The best Slovenian horror movies of all time: your blood will freeze!

The best Slovenian horror films of all time:

Dead Ship (1971)

Daniel and Marjana's holiday romance is interrupted by an evil premonition of an impending fatal event. The lover follows the lover on a torturous and tiring sea voyage. When the situation seems hopeless, a mysterious ship appears on the horizon. Will Daniel and Marjana manage to find the key to the mystery, or will the mystery swallow them up and blur the line between fiction and reality?

The Jailers (1990)

Ječarji is a Slovenian fantasy horror film. In an unknown city in the future, young men mysteriously disappear. As a shadow power, the secret lodge of the elders is maintained and restored by the vampire system. When they run out of energy, they take it from young men who are kept in special laboratories for energy conversion. The police are on the trail of the kidnappers, but they manage to capture the interrogator Pavel. Jailer Kristina falls in love with him and finally overthrows this terrifying energy vampirism.

Morana (1993)

A group of nine people, three couples and three individuals, decide to conquer the high mountains in a rather unusual way with two jeeps, a cross-country motorcycle and with modern technology they trust. But suddenly the equipment starts to break down, everything goes wrong and there are more and more accidents. Those who survived can no longer rely on others. In the end, they realize that everything depends only on themselves and nature...

Rabel's fresco (1995)

A group of karmically connected people gather in the charming town of Morje. Even in this life, they are given the opportunity to resolve karmic bonds, which are the sum of relationships from previous lives. But like most of humanity, most of the film's heroes get even more entangled in their negative passions and repeat mistakes. Only Erik, Maks and Ksenja realize that only through love, forgiveness of others and themselves can they achieve that they will meet each other in future lives without the negative mortgage of the past.

Border Patrol (2002)

Three friends, students Alja, Žana and Simona, decide to canoe down the border river Kolpa during the holidays. Their descent is secretly watched by the BORDER GUARD, a stubborn local politician who feels called to protect the canyon of the Kolpa River from everything that is different and free. Which girls definitely are. Especially Alja and Žana are seemingly unencumbered by established patterns of behavior, fearless and quite rude, while Simona is gentle, sensual and, as it turns out in the end, the bravest member of the expedition. Three young women will not forget the descent down Kolpa for the rest of their days. A seemingly carefree adventure will mark them forever...

Vampire from the Highlands (2008)

This is the story of the love that magically springs up between Roman and the fatally beautiful Lenora. At the same time, it is also the story of Roman and Rodin, who, while wandering around Dolenjska, encounter myths and legends from the mountains below. At the same time, mysterious murders are taking place, which their acquaintance Jup connects with aliens because he does not believe in vampires. Even with the help of Pastor Lesjak, everything is put in the right place and love can shine in its full glory. The film is based on the literary proposal of Mate Dolenc's novel of the same name.

Idyll (2015)

Idila is the first Slovenian feature film in this genre. After a stormy and over-the-top night with her friends, amateur photo model Zina goes on a fashion photo shoot in pristine nature, in the company of ambitious Mia, apathetic to life Dragica and snobbish photographer Blitcz. On the way to the location, they meet some strange locals who don't pay them too much attention, but this soon turns out to be a big mistake. After all, on the idyllic meadow they chose for the photo shoot, they are ruthlessly attacked by the supposed owners of the meadow, Francl and Vintlr. The frightened and helpless townspeople are dragged into a dark cellar, where there is a bizarre brandy brewery, which hides unsuspected traps for everyone involved in the events. The fight for life begins.

SOURCE: film-center.si