The 40 most popular brazilian horror movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Fatal Conspiracy
2022 · BR
Davi Martins, a commercial director of a financial institution, and Juliana Martins, a personal trainer, are a couple trying to recover from a crisis. At work, Davi ends up getting involved in the investigation of a financial scandal, putting himself in the crosshairs of dangerous people. Little by little, Juliana discovers that her new home may not be a new beginning, but the stage for a real nightmare. Some secrets may end her life.


The Intruder
1979 · 1h 40m · BR
The parallel lives of two brothers of the "Pampas" of the Brazilian area, which much share everything they have. A woman, "the intruder", will change everything.


Mulher Objeto
1981 · 2h 5m · BR
A story about the fantasies of a married woman who lives in a dream several experiences with partners of both sexes.


Tarântula
2015 · 20m · BR
In a distant mansion lives a religious and apparently incomplete family: a mother and her two daughters. Until the day which a new disturbing member comes to put things in their place.


Act of Violence
1981 · 1h 52m · BR
Antônio Nunes is sentenced to 30 years in jail, after having killed a woman, and becomes known as ripper of women. Infatuated Tânia begins to visit him frequently and hires a lawyer to try to take him out.


Divino Assassino
2025 · 32m
Betina lives with her father Adamastor, but he is fascinated by the teachings of the mysterious New World cult. Despite being the newest member and receiving a suspicious message, she still goes to a party with her friends Jorge, Pietra and Lucas, but there things start to change.


The Curse
2021 · 52m · BR
While out for a walk in the countryside, Marina and Juvenal stop to take some pictures in front of an old woman’s house. Annoyed, the old woman turns out to be a witch and casts a curse on the young couple in the form of a wound that feeds on raw flesh.


Aurora
2025 · 1h 5m · BR
A young couple is on the verge of realizing their dream of owning a home. Accompanied by a real estate agent, they visit the perfect property to begin a new chapter in their lives—but what starts as an ordinary day quickly turns into a nightmare. An older man and his teenage daughter, clearly terrified, break into the house while fleeing from two armed men who insist they must capture the girl before nightfall.


Waves
2020 · 15m · BR
After the death of his wife, Paul finds himself trapped in a world where the only connection established is by waves electromagnetic, murdering interpersonal relationships. Paul wants to break free from loneliness, until he finally meets Sofia.


Exquisite Corpse
2021 · 1h 28m · AR
With her girlfriend lying comatose in the hospital, after having found her lifeless body in the bathtub, Clara starts the path of physical and psychological transformation with the goal of possessing her girlfriend again in some way.


Prata Palomares
1972 · 2h 5m · BR
While waiting for directions, two revolutionaries hide in a church, where they meet a woman who wants to have a son with one of them.


Hellish Flesh
1977 · 1h 23m · BR
Dr. George Medeiros, a brilliant scientist, is badly disfigured when his wife takes a lover and plans to murder him. After months in the hospital, he returns with nothing in mind but revenge.


SlashFM II
2023
No overview available


Helldose
2021 · 1h 18m · BR
Helldose is an anthology where the hostess leads her guests to prove five different flavors from the depths of hell.


Astaroth, Female Demon
2017 · 1h 16m · BR
Shrouded by the mists of time, she has been forgotten ... But there is always someone to remember. Gregório is a tattoo artist obsessed with Astaroth, a demonic entity lurking in the shadows with promises of desire and pleasure. With the art of tattooing and his arcane knowledge, he intends to rescue her from the mists of oblivion and bring her into the world of the flesh. Two young women are involved in her plans: the determined tattoo artist Dri and the sweet guitarist Lia. A friend of theirs, Mai is the young woman who will use her martial arts training to try to defend them and combat the designs of Hell.


Dysphoria
2020 · 1h 37m · BR
Dario is a psychologist who has recently began taking child patients again, after going through a traumatic experience. His first patient is Sofia, a girl who makes others around her feel disturbing sensations.
Perversion
Perversion
1979 · 1h 40m · BR
A prominent millionaire gets a woman drunk and rapes her, biting off her nipple in the process. Because of his influence and powerful lawyer, though, he is able to beat the rap, claiming the woman was trying to extort money from him. He continues his life of debauchery, using women and flaunting his power until he meets a new woman, who won't let him have his way with her, but wants to be his friend. Falling madly in love with her, he cleans up his act and devotes his attentions to her, not realizing that she has a hidden agenda.


Urubú
2020 · 1h 30m · BR
Tomás, a birdwatcher and photographer, tries to give his career a push by taking an impossible photograph: an albino bird never seen outside captivity. To this end, he drags his wife and daughter to the Amazonian forest.


Sexo Profundo
1981 · 1h 30m · BR
A woman catches her husband cheating on her so she drugs him, castrates him and then keeps him chained up in the basement where he's forced to watch her have sex with other men before she kills them.


Paranóia
1976 · 1h 30m · BR
Four thieves enter a house and terrorize a family.


Clarisse or Something About Us
2015 · 1h 24m · BR
The dry quarry and a forest that still beats. A very sick father reviews the daughter. Resentments are brought to the table. The memory of the dead awakened by blood, objects, shadows and dreams affects Clarisse at this scenario of beauty and agony. Husband and business are expecting she in the city for a cathartic outcome.


Cidade; Campo
2024 · 2h · BR
Two tales of migration. In the first, after a tailings dam disaster floods her hometown, rural worker Joana (55) moves to São Paulo to find her sister Tania, who lives with her grandson Jaime. Joana enters the universe of insecurity, replying to an application for house cleaning. She bonds with her colleagues, and their struggle for better conditions gives Joana’s life a new meaning. Her relationship with young Jaime brings back old memories. In the second part, after the death of her estranged father, Flavia (32) moves to her farm with her wife Mara. The couple suffer a shock of reality when facing the harshness of rural life. The contact with the abandoned house reveals to Flavia unknown aspects of her father. She begins to suspect that there is something supernatural in the woods.


FilmeFobia
2008 · 1h 20m · BR
The making of an unfinished film about phobias. Says the director. Behind the screens, he discusses at length (with e.g. Coffin Joe) about the aesthetic boundaries of the project: volunteers under controlled circumstances become immersed in their phobias in order to film the fear on their faces.


Intruso
2016 · 1h 20m · BR
An unwanted guest dictates rules to an average family, who must follow them without questioning and behave in a proper and controlled way.


Tema Tevê
2018 · 14m · BR
The story is about a young man who has the strange habit of waking up in a dead body position and decides to buy a security camera to investigate what happens while he sleeps. What he sees is shocking.


Satanic Attraction
1989 · 1h 42m · BR
Fernanda, a radio DJ, has a show in which she tells gruesome and gory horror stories about satanic rituals and sex murders. However, when bodies start turning up around town killed in exactly the way Fernanda describes on her show, it looks like someone or some group is using her show to get ideas.


Medusa
2021 · 2h 8m · BR
By day, Mari and her friends broadcast their spiritual devotion through pastel pinks and catchy evangelical songs about purity and perfection, and by night they form a vigilante girl gang, prowling the streets in search of sinners who have deviated from the rightful path. After an attack goes wrong, leaving Mari scarred and unemployed, her views of community, religion, and her peers begin to shift.


O Juízo
2019 · 1h 39m · BR
Augusto moves with his family to an abandoned farm, inherited from his grandfather, hoping to put his life back on track. The property, however, carries the karma of the betrayal of the slave Couraça who seeks revenge against Augusto's family.


Guerra Civil
2024
No overview available


Madalena
2021 · 1h 25m · BR
The body of a trans woman lies lifeless in a soy plantation and three lives react to her missing and presumed death.


Missing
2011 · 1h 40m · BR
A VIP private party in a tropical island surrounded by rainforest. The invitation, a small video camera (flipcam) that you have to wear around your neck at all times. The cameras record randomly and you never know when they are on. Sounds like the best and sexiest party ever? It is until a group of friends disappears in the forest. After weeks their cameras are found, on them we discover what has happened, and why the authorities did not want these images to be revealed.
Nightmare
Nightmare
1965 · 1h 25m · BR
Brazilian horror movie from 1965.


The Flesh Itself
2025 · 1h 38m · BR
Amid the Paraguayan War, three deserter soldiers seek refuge in an isolated frontier house inhabited by a rancher and a young woman. What seems like sanctuary soon reveals itself as far more horrifying than the war itself.


13 Souls
2026 · 1h 34m · US
Following her mother’s death, fifteen-year-old Agne moves in with her estranged father and older sister near a cemetery where he works. There, she uncovers a mysterious and deadly connection between her family and the “13 Souls” — victims of a tragic, unsolved fire decades earlier. As the past resurfaces and strange phenomena escalate, Agne finds herself entangled in a supernatural mystery tied to possession, reincarnation, and long-buried guilt.


The Whore with the Chainsaw
2008 · 30m · BR
A love story, a love triangle that gets soiled with blood with the arrival of a fourth character: a serial killer who collects vaginas. Lesbian couple is chased by lover betrayed in the areas of Weird. Blood and sex in the tradition of the 80's Boca do Lixo films with eschatological scenes and total cinematographic metalanguage.


Carniçal
2015
Felipe is a boy with a double life, whose relationship with an older woman does not have the approval of his mother, a bitter woman. With the arrival of a band of gypsies, a secret will come to light bringing an irreversible outcome.


Naked Star
1985 · 1h 30m · BR
An aspiring actress is hired to dub a recently deceased movie star in an upcoming erotic thriller. As the recording sessions go on, the voice actress finds herself slowly being influenced by the dead star’s presence.


Virtuous Women
2026 · 1h 26m · BR
What begins as a VIP retreat for women to achieve the best version of themselves, soon transforms into an absurd and dangerous journey.


Evil Within
2025 · 1h 21m · BR
Luna sets out on a journey in search of her mother, who disappeared on the last day of Carnival in Guarapari. Her search leads her to an old building that is apparently empty but inhabited by tormented souls.


Hotel Papucaia
2026 · BR
Lucas and Brian are looking for a hotel called Hotel Papucaia, but things don't go quite as they expected.
Brazilian cinema's Cinema Novo movement of the 1960s tied filmmaking directly to social critique, a thread that runs through to the urban dramas that broke internationally in the 2000s.
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