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Best Horror Asian Dramas

There are 18 horror titles in the DramaSeek catalogue, ranging from genre-defining classics to the latest streaming releases. Below are all of them, ranked by audience rating, with where-to-watch information for every title.

The horror genre has a different texture in Asian television than it does in Western productions. Korean studios in particular have refined a long-form approach to horror storytelling that lets character relationships develop over twelve to twenty hours of screen time. Chinese, Japanese, and Thai variations on the genre each carry their own distinctive signatures — DramaSeek's curated list below pulls the strongest examples from all of them.

For an extended essay on the evolution of the horror drama in Asia, see this in-depth analysis.

Top Horror Picks

1 Kingdom poster ★ 8.7
South Korea · 2019
Kingdom
2 Happiness poster ★ 8.7
South Korea · 2021
Happiness
3 Strangers from Hell poster ★ 8.4
South Korea · 2019
Strangers from Hell
5 Sweet Home poster ★ 7.7
South Korea · 2020
Sweet Home
6 Hellbound poster ★ 7.6
South Korea · 2021
Hellbound
7 Train to Busan poster ★ 7.6
South Korea · 2016
Train to Busan
8 Hellbound Season 2 poster ★ 7.6
South Korea · 2024
Hellbound Season 2
9 All of Us Are Dead poster ★ 7.5
South Korea · 2022
All of Us Are Dead
10 Pee Mak poster ★ 7.5
Thailand · 2013
Pee Mak
Parasyte: The Grey poster ★ 7.4
South Korea · 2024
Parasyte: The Grey
The Wailing poster ★ 7.4
South Korea · 2016
The Wailing
Connect poster ★ 7.4
South Korea · 2022
Connect
A Tale of Two Sisters poster ★ 7.2
South Korea · 2003
A Tale of Two Sisters
Exhuma poster ★ 7.1
South Korea · 2024
Exhuma
Shutter poster ★ 7.1
Thailand · 2004
Shutter
Detention poster ★ 7.0
Taiwan · 2019
Detention
Peninsula poster ★ 5.4
South Korea · 2020
Peninsula