The 20 Best Korean Horror Movies Ever Made

One film on this list made a veteran Japanese actor the first from his country to win a Blue Dragon Award — playing a silent stranger in a Korean mountain village. The 20 best South Korean horror movies, ranked, each with its own Blanket Score. A ghost in a girls' school corridor, a cursed phone number, a haunted asylum livestream, a priest who becomes a vampire, a monster in the Han River, a zombie outbreak on a high-speed train and a village where no one can tell the healer from the devil — the greatest K-horror films, plus hidden gems like The Housemaid, R-Point and Bedevilled. 0:00 Intro 0:24 #20 — Whispering Corridors (1998) · Blanket Score 6.2 1:52 #19 — Phone (2002) · Blanket Score 6.0 3:22 #18 — Memento Mori (1999) · Blanket Score 6.6 4:43 #17 — Into the Mirror (2003) · Blanket Score 6.3 6:07 #16 — Svaha: The Sixth Finger (2019) · Blanket Score 6.6 7:42 #15 — Sleep (2023) · Blanket Score 7.0 9:06 #14 — #Alive (2020) · Blanket Score 6.4 10:35 #13 — R-Point (2004) · Blanket Score 6.8 12:00 #12 — Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018) · Blanket Score 6.9 13:32 #11 — Save the Green Planet! (2003) · Blanket Score 7.6 15:24 #10 — The Call (2020) · Blanket Score 7.3 16:52 #9 — Exhuma (2024) · Blanket Score 7.4 18:17 #8 — Thirst (2009) · Blanket Score 8.0 19:46 #7 — Bedevilled (2010) · Blanket Score 7.8 21:11 #6 — The Housemaid (1960) · Blanket Score 8.4 23:07 #5 — The Host (2006) · Blanket Score 8.5 24:34 #4 — I Saw the Devil (2010) · Blanket Score 8.7 25:57 #3 — Train to Busan (2016) · Blanket Score 8.6 27:24 #2 — A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) · Blanket Score 8.5 28:54 #1 — The Wailing (2016) · Blanket Score 9.0 30:31 Outro How we score and rank every film: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/9ac5e... Which Korean film scared you the most — and which one did we leave off? New rankings every week — subscribe so the next one doesn't slip past you. #KoreanHorror #HorrorMovies #KoreanMovies