‘Hex’ and other terrifying Asian movies on Netflix for a night of horror

The Netflix catalog has a lot of them Asian horror movies which show what kind of horror films are being made outside the West. Some have had a big box office impact like “Hex” and others have become a streaming phenomenon like “El Telephone”, but all of them manage to give the audience the creeps.

Hexadecimal

One of Highest-grossing Taiwanese horror films of 2022 is Ke Mengrong’s ‘Hex’, a film that tells the story of a mother who tries to save her daughter from a curse that stems from a cult that exists in a family that has brought chilling problems to her life for years.

The phone

Between netflix original korean horror movies there is ‘The Telephone’, a production by Lee Chung Hyeon with Park Shin Hye and Jeon Jong Seo, the same as ‘Money Heist: Korea’. In this story, the two actresses enter a terrifying journey through time, where crimes are committed and undone with the sole intention that one dies and the other survives.

The eighth night

Another of the South Korean horror movies that Netflix has in its catalog is Kim Tae Hyoung’s ‘The 8th Night’, starring Lee Sung Min as a shaman monk charged with protecting the world from demonic entities who are locked up in a ship; Everything becomes complicated when the seal of this object is broken and the demons come out with the intention of attacking everyone in front of them.

the cursed bridge

In addition to “Cursed”, Netflix has other Taiwanese horror films and among them is “The Cursed Bridge” by Lester Shih. The story of this film tells the journey of a group of college students as they try to challenge urban legends about the ghost that appears on the bridge of their university, a game that will become dangerous on a level never imagined.

Swah

Korean horror cinema also has “Suaha: The Sixth Finger” on Netflix, a Jang Jae Hyun film with Lee Jung Jae from “The Squid Game”; as a detective in charge of investigating a series of murders which, according to his information, could be connected to a sect or a religious sect.

homunculus

Fantasy and horror come together in ‘Homunculus’, a Japanese film by Takashi Shimizu with Anna Ishii and Yukino Kishii, in which a homeless man with amnesia undergoes experimental surgery and awakens from it with an extraordinary ability to see trauma deeper than people’s hearts; something that will become a disturbing and chilling situation.