- Viy (1909 film), silent film adaptation by Vasily Goncharov. The film is lost.
- Viy (1967 film), a faithful Soviet adaptation by Georgi Kropachyov, Konstantin Yershov, and Aleksandr Ptushko.
- A Holy Place (1990 film), a Serbian (Yugoslav) horror film based on the story.
- Viy (1996 animated short) ‘Вій’ by Leonid Zarubin, Alla Grachyova
- The Power of Fear (2006 film), a Russian horror film very loosely based on the story.
- Evil Spirit; VIY (2008 film), a South Korean horror film by Park Jin-seong based on the story.
- Viy (2014 film), internationally known as Forbidden Empire, and in the UK as Forbidden Kingdom. A Russian dark fantasy film by Oleg Stepchenko very loosely based on the story. A young, British map maker stumbles onto a rural Transylvanian town steeped in the myth.
- Gogol. Viy, 2018 film, serialized for TV as Gogol (film series); Viy is episode 6
Several other works draw on the short story:
- Mario Bava's film Black Sunday is loosely based on "Viy".
- In the 1978 film Piranha, a camp counselor retells Viy's climactic identification of Khoma as a ghost story.
- Russian heavy metal band Korrozia Metalla are believed to have recorded a demo tape in 1982 titled Vii, however, nothing about the tape has surfaced.
- In the adventure-platformer video game La-Mulana, Viy serves as the boss of the Inferno Cavern area.
- In Catherynne M. Valente's novel Deathless, Viy is the Tsar of Death, a Grim Reaper-like figure who embodies gloom and decay in Russia.
- In the mobile game Fate/Grand Order, Viy appears as Anastasia Nikolaevna's familiar and the source of her powers.
