10 Best Korean Horror Movies to Watch On Prime Video Right Now: Train To Busan, A Tale Of Two Sisters And More

Listen, I might agree to your million ifs and buts about Korean dramas and movies (and still say that you have to be wild to not be a fan of the latter), but if there's one genre that I will never hear any criticism against, it's the horror story. You might know Thai movies as the paragon of supernatural storytelling acumen, but the Koreans are honestly not far behind at all.

If anything, I would argue that if there's a genre this industry can consistently do well in, both with dramas and movies, it's horror. Look at All Of Us Are Dead. Or the two seasons of Kingdom. Or, the most famous of them all: Train To Busan.

Which brings us back to the rest of the article. If you liked Train to Busan (or if it wasn't your cup of tea and you want something more hardcore), this is the list of movies to start with. Don't blame me if you lose out of sleep later.

The Witch: Part 1 - The Subversion starts off as a fairly familiar mystery about a teenager with amnesia. Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi) enters a televised talent competition to help her financially struggling adoptive family. All well and good, till mysterious men styart contacting her, claiming to know her from a past she cannot remember. That's all I say about the show. Watch it for the plot twist (you can and can't predict it at the same time, if it makes sense). If you fancy it, also check out the sequel, also available on Prime Video.

Director Kim Hong-sun had read about historical accounts of human experimentation during World War II involving Koreans in the Philippines, which he combined with a real 2017 news of dozens of violent Korean criminals being extradited from the Philippines to create Project Wolf Hunting. Even if this sounds very serious, the movie itself isn't all that. It's a gore-fest, but with the camp and goofiness you'd expect from older slasher films. Watch this if you're into gore and action pieces.

Here, we follow Kyung-mi (Jin Ki-joo), a deaf woman who, along with her mother, becomes a serial killer's (Squid Games' Wi Ha-jun) main target after she witness him in action. What makes the chase even more frightening is that Kyung-mi cannot hear Do-sik approaching at all. You almost feel yourself screaming for her when you see him standing right behind her, but because of her impared hearing, she has no idea at all. It's a serial killer thriller that manages to avoid almost every trope of the genre, leaving you biting your nails till the end.

Easily the most famous in this list, Train to Busan is about Seok-woo (Gong Yoo), who takes his young daughter Su-an (Kim Su-an) on a KTX train from Seoul to Busan. Soon after departure, a woman infected with a mysterious virus boards the train, and the zombie-like infection spreads through the passengers at terrifying speed, engulfing the entire country in a matter of hours. Seok-woo must now fight against all odds to ensure his daughter's safety.

The next time you come across that one insanely famous clip of Kim Go-eun as a shaman performing an exorcism so well that legend has it that it invoked real spirits on set, know that it's from Exhuma. The actress plays Shaman Hwa-rim, hired to investigate a mysterious illness affecting a wealthy family's newborn. They exhume the family's ancestral grave, but underneath it they discover another coffin containing a Japanese samurai spirit.

If psychological horror is your cup of tea, count of Sleep to give you the creeps. Soo-jin (Jung Yu-mi) is pregnant and living with her husband Hyun-su (Lee Sun-kyun), when he begins sleepwalking. At first, his behaviour is just strange. Then he starts scratching himself, eating raw food while unconscious and behaving more disturbingly. At one point, he even puts their dog in the freezer while asleep, convincing Soo-jin that her husband could eventually hurt their newborn child.

In this slow-paced, eerie paranormal horror title, Su-mi (Im Soo-jung) returns home from a psychiatric institution with her younger sister Su-yeon (Moon Geun-young). But their stepmother Eun-joo (Yum Jung-ah), doesn't seem to like it. Meanwhile, while strange incidents suggest that something supernatural is haunting the family. As the tension mounts, you piece the story together, giving the film a deeper, more meaningful context.

The financial crisis of 1997 has created many a film and shows, all exploring the various angles of how it affected people. Forgotten takes a look at the most desperate of the lot, ones who were forced into murder to provide for their family. We follow Jin-seok (Kang Ha-neul), who moves into a new house with his parents and older brother Yoo-seok (Kim Moo-yeol). One night, Jin-seok watches Yoo-seok get kidnapped. When his brother returns 19 days later, Jin-seok notices that something about him has changed. If you like to be surprised by out of the box plot twists, this one is for you.

Kyung-chul, (Choi Min-sik), is a serial killer who murders Ju-yeon, the fiancée of secret agent Soo-hyun, (Lee Byung-hun). Ater discovering what happened, Soo-hyun. Sounds like a typical revenge story, till you find out that the film went so overboard with the violence and gore that it had to be banned and given the "restricted" tag, which in Korea is quite the rare occurrence.

I saved my favourite one for the last. In Bedevilled, Hae-won (Ji Sung-won) travel to the remote island of Mudo and she reconnects with her childhood friend Bok-nam (Seo Young-hee). Bok-nam is trapped in an abusive marriage and treated brutally by practically everyone around her. Her only source of hope is her daughter Yeon-hee. So when Yeon-hee is killed and the islanders try to cover it up, she goes on a killing spree that leads right up to her friend, Hae-won