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2019 · Indonesia/South Korea
An Indonesian folk horror about a woman who returns to a village that has been waiting for her.
14 films
South Korean horror films
14 horror films with South Korea as a country of origin are catalogued in the ledger, from 2003 to 2024. The busiest decades are 2000s (6), 2010s (6) and 2020s (2). The most common subgenres here are psychological (5), extreme / transgressive (4), survival (4) and folk horror (3). The best-documented entries are Oldboy (2003), Train to Busan (2016) and The Host (2006).
The films
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WATCHcultGonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · South Korea · 94m
A web-streaming crew live-broadcast from a real abandoned Korean hospital for the views.
WATCHcultBedevilled
2010 · South Korea · 111m
A Seoul bank worker visits the island she grew up on. Everybody there has been failing one woman for years.
WATCHknownThe Medium
2021 · Thailand/South Korea · 131m
Thai-Korean, a documentary crew following a shaman, and the last twenty minutes are relentless.
WATCHknownSave the Green Planet!
2003 · South Korea · 117m
A man convinced aliens are infiltrating Earth kidnaps a CEO to torture the truth out of him. Nothing prepares you for where it goes.
WATCHknownExhuma
2024 · South Korea · 134m
Two shamans and two geomancers exhume a cursed grave in Korea, and what is under it is worse than the curse.
WATCHknownThe Chaser
2008 · South Korea · 123m
A former detective running an escort agency works out that his missing women all went to the same client.
WATCHknownA Tale of Two Sisters
2003 · South Korea · 110m
The highest-grossing Korean horror film ever, and it is really a family drama with a haunting in it.
WATCHknownThirst
2009 · South Korea · 133m
A priest volunteers for a vaccine trial, dies, and comes back needing blood. Park Chan-wook adapting Zola.
WATCHknownI Saw the Devil
2010 · South Korea · 141m
A secret agent catches a serial killer, releases him, and does it again. And again.
WATCHknownThe Wailing
2016 · South Korea · 156m
Two and a half hours, and it withholds whether the shaman is helping right until the end.
WATCHcanonThe Host
2006 · South Korea · 119m
Opens with a real incident: formaldehyde poured into the Han river in 2000. Funny, which nothing else here manages.
WATCHcanonOldboy
2003 · South Korea/Japan · 116m
A man is imprisoned in a room for fifteen years with no explanation, released, and given five days to find out why.
WATCHcanonTrain to Busan
2016 · South Korea · 118m
The best zombie film since Romero, and the only one that makes you cry.
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