Prepare for ghosts, zombies, and heaps of blood violence.
Well Go USA/Everett (2); Kuk Dong Seki Trading Co.
There’s been a steadily growing global appreciation for Korean pop culture, including Korean movies.
Chun Woo-hee in ‘The Wailing’; Park Ji-hyun in ‘Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum’; Kim Jin-kyu and Lee Eun-shim in ‘The Housemaid’.Credit:Well Go USA/Everett (2); Kuk Dong Seki Trading Co.
Korean horror films can also be quite violent, so take heed if you’re squeamish.
Here’sEntertainment Weekly’s ranking of the 25 best Korean horror movies of all time.
Instead, it uses Andersens premise as a launching pad for a horror story about sexism in Korean society.
Ha Jung-woo in ‘The Closet’.Dark Sky Films
There, he finds three children who appear to be held captive by their parents.
But nothing is as it seems in this beautiful, grisly, horror fantasy.
Spoiler alert: The monster is definitely real, a lion-bear hybrid covered in disgusting bloody pustules.
Shim Hye-jin in ‘Acacia’.Show East
We also highly recommend the 1999 sequelMemento Mori,both for its heart-stopping scare scenes and then-taboo lesbian theme.
Director Jum Bung-shik cleverly uses the spooky location and visual format, leading to several moments of terror.
Shortly after the release of this movie, the real Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital was torn down.
Bang Yu-seol in ‘The Mimic’.Well Go USA Entertainment
Add a bravura finale, and you’ve got an instant Korean horror classic.
Where to watchThree… Extremes: Amazon Prime Video
8.Save the Green Planet!
And if you’ve seen the movie, that tracks.
‘The Red Shoes’.Tartan Video
But is he really?
It all builds to an exorcism scene that’s impressively staged and terrifyingly intense.
Soo-hyun already caught him once; this second hunt is just for fun.
Yoo Ah-in in ‘#Alive’.Everett
19 pick, the animated prequelSeoul Station.
Directed by Kim Jee-woon who also made our No.
Where to watchA Tale of Two Sisters: AMC+
Kam Woo-seong in ‘Spider Forest’.Everett
Hye-sun in ‘Seoul Station’.Finecut/Next Entertainment World/Studio Dadashow
Eun Won-jae, Shim Eun-kyung, and Jin Ji-hee in ‘Hansel and Gretel’.Everett
Seo Young-hee in ‘Bedevilled’.Everett
Park Shin-hye in ‘The Call’.Everett
Narilya Gulmongkolpech in ‘The Medium’.Everett
The cast of ‘The Quiet Family’.Myung Films
Park Sung-woong in ‘Monstrum’.Everett
Kim Seo-hyeong in ‘Whispering Corridors 6: The Humming’.Lotte Entertainment
Park Ji-hyun in Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum'.Everett
Jung Yu-mi in ‘Sleep’.Everett
Lee Byung-hun in ‘Three…Extremes’.Everett
Shin Ha-kyun in ‘Save the Green Planet!'.CJ Entertainment
Song Kang-ho in ‘Thirst’.Everett
Chun Woo-hee in ‘The Wailing’.Everett
Song Kang-ho in ‘The Host’.Everett
Lee Byung-hun and Kim In-seo in ‘I Saw the Devil’.Everett Collection
Kim Jin-kyu and Lee Eun-shim in ‘The Housemaid’.Kuk Dong Seki Trading Co.
Gong Yoo in ‘Train to Busan’.Well Go USA
Im Soo-jung in ‘A Tale of Two Sisters’.Everett Collection
