Best Ukrainian horror movies

The tale unfolds around an ancient witch from the Ukrainian town of Konotop, who long ago abandoned her extraordinary powers after falling in love with a mortal man. However, tragedy strikes when her beloved is brutally murdered by the russian soldiers as they occupy Konotop in February 2022. Fueled by grief and a thirst for revenge, she reclaims her supernatural abilities, embarking on a blood-soaked quest to mete out justice to her fiancé's killers.

Successful writer and scholar Jonathan Merrick falls under the spell of the irresistible, bewitchingly beautiful Ligeia. She's fighting a fatal illness and she will stop at nothing to defeat death, her one true enemy.

A young college student and a group of friends find themselves victims of demons unwillingly released during a mishap at a prestiguous university. To reverse the curse and save themselves, they travel to the forbidden mystical forest in western Ukraine. There, they must locate the legendary Molfars that can help rid them of demonic possession and save each of them from certain death. Danger lurks in the forest and personality clashes add to the tension as the young students fight for survival.

Inside the Chornobyl exclusion zone Grandma Prisa, the family matriarch, consorts with water nymphs, eats a diet filled with hallucinogenic mushrooms, and claims to have personally stabbed 12 SS soldiers to death during World War II. She lives together with her divorced and chronically ill daughter Slava and grandson Vova. Unexpectedly, their measured life comes to an end - Grandma Prisa receives a mystical warning about an impending catastrophe.

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Turkey and were executed by other Zaporizhian Sich Cossacks are reanimated as living dead at one cold night.

Three friends lived in a Ukrainian village. They were not rich, so they were happy to take up the proposed small job. They had to go to another village at a dark night. On the way, they saw a small farmhouse and a cottage, where they decided to spend the night. Thus very strange mystical events began.

Composer Herman completely goes into writing his work "Cycle", losing absolutely all connection with the outside world. One evening, he falls asleep and when he wakes up, he begins to understand that his composition begins to come to life.

Two young people, Maya and Mark, find themselves near the Bold Mountain, a place that has been a subject to horrifying rumors. Several years ago Maya's mother disappeared right there.

Didko (aka the devil) is a character of Ukrainian folk demonology. The narrative conveys that didko is waiting for everyone who misbehaves and will torture them. Only this work doesn't depict them in a traditional way, with little horns upon the pig's face, with goat legs and covered in fur. Instead, it suggests their appearance as humans, implying that anyone could be a sinner and anyone could be a devil.

Our days. Five students of the Faculty of History sent to the archaeological practice. Professor, head of the young seekers of Antiquities, tells them the legend that during the war the museum staff had hidden above a statue of the pagan god Perun somewhere in the dungeons outside the city.

Have you ever been haunted by terrible nightmares about doctors? All the evil spirits led by Wiy the radiologist and all the worst from the field of medicine await you in the animation "Clinic".

Anya and her beloved Yurko come to visit the girl’s parents in the Ukrainian Carpathian village in the summer. At the Ivan Kupala celebration, a local heartthrob named Ivanka, nicknamed Morena, puts her eye on and charms him. Strange and mystical events begin to happen to lovers after meeting with Morena. A conflict breaks out between girls – their relationship turns into a desperate war that leaves blood in their wake. This feud will forever change them.

Famous lake in Carpathian mountains -- lake Synevir -- is known for its rich history throughout the hundreds of years as a place of mystical unexplained events. There is a group of students who decided to spend a weekend at the lake. They did not believe in those stories about lake Synevir and the strange creatures around it. Too bad for them....

This Ukrainian fantasy reflects the careful retelling of a folk legend about a beautiful sorceress and her young apprentice. The older witch initiates the younger into a magical world while two winged men observe them. The film is done without sensation.

A modern fairy tale about a girl who is looking for her lost soul. First love, jealousy, death – everything can be found in this fantastic animation movie. Julia's fiance died tragically. Having grieved a little, Julia decided to get married again. But the dead bridegroom returned for Julia's soul. In order to save her soul, the girl had to go to the other world.

City playboy Denis surpasses customer's car and stops in the deserted village for emergency repair of the machine. But it turns out that to leave this place, every stranger has to pay his price to the local warlock. Even more frightening is the price for the main character, who falls in love with the warlock's daughter.

A film about the coexistence of two relations of human consciousness and universal reality. No one knows what reality is. Consciousness can be submissive and different. The different one floats in the flow of unjust world order.

Somewhere not far from the capital, in a county town, three teenagers discover the lost archaeological digging site of a pagan shrine. Following that, a series of terrifying and unexplainable events happen in the environs. An enigmatic history teacher, who has appeared in the town recently, is set to solve the problems.