Korean horror movies

List of the best Korean horror movies selected by visitors to our site: The Grotesque Mansion, Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Knock, A Tale of Two Sisters, Dragon Wars: D-War, The Piper, Train to Busan, Satan's Slaves, The Silenced, #Alive.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Markimdb: 6
Genrehorror
CountrySouth Korea

Horror webtoon writer Ji-woo arrives at a shabby apartment called Gwanglim Mansion in search of ideas. The middle-aged caretaker with an expressionless facial expression unravels a bundle of strange events that happened in the apartment, and rooms 504, 708... The more Ji-woo hears the story, the more he becomes obsessed with the Ghost Mansion.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrehorror
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:31

An internet broadcaster recruits a handful of people for their 'experience the horror' show at Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, a place selected as one of the '7 freakiest places on the planet'. They are to explore the haunted asylum and stream it live on their online show.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:40

Art student Jeong-hwa (Seo Woo) is moving to a smaller apartment by her school when she trips and falls, breaking a small statue on a box. She bends over to pick up the pieces and notices an amulet the shape of a queer mask and decides to use it for her exhibit assignment. After she moves she hears a weird knocking sound next door. She can’t sleep because of the knocking sound every midnight and starts sketching the amulet. One night, Jeong-hwa comes home late and runs into a strange woman with long tangly hair and barefoot in front of the elevator. She gets off without a word and starts knocking next door. Jeong-hwa is terrified, what is going to happen to her?

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrehorror, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:55

A recently released patient from a mental institution returns home with her sister, only to face disturbing events between her stepmother and the ghosts haunting their house- all of which are connected to a dark past in the family's history.

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, drama
CountrySouth Korea, USA

Based on the Korean legend, unknown creatures will return and devastate the planet. Reporter Ethan Kendrick is called in to investigate the matter...

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller
CountrySouth Korea

Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrehorror, action, drama, cartoon
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:43

    Martial law is declared when a mysterious viral outbreak pushes Korea into a state of emergency. Those on an express train to Busan, a city that has successfully fended off the viral outbreak, must fight for their own survival…

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror
    CountryIndonesia, South Korea
    Duration01:43

    After the death of Rini's mother, something is disturbing her family.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration00:52

    A sickly girl Ju-ran transfers to a new sanitorium boarding school to regain health. But she discovers that students are disappearing and notices abnormal changes happening to her body. She suspects the school for what's happening and tries to discover what secret is hidden.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, action
    CountrySouth Korea

    As a grisly virus rampages a city, a lone man stays locked inside his apartment, digitally cut off from seeking help and desperate to find a way out.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:53

    In 'A Brave New World', a virus brings the city to ruins and zombies flood the streets of Seoul. In 'The Heavenly Creature', a robot reaches enlightenment while working at a temple, but its creators deem this phenomenon a threat to mankind. In the final segment, 'Happy Birthday', a young girl logs onto a strange website and places an order for a new billiard ball for her father. Soon afterwards a meteor heads toward Earth and people flee to underground bomb shelters.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:24

    Se-hee is haunted by her step sister Tae-yeon who used to be a promising swimmer but suddenly killed herself in a swimming pool 2 years ago. During the summer vacation, she joins the study camp at school for upcoming college entrance exam with other 30 elite students. On the first night, when Se-hee finds a riddling passage scribbled in the desk, she soon sees a dead girl’s body hung upside down. Then the TV monitors are on and the students watch another friend crushed by his bike in the corridor. Since then, the succession of cruel killings occurs whenever they fail to answer the given questions in time. Meanwhile, the hidden truth behind Tae-yeon’s suicide is slowly revealed and terrified students struggle to death to undo the puzzle before they become the next victim.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy, cartoon, anime
    CountryUSA, Japan, Singapore, South Korea
    Duration01:28

    Dante journeys through the nine circles of Hell -- limbo, lust, gluttony, greed, anger, heresy, violence, fraud and treachery -- in search of his true love, Beatrice. An animated version of the video game of the same name.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:26

    Two women and a man find themselves mysteriously thrown together on one endless night in an isolated house in the middle of a forest.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea

    To save a girl in danger, a priest and deacon jump into a mysterious case.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, fantastic, cartoon
    CountrySouth Korea

    Beauty Water looks like a common skin cosmetic. But unlike other cosmetics, people can sculpt their skin with it like molding clay and change their appearance. An ordinary girl, Yaeji, comes across the 'Beauty Water' by chance, and her endless desire to be the most beautiful woman brings her unimaginable disaster.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    Following a humiliating plagiarism scandal, an author moves to an isolated small-town house with her daughter to write her comeback novel. Desperate for inspiration, she communicates with a mysterious ghostly presence that has befriended her daughter.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:48

    Nanami Hoshino, a wealthy entrepreneur, marries Korean potter Kim Jun-ho, and they both live a seemingly happy life. Then, one year after their marriage, Nanami is killed by a biker on her way home. This tragedy leaves Jun-ho completely devastated. At the hospital, Nanami's ghost arises from her body, and upon meeting a ghost child, she realizes that she is a ghost whose presence cannot be seen. She then realizes that her death was no coincidence and Jun-ho is in imminent danger. Unable to communicate with normal humans, Nanami seeks help from the elderly psychic Unten in hopes of saving Jun-ho's life.

    Markimdb: 4.8
    Genrehorror
    CountrySouth Korea

    The members of a supernatural exploration club called 0.0MHz explores a haunted house to prove the existence of frequencies that attract ghosts.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryTurkey, South Korea

    Receiving important news about her father, whom she has not met for years, Nisan returns to her father's house with her husband and daughter. There are strange things happening in this mansion where she escaped away years ago. What is happening in the mansion.What is the mystery of the woman in the picture. Encountering her nightmares, Nisan has to illuminate this mystery as soon as possible in order to protect herself and her family.

    Markimdb: 3.3
    Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
    CountrySerbia, South Korea, Slovenia

    The satellite has vanished and the only clue is a trail leading to a small village nestled on the outskirts of forest line. As the team begins to investigate they quickly discover that something else came back from space, something not of this world. As their time runs out, the team must battle to unlock the terrifying truth behind the ill-fated mission.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, adventure, cartoon
    CountryUSA, South Korea
    Duration01:18

    The End was only the Beginning.The year is 2509 and not only has Earth lost contact with the Ishimura and Isaac Clarke, but now also the USG O'Bannon, the first responder ship sent to rescue them. Four crew members of the O'Bannon have survived. But what happened to the rest of the crew? What were they doing? What secrets are they keeping? All to be revealed...in the Aftermath! --- Dead Space: Aftermath is a fast paced, horrifying thrill ride told through the perspective of the four survivors by several renowned international directors. Dead Space: Aftermath is an animated film that bridges the storyline between the video games Dead Space and Dead Space 2.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:21

    A story of the Jangsan Tiger, who mimics human voices to lure them close, and a family affected by the creature.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountrySouth Korea

    When a pharmaceutical company's illegal experiments inadvertently create a zombie, the strange Park family finds it and tries to profit from it.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:31

    After his parents are murdered, Bin is taken into the care of relatives. He begins to act strangely, the new occupants of his house experience horrific nightmares, and a mystery unfolds as a terrible secret is revealed.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror
    CountrySouth Korea

    A struggling director makes a desperate bid to dig into the urban legend about a film shot by a ghost, at the risk of her own life.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea

    Jin-Myung is a psychiatrist and exorcist. With his assistant, Ji-Kwang, they attempt an exorcism on Geum-Joo. She suffers from a bizarre phenomenon. They then face a powerful existence within Geum-Joo. Extreme horror arises out of her.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, action, fantasy
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:39

    After waking up with mysterious wounds on his hands, a champion fighter finds himself in an otherworldly battle against evil forces that wreak havoc in the human world.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, fantasy
    CountryThailand, South Korea

    A horrifying story of a shaman’s inheritance in the Isan region of Thailand. But the goddess that appears to have taken possession of a family member turns out not to be as benevolent as it first appears.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, thriller, comedy
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:22

    Joong-Rae and Chang-Wook come to the deep forest to bury a body. When they almost finished digging a pit, they find out the body vanished. Myung-Sook and Kyung-Soo are having an affair. Suddenly Myung-Sook sees something outside the car and asks Kyung-Soo to find out but he never returns. In the meantime, 3 high school students sniff on gas and glue. The boys become dazed and try to rape the girl but the girl escapes. These 8 people run after another in the forest until they come across a mysterious killer and it all ends in a blood bath.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrehorror, action
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:17

    Ancient Korea, 17th century. While the paranoid King Lee Jo of Joseon, vassal of the Qing dynasty, feels surrounded by conspirators and rebels, a dark evil emerges from the bowels of a merchant ship and the exiled Prince Lee Cheung returns to the royal court, ignoring that he will have to lead the few capable of defeating the ambitious humans and the bloody monsters who threaten to destroy the kingdom.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action
    CountrySouth Korea

    In Sector 7, an underwater oil field located south of Jeju Island, Hae-jun is working as a marine equipment manager on an oil prospecting ship called Eclipse. Joining the crew later is Jeong-man, a former colleague of Hae-jun's father, assigned to Eclipse as captain. Though his job is to oversee the withdrawal of the ship, he suggests conducting some drilling one last time.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryIndonesia, South Korea

    A woman inherits a house in her ancestral village, but she's unaware that members of the community have been trying to locate and kill her to remove the curse that has plagued them for years.

    Markimdb: 4.7
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea

    A jaded psychiatrist sees a client who is having hallucinations. He uses hypnotism to seek answers into her dark past, but soon gets wrapped up in her delusions and starts to fall for her charms...

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrehorror
    CountrySouth Korea

    With prayer beads in one hand and an ax in the other, a monk hunts down a millennia-old spirit that's possessing humans and unleashing hell on Earth.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror
    CountrySouth Korea

    After moving into a new house, a young girl begins displaying strange and disturbing behavior until, one day, she disappears behind a closet. While the devastated father is left with no clue about his daughter’s disappearance, an exorcist shows up to help.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountrySouth Korea

    Impaired by amnesia, Jeong-won (Shin-yang Park) can't remember his youth -- until he meets Yeon (Ji-hyun Jun), a psychic who may be able to uncover his past. After witnessing the horrific deaths of children, both share dreamlike visions of ghostly forms. Together, they explore the depths of psychological terror in this chilling Korean thriller, artfully directed by Su-yeon Lee.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, action, military
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:47

    On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountryHong Kong, South Korea, Thailand
    Duration02:05

    “Three” is an anthology of three horror shorts from three different Asian countries.In "Dumplings" an aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties; however, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient. In "Box" a soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected. In "The Cut" a successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife’s fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrehorror, fantasy, melodrama, drama
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:13

    Sang-hyun (Song Kang-ho), a respected priest, volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life as a vampire. Now, Sang-hyun is torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for Tae-ju (Kim Ok-vin), the wife of his childhood friend.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:33

    Mi-ja, who has been taking care of a retired teacher, Ms Park, invites several of her former students to her house 16 years after their graduation. Since the end of her teaching career, Park has been residing in the countryside, suffering from an illness while an ex-student, the kind and pretty Mi-ja cares for her.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:50

    A stranger arrives in a little village and soon after a mysterious sickness starts spreading. A policeman is drawn into the incident and is forced to solve the mystery in order to save his daughter.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    A recently widowed TV producer is drawn to an isolated cabin in a mysterious woods. KANG Min regains his consciousness 14 days after brain surgery following a mysterious accident he had in the forest. Shockingly enough, the first thing he says is that two people died in Spider Forest. Detective CHOI, KANG Min's friend, finds a couple brutally murdered at a cottage in the forest, just like KANG Min described. As the couple found dead at the cottage are identified as CHOI Jong-phil, his senior from work, and HWANG Soo-young, his girlfriend, KANG Min becomes both a witness and key suspect in the investigation.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, fantastic, comedy
    CountryNew Zealand, South Korea
    Duration01:27

    A genetic engineering experiment gone horribly awry turns a large flock of docile sheep into unrelenting killing machines in this rural horror comedy directed by Jonathan King and featuring special effects designed by Weta Workshop.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:57

    When Eun-soo gets lost in a country road, he meets a mysterious girl and is led to her fairytale ike house in the middle of the forest. There, Eun-soo is trapped with the girl and her siblings who never age. Eun-soo finally discovers a way out which is written on a fairy tale book. But the book tells a story of none other than himself!

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:43

    A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrehorror, detective
    CountrySouth Korea

    A cellist is haunted by strange events after a car wreck.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration02:01

    The plot concerns Guard Point 506, where an entire squad of soldiers have been killed in mysterious circumstances, bar one survivor who's in a coma. Military Investigators are dispatched to the base, and discover they're dealing with a virus that turns humans into ravenous flesh-eating killers!

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrehorror, music
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:46

    Pop band Pink Dolls emerges to stardom after releasing a remake of “White”, written by an anonymous composer. The more popular the members become, however, the more they become torn by jealousy and rivalries. But as the girls each take turns to become the lead vocalist, mysterious incidents occur.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrehorror, thriller, detective
    CountrySouth Korea
    Duration01:44

    A web-comic artist finds that a series of murders are occurring that have a disturbing resemblance to the images in her work.




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