Russia - Horror & Suspense Movies Around the Globe
by Encyclopedia_of_Horror | created - 13 Aug 2019 | updated - 2 months ago | PublicA series of lists chronicling horror and suspense releases from various countries, brought to you by Eric Myford, author of The Encyclopedia of Horror & Suspense Movies book series.
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1. Stalker (1979)
Not Rated | 162 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A guide leads two men through an area known as the Zone to find a room that grants wishes.
Director: Andrei Tarkovsky | Stars: Alisa Freyndlikh, Aleksandr Kaydanovskiy, Anatoliy Solonitsyn, Nikolay Grinko
Votes: 144,875 | Gross: $0.23M
2. Mermaid: The Lake of the Dead (2018)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An aquatic nymph falls obsessively in love with a man and wants to have him with her forever in her underwater kingdom, where she is doomed to spend eternity.
Directors: Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, Christopher Bevins | Stars: Viktoriya Agalakova, Efim Petrunin, Sofya Shidlovskaya, Nikita Elenev
Votes: 1,828
3. Gvozdi (2003 Video)
60 min | Drama, Horror
A haunted hitman whose violent career has taken a toll on his mental health turns to trepanning as a means of relieving his growing anxiety.
Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Alexandra Batrumova, Svyatoslav Iliyasov, Andrey Iskanov, Irina Nikitina
Votes: 570
4. Philosophy of a Knife (2008 Video)
Not Rated | 266 min | Drama, Horror
A graphic docu-drama detailing the history of Unit 731, where thousands of innocent Chinese prisoners of war were fatally experimented on.
Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Tetsuro Sakagami, Tomoya Okamoto, Yukari Fujimoto, Manoush
Votes: 1,688
5. Come and See (1985)
Not Rated | 142 min | Drama, Thriller, War
After finding an old rifle, a young boy joins the Soviet resistance movement against ruthless German forces and experiences the horrors of World War II.
Director: Elem Klimov | Stars: Aleksey Kravchenko, Olga Mironova, Liubomiras Laucevicius, Vladas Bagdonas
Votes: 97,425
6. Visions of Suffering (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 120 min | Horror
Demons cross the divide between the world of dreams and waking reality to capture a victim and drag him back to their nightmarish realm.
Director: Andrey Iskanov | Stars: Igor Anikin, Alexandra Batrumova, Yukari Fujimoto, Svyatoslav Iliyasov
Votes: 592
7. Night Watch (2004)
R | 114 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
A fantasy-horror set in present-day Moscow where the respective forces that control daytime and nighttime do battle.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Vladimir Menshov, Mariya Poroshina, Valeriy Zolotukhin
Votes: 55,400 | Gross: $1.49M
8. Day Watch (2006)
R | 132 min | Action, Fantasy, Horror
When Anton, a Warrior of Light, is falsely accused of murdering some vampires, he embarks on a journey to find the real killer and search for an ancient object that has the power to alter destiny.
Director: Timur Bekmambetov | Stars: Konstantin Khabenskiy, Mariya Poroshina, Vladimir Menshov, Galina Tyunina
Votes: 35,402 | Gross: $0.45M
9. Putevoy obkhodchik (2007)
Unrated | 80 min | Horror, Thriller
A perfect bank heist turns deadly when the robbers and their hostages flee to the abandoned underground subway station where they encounter the Trackman, a deformed madman that prowls the darkness.
Director: Igor Shavlak | Stars: Svetlana Metkina, Dmitriy Orlov, Aleksandr Vysokovskiy, Yuliya Mikhaylova
Votes: 979
10. Zoology (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Comedy, Drama
Middle-aged zoo worker Natasha still lives with her mother in a small coastal town. She is stuck and it seems that life has no surprises for her until one day - she grows a tail and turns her life around.
Director: Ivan I. Tverdovskiy | Stars: Aleksandr Gorchilin, Masha Tokareva, Natalya Pavlenkova, Irina Chipizhenko
Votes: 1,217
11. Queen of Spades (1916)
63 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she ... See full summary »
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Tamara Duvan, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Vera Orlova, Nikolai Panov
Votes: 849
12. Forbidden Empire (2014)
Not Rated | 130 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
An eighteenth century English cartographer, Jonathan Green, sets out on a journey to map the uncharted lands of Transylvania, only to discover the dark secrets and dangerous creatures hidden in a cursed, fantastical Romanian forest.
Director: Oleg Stepchenko | Stars: Jason Flemyng, Andrey Smolyakov, Aleksey Chadov, Agnia Ditkovskyte
Votes: 6,527 | Gross: $34.59M
13. Viy (1967)
Not Rated | 77 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him.
Directors: Konstantin Ershov, Georgiy Kropachyov, Aleksandr Ptushko | Stars: Leonid Kuravlyov, Natalya Varley, Aleksey Glazyrin, Nikolay Kutuzov
Votes: 9,357
14. The Blackout (2019)
TV-MA | 127 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Life on Earth is rapidly destroyed except for a small area in Eastern Europe.
Director: Egor Baranov | Stars: Aleksey Chadov, Pyotr Fyodorov, Svetlana Ivanova, Lukerya Ilyashenko
Votes: 10,646
15. Why Don't You Just Die! (2018)
Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Andrei, a detective and the world's most horrible father, brings together a terrible group of people in his apartment: his resentful actress daughter, an angry thug, and a cheated cop. Each one of them has a reason to want revenge..
Director: Kirill Sokolov | Stars: Aleksandr Kuznetsov, Vitaliy Khaev, Evgeniya Kregzhde, Michael Gor
Votes: 5,305
16. Sputnik (2020)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Director: Egor Abramenko | Stars: Oksana Akinshina, Fedor Bondarchuk, Pyotr Fyodorov, Anton Vasilev
Votes: 27,282
17. Azarkant (2013)
8 min | Animation, Short, Horror
In the future, a team of astronauts are sent on a ten year journey to a distant planet to find new life. On their way, they encounter a large, abandoned spaceship that is drifting in the ... See full summary »
Director: Andrey Klimov
Votes: 233
18. Sleepless Beauty (2020)
84 min | Horror
A young woman, Mila, is kidnapped by a mysterious organization known as Recreation. Her unknown abductors talk to her though a loudspeaker and set strict rules: she cannot sleep and has to ... See full summary »
Director: Pavel Khvaleev | Stars: Polina Davydova, Evgeniy Gagarin, Andrey Tereshenko, Sergey Topkov
Votes: 541
19. Death Files (2020)
47 min | Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
2 locksmiths find a flash drive at an old warehouse. One of them activates the flash drive at a computer and opens the shocking world of mysterious creatures, broken lives and violence.
Directors: Sergey A., Mikhail Ryabkov, Nastasya Sharapova, Eldar Bogunov, Elisey Vishnyov, Mykola Yeriomin | Stars: Mikhail Ryabkov, Evgeniy Toroschin, Nastasya Sharapova, Sergey A.
Votes: 1,041
20. Satana likuyushchiy (1917)
87 min | Drama
Pastor Talnox furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Polycarpe Pavloff, Aleksandr Chabrov
Votes: 235
21. Portret (1915)
44 min | Short, Drama, Horror
The subject of a mysterious portrait emerges from the painting and terrorizes the young man who hung it in his room.
Director: Wladyslaw Starewicz | Stars: Andrey Gromov, Ivan Lazarev, V. Vasilyev
Votes: 204
22. Superdeep (2020)
115 min | Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
A small research team went down below the surface to find out what secret the world's deepest borehole was hiding. What they have found turned out to be the greatest threat in history. And the future of humanity is in their hands.
Director: Arseny Syuhin | Stars: Milena Radulovic, Sergey Ivanyuk, Nikolay Kovbas, Vadim Demchog
Votes: 5,494
23. Mara (2020)
93 min | Horror, Thriller
Once robbers break into the measured and happy life of an architect and his wife. Now Andrey's only dream is to erase that nightmare from Olya's memory. Desperate searches for a solution ... See full summary »
Director: Aleksey Kazakov | Stars: Semyon Serzin, Marina Vasileva, Aleksandra Revenko, Anatoliy Zhuravlyov
Votes: 572
24. Exit (II) (2020)
21 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
With the deadline approaching fast, a small team of construction workers isn't too happy to find an anomaly in the house they're renovating. Especially one that breaks the laws of physics. ... See full summary »
Director: Ivan Basov | Stars: Maksim Demchenko, Anatoliy Gushchin, Nina Rakova, Vitt Ray
Votes: 62
25. Dark Water (2017)
113 min | Drama, Horror
Two brothers are drawn into a sinister situation when their girlfriend goes missing during a stay in an eerie village.
Director: Roman Karimov | Stars: Dmitriy Bogdan, Evgeniy Alyokhin, Irina Starshenbaum, Inna Egorova
Votes: 369
26. Haunters of the dark (2021)
69 min | Horror, Western
Alexey went through a lot. After cults, serial killers and old gods, nothing seems to surprise him. But his life is about to turn even crazier. Now he has to return to his sunken hometown for his last battle against the Great Old Ones.
Director: Dmitry Chmelyov | Stars: Dmitry Chmelyov, Yuriy Andreev, Viktor Murzikov, Katy Donkova
Votes: 26
27. Baba Yaga: Terror of the Dark Forest (2020)
Not Rated | 97 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror
When Egor's mom dies, he gets a stepmom and then a baby half sister. Things get seriously twisted when his dad gets a hot nanny, who's the witch, Baba Yaga.
Directors: Svyatoslav Podgaevskiy, Nathalia Hencker | Stars: Svetlana Ustinova, Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Igor Khripunov
Votes: 2,055
28. Mafia: Game of Survival (2016)
Not Rated | 91 min | Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Moscow, 2072. Twelve contestants, each with their own story and motives, play a televised game of Mafia. Those eliminated must enter a virtual reality to conquer their worst fear - or die trying.
Director: Sarik Andreasyan | Stars: Vadim Tsallati, Violetta Getmanskaya, Venyamin Smekhov, Viktor Verzhbitskiy
Votes: 3,346
29. The Haunter of the Dark III (2020)
112 min | Horror
Kead character has bad sleep, when Illuminati and bad monster invasions in little village.
Director: Dmitry Chmelyov | Stars: Dmitry Chmelyov, Aleksander Pechterev, Ruslan Abdullaev, Yuriy Andreev
Votes: 31
30. The Haunter of the Dark II (2017)
106 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Every night the beginning writer from Tver, Yuri Kartenko, sees nightmares in which the city of Providensk appears. In search of answers to his questions, he decides to go to this city, ... See full summary »
Director: Dmitry Chmelyov | Stars: Dmitry Chmelyov, Aleksander Pechterev, Ruslan Abdullaev, Anton Alexandrov
Votes: 54
31. The Haunter of the Dark (2015)
83 min | Horror, Thriller
Alexey "Blake" Blochenkov goes to an old abandoned sanatorium to film a video for his blog. There, he lets out something horrible. An ancient evil. The Haunter Of The Dark.
Director: Dmitry Chmelyov | Stars: Dmitry Chmelyov, Vladislav Krivenchuk, Aleksander Pechterev, Sergey A.
Votes: 82
32. The Green Elephant (1999)
90 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Two Russian prisoners are abused mentally and physically.
Director: Svetlana Baskova | Stars: Sergey Pakhomov, Vladimir Epifantsev, Aleksandr Maslaev, Anatoliy Osmolovskiy
Votes: 3,092
33. Veld (1987)
78 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Adaptation of three short stories by Ray Bradbury. An atmosphere of hostility forms inside an unnamed city, and the citizens are unsettled by the materialization of ghosts and the memories of their loved ones.
Director: Nazim Tulyahodzhayev | Stars: Yury Belyayev, Nelli Pshyonnaya, Gogi Gegechkori, Tamari Skhirtladze
Votes: 176
34. Vedma (2006)
Not Rated | 79 min | Horror
Ivan, a cynical journalist, is assigned to investigate mysterious events in a small town. During his first night, he is seduced by a strange and mysterious girl. As they embrace, she ... See full summary »
Director: Oleg Fesenko | Stars: Valeriy Nikolaev, Evgeniya Kryukova, Lembit Ulfsak, Arnis Licitis
Votes: 621
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