01 A mother investigates a body identified as her daughter, years after her supposed death.
10 Best Spanish Horror Movies
By Vlad Zakh · January 19, 2026
Spanish horror tends to favor dread over jump scares, a quarantined apartment building, a child asking uncomfortable questions, a prison where the floors punish greed on their own. It’s one of the most consistently unsettling national horror traditions working today.
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02 A vacationing couple arrives on an island where the children have turned violently feral.
03 A film student researching violent media stumbles onto an actual snuff film.
04 Four siblings hide a dark secret in their new home to avoid being separated.
05 A woman going blind investigates her twin sister's mysterious death.
06 A resentful doorman quietly sabotages the happiness of every tenant in his building.
07 A teenager's Ouija board session brings something home with her that won't leave.
08 A ghost haunts an orphanage during the Spanish Civil War, del Toro's first great genre film.
09 Prisoners on descending floors of a vertical prison decide how much food to leave for those below.
![[REC] (2007)](/images/posters/rec-2007.webp)
10 A TV reporter gets trapped inside a quarantined apartment building with something spreading fast.
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