Asian Movie Pulse's The Top 20 Asian Horror Movies of 2023 (2023)
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- DirectorLee ThongkhamStarsChakrit BoonkeawNaiyana BumeeWanmai ChatborirakA girl finds a strange egg and brings it back to her village, only to later realize it was from a monster. Now a giant monster emerges from the lake to search for the egg, destroying the town and its inhabitants.
- DirectorYûsuke IshidaStarsEiji AkasoMai ShiraishiShuntarô YanagiBullied by his boss, worked around the clock, he's nothing more than a corporate drone. All it takes is a zombie outbreak for him to finally feel alive.
- DirectorParis ZarcillaStarsLeanne BestEva-Jane WillisDavid HaymanAn undocumented Filipina immigrant lands a job as a care-worker for a terminal old man, securing a better life for her and her daughter. But a dark discovery threatens to destroy everything she's strived for and holds dear.
- DirectorAmar KaushikStarsVarun DhawanKriti SanonAbhishek BanerjeeSet in the forests of Arunachal, Bhediya is a story of Bhaskar, a man who gets bitten by a wolf, and begins to transform into the creature. As Bhaskar and his buddies try to find answers, a bunch of twists, turns, and laughs ensue.
- DirectorNate KiStarsAnson Ip-Sang KongBai LingYee Chun Jessica ChanWhen he returns to China to care for his ailing mother, a Canadian man begins to see paranormal apparitions similar to those he saw in childhood.
- DirectorKen'ichi UganaStarsJun AmakiYuzu AokiMitsuru FukikoshiWakaba saves her classmate Koki who was being bullied. From then on, people who are involved with Wakaba are killed one after another. When the murderer is found out, Wakaba realizes what true love is.
- DirectorDain SaidStarsIdan AedanBront PalaraeRemy IshakA young apprentice healer tries to suppress his supernatural abilities so he can fit in with the other kids, but when a malicious spirit breaks out in his apartment he decides to use his abilities while dark family secrets are revealed.
- DirectorKongdej JaturanrasameeRasiguet SookkarnStarsJennis OprasertPraewa SuthamphongPhantira PipityakornIt is about a woman with memory loss faced with the challenge of survival on a mysterious island.
- DirectorChalit KrileadmongkonPakphum WongjindaStarsChanya McCloryMike AngeloBenjamin Joseph VarneyA young woman quarantines in a hotel after returning from abroad. There she encounters a shape-shifting monster that possesses people. The concept was inspired by a Battambang legend from the reign of King Rama V.
- DirectorTakeshi KushidaStarsHisashiKosuke HoshiTakuma IzumiBoth Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists who are involved in a traffic accident, leaving Hitomi without sight and Eri paralyzed. While Hitomi wears camera-equipped contact lenses and Eri wears VR goggles, the two share one vision.
- DirectorSitisiri MongkolsiriStarsNopachai ChaiyanamChutimon ChuengcharoensukyingEmilio FerreiraA woman running her family's noodle restaurant receives an invitation to join the fine-dining industry under the tutelage of an infamous chef.
- DirectorYong-ki JeongStarsKim Bo-raKim Jae-hyunShin So-yulA public service worker at Oksu Station witnesses a shocking incident and recruits his friend to help uncover the truth behind the station's mysterious happenings.
- DirectorJames HungStarsHo-shun WongKenneth ChanShirley ChanYou Ji Ren is a blind man who works at a factory in an outlying island. When the factory is cut off from the outside world by a hurricane one day, a monster appears and turns whoever sees it into black shadows. As You cannot see the monster, he is able to help other coworkers leave safely and fight to kill the monster.
- DirectorBatdelger ByambasurenStarsNomin-Erdene AriunbyambaGanzorig BalganByambatsogt DashnyamGroup of unlikely friends decide to cheat on the final exam of the night school for privileged kids, but instead they unearth something completely unexpected.
- DirectorMikhail RedStarsNadine LustreLouise Delos ReyesMcCoy De LeonAn online content moderator who deletes a suicide video made by her co-worker. But the otherwise desensitized woman cannot escape from either her own troubled past or from a mysterious vengeful presence.
- DirectorJoey De GuzmanStarsBrandon VeraPepe HerreraMary Jean LastimosaWhen society breaks down due to a violent outbreak that turns victims into undead monsters, a former elite soldier breaks out of jail to find his family.
- DirectorEiichirô HasumiStarsKanna HashimotoGordon MaedaMaika YamamotoA high school student and her friends are trapped in a time loop by a ghost and the only way to escape is to find the corpse of the ghost's previous victim.
- DirectorLe Binh GiangStarsBi MaxTran PhongHuu ViA Vblogger is on the way of identify the murderer who killed his parents by reconstructing three shocking murder cases in Vietnam, he found the commonalities between his parents' case and these three cases. At one point, he discovered that all the stories had a clue related to the fetus. And the killer who killed his parents is actually the person who has a very close relationship with him.
- DirectorAli KalthamiStarsMohamad AldokheiMohammed AltawyanHajar AlshammariIn the heart of Riyadh, where desperation and opportunity collide, MANDOOB brings forth the gripping tale of Fahad Algadaani, a mentally fragile man racing against time to save his ailing father.
- DirectorKen'ichi UganaStarsRyûta EndôSaki HiraiHaruki ItabashiEvil meets comedy: creatures, flying eyes, chainsaws, musical heads, Lloyd Kaufman, mystical apparitions, sci-fi horror comedy and a host of other gleeful shenanigans that can't be revealed for fear of ruining the surprise.