# The best Brazilian horror movies

From José Mojica Marins's Coffin Joe to the new generation mixing folklore, social critique and gore: the Brazilian horror films that appear most in the lists of Cinema com Rapadura, TechTudo and ND Mais.

- 7 votes · 14 items
- Jun 1, 2025 · larissa_serieviciada
- https://even.best/en/l/4252/the-best-brazilian-horror-movies

## Top 12

1. **Good Manners (2017)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra: a nanny, a pregnant woman and an unusual child in São Paulo.
2. **The Nightshifter (2018)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A morgue night-shift worker who talks to the dead.
3. **Friendly Beast (2017)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Gabriela Amaral Almeida: a restaurant robbery spirals out of control.
4. **A Wolf at the Door (2013)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Fernando Coimbra: a girl's kidnapping and a love triangle.
5. **The Black Forest (2018)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Rodrigo Aragão and the dark folklore of rural Espírito Santo.
6. **At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — José Mojica Marins creates Coffin Joe.
7. **When I Was Alive (2014)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Marco Dutra: a man returns to his father's flat and its old ghosts.
8. **Property (2022)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A farm, a wealthy couple and the workers' revolt.
9. **The Cannibal Club (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Guto Parente: an elite that enjoys eating its employees.
10. **The Yellow Night (2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ramon Porto Mota: teenagers in a beach house and one strange night.
11. **Kill Me Please (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Anita Rocha da Silveira: teenagers and a wave of murders in Barra da Tijuca.
12. **The Devil Lives Here (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A house haunted by its slave-owning past.
13. **Through the Shadow (2015)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Walter Lima Jr. adapts The Turn of the Screw on a coffee farm.
14. **The Father's Shadow (2018)** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — Gabriela Amaral Almeida: a girl who believes she can bring her mother back.

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