Top 40 Best Korean Horror Movies to send shivers down your spine!

11. Memento Mori (Whispering Corridors 2: 1999)

Running time: 3h 6min

Directed by: Kim Tae-yong, Min Kyu-dong

Available on: Asian crush

Memento Mori, a chilling high school drama, is the second installment of the Whispering Corridors film series and probably the best one. In this, Min-ah finds a strange diary that can trigger hallucinations. Previously, the diary belonged to two of her seniors, Hyo-shin and Shi-Eun, who shared a very close bond. But Hyo-shin suddenly commits suicide, and the entire school is shocked and depressed. His fate foreshadows what will happen to those who dare to read the diary and are bound to die. What will happen to Min-Ah?

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12. Spider Forest (2004)

Running time: 2h

Directed by: Song II-gon

Available on: Asian crush

Spider Forest is a South Korean horror-drama film with a unique story, a solid script, and amazing performances. In the movie, Kang Min is a TV producer who is recently widowed. He wakes up alone in the middle of a dark forest to see a secluded cabin nearby, rushes towards the cabin, and witnesses some brutal crime. Eventually, the incident leads him to come across the legends of the spider forest. It is one of the scariest Korean movies one can hardly watch.

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13. Into the Mirror (2003)

Running time: 1h 54min

Directed by: Sung-ho Kim

Available on: Dramacool

Into the Mirror is a Korean supernatural horror film about a series of gruesome deaths with mirrors in a shopping mall. Wu Young-min, an ex-cop, now working as a security guard in the shopping mall, tries to reveal the mystery behind the series of mysterious deaths linked to mirrors. Will the security guard be able to solve the case of evil mirrors? It is the coolest genre of Korean horror movies.

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 14. Voice (2005)

Running time: 1h 44min

Directed by: Choi Ik-hwan

Available on: Dramacool

Voice is the fourth installment of the Whispering Corridors Korean horror film series. It is a decent horror flick portraying the story of an aspiring singer, Young-Aeon, who is mysteriously killed, and her body also disappears. Only her best friend, Kang Sun-min, can hear the voice of her trapped ghost. Seon-min befriends a strange and lonely girl at school named Cho-ah who can hear the voices of the dead. Can Cho-ah help her solve the mystery?

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15. R-Point (2004)

Running time: 1h 51min

Directed by: Kong Su-chang, Su Young Gong

Available on: Netflix

R-Point is a Korean creepy war horror film set in Vietnam during the Vietnam War of 1972. The South Korean base in Vietnam receives a radio transmission from a missing squad presumed dead. The high command assigns the mission to Lieutenant Choi Tae-in. He has to lead a squad with eight other soldiers and rescue the missing soldiers from the R-Point. The film depicts an original, scary, and quite unclear journey to the hell of the innermost fears.

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16. Killer Toon (2013)

Running time: 1h 44min

Directed by: Kim Yong-gyun

Available on: MSN

Killer Toon is a Korean psychological horror film with a twisted, mysterious plot. Ji Yoon is a popular horror web-comic artist who lands in trouble after real-life events follow up her artwork. Following her recent work, her publisher turns up dead in a way described in her latest comic. This leads Detective Lee Ki-Cheol to suspect the cartoonist Ji Yoon in a series of murders. But is Shy the mastermind behind events?

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 17. Epitaph (2007)

Running time: 1h 38min

Directed by: Jung Bum-shik, Sik Jung

Available on: Amazon Prime

Epitaph is a Korean horror movie set primarily in 1942, when Korea was under the colonial rule of Japan. Itis an anthology, as it contains three separate stories. All the stories are set in the same place and time, a hospital in Seoul during the Japanese occupation. In this entertaining horror flick, Dr. Park Jung-nam finds a photo album dating back to the days when he was an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. He goes down the memory lanes. His arranged marriage ended when his fiancée committed suicide. Later, he was assigned to monitor the mortuary late at night. There he fell in love with a corpse. Soon a series of horrifying events take place in the hospital. It can be counted as the oldest Korean horror movie.

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18. Possessed (2009)

Running time: 1h 46min

Directed by: Lee Yong-ju

Available on: newasiantv

Possessed is a creepy horror film that can meddle with your mind. It covers the story of a 13-year-old So-Jin who disappears mysteriously, her elder sister Hee-Jin, and their mother, who is a religious maniac. Soon, the neighbours die one by one. The reason behind this trial of death is unknown. Tae-Hwan is a cop who reluctantly takes the case. While the investigation is on, he confronts more and more suicides. Can he reveal the mystery?

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19. Goonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)

Running time: 1h 35min

Directed by: Jung Bum-shik

Available on: Viu

This found-footage horror film is based on a real-life psychiatric hospital named Gonjiam, which explains the movie’s name as well. The narrative revolves around a horror web series crew that travels to an abandoned asylum to broadcast the events happening there. Because of their greed to garner views and publicity, they suffer unspeakable horrors.

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20. Phone (2002)

Running time: 1h 44min

Directed by: Ahn Byeong-ki

Available on: Dramacool

In the days following her purchase of a new phone, a woman starts noticing strange things happening to her. On further investigation, she discovers that everyone who has ever owned her phone number has died suddenly and mysteriously.

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