How you know I’ve been busy: this post has been in my drafts, unfinished, since the end of October! But I don’t want to wait another year for Halloween to roll around, so I’m posting it now. 15 days before Christmas. Hahah.
While thrillers and supernatural elements are a dime a dozen in dramas, I don’t think I’ve actually watched anything that is straight up horror. I could be wrong and such a drama might exist… if that’s the case, please let me know! Until then, here are some dramas that can make you just a little bit uneasy (lol).
- Rescue Me (2017) — this was one heck of an unsettling show. I spent a lot of time hiding behind my pillow because of the intensity of some of the scenes (Sang-mi being in a corner, anytime Father Baek was creepin’, the worship scenes, etc)… it’s hard to put into words what made this drama so uncomfortable, but I imagine it had a lot to do with the psychological torture Sang-mi had to go through. JUST A GUESS THOUGH.
- Master’s Sun (2013) — a creepy cute drama; a hug a day keeps the ghosts away, apparently!
- Oh My Ghostess (2015) — more ghost/possession hijinks! And to be perfectly honest, I thought the cop/brother-in-law was worse than any ghost — he wasn’t aggressively frightening, but he just did little, undercover evil things. A testament to Im Joo-hwan’s performance!
- Vampire Prosecutor (2011, 2012) — scary, sexy, cool: Prosecutor Min in a nutshell. (Unsurprisingly, first season is better than the second, AND it had one of the most solid endings ever!)
- Keizoku (1999) — run-of-the-mill detective drama that reeeaaaally amps up the occult/abstract and takes a turn for the slightly disturbing in later episodes. DEATH IS INFINITE!
- Shokuzai (2012) — this show is DARK. I do know the overall premise: a young girl is killed under mysterious and disturbing circumstances, and her mother wants her friends to atone for the rest of their lives until they can find who killed her daughter. It’s not until I skipped around some of the episodes and really got to the misery of the living friends that I really remembered how awful it was. The implications of episode 3 (featuring Ando Sakura and Kase Ryo) were particularly stomach churning, so I guess it’s not for the faint of heart…
- xxxHOLiC (2013) — alright, so this is not a drama that I’ve actually watched nor a manga that I actually read (Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle was more my jam), but if there’s a interdimensional time witch who grants wishes, then you know there’s some sort of supernatural catch.