The 40 most popular korean horror movies, ranked. Click any film for ratings, reviews, trailers, and where to watch.


Colony
2026 · 2h 3m · KR
Professor Se-jeong is thrust into a bloody nightmare when a rapidly mutating virus is released during a biotech conference causing authorities to seal the facility. Trapped inside with no escape, Se-jeong along with a small group of survivors must fight to stay alive while the infected undergo horrific transformations.


Train to Busan
2016 · 1h 58m · KR
When a zombie virus pushes Korea into a state of emergency, those trapped on an express train to Busan must fight for their own survival.


Peninsula
2020 · 1h 56m · KR
A soldier and his team battle hordes of post-apocalyptic zombies in the wastelands of the Korean Peninsula.


The Wailing
2016 · 2h 36m · KR
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.


Dark Nuns
2025 · 1h 55m · KR
Desperation drives two nuns to perform an exorcism no nun should attempt. With a possessed child at the mercy of evil and the opposition of the Catholic Church, they take on the dangerous forbidden rituals themselves, putting their immortal souls in grave danger. They must confront the terrifying cost of their sacrilegious actions, but one goal remains: the boy must be saved at all costs.


Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum
2018 · 1h 35m · KR
The crew of a horror web series travels to an abandoned asylum for a live broadcast, but they encounter much more than expected as they move deeper inside the nightmarish old building.


I Saw the Devil
2010 · 2h 24m · KR
Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. Soo-hyeon, a top-secret agent, decides to track down the murderer himself. He promises himself that he will do everything in his power to take vengeance against the killer, even if it means that he must become a monster himself.


The Host
2006 · 2h · KR
A teenage girl is captured by a giant mutated squid-like creature that appears from Seoul's Han River after toxic waste was dumped in it, prompting her family into a frantic search for her.


Exhuma
2024 · 2h 14m · KR
After tracing the origin of a disturbing supernatural affliction to a wealthy family's ancestral gravesite, a team of paranormal experts relocates the remains—and soon discovers what happens to those who dare to mess with the wrong grave.


Project Wolf Hunting
2022 · 2h 2m · KR
While under heavily armed guard, the dangerous convicts aboard a cargo ship unite in a coordinated escape attempt that soon escalates into a bloody, all-out riot. But as the fugitives continue their brutal campaign of terror, they soon discover that not even the most vicious among them is safe from the horror they unknowingly unleashed from the darkness below deck.


#Alive
2020 · 1h 38m · KR
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.


A Tale of Two Sisters
2003 · 1h 55m · KR
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.


Holy Night: Demon Hunters
2025 · 1h 32m · KR
When a devil-worshipping criminal network plunges Seoul into chaos, the police turn to Holy Night—a trio of supernatural demon hunters—to restore order and defeat the rising evil.


Thirst
2009 · 2h 14m · KR
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. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.


The Cursed: Insatiable Desires
2025 · 1h 37m · KR
An old man attempting to harm the village's mystical guardian tree. An office worker, obsessed with beauty, tampering with her neighbor's packages. A mother making deals with ghosts to secure her daughter's place in medical school. A senior police officer insisting on handling a case alone, despite his junior's objections. A college student seeking fame on social media through horror content. These seemingly unrelated incidents are eerily linked by their intertwined relationships and a shared undercurrent of wrong choices driven by desire. At the heart of it all lies a sinister dark market. Once its true nature is revealed, there’s no turning back.


Salmokji: Whispering Water
2026 · 1h 36m · KR
An incident unfolds when a film crew goes to a reservoir to update the road view where an unidentified figure was filmed, and they encounter something in the dark, deep waters.


Project Silence
2024 · 1h 36m · KR
Due to sudden deteriorating weather conditions, visibility on the Airport Bridge is severely impaired, leaving people stranded and at risk of the bridge collapsing due to a series of chain collisions and explosions. Amidst the chaos, the canine subjects "Echo" from the military experiment "Project Silence," who were being transported in secret, break free, and all human survivors become targets of relentless attacks.


Bedevilled
2010 · 1h 57m · KR
A disillusioned Seoul woman visits a remote island to reconnect with a childhood friend, only to find her trapped in an oppressive cycle of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. As tensions escalate, the situation spirals into a harrowing tale of survival and retribution.


Noise
2025 · 1h 35m · KR
A young woman with a hearing impairment investigates her sister’s mysterious disappearance from her apartment, but as she searches for answers, strange sounds and an ominous presence begin to haunt her.


The Closet
2020 · 1h 38m · KR
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.


Dragon Wars: D-War
2007 · 1h 30m · KR
Ethan learns he carries the spirit of a warrior who battled dragons in 16th-century Korea -- and one day he'll find a tattooed girl carrying the spirit of that warrior's beloved. Years later, he meets Sarah and dragons soon descend on Los Angeles seeking out the two souls of the ancient lovers.


Svaha: The Sixth Finger
2019 · 2h 2m · KR
Pastor Park, the head of a religious investigation center that exposes cults and cult leaders, begins looking into a suspicious new religion called Deer Mount.


Zombie for Sale
2019 · 1h 52m · KR
When a pharmaceutical company's illegal experiments inadvertently create a zombie, the strange Park family finds it and tries to profit from it.


Revelations
2025 · 2h 2m · KR
A pastor who believes in divine revelation and a detective haunted by visions pursue a missing person case — exposing their own demons in the process.


Sleep
2023 · 1h 34m · KR
A pregnant wife who becomes worried about her husband’s sleeping habits. What starts out as some light sleep-talking soon escalates to unexpectedly grotesque behaviour. They consult a sleep clinic without success and as his nightmarish behaviour escalates, they desperately seek help from a shaman.


App the Horror
2026 · 1h 28m · KR
When the app is launched, a ghost appears. Developed by four young adults, the app becomes the centerpiece of a livestream where they venture into a supposedly haunted mountain to prove its authenticity—only to meet a grim fate.


Metamorphosis
2019 · 1h 53m · KR
An evil spirit that changes faces infiltrates one family placing one brother in danger while the other tries to save him.


The Ghost Game
2025 · 1h 35m · KR
Aspiring YouTuber Gi-ho stages a fake seance for viral content, but Ja-young joins, seeking her missing sister Seo-woo. In an underground cistern, Seo-woo volunteers as the "possessed," but when she collapses, terror unfolds. Trapped with sinister forces, the students face a deadly fate, leading to a shocking twist.


The 8th Night
2021 · 1h 55m · KR
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.


Exorcism Chronicles: The Beginning
2025 · 1h 26m · KR
When a demonic uprising threatens to end the world as they know it, a monk and an excommunicated priest join forces to protect a powerful young boy and the next generation of magic. As dark forces close in, the unlikely trio must confront their inner demons.


Ghost Train
2025 · 1h 35m · KR
Da-kyung, a horror YouTuber desperate for views, uploads a video about the eerie urban legends surrounding Gwanglim Station—the site of the highest number of missing person cases in the country. The video goes viral overnight. Despite everyone's warnings, Da-kyung's thirst for views only grows stronger. But as she digs deeper, she uncovers a shocking secret behind the station…


Ghost Mansion
2021 · 1h 47m · KR
A horror webtoon writer journeys to a shabby apartment building in search of ideas. The building's caretaker tells him about multiple strange events that happened throughout the building's history.


The Mimic
2017 · 1h 40m · KR
The mother of a missing child takes in a lost girl she finds in the woods, but soon begins to wonder if she is even human.


Seoul Station
2016 · 1h 32m · KR
When a zombie virus erupts from Seoul Station, a young woman fights to survive on the streets while her boyfriend and father track her down.


The Cursed: Dead Man's Prey
2021 · 1h 50m · KR
Following a brutal murder case, the police are baffled to find out that the assailant, whose body was found on the scene with the victim, had already been dead for three months. Meanwhile, journalist Jin-hee sets up a live interview with an anonymous caller claiming he is the true killer behind the mysterious murder. When the man announces three more murders will occur in the hands of the undead, Jin-hee must face the sinister forces beyond understanding.


Three... Extremes
2004 · 2h 5m · HK
Features an anthology centred on the experiences of a witch doctor, a film-maker and a disgruntled extra determined to take revenge on him, and a novelist as well as her twin sister.


12 Deep Red Nights
2015 · 1h 14m · KR
1. 'Driver' Told by an attractive female customer that he'll receive a lot of money if he kills her, chauffeur In-sik decides to take her up on the offer... 2. '11:55 PM' Translator Young-ran, working overtime alone at his publication office, is about to call it a night-but at 11:55 PM, somebody buzzes.... 3. 'atmosFEAR' High-end audio equipment in hand, sound designer Kwanghyun heads to the park at night to record the ambiance. Through his headphones, however, he hears something entirely different. 4. 'The Secret Night' Young female employee Youngmin, given incentive to steal sensitive company information, sneaks into the office at night. Everything goes according to plan-but on her way out, she runs into fellow coworker Hayoon, who won't seem to let her leave. Slowly, their long-suppressed inner feelings start to come out...


The Divine Fury
2019 · 2h 9m · KR
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.


Rampant
2018 · 2h 2m · KR
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.


R-Point
2004 · 1h 47m · KR
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
South Korean cinema spent the 2000s building a reputation for genre films that refuse to stay in their lane — thrillers that turn into family dramas, revenge stories with slapstick. Parasite's Best Picture win in 2020 confirmed what festival audiences had known for two decades.
Horror is cinema's most reliable laboratory — cheap to make, endlessly reinvented, and unusually good at smuggling in subtext. Every few years a national wave redefines it: Italian giallo, Japanese J-horror, the Korean thriller, American indie horror.