8 Must-watch horror films on Prime Video
A complicated genre to pull off, a well-done horror film provides the necessary highs for its fans as much as it does fans of other genres. Here's a list of must-watch horror films for Indian users of Prime Video.
Exhuma
'Oldboy' and 'I Saw the Devil' star Choi Min-sik leads a superlative cast in this Korean masterwork that feels like watching two stories in one, with unforeseen twists and superbly staged chills steeped in folklore and impacted by repercussions of political events.
The Wailing
This one can be best described as the Korean answer to the greatest horror film of all time, 'The Exorcist'. Like Exhuma, the atmosphere-heavy film is characterised by a mounting sense of dread and deals with supernatural occurrences associated with mythological elements, among other things.
The Others
Alejandro Amenábar directs a ghost story best watched without reading anything beforehand considering the kind of climactic twist usually found in M. Night Shyamalan films. The painterly frames alone, with its mist-laden environment and minimalistic amber lighting, make it worth a visit.
Train to Busan/Seoul Station
Long train journeys are tricky as it is, and now when you imagine one undertaken amidst a terrifying zombie apocalypse, well, the result is one of the best dystopian horror thrillers ever made. Yeon Sang-ho made an animated prequel titled Seoul Station that's equally good.
Project Wolf Hunting
One of the goriest movies ever made, this Korean horror adventure, which takes place aboard a cargo ship, might give you the urge to pause it in the middle to get some air considering the overwhelming amount of chaos and bloodshed it offers.
Tumbbad
As much an effective folklore-based horror story as it is a rumination of the darkest recesses of the human soul, Tumbbad recently got an exponentially bigger box office reception than it did upon original release. A much-anticipated sequel is in the works.
IT
Based on the Stephen King novel of the same name, this genuinely frightening horror thriller does justice to the book which features, arguably, the scariest clown ever in the history of fiction, and is elevated by Bill Skarsgård's nightmare-inducing performance.