Best Chinese horror movies

Twelve strangers wake up in a clearing. They don't know where they are—or how they got there. In the shadow of a dark internet conspiracy theory, ruthless elitists gather at a remote location to hunt humans for sport. But their master plan is about to be derailed when one of the hunted turns the tables on her pursuers.

In the 1930s , a Japanese cult called The Temple of Hades was ordered to cooperate with the Japanese military to destroy China. They buy so many young children from poor family , who will be trained as a lethal killing machine and serve the Empire of Japan. One of them is Vajra , who was forced by his captors to fight for the food , and accidentally causing the death of his brother. Several years later , Vajra grown up and become one of the biggest killer in the Hades sect. Vajra escapes to China and joins Shaolin , where he receives spiritual enlightenment and determined to support China against Japan.

When a drug to replicate plant cells creates a sentient form of flower, the planet is over taken by flora and humankind is depleted. A Chinese task force, a widowed father and his young daughter fight to survive in a mission to inject an antidote to the core of the plants to reverse their growth.

A struggling circus crew gets deceived by its former partner, as it embarks on a tour in Thailand. During the journey through a Southeast Asian rainforest, they encounter attacks by a giant python. They meet a mysterious man named Jeff who offers to help, but they soon realize he's a poacher. As they search for Jeff's boat, they face life-and-death struggles with the python and Jeff himself.

A haunted theatre, filled with the vengeful spirits of a tragically-trapped performance troupe murdered in a fire 13 years ago, waits for the once-grand palatial playhouse to re-open with a new show - and bring in new victims.

Liu Chenchen, a free-spirited young woman, rebels against her wealthy family and elopes with her boyfriend to join a cruise-bond treasure hunt. But what began as an innocent game with promises of great reward soon turns into a battle for survival when the contestants are thrown into a mysterious world of intrigue and chaos in the middle of the sea. Liu relies only on her wits and her new friends to survive, all the while unmasking foes and learning that nothing is what it seems. But as her companions are attacked one by one, Liu must do everything she can to escape.

Adapted from the 3rd volume in the novel series "Candle in the Tomb" by Zhang Mu Ye. Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan, and Shiely Yang, infected with a curse, embark on a journey to King Xian's tomb to retrieve the Haochen Bead and break the curse. They face ancient organs, ghostly visions, explosive bugs, and a massive salamander.

In this Chinese version of The Phantom of the Opera, the mysterious Song Danping terrorizes the newly rebuilt opera house and its young star.

Alone for the first time and away from her family in rural Philippines, Rosa Dimaano arrives in the cosmopolitan city state of Singapore to work as a maid. Her employers Mr and Mrs Teo runs a Chinese Teochew dialect opera troupe takes well to their new domestic help. So do their mentally disabled son, Ah Soon. In Chinese superstition, the seventh month of the lunar calendar is regarded as the month when the gates of hell open for forsaken spirits to walk the earth for 30 days. Unknown to Rosa, she arrives on the eve and her hell is about to begin.

Two teenagers goes to the countryside to investigate the world of fortune-telling.

An unfortunate man ventures into a cave full of goblins. He thinks he can defeat them easily but nothing could prepare him for the sexual hell he will be put trough.

Xiao befriends Amao, a 36 foot crocodile, who lives on his fathers croc sanctuary. Soon his father is forced to sell the crocodiles to a gangster who plans to use them for high priced meals.

A Chinese Department of Health junior clerk Su Zhenghuai is with his eldest daughter Su Wei and son Su Yuexuan are on their way to visit relatives in the provincial city when they meet the long-lost second daughter Su Ling. Unfortunately, the train is attacked by rats. Su Yuexuan is bitten by a rat and goes into a coma. In order to save his young son and many bitten passengers, Su Zhenghuai and Su Wei decide to make the dangerous venture to Xiaobaihe Hospital to get medicine.

There was once a man named Yin XIII, who was known for helping the suffering. According to rumors, he was good at solving supernatural phenomena and knew how to drive away evil spirits. Yin saw what ordinary people could not see. One day, he was invited into the Lin family home to solve the mystery of the ghost footprints.

There are old ones and small ones, and the courier station contracted by them even accidentally caught fire and faced compensation. Ma Yuanhao, who was facing a mid-life crisis and had no other options, sought help from a master on the recommendation of his mother. Ma Yuanhao personally went into the coffin to calm down his grievances, and the changes in his family were temporarily changed. Who would have thought that the change would be short-lived, and that there is an ulterior secret behind the Ma family's old house. Is this really what happened? Just when Ma Yuanhao tried every means to change his destiny, he discovered that behind all this.

The movie tells the story of a collector collected a "human bone piano", accidentally found that their own collection of puppets will be active close to the human bone piano, learned the secret of the collector suddenly disappeared.

The movie tells the story of the scientist Chen Jing who learned that the fiancé was attacked by a giant crocodile and resolutely joined the expedition. However, the initiator of all this is the boss of the fiance. In the position of protecting the environment and ethics, Chen Jing fought against the evil forces and eventually won the victory. The film mainly shows the choice between scientists in the face of illegal scientific research and personal ethics. The protagonist Chen Jing has always stood firm and determined to draw a clear line with illegal behavior, to protect the environment and fight against evil forces, and ultimately to defeat. The villain protected the experimental results.

This film is set in a remote town during the era of the Republic of China, where the poor Xu Tianyou and his mother struggle to make a living. During a thunderstorm, Xu takes shelter in a pavilion where he encounters three mysterious men gambling with a box of silver coins. The winner would take all the coins inside the box. Xu joins the game but one of the players suddenly drops dead after losing, and Xu realizes that this was a deadly game. Afterwards, several servants in the town are found murdered and strange occurrences begin happening. Detective Han Ming and the mayor's daughter Zhang Paner team up to investigate and track down the killer.

Qian Cheng, the boss of the pharmaceutical company, has invested in the establishment of a biopharmaceutical research laboratory located deep in the jungle. By modifying the shark gene to develop a new type of anti-cancer drug, but when the drug is about to be put into mass production, a huge crisis also came quietly: due to the change of the shark's gene, the gene mutation was fierce and showed the characteristics of other organisms.

Ordinary people, nightmares in the evening...

This film takes place during the Republic of China period and tells the story of Mu Yuan, who is on the brink of death. In his mind, he creates a new identity for himself as the police officer, Zhao Ren. As Zhao Ren uncovers the truth of a series of thrilling and bizarre events, Mu Yuan also completes his inner redemption before his death. This is a philosophical story with a gripping plot and about spiritual redemption. The message they’d like to convey to the audience is that only by bravely facing past mistakes and hardships can we truly resolve our inner turmoil and emerge from the shadows, and begin a new life. (Source: iQiyi)

An interstellar spacecraft was accidentally trapped in the Stargate Abyss. Only 4 of the 15 passengers were able to enter the hibernation cabin and get a chance to survive. Faced with precious survival quota, some people release the imprisoned alien monsters and attempt to massacre others by manipulating the monsters; others desperately resist the monsters, sacrificing their own lives to save more people. In this dark abyss, a just battle is beginning.

When a mysterious virus breaks out in an isolated army camp, a lazy reservist soldier and his tough commander must work together to survive, and learn what it means to be real soldiers.

A young man climbs into the mountains to pick up a meteorite that has fallen there and is killed by something. The "thing" descends to the village and begins to eat the inhabitants one by one, terrorizing the entire island.

The surrounding areas of the Devil's Sea is also known as the Bermuda Triangle of Asia. Due to electromagnetic interference, aviation accidents are common in the region. Lin Hao and his daughter Yi are passengers of Flight GZ261. As it flies over the Devil's Sea, the plane malfunctions, causing an emergency landing on a crocodile island. Hao and other driving passengers encounter enormous sized crocodiles and spiders and engages in a battle for survival. When Yi is captured by the giant beasts, Hao fights for his life to rescue her daughter.

Shui Sheng witnessed his father being killed by the "water monkey" monster when he was young. Ten years later, the water monster reappeared and killed the younger brother and father of the heroine Xiang Lan. In order to save her, Shui Sheng launched a fierce battle to break feudal superstitions and to catch the water monster.

During the period of the Republic of China, a heavy rain trapped the opera troupe who was going to cross the river to sing a famous event in Laogou. On a night of thunderstorms, there were murderous bandits and unidentified patrols who were sheltering from the rain with the troupe... A group of people with their own ghosts were all closely related to the fox wife incident fifteen years ago...

With the rapid development of science and technology in the future, a Gene Research Company sent Shen Yiqin and others into the mysterious snowy area on the edge of the Arctic. Unexpectedly, they were attacked by unknown giant creatures.

Mu Sheng, Jinglan, Siyan and others gathered in the Snake King Valley due to an unexpected turmoil. Only the snake-like flowers in the depths of Snake King Valley can prevent all tragedies from happening. Understand the true meaning of "all things symbiosis".

One of the few and of the better Chinese horror movies. The plot revolves around the ghost of a murdered girl, who haunts a creepy, retro basement. A sound technician and an actress encounter her unhappy soul when the come to the film in the now cobweb ridden, dilapidated building.

Times of Ming Dynasty. Li Yanzhi is an orphan who looks good at all kinds of black technology. In order to feed a group of old, weak, sick, and homeless, he had to be entrusted by the eunuch Zhao Yuanqi to help the tomb thieves get rid of the ancient tomb organ and open the tomb of Huang Chao. Unexpectedly, Zhao Yuanqi and Hanzi Jiang Hanzi used Huang Chao to plot a terrifying conspiracy that would surely lead to a bloody storm. Li Yanzhi finds that he is helping others to abuse, and may become a sinister who has caused a lot of evil. Li Yanzhi reformed the evil and returned to the right, and decided to stop the conspiracy of Zhao Yuanqi and Jiang Hanzi together with Xuan Yangzi and Qin Yu of the Chongyang religion. Li Yanzhi, who is completely incapable of martial arts, desperately crushed the conspiracy of the eunuch Zhao Yuanqi

Qingyuetang, the largest evil sect of the rivers and lakes in the Qingyuan, suddenly destroyed the door and slaughtered the night. The churchlor Lei Lie was sucked into a corpse, causing a sensation in the entire rivers and lakes. The rivers and lakes rumored that "the magic soldiers are coming back, the hail is stalking the soul; "Fan Brahma, the World Supreme" is said to be the Demon Souls.

A "horror engagement party" within a Day Spa Resort turns deadly when the ghost of their long departed friend returns for revenge.

A mysterious abandoned factory began the first day of shooting. When carrying the heroine Zhu Sha, deputy director, "the forefront of the film" program host a dream bus and other people arrived at the factory, shooting the venue was empty, landlord let everyone in the factory standby, he went out to during supper we buy, wait, deputy director bizarre but died in the bathroom

A writer discovers that her husband is released from prison and is after her and her son soon she takes a hideout in an old house where mysterious events begin to happen.

The film tells the story of a near future in which the earth is irreversibly sandy, as human emissions and rubbish exceed its carrying capacity. As plants and animals mutate to create the Earth's new masters, the "sand worms", which are slaughtering the planet and driving humans to the brink of extinction, the survivors are left to their own devices to find the only remaining refuge in the deep desert, the "Oasis". An exiled team of wealthy businessmen, scientists, security chiefs, mechanic families and gangsters set out on an adventure to find the Oasis in a special armoured vehicle, but the bloodthirsty insects are hot on their heels.

Pu Songling, is a social journalist. In the course of his interviews, he often encounters strange stories that he cannot publish in the newspaper, so he sets up his own personal website, called "Liaozhai".

After a white shark, also known as an ogre shark, is injected with a GMO medicine, it turns into a dangerous bloodthirsty mutant that can outwit even the king of nature. A group of hapless lovers of playing with the laws of nature will have to stop the shark or die from its teeth. But no matter how terrible the vengeance of nature is, there is a much more terrible force, from whose punishment can not escape even a mutant who survived in battle with...

After his fiancé sudden death, Qin Yu is convinced Cass Corporation is somehow involved and is determined to find the truth. Booking passage on the same cruise ship as former Cass employee, Jason, Qin Yu follows him. Qin Yu hopes to secure the information he needs on Cass to be able to testify against them in court. But Qin Yu isn’t the only person on board hoping to gain intel on Cass. Desperate for a story, reporter Feng Li tails both Qin Yu and Jason, booking passage on the same cruise. Unfortunately, no one has much of a chance to gain information as the ship is suddenly attacked by giant mutant snakes. Escaping the attack, the survivors find themselves on the very island Cass Corporation has been conducting their illegal experiments. Hunted by monsters of all sorts, will any of the survivors find a way to bring Cass down and make it off the island alive?

A Fantastic Ghost Wedding is the story of a young popular spirit medium, who is hired to find a spouse for a dead teenage boy. The chosen bride turns out to be an unexpected person, and this snowballs into a series of events culminating in a Chinese ghost wedding.

Liu Guanwei's 2018 horror-thriller featuring vampire zombies, a tale of young love, and endless fun.

Story based on the legendary mansion at No. 81 on Chaoyangmennei Street in Beijing, which local legend says is haunted by the ghost of a Kuomintang official's wife, who committed suicide in the home around the time of the Cultural Revolution. The film follows Xu Ruoqing a woman whose presence in the notorious mansion draws up the spirits that have taken residence there.

VR game designer Ling Jiushi, frustrated with his work, decides to resign. However, a beta test game provides him solace and distraction. Unexpectedly, he receives a game disc from overseas. Following an accident, he finds himself in a corridor with twelve iron doors. Inside one door of this strange place, a mysterious figure helps Ling Jiushi escape from the perils of the snowy mountains, welcoming him to the world beyond the doors. Within the doors lie grave dangers where a single misstep could cost him his life. Ling Jiushi soon discovers a chilling truth: peril encountered within the doors can also affect him in the outside world, making his journey through this mysterious realm even more treacherous.

A series of mysterious murders happened in a haunted barber house. Was it really supernatural forces or was it actually people behind the murders?

In order to save his ill daughter, a biology teacher joins a group of scientists who are searching for a plant called 'the fruit of life' deep in a hidden jungle. However, what they discover is far beyond what they ever imagined

A sudden tsunami came as a shock, trapping Jiang Peng and his daughter, Jiang Xiao Hu, in Chinatown of Southeast Asia. The two of them, with other inhabitants, took a brace to fight against the terrible monster that followed. However, after the life-and-death struggle, they found surprisingly a man-made calamity instead of a natural disaster.

Due to changes in ocean currents, shark activity appeared near a certain diving area, but the traces are unknown. Doctor Shen Xin was invited to attend the birthday party of his cousin Liu Yiran, but by accident, he got involved in the emotional farce of his cousin boyfriend Zhou Tianming and his female boss He Wendy. As everyone knows, the four strayed into the shark-infested place, and the bloodthirsty hunt was staged. In order to save everyone's lives, Shen Xin started a desperate contest with the bloodthirsty sharks, fighting for the sharks.

A rich, but bored man is possessed by an evil spirit that causes him to seduce and rape women.

In this Chinese and Korean horror collaboration, ghosts and fairies from different horror legends come together to deliver the scariest horror experience.

Yan Yangyi and Bao Hulu strayed into the strange Underworld Town, where they can only enter but cannot leave. Anyone who leaves without authorization will die mysteriously. Although Yan Yangyi doesn't believe in the horror legends all over Yin-Yang Town, he frequently encounters strange things. Will he be able to survive time after time? What was even more unexpected to Yan Yangyi and Bao Hulu was that under the curse, the spooky town has an amazing secret behind it...

A couple on a romantic vacation in Malaysia picks up a mysterious woman with a tragic past, and their trip quickly turns deadly.

A group of poachers provoke the fury of a great white shark. After killing the poachers, the shark sets its sights on a group of friends celebrating their university graduation on a yacht. A life-and-death struggle on the open water ensues.

There are legends about the "Huangwei Hunters" amongst the people in the Northeast. They have lived for generations on the dragon veins in the Xing'an mountains and guarded the emperor's Qi movement. It is said that the hunters were not only skilled in the art of hunting, but also in the art of exorcising ghosts and spirits. In a remote mountain village in the northeast, a tragic family massacre occurred quietly. At the plea of the villagers, the last generation of the royal hunter Liu Erji (Shang Tielong) decides to go out to the mountains to investigate the truth

The construction team blindly developed the unknown island, which alerted the two fierce creatures on the island to be destroyed.

A group of people on a cruise ship are suddenly attacked by a mutated shark crossed with an octopus creature.

The subway train falls through the ground. The surviving passengers find themselves in the territory of a secret dungeon built by the Japanese during the war for scientific experiments. Dungeons where creepy insects, grown by mad scientists, still live to this day

After a critical zombie attack, the only survived police must face an investigation from his superior that reveals a painful fact.

To finish her novel, Zhang Xiaoyan went to the Old Cave Village to experience the spooky legends with her friends. Strange things started to happen...

The story revolves around a quarrelsome couple, Cannon and Mimi who are involved in an online photography competition. Only the theme of the competition is `Supernatural`, so keeping in line with it, the couple head to a mansion in a remote village that`s known to be haunted. Upon their arrival, the housekeeper Mr. Huang dies of sickness and his funeral is held at the mansion. Yi, the grandson of the housekeeper arrives for the funeral in hopes to inherit his grandfather`s fortune. However, when these new occupants of the mansion, Yi, Cannon and Mimi have to stay together for 7 days, they go through various conflicts that include a mysterious woman from Yi`s childhood and the other secrets the mansion is hiding.

Xiaoya grew up in a single-parent family, the lack of affection and friendship, made the city girl fall in love with then-boyfriend Wang Hao. On a weekend, Xiaoya, Wang Hao and Jianwen, Mary and several friends of the club resolve to camp on the road encounter a stranger, what appeared to be a camp becomes a terror when Wang Hao mysteriously disappears.