The best Brazilian horror movies
The top 3 according to 7 votes from people: Good Manners (2017) · The Nightshifter (2018) · Friendly Beast (2017). (Updated Jun 1, 2025.)
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.
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Top 12
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1
Good Manners (2017)
Juliana Rojas and Marco Dutra: a nanny, a pregnant woman and an unusual child in São Paulo.
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2
The Nightshifter (2018)
A morgue night-shift worker who talks to the dead.
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3
Friendly Beast (2017)
Gabriela Amaral Almeida: a restaurant robbery spirals out of control.
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4
A Wolf at the Door (2013)
Fernando Coimbra: a girl's kidnapping and a love triangle.
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5
The Black Forest (2018)
Rodrigo Aragão and the dark folklore of rural Espírito Santo.
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6
At Midnight I'll Take Your Soul (1964)
José Mojica Marins creates Coffin Joe.
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7
When I Was Alive (2014)
Marco Dutra: a man returns to his father's flat and its old ghosts.
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8
Property (2022)
A farm, a wealthy couple and the workers' revolt.
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9
The Cannibal Club (2018)
Guto Parente: an elite that enjoys eating its employees.
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10
The Yellow Night (2019)
Ramon Porto Mota: teenagers in a beach house and one strange night.
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11
Kill Me Please (2015)
Anita Rocha da Silveira: teenagers and a wave of murders in Barra da Tijuca.
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12
The Devil Lives Here (2015)
A house haunted by its slave-owning past.
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13
Through the Shadow (2015)
Walter Lima Jr. adapts The Turn of the Screw on a coffee farm.
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14
The Father's Shadow (2018)
Gabriela Amaral Almeida: a girl who believes she can bring her mother back.
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