Asian Horror films come with a certain reputation, that reputation has helped put peoples attention their way and given them viewers they wouldn’t of otherwise had.
I myself only started watching them due to stories I was being told about certain films and it drove my intrigue to seek these films out (which wasn’t as easy as you think, we’re talking early 2000’s, so pre-Netflix and VHS was still going), whilst watching one the other day I decided to do a list of my favourite’s of the genre.
So here it is, my list of my top fifteen Asian Horror Films (the list is not in a favouritism order):
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Train To Busan |
While a zombie virus breaks out in South Korea, passengers struggle to survive on the train from Seoul to Busan.
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Ju-on: The Grudge |
A mysterious and vengeful spirit marks and pursues anybody who dares enter the house in which it resides.
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Bloody Reunion |
Buried grudges have disasterous consequences for a class reunion.
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I Saw The Devil |
A secret agent exacts revenge on a serial killer through a series of captures and releases.
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The Maid |
A woman accepts a job as a maid in Singapore, helping to care for the Teo family’s mentally disabled son. But her arrival turns out to be catastrophically ill-timed.
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Ringu |
A reporter and her ex-husband investigate a cursed video tape that is rumored to kill the viewer seven days after watching it.
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Infection |
A mysterious illness strikes hospital employees involved in the cover-up of a patient’s death.
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Noroi: The Curse |
A documentary filmmaker explores seemingly unrelated paranormal incidents connected by the legend of an ancient demon called the “kagutaba.”
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Audition |
A widower takes an offer to screen girls at a special audition, arranged for him by a friend to find him a new wife. The one he fancies is not who she appears to be after all.
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A Tale Of Two Sisters |
A family is haunted by the tragedies of deaths within the family.
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Carved The Slit-Mouthed Woman |
A Japanese suburb experiences terrorization by the vengeful spirit of a woman who asks people a question before slaughtering them.
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The Ghost |
A teenage girl suffering from amnesia discovers that she is somehow connected to a group of people who are being killed off one by one by a vengeful ghost.
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Three… Extremes |
An Asian cross-cultural trilogy of horror films
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Macabre |
Adjie, Astrid and three friends are hunted and slaughtered one by one by a murderous family.
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Rigor Mortis |
Honourable mentions: