If you’re zany about zombie films, mad for mythical monster movies, and in awe of alien-themed tales, you’ll be loopy about this list of dramas and movies – it’s packed full of spine-tingling fun!

Mysterious Creatures

When hostile aliens launch a worldwide invasion, the South Korean military has no choice but to recruit all third-year high school students to join the forces. After arriving at Seongjin High School, platoon leader Lee Chun Ho (Shin Hyun Soo) guides students through rigorious training for combat. Meanwhile, class teacher, Park Eun Yeong (Im Se Mi) is determined to keep her students safe as they fight this war against aliens to save their world from the brink of extinction. Based on the webtoon written by Ha Il Kwon, this 2023 South Korean drama series was directed by Sung Yong Il.

Duty After School

Fund manager Seok Woo (Gong Yoo) lives in Seoul and is separated from his wife.

His life is his work, and he spends relatively little time with his young daughter, who misses him very much.

She asks him to grant him a birthday wish – to take her to the seaside city of Busan. He agrees and decides to take her out for the day on the KTX, a high-speed express train that links some of South Korea’s biggest cities.

They board the train, along with a number of fellow passengers, including a young couple who are expecting a baby, a homeless man, and the members of a high school baseball team.

One more passenger also boards, just as the train is preparing to pull out of the station – a flesh-eating zombie!

The zombie bites and infects a member of the train’s crew, and together the two zombies run rampant on the KTX, turning a large number of the passengers into zombies, too.

Outside the train, things are even worse. A full-blown zombie pandemic is raging, and many cities fall to the flesh-eaters.

The South Korean military manages to establish a safe haven in Busan – so Seok Woo and the other non-zombie survivors must pool their wits if they are to escape the train without getting infected!

Can Seok Woo bring his daughter to safety?

“Train to Busan” is a 2016 horror-action movie directed by Yeon Sang Ho.

Train to Busan

🧟‍ Next Stop Zombieland 🧟‍

Having long dreamt of the day she could move into a place of her own, Police Officer Yoon Sae Bom (Han Hyo Joo) is counting down the days until the construction of the city’s brand-new high-rise apartment building is complete. With her long-time friend and fellow officer, Detective Jung Yi Hyun (Park Hyung Sik) planning to move into the complex as well, Sae Bom is certain her new home is going to be nothing short of perfect. Unfortunately, she couldn’t be more wrong. Not long after moving in, a strange sickness begins to spread throughout the building, leaving the city with no choice but to quarantine the residents. Cut off from the outside world, will the uninfected residents find a way to save themselves from this living nightmare? This 2021 South Korean fantasy action thriller series was directed by Ahn Gil Ho.

Happiness

TV producer Nam Ji Ah (Jo Bo Ah) believes that Korean stories of the nine-tailed fox, a creature that seduces the innocent to satisfy its craving for human flesh, are not mere folk tales. And she has made it her personal mission to prove it! But this puts her on a collision course with Lee Yeon (Lee Dong Wook), a handsome and intelligent man – and a secret nine-tailed fox! When his bloodthirsty step-brother Lee Rang (Kim Bum) appears on the scene, hungry for mayhem – Yeon is forced into action. Can he save Ji Ah from doom? And could this cunning fox find love in the process? This 2020 South Korean drama series was directed by Kang Shin Hyo.

Tale of the Nine-Tailed

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When the infectious outbreak was first reported in Chiba, Japan, no one could believe it was real. But when Riri Mizukami (Hiyori Sakurada) meets one of the infected on the way home from her softball club, she knows this virus is going to change the world forever. 

Escaping to a public shelter with the rest of her club, Riri believes they’re all safe, but when it’s discovered that someone inside the shelter has been infected, she fears her life may be at its end. Lucky or not, Riri escapes the shelter and soon finds herself holed up at a shopping mall in Makuhari, but Riri isn’t the only survivor now calling the mall home. Forced to live with several men and women of all ages and occupations, Riri and her new “family” must work together to find ways to survive.

While the world outside the mall is a literal zombie hellscape, life inside the mall isn’t all that bad. With enough provisions to last everyone quite a while, an odd sense of comfort settles over the survivors, causing some to begin to wonder if they might find love. But can one find love amid a zombie apocalypse?

Adapted from the manga series “According to Six Survivors” by Kazune Yamamoto, “Six Survivors” is a 2022 Japanese romantic horror comedy drama directed by Ken Ninomiya.

Six Survivors

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Moo Young comes back to life as a zombie thanks to illegally dumped medical waste. With his memory gone, he eventually accepts reality and does whatever he can to walk and look like a human. Seon Ji, who once was a writer for a TV show that deals with issues regarding current affairs, is employed as a part-time assistant at Moo Young's agency. As she helps the zombie detective look for the traces of his lost memories, she comes to realize how Moo Young is related to one of her previous cases.

Zombie Detective

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Tencent

Obsessed with the legends of King Gesar, antique dealer Ming Shu (Kent Tong) would love nothing more than to possess relics from the time of that once-great king. However, finding treasures from an age that has become nothing more than legend isn’t easy. Luckily,&nbsp;he knows a certain set of adventurers who can retrieve the relics he seeks.

Having just narrowly escaped the harrowing “Worm Valley,” Ming Shu wastes no time in commissioning Hu Ba Yi (Pan Yue Ming), Wang Pang Zi (Jiang Chao), and Shirley Yang (Zhang Yu Qi) for the job at hand. Desperate to possess the legendary glacier corpse, Ming Shu speeds the team on their way. But finding such a precious relic from a long-forgotten age is no simple task; especially when the treasure one seeks is no longer part of this world.

Realizing the coveted corpse lies hidden deep within the demonic kingdom, the intrepid team makes the crossing only to learn that the treasure they seek is tied to an ancient curse. With their lives in more danger than ever, they must each ask themselves: is the prize they’re hunting worth the price they may soon be forced to pay?

Adapted from the 4th volume in Zhang Mu Ye’s novel series “Candle in the Tomb”, “Kunlun Tomb” is a 2022 Chinese action adventure drama directed by Fei Zhen Xiang.

Kunlun Tomb

The Raiders of the Lost Tomb 

Yong Dong Jin (Jang Dong Yoon) is a conscript sergeant in the South Korean armed forces. He is also the military’s leading sniffer dog handler and is just one month away from receiving his long-awaited discharge.

But with just weeks to go until he can rejoin the civilian world, a mysterious case threatens to suck him into a long, troublesome intrigue.

In the demilitarized zone (DMZ), the area between North and South Korea, a suspected murder in bizarre circumstances piques the army’s attention.

The army leaders decide to form an elite search party to scour the DMZ for clues, enlisting Yong Dong Jin and his keen-nosed dogs. Also joining the team will be Son Ye Rim (Krystal Jung), a relatively green but highly promising soldier who received much of her training in the United States.

However, as the party begins to investigate, its members quickly begin to realize that whatever it is they are hunting does not appear to be human…

“Search” is a 2020 South Korean drama series that was co-produced by Lim Dae Woong and Myung Hyun Woo.

Search

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Grandmother Wang (Heo Jin) is fabulously rich, but is suffering from dementia. Bo Young (Park Ha Na), a young mother, knows that Grandmother Wang has a collection of expensive jewelry. Mrs. Wang’s isolated, decaying mansion is situated deep in the countryside, next to a lake. Bo Young is struggling financially and hatches a plan to gain access to the mansion...and make away with the jewelry.

She does so by posing as a caregiver to Grandmother Wang, and gaining the trust of Mother Kim (Jeong Young Joo), Grandmother Wang’s only living relative. Mother Kim says she will hire Bo Young to work in the house – but warns her not to bring anyone “especially a child” with her. Bo Young dismisses these warnings as superstitious nonsense and sneaks her daughter into the house regardless. But when horrific things begin to happen at the house – and the lake – Bo Young begins to worry for her child’s safety...

“Devil in the Lake” is a 2022 South Korean movie that was directed by Tak Se Woong.

Devil In The Lake

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Losing both of his parents at a young age, Yong Hoo (Park Seo Joon), has spent his entire life resenting God for his unwillingness to save the people he loved most in this world. Growing up without faith or a family, Yong Hoo has dedicated himself to one thing, and one thing only: becoming the best MMA fighter in the world.

Twenty years later, Yong Hoo has become just that. After an intense fight in the States, Yong Hoo makes his way back home, using the long flight back to Korea as a chance to get some much needed rest. But his sleep is anything but peaceful. Waking up from one hellish nightmare, Yong Hoo finds he now bears an unusual affliction: a stigmata. With wounds on his hands which only get worse as time passes, and a never ending string of horrific nightmares, Yong Hoo soon finds himself in a place of utter desperation. Not knowing what else to do, Yong Hoo seeks the advice of doctors and shamans, but to no avail. With very few options before him, Yong Hoo turns to the one place he has spent his entire life avoiding: the church.&nbsp;

Seeking the help of Father Ahn (Ahn Sung Ki), Yong Hoo quickly learns that his afflictions are not of the world. Suddenly forced to accept the fact that the world is full of unspeakable horrors, Yong Hoo has very few options before him. As evil begins to close in around them, Yong Hoo and Father Ahn team up to wage war against the demons who seek to destroy all that is good in the world.&nbsp;

A thrilling supernatural battle of good versus evil, “The Divine Fury” is a 2019 action horror film directed by Kim Joo Hwan.

The Divine Fury

Naver TV Cast

Born between a human mother and a vampire father, Yeon Seo (Song Chae Yoon) is a 118 year old half-vampire who wants nothing more than to live an ordinary human life. With natural beauty and a slew of vampire abilities, Yeon Seo could be anything she wanted, but she has chosen to blend in with those who appear closest to her age. As a result, Yeon Seo now finds herself faced with one of life’s most difficult challenges: graduating from high school.

Fighting back her more vampiric urges, Yeon Seo does her best to blend in at school; a task that, for the most part, has been fairly easy. But when the sweet blood of her classmate, Song Meo Roo (Kim Eo Jin), attracts the attention of vampires and werewolves alike, things get a little more complicated. Trying desperately to ignore the siren call of Meo Roo’s blood, Yeon Seo takes it upon herself to protect her classmate from those who hunt him.&nbsp;

As Yeon Seo and Meo Roo run for their lives, the blood in his veins calls to her. Torn between family duty and the desires of her own heart, a war within Yeon Seo rages. Will she be able to embrace her humanity and resist the temptation of this boy’s sweet blood or will her vampire side rise victorious in the end?

Based on the webtoon, “Sweet Girl”, by Nalchi and S, “The Sweet Blood” is a 2021 fantasy romance drama directed by Ha Han Me.

The Sweet Blood

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Nestled quietly in the heart of a buzzing community, there sits a school that to any who might pass it by, appears to be quite normal. However, as is often the case, looks can be quite deceiving. Inhabited by several malicious phantoms, this school plays host to more than its dedicated faculty and lively student body.

While most of the students at this school are largely unaware of the otherworldly beings who exist beside them, some are easily swayed by the phantom’s presence. For those who are easily manipulated by the specters, life has a way of quickly becoming a living nightmare as they’re forced to give in to the evil desires of their ghastly tormentors. But even as some students are swayed by the phantoms, others have taken on the role of a hunter and have accepted the responsibility of fighting against them.

One such hunter, Lee Do Gyeom (Tan), has dedicated his life to this task. As a student currently enrolled in this phantom school, it’s up to him to save those afflicted by the evil which haunts its halls. But does he have the strength to take on this malicious force alone?&nbsp;

A story of monsters, might, and magic, “Phantom School” is a 2022 South Korean fantasy drama.

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