Five dark South Korean thrillers to stream on Netflix

For a few years now, there has been a very visible uprise in the popularity of Korean entertainment. 

South Korea has been leading the way as a non-English speaking country whose products gross substantially both domestically and internationally and deservedly so.

Thanks to Netflix, here is a list of five dark South Korean thrillers that you can catch on the online streaming platform: 

The Call

The Call explores time travel with a spine chilling twist. The film follows 28-year-old Kim Seo-Yeon, who is visiting her grandmother in the middle of nowhere.

Seo-Yeon misplaces her phone and is afraid she’ll have no form of contact with the outside world. But inside her isolated childhood home, Seo-Yeon finds a strange, old, cordless phone.

Seo-Yeon soon discovers that she is able to communicate with Oh Young-sook, a young woman who lived in the same house in 1999. What happens next is far behind anyone’s prediction.  

Svaha  

Svaha: The Sixth Finger is a psychological horror film that delves deep into the world of cults. The movie also depicts Buddhism and esotericism — two subjects not often explored in films of this genre. 

Svaha follows a pastor who works to expose religious groups which do more harm than good. The pastor discovers an active cult known as Deer Mountain, and when murders begin to take place, he suspects the Deer Mountain cult has something to do with the killings.  

Forgotten   

Forgotten is a psychological thriller, in which a young man named Jin-seok witnesses his older brother getting abducted soon after moving into their new home and though the brother returns to their family 19 days later, it becomes clear to Jin-seok that his brother is no longer the same person.

Night In Paradise

Night In Paradise is about a mobster who goes hiding out on Jeju Island after a brutal tragedy. He, who is a mobster with a target on his back, connects at the island with a woman who’s given up on life.

Kill Boksoon 

The movie follows Gil Boksoon (Jeon Do-yeon) as a killer with a perfect success rate but a rough relationship with her teenage daughter (Kim Si-a).

She decides to retire to spend more time with her kid, but of course, on her last mission, she discovers a secret that puts her up against the entire hitman industry.