.

Conducting a series of experiments in his makeshift home-lab, a skeptic IT worker tries to cure his harrowing hearing impairment. But where will his research lead him? "Masking Threshold" combines a chamber play, a scientific procedural, an unpacking video, and a DIY YouTube channel while suggesting endless vistas of existential pain and decay. Glimpse the world of the nameless protagonist in this eldritch tale, which is by no means for the faint of heart.

Horror comedy film following vampire count Geza von Kösznöm who's visiting groundbreaking neurologist Sigund Freud because he's bored of his life and frustrated of the "eternally long" relationship with his wife Elsa.

Johannes, an innocent, Kaspar Hauser-like man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an alpine hut together with his eagle and his devout mother. Daily life in this isolated world is governed by prayer and ritual. But suddenly, modern objects and disruptive noises intrude between nature and worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.

A woman is caught in an endless dream in which she has to cross the five rivers of Hades.

Flooding in Krumau am Kamp: three infant bodies, two girls and a boy, are found in the basement of the Trummler family's farm, which has long been uninhabited. The children were suffocated immediately after birth and buried on the spot. A dark reputation precedes the Trummlers – the word "cursed" is used more than once, after the daughter's disappearance without a trace...

On their way up to a mountain cabin, Sarah and Thomas run into a dense mist and seem to go astray in the dangerous altitudes. In search of the cabin they encounter increasingly strange events. Lost in those heights, eventually a life-threatening battle between reality and illusion begins...

The long dead ancestress of a noble family returns to haunt her last two remaining descendants. She can not rest until the entire family line has passed away. When she reappears, the household knows it is an ill omen. The patriarch of the family is old, and without a son. He is eager for his daughter to marry. She has her eye on a handsome young nobleman named Jaromir, but he isn't quite who he appears to be. This may be the opportunity the restless spirit has been waiting for for so long...

Tourism is booming at the Pension Alpenrose. After a dying in an accident, Karin returns as one of the undead. In a cinema owned by a Nazi widow where the past is mourned, she brings the dead back to life.

After breaking up with her boyfriend Daniel, Anna just wants to hole up somewhere and recover. But she should have had a closer look at the fineprint of her rental contract – for the old Viennese appartment it is a creature with never ending appetite, living off the youth of its residents. There is no escaping it anymore when Anna faces herself in the mirror as an old lady. Unless she deliveres a new victim…

South African enfant terrible filmmaker and artiste-cineaste Manus Oosthuizen meets with Rotten Tomatoes-approved indie film critic Babette Cruickshank in an Echo Park sound studio. With key members of Manus's crew joining, they record an audio commentary track for his new elegiac feature documentary Razzennest. But the session goes down a different path... cazzart! The ultimate elevation of arthouse horror, just not as you might expect.

Miki and Benji, two good friends and neighbors, live in the quiet rural region of the Mühlviertel. However, the seemingly peaceful lives of the two friends are shaken when their mutual friend Victor dies under mysterious circumstances. At first, it is suspected that Victor may have taken his own life, but doubts about this theory quickly begin to grow...

Anton and Franz live together since the beginnings of 20th century. They talk about their difficulties of being vampires, since their first bite in 1938. Their inconsistent arguments recall those of normal human beings. And history repeat itself. As if that were not enough, they also doesn`t really like each other much.

A long time ago, the so-called "Google Wars" engulfed the whole world in a deadly chain reaction. Civilization came to a grinding halt. But there is still hope. This is the story of a new beginning...

A mad scientist creates a hideous monster to carry out his murderous plans...

Solitary and alone, left by his girlfriend, after being treated badly by her, a young man finds a female body in the woods. His conscience tells him to call the police, but something inside him, something evil commands him to take the corpse with him and satisfy his darkest desires. His Life is total pieces of trash and only the love to the female corpse gives him the power to continue his life. But he hasn't finished with his girlfriend yet and so he decides that it's time to get his revenge once and for all. Who will be the winner in this love triangle? The man, the woman or the corpse?

Three directors open their personal gates to hell and let us glimpse into the abyss of the human soul.

"It had to be me."

After her father's death, Michi tries to repair her broken relationship with her young daughter in her parents' rural home. But the recently sober alcoholic is caught up in the shadows of her past, putting even her child in danger.

A psychopath with skin on his face and a chainsaw patrols the Vienna outskirts to mutilate and kill random people.

Romeo and Juliet - a couple that has a very odd perception of their relationship. They decide to buy a loft situated in a run-down factory. Somenone already lives there. The deranged owner of the factory, and his buddy, the real-estate agent, have been living an exciting life of capturing and torturing young and innocent couples. Too bad Romeo and Juliet are everything but docile victims!

A young girl embarks on a trip to paranoia paradise.

A couple rents a summer house in a small village. Residents ignore all warnings from local people about upcoming mysterious things and are drawn into a story that repeats itself every seven years, claiming its victims.

Prisoners working outdoors clash when one, Mark, is violently beaten after merely asking for water.

A man named Gabriel Winter wakes up in a dimly lit, otherwise very dark room. Not knowing where he is, he sets out to explore and encounters a mysterious doorman who directs him to a portal. Behind the portal, however, Gabriel finds only an endless labyrinth of corridors with doors and makes some inexplicable discoveries that slowly drive him mad...

A special unit called the Uncut Police is created and is tasked with stopping the censorship by any means necessary. Under the leadership of Mrs. Fulci, the Uncut Police cops—consisting of Joe, Umberto, and Dario—take up the fight against censored media. To finally put an end to the censorship, the three cops must track down and arrest the ominous Ilsa. She is known to reside in the Gray Zone, and on the way there, the three cops are confronted with vengeful martial arts fighters, shipments of heavily censored VHS tapes, kidnapped horror film directors, rare fish, and customers of censored media.

“Rats in the Walls” is a short animation that is inspired by one of H.P. Lovecraft’s most gripping horror tales. The film presents the story of a middle aged man who wakes up one night to horrific sounds coming from the walls of his own apartment. He believes the screeches to be the sound of rats but no one else will confirm his suspicion. In his search and difficulties in locating the source of these sounds, the protagonist is rattled by whether what is happening exists in his mind or in reality.

Georg, who is happy with his job as a scientist, with his loving wife and with his three children, hears one day that an accident has happened in a chemical plant nearby. All of a sudden, he finds himself face to face with one of the victims. The man, whose face has been eaten away by the sour gas that escaped from the plant, is staring at him in despair. Does Georg really see the man or is this a mere hallucination? Is he becoming insane or is he more alert to the dangers of the world than the common man?

Follow the owners of the infamous "Maison de la petite mort" during their daily work. After the shocking events in part one, you'll never guess what the new owner Monsieur Matheo Maximè is up to. Torturing for money at it's very - worst.

Inspector Black is investigating a series of murders for which there are no apparent leads. The pressure from his supervisor is growing when yet another corpse is found. Meanwhile rock star Max and his manager Tom Meyer are on their way to meet a music producer. To their dismay, their car breaks down and they are forced to go in search of help. As they arrive in the closest Village they encounter a man who initially offers to help. To their horror, they later realize that they have become victims of an Elvis-obsessed psychopath. But it's already too late. The situation deteriorates, and it comes to musical torture.

The smell of shampoo and cigarettes hangs in the air. The hair buns tear at the scalp and the newest hits play on a small radio. It’s the golden 50ies and Victor has his hair salon in perfect order – or so it seems. Because from her first day at the new job, Paula just can’t take her eyes off the strange jukebox in the corner. She senses that the machine is somehow connected to a dark secret. As Paula starts to take a deeper look at it, she doesn’t understand that her own life is on the line.

A young nurse gets entangled in the occult cabal of her aristocratic patient, the Baroness Heidenreich who resides with her devoted groundskeeper, Otto. Their dark secrets will soon be revealed.

Romana and her friends plan a camp for kids deep in the woods. But something awakens and none shall leave the forest again ...

Paulie fries an egg. Something goes wrong.

Sometime, hopefully not too soon, in a place wherever but not here, all life will have moved underground after a failed uprising. Everybody wears a mask, more often than not of the variety seen only at Halloween these days. In this scary universe (that on closer inspection looks like a twisted, perverted version of our here and now...), a man with a gorilla mask is searching for a little boy with a hessian hood. His quest leads him into a maze of depravity, a pandemonium of all our nightmares and darkest desires – where something awaits that he had already given up on: love.

Martin Arnold has adopted a fragment from the shower scene of Alfred Hitchcock’s legendary thriller PSYCHO, rendering and composing it anew with the possibilities of digital retouching. The result is a short yet intense piece of contemporary aesthetics. Devoted mainly to density and omission, it visualizes the cinematic narrative on all its levels as a cinematographic and aesthetic mise en scène. Simultaneously, it reveals that a resolving adaptation of traditional cinematic forms can also create suspense, excitement and pleasure.

The members of a film jury find themselves locked in a cinema after they can’t decide which film to award the prize to.

An easy-to-frighten teenager watches a horror movie on Halloween night and the line between reality and his imagination becomes blurred.

When a young family, father, mother and their daughter, is on a trip in the mountains, they lose orientation and have to stay there for the night. The daughter finds a dead young girl who does exactly look like herself. When they check for mountain rescue service they suddenly find themselves deeply involved in an local myth about a prophecy which seems to be fulfilling now. The mountains are bearing an old curse.

Zombies and Vampires wanna destroy Vienna with bad music. They didn't know that Vienna has the worst musicians on this planet. They strike back with Austro Pop and Austrian Volksmusic. Special Agent Ed Wood gets the order to save this planet and suddenly he falls in love with the beautiful Pia who is searching for her boyfriend Robert who has turned into a Zombie. It finally comes to a bloody battle.

In order to find each other again, Lena and Andi decide to retreat to a remote holiday cabin deep in the mountains for a long weekend. When Andi finds out one morning that Lena has suddenly disappeared without a trace, the situation escalates. He goes in search of her and penetrates deeper and deeper into a mysterious and dark world of horror...

A horde of bikini girls drowns an art painter, who is reborn as a monster and slashes up lots of girlies and surfer boys. To stop the killing, FBI special agent Natascha Nuts comes on the scene. She kills a few people, but the killing continues. The CIA sends its toughest mercenary, Maniac Cop to the beach, he also kills a few people, but the terror can not be stopped.

A female vampire from the planet Arus [who] tries to vampirize the descendants of Dr. Fun Helsing. A film that wallows in smut, sleaze, gore, splatter, and dark comedy and is set in an underground world where both vampires and punk rockers engage in straight, lesbian & gay hardcore sex to the highly addictive and hypnotic electro music of Model D’oo

A washed-up Horror Movie actor is haunted by a paranormal demon. Together with his best friend they try to find out the reason why. What they find out is scarier than anything else in their life.

Fifty years after graduating from school, Senta von Meissen invites eight former school friends to a class reunion at her castle. The table is set for ten people. One place remains empty: Teddy, the hostess's former school sweetheart, died in an accident on her graduation trip to the Rhine Falls. But was it really an accident? The evening turns into a murderous act of revenge.

When 13-year-old Lena tragically loses her mother, she must be strong and care for the newborn. Her father is no help. His grief for his deceased wife has a firm grip on him. Only when he hears about a parasitic fungus that enables communication with the dead does he regain his courage. Lena can't make sense of it. She believes the whole thing is pure fantasy. But then she begins to have visions that make it almost impossible for her to distinguish between reality and illusion.

Immediately after completing her studies in journalism, the young Penelope Jones becomes a reporter for a local city television station. Her first assignment is to shoot a report on the first Perchtenlauf in 10 years. During her research, Penelope comes across a crime that has long been well-covered up, in which very respected personalities of the city are deeply entangled. Despite all the intimidation and threats, Penelope continues her research. Her sharpest weapons on the winding path of the truth search are plenty of grips, a strong dose of ambition, their unwavering strength of character and a ravishing smile.

A young woman embarks on a search for her recently deceased grandmother's will in her house. She encounters strange clues that increasingly support the deceased's decades-long paranoia. As strange discoveries and unexplained events accumulate, she decides to leave the dilapidated house—but the delusion becomes real.

Austrian television version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart from 1958.