Korean movies about fear

List of the best Korean fear movies selected by visitors to our site: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum, Forgotten, The Terror Live, Gap Dong, The Villainess, Secret in Their Eyes, The Wailing, Tunnel, Confidential Assignment, Sinister.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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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: 7.4
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:50

Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model for Jin-seok. One night, his beloved brother is kidnapped by unidentified assailants before Jin-seok’s eye. Jin-seok can’t recognize their faces, but can remember only the VIN that matches with no car. After long silence of 19 days, suddenly Yu-seok returns home, but remembers nothing which had happened in the meantime. And soon Jin-seok feels Yu-seok is a total stranger…

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:38

"I'll blow up Mapo Bridge." An anonymous call comes into a radio station one day. When it turns out to be legitimate, a terrorist's threats end up getting broadcast live throughout the country.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea

20 years ago Moo-Yeom’s father was a suspect in the "Gap Dong” serial murder case. Because of the detectives’ oppressive investigation, Moo-Yeom’s father killed himself. Now, Moo-Yeom is a detective and works to capture the killer Gap Dong. The statue of limitations has expired for the serial murder case and Moo-Yeom resigns to the belief that Gap Dong is dead. New clues though for Gap Dong appears in front of Moo-Yeom and he sets out to catch him once and for all.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:12

A young girl is raised as a killer in the Yanbian province of China. She hides her identity and travels to South Korea where she hopes to lead a quiet life but becomes involved with two mysterious men.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Spain, South Korea
Duration02:32

A tight-knit team of FBI investigators, along with their District Attorney supervisor, is suddenly torn apart when they discover that one of their own teenage daughters has been brutally murdered.

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: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:55

A police detective from 1986 travels in time to the present to save his daughter.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:12

When a crime organization from North Korea crosses borders and enters South Korean soil, a South Korean detective must cooperate with a North Korean detective to investigate their whereabouts.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrehorror, thriller, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:45

    Found footage helps a true-crime novelist realize how and why a family was murdered in his new home, though his discoveries put his entire family in the path of a supernatural entity.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrefantasy, drama
    CountryUnited Kingdom, Canada
    Duration02:02

    Because of the actions of her irresponsible parents, a young girl is left alone on a decrepit country estate and survives inside her fantastic imagination.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryCanada, France
    Duration01:23

    A mother of two inherits a home from her aunt. On the first night in the new home she is confronted with murderous intruders and fights for her daughters' lives. Sixteen years later the daughters reunite at the house, and that is when things get strange...

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrehorror, thriller
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:31

      Eden Lake is a relentlessly tense and immaculately paced horror-thriller about modern youth gone wild. When a young couple goes to a remote wooded lake for a romantic getaway, their quiet weekend is shattered by an aggressive group of local kids. Rowdiness quickly turns to rage as the teens terrorize the couple in unimaginable ways, and a weekend outing becomes a bloody battle for survival.

      Markimdb: 9.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:22

      Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

        A family discovers that dark spirits have invaded their home after their son inexplicably falls into an endless sleep. When they reach out to a professional for help, they learn things are a lot more personal than they thought.

        Markimdb: 6.6
        Genrehorror, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryUSA, Canada
        Duration01:33

        When a new murder victim is discovered with all the signs of Jigsaw's hand, Detective Eric Matthews begins a full investigation and apprehends Jigsaw with little effort. But for Jigsaw, getting caught is just another part of his plan. Eight more of his victims are already fighting for their lives and now it's time for Matthews to join the game...

        Markimdb: 3.9
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:14

        A group of young people awake, locked inside a warehouse with cameras screwed into their heads. It becomes apparent that they are unwilling competitors in a deadly game, and they will need to murder each other if they hope to survive.

        Markimdb: 7.5
        Genredrama
        CountryFrance
        Duration02:08

        Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.

        Markimdb: 6.5
        Genrehorror, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryCanada, USA
        Duration02:57

        27 years after overcoming the malevolent supernatural entity Pennywise, the former members of the Losers' Club, who have grown up and moved away from Derry, are brought back together by a devastating phone call.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrehorror
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:37

        After the strange death of his young son at their new home, Daniel hears a ghostly plea for help, spurring him to seek out a renowned paranormal expert.

        Markimdb: 6.8
        Genrehorror, drama
        CountryAustralia, Canada
        Duration01:33

        A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.

        Markimdb: 7.4
        Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, detective
        CountrySpain
        Duration01:15

        A television reporter and cameraman follow emergency workers into a dark apartment building and are quickly locked inside with something terrifying.

        Markimdb: 7.2
        Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, adventure
        CountryUnited Kingdom, France
        Duration01:39

          After a tragic accident, six friends reunite for a caving expedition. Their adventure soon goes horribly wrong when a collapse traps them deep underground and they find themselves pursued by bloodthirsty creatures. As their friendships deteriorate, they find themselves in a desperate struggle to survive the creatures and each other.

          Markimdb: 7.5
          Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller, drama
          CountryUnited Kingdom
          Duration01:53

          Twenty-eight days after a killer virus was accidentally unleashed from a British research facility, a small group of London survivors are caught in a desperate struggle to protect themselves from the infected. Carried by animals and humans, the virus turns those it infects into homicidal maniacs -- and it's absolutely impossible to contain.

          Markimdb: 8.8
          Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama, detective
          CountryUSA, United Kingdom
          Duration02:28

            Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another person's idea into a target's subconscious.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryRussia
            Duration01:43

            The protagonist Vlad is a man of about forty; he lives and works as watchman in an old sanatorium that is due to be demolished. He obviously needs this work to live the life of a hermit. One night a married couple appears at the sanatorium: Vera and Stas. They are on the run. They are pursued by former friends and business partners of Stas. Vlad decides to help them, because he too is hiding from the past. Each character is threatened with the inevitable payment for wrong choices in the past, but helping each other, they try to expiate these faults.

            Markimdb: 8.5
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, cartoon, anime
            CountryJapan
            Duration01:56

            Satoru Fujinuma is a struggling manga artist who has the ability to turn back time and prevent deaths. When his mother is killed he turns back time to solve the mystery, but ends up back in elementary school, just before the disappearance of his classmate Kayo.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrehorror, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:48

            Secure within a desolate home as an unnatural threat terrorizes the world, a man has established a tenuous domestic order with his wife and son, but this will soon be put to test when a desperate young family arrives seeking refuge.

            Markimdb: 6.4
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:23

            A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution where she is confronted by her greatest fear.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryCanada, USA
            Duration01:36

            An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, detective
            CountryUSA, China, Japan
            Duration01:56

            Husband and wife Gabe and Adelaide Wilson take their kids to their beach house expecting to unplug and unwind with friends. But as night descends, their serenity turns to tension and chaos when some shocking visitors arrive uninvited.

            Markimdb: 2.8
            Genrehorror
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:14

            Beginning at a stylish mansion in the roaring 1920's, a socialite, flappers, and the men who love them come to their ultimate demise. These ghosts continue to haunt the mansion throughout the decade. Now they've come back to haunt and chase after a new generation of beautiful girls. The Dead Want Women!

            Markimdb: 6.5
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:21

            In October of 1994 three student filmmakers disappeared in the woods near Burkittsville, Maryland, while shooting a documentary. A year later their footage was found.

            Markimdb: 7.8
            Genredrama, history
            CountryItaly
            Duration03:06

            The life inside a farm in Italy at the beginning of the century. Many poor country families live there, and the owner pays them by their productivity. One of the families has a very clever child. They decide to send him to school instead of make him help them, although this represents a great sacrifice. The boy has to wake up very early and walk several miles to get to the school. One day the boy's shoes break when returning home, but they do not have money to buy other. What can they do?

            Markimdb: 6.7
            Genrehorror, thriller, detective
            CountryAustria
            Duration01:39

            In the heat of the summer lays a lonesome house in the countryside where nine year old twin brothers await their mother’s return. When she comes home, bandaged after cosmetic surgery, nothing is like before and the children start to doubt whether this woman is actually who she says she is.

            Markimdb: 8
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

              A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.

              Markimdb: 6.6
              Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama
              CountryUSA
              Duration01:33

              Psychological horror about a lonely young woman traumatized by a difficult childhood, and her increasingly desperate attempts to connect with the people around her.

              Markimdb: 4.2
              Genrehorror, fantastic, thriller
              CountryUSA, Spain
              Duration01:21

              V/H/S: VIRAL's segments include the story of a deranged illusionist who obtains a magical object of great power, a homemade machine that opens a door to a parallel world, teenage skaters that unwillingly become targets of a Mexican death cult ritual, and a sinister, shadowy organization that is tracking a serial killer. The segments are tied together by the story of a group of fame-obsessed teens following a violent car chase in LA that unwittingly become stars of the next internet sensation.

              Markimdb: 8.9
              Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
              CountryNew Zealand, USA
              Duration03:21

              Aragorn is revealed as the heir to the ancient kings as he, Gandalf and the other members of the broken fellowship struggle to save Gondor from Sauron's forces. Meanwhile, Frodo and Sam bring the ring closer to the heart of Mordor, the dark lord's realm.

              Markimdb: 6.3
              Genreaction, thriller, crime, detective
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration01:10

              On the run from a dogged internal affairs agent, a corrupt cop reluctantly teams up with a defiant teen to unravel a conspiracy -- before it's too late.

              Markimdb: 7.3
              Genrethriller, drama
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration01:40

              South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing with the assignment of infiltrating a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate goal of obtaining information about the North Korean nuclear program.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration00:51

              When Hye-Jung was young, her life was difficult. She was good at fighting, but also studied well. Overcoming her tough situation, she is now a doctor.

              Markimdb: 7
              Genrecomedy, melodrama
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration01:20

              A man receives a wedding invitation from his first love who he met in high school.

              Markimdb: 7.7
              Genredrama, history
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration02:07

              In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful attorney in Busan specializing in tax law. His views regarding civil liberties are changed by student activist Park Jin-woo. When Jin-Woo is brutally tortured and put on trial for his activism, Woo-seok decides to defend Jin-woo as his client.

              Markimdb: 8.2
              Genredrama, family
              CountrySouth Korea

              A life-changing story of a man who has lived as a loner his entire life. Jae Shik begins to live together with a child with a hearing-visual disability, as they change each other's lives and try to find a way to communicate.

              Markimdb: 7.2
              Genreaction, thriller, history
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration01:34

              Assassination is set in Korea and Shanghai in the 1930's during the Japanese occupation. The government resistance assigns a secret commando group with killing collaborators.

              Markimdb: 6.5
              Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration01:42

              After a traumatic event, a drug trafficker turns sides and conspires with a dangerously ambitious undercover police officer to bring down the mysterious kingpin of a major drug cartel. (Remake of the Chinese film “Drug War,” 2012.)

              Markimdb: 5.1
              Genrethriller, crime
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration01:41

              A young girl is kidnapped by a serial killer. The serial killer uses manholes to kidnap and kill his victims. The young girl's older sister tries to save her before it's too late.

              Markimdb: 7.8
              Genreaction, thriller, crime
              CountrySouth Korea
              Duration02:21

                Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, but were unable to catch him. One day, Joo-yeon, daughter of a retired police chief becomes his prey and is found dead in a horrific state. Her fiance Soo-hyun, a top secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take bloody vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself to get this monstrous and inhumane killer.

                Markimdb: 7.1
                Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
                CountrySouth Korea
                Duration01:55

                The Plan Man is about a man who lives everything according to plan until he meets a woman who wasn't a part of it.




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