Article: 10 Chinese Horror Films To Watch

Here is a list of 10 Chinese horror films that are an absolute must-watch.

1. Admission By Guts

Random people who knew nothing about each other were invited to watch a horror film titled ‘Admission By Guts’. Two years ago, when a similar situation had occurred, it had resulted in the disappearance of a couple present in the audience. When the strangers begin to arrive for the film, horrifying things begin to happen and begin to raise the question, ‘Is the theater and possibly even the movie, haunted?’.

 

2. Haunting Love

Xiao Xiao Ya is a famously known female anchor at a radio station. Seven days before her wedding, she witnessed her fiance, Li Ming Xuan, cheating on her with his ex-girlfriend, Xu Jia Wen. Unable to bear this betrayal, Xiao Xiao Ya commits suicide. But she was rescued and resurrected by someone. Her fiance, however, falls off a building and passes away.

 

3. Blood Stained Shoes

In the 1940s, a strange and horrific murder was committed in the river delta in Jiangnan, China. The only thing that was found at the scene of the crime was a pair of embroidered shoes. This resulted in the people blaming and unjustly executing a seamstress, but unfortunately for the people, the murders continued after the seamstress's death.

 

4. Lift To Hell

Head nurse Ma, at the old Peninsula Hospital, met a strange demis in the lift one night. From his flat in the opposite building, the son of the head of the hospital, Lin Fei, saw what looked like a female ghost through his telescope. Lin Fei starts to behave very differently after this sighting resulting in burse Bai Jie, breaking up with him and going on a date with Ouyang Ke, a senior doctor at the hospital. One night, Lin Fei was looking at the hospital again through his telescope, and he saw Bai Jie, Ouyang Ke, along with the female ghost he had seen previously.

 

5. Nightmare

Fang Lei is a young surgeon who has been traumatised by her dreams for many years. One day, Fang Lei happens to come across her college best friend, Angel. She discovers that Angel had been married to Fang Lei’s ex-boyfriend, Zhou Feng. Later on, Fang Lei meets Wang Quan, a designer, and a series of unexplainable incidents begin to occur. Zhou Feng suddenly goes missing, and Fang Lei finds herself being followed by a creepy girl, and her dreams coming true.

 

6. BiXian Panic

Xiao Wu, Liu Si-Si, Lin Fei-Er, and Mu Fan are four arts and drama students who rented a house with a courtyard. The house was an old eerie building with an ancient feeling to it. But for some reason, the locals avoid the house. One night, the electricity just randomly stops, and to pass their time, the four housemates decide to play the game of BiXian.

 

7. Bunshinsaba

Xiao Ai is a novelist, struggling to make it big when she goes into hiding with her son after she finds out that her husband had been released from prison and was after her. Her husband, Qi Kun, had been previously charged with domestic abuse and had been sentenced for the same. At the hideout, Xiao Ai finds within a wardrobe, many cut-out photos of a young girl and her mother, while her son, Xiao Xin, finds a rag doll and instantly takes a liking to it. But there is more to the house and to the doll that meets the eye.

 

8. Blind Massage

Moran had lost her mother during her childhood. Her death had been sudden and bizarre and was a complete mystery to Moran, leaving her completely heartbroken. After moving to Thailand, Moran becomes even more baffled when a series of murders begin to occur, one after the other in massage parlours. An investigation by a Thai policeman later exposed a very shocking truth.

 

9. Curse Of The Deserted

The curse of 'The Deserted Village' began almost 500 years ago during the era of the Ming Dynasty. Yanzi was a widow who lost her husband to a terminal illness. But when he returned to life, the villagers believed that he was a monster and decided to burn him and his mansion. Yanzi had vowed to stay with her husband until the end of time, and so she threw herself into the flame and burned away with him. Since then, both the village and the mansion have been cursed, and it has been said that only those who share true love would be able to survive in this village.

 

10. Midnight Beating

Gu Zhengsheng is a heart surgeon at Haibei People’s Hospital. He had been distressed and was suffering from nightmares since he lost his wife to an illness. When a patient is murdered by a syringe that was stabbed into her chest, he plummets further into despair. Wen Miao, the hospital’s director, and the fiancee to the hospital’s psychologist Mai Xiangyu is due for surgery in one week. Mai Xiangyu’s ex-girlfriend, nurse Wu, can’t get over their breakup and threatens to leak intimate pictures of them to Mai Xiangyu’s fiancee. But things start to go down the spiral when nurse Wu is also murdered with a syringe.