Korean Horror Movies on Netflix are featured with stylish directing themes and themes of social commentary. Horror and thriller movies are gaining popularity internationally in South Korea. It’s not a mystery that the best non-English horror movies in the world are from Korea.

The Korean horror movies revolve around modern fears and the typical years of Korean folklore.

Here are some of the Korean horror movies on Netflix.

Korean Horror Movies on Netflix

1 ‘The 8th night’ (2021)

Directed by Kim Tae-young
Duration – 1h 55min
Cast- lee Sung-min, Park Hae-joon, Kim Yoo-Jung, Nam Da-reum

The movie starts with the story of the Devil and the Buddha. The devil had two eyes, a black and red one representing anxiety and agony, forming the devil. So the Buddha took away his eyes and locked them into different cases in different parts of the world but the eyes of the devil always tried to Unite and from the devil.

The mystery behind the 8th night is that when the red moon comes, It will jump through 8 hosts and reunite with the Black eye after the 8th night of the red moon.

2 ‘#Alive’ (2020)

Directed by Cho ll-Hyung
Duration- 1h 39min
Cast – Yoo Ah-in, Park Shin-Hye

The story takes place in the streets of Seoul when without any warning the people in the streets of Seoul become extremely violent, attacking passengers behaving like zombies and with cannibalistic behavior.

When a young child (Yoo Ah-in) wakes up in his house and finds that his parents left him in the morning in a hurry and left money for groceries. By some office online friends, he was informed about the disease that spreads among the people who infect the uninfected people by biting them and infecting them too.

As the days passed the phone and internet stopped working, the water was gone and all the hopes were gone.

3 ‘Call’ (2020)

Directed by Lee Chung-hyun
Duration- 1h 52 min
Cast- Park Shin-Hye, Jeon Jong-Seo, Kim Sung-ryung

The story starts when So-yeon ( Park Shin-hye) arrives at her family home where she used to live with her ailing mother. There she received an incoming call through the home landline from a young woman in panic named Young-sook who screamed that her mother was trying to burn her alive. After many calls like this, the girls eventually discover that they are calling from the same house and phone separated by 20 years with So-yeon calling from the year 2020 and Young-sook from 1999.

4 ‘All of us are dead’ (2022)

Directed by Lee Jae-kyoo, Kim Nam-su
Duration – 12 episodes (53-72 min)
Cast- Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-Young, Cho Yi-hyun, Lomon

This is one of the most loved Korean horror movies on Netflix. The story takes place in a Korean High school. It was a normal school day until the student returned from the school’s science lab infected by the unknown virus. As he moves into the school then infection spreads out of the school infecting almost all of the school students making them zombies and also making other people like them eventually it spreads throughout the Peninsula.

The military interrogates the psychotic science teacher who started it all. The students struggled very hard to survive until help arrived.

5 ‘Sweet Home’ (2020)

Directed by Lee Eung-bok, Park So-Hyun
Duration- 18 episodes (44-60 min)
Cast- Song Kang, Lee Si-young

Sweet Home is a monster horror movie that sets itself apart by having fun with the ghouls. Cha Hyun lost his family in an accident so he moved to a new apartment. He was you suiciding but the day wasn’t planning to do it, he hears the bell ring when he goes to see whose it he sees his neighbor saying that I am hungry outside through the intercom. But the neighbor slowly turns into a monster and he gets scared and doesn’t reply.

After a while, he again checks the door and opens the door and finds no one outside. Suddenly there were some strange sounds and incidents started happening in his apartment and all over Korea. And all the other people also started turning into monsters, Hyun su, other people try to survive, therefore with many situations where they have to face the monsters and the other groups of hostile peoples until help reaches them.

6 ‘Kingdom’ (2019)

Directed by Kem Seong-hun
Duration – 13 episodes (36-56 min)
Cast- Ju Ji-hoo, Bae Doo-na, Kim Sang-ho, Kim Hye-jun

The Kingdom is a TV series that blends the elements of zombie horror and a political thriller. Set in the Joseon period.

The Kingdom falls ill to the smallpox and rumors spread that he is dead. Meanwhile, the crown princess is labeled a traitor by the Haewon Cho clan, As he is trying to uncourt the mystery of what happened to his father the crown Prince goes with his guard Mu Yeong, to look for a physician Lee Seung Hui This father only to be stuck with an assistant physician. The crown Prince becomes the only hope against the mysterious black overtaking the land.

7 ‘The Glory’ (2022)

Directed by Ahn Gil-ho
Duration- 16 episodes (47-72 min)
Cast– Song Hye-Kyo, Lee Doo-kyo, Lim Ji-Yeon, Park Sung-hoon

Glory is a psychological thriller that hits hard is a new event series from South Korea. The story tells the Revenge of Song Hye-Kyo, a woman who was bullied and abused physically, mentally, and emotionally by her classmates in High school.

Continuing the story The young woman dropped out of school after being bullied and plans a mission to get revenge for herself. The restaurant is now an adult and has waited for her to get married and have a child. Her child is an elementary school student. The woman who was once the victim of school violence is now the teacher of the tormentor’s child. And then her cruel Revenge plot begins.