Top 5 Korean Thrillers: If Parasite turned you inside-out with its surreal plot and raw emotions, best to look higher than the average viewer. The South Korean film industry has been particularly skillful in assembling materials for producing feelings-thrillers that reflect terror and horror; that is, psychological tension and social commentary fit together like nowhere else. There is a segment from K-drama for every taste-for the pale-skinned on this dark side, corny-old cinephiles wanting intelligent suspense; across to Top 5 edge-of-your-seat Korean thrillers.
Streaming: Amazon Prime Video Directed by Lee Chang-dong, Burning is a terrible psychological mystery based on a short story by Haruki Murakami-defined in an early development-the dreams with which he molds fantasies about the reality of life. Such a friend from his childhood finds him so horridly attractive and mysterious. This whole slow boil-that is, desire, class tensions, and resentment boiling under the astonishing image and with all the fuzzy sullenness.
Where to Watch: Disney+ Hotstar
The Wailing weaves a weird thriller and horror in an unlucky village where all of a sudden depopulated by an evil rumor about demons. This leads to police investigations of terrifying revelations about the very nature of faith and fear. This is wholly composed to be one of those outlandishly eerie-vaguely-religious-creepythat could easily slip into the most disturbing of all Korean thrillers to date.
Where to Watch: Amazon Prime Video
Before Parasite, Bong Joon-ho created this engaging thriller-story. It discusses serial murder for the very first time in Korea. Two detectives undertake the investigation colluding against mounting bureaucratic problems. The tension-the tragedy-and then very deep insights into what finally makes up the human base of this movie.
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Where to Watch: MX Player/Prime Video
A masterfully told revenge drama which is totally woven by Kim Jee-woon-harsher, with the central protagonist being a spy searching for the man behind the murder of his fiancée, then discovering in this quest for revenge that it simply blinds him, which raises some really shocking moral arguments concerning justice and evil.
Where to Watch: Netflix
A man witness his brother getting kidnapped and, mysteriously returning alive, quite raises many suspicions to which he holds on. Forgotten would keep its viewers stuck painfully till that last jaw-drop-worthy end with many psychological twists and emotional reveals.