# The best Korean horror movies of all time

From The Wailing to A Tale of Two Sisters: the Korean horror films critics and audiences rank highest (Looper, Screen Rant, Modern Korean Cinema).

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## Top 12

1. **The Wailing (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Na Hong-jin's bumbling cop investigates deaths in a remote village; 99% on Rotten Tomatoes.
2. **A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kim Jee-woon's gothic psychological horror.
3. **Train to Busan (2016)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Yeon Sang-ho's zombies on a KTX train.
4. **The Host (2006)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Bong Joon-ho's monster from the Han River.
5. **The Housemaid (1960)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kim Ki-young's legendary film in Korean cinema history.
6. **Whispering Corridors (1998)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The pioneer of school ghost-story horror, a launchpad for young actors.
7. **I Saw the Devil (2010)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Kim Jee-woon, Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik in a revenge thriller.
8. **R-Point (2004)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Psychological horror set at the end of the Vietnam War.
9. **Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum (2018)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jung Bum-shik's found-footage horror.
10. **Epitaph (2007)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Gothic horror in a 1942 Seoul hospital.
11. **Yeogokseong (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A legendary B-movie cult horror film.
12. **Exhuma (2024)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jang Jae-hyun and what wakes when a grave is moved.

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