Best Vietnamese horror movies

Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch horror films from Vietnam, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!

  • Poster for The Housemaid

    The Housemaid 2016

    When an orphaned Vietnamese girl is hired to be a housemaid at a haunted rubber plantation in 1953 French Indochina, she unexpectedly falls in love with the French landowner and awakens the vengeful ghost of his dead wife... who is out for blood.

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  • Poster for Detective Kien: The Headless Horror

    Detective Kien: The Headless Horror 2025

    Detective Kien investigates a headless body found in a rural Vietnamese village during the Nguyen Dynasty. As supernatural elements emerge, he faces chilling twists in this 19th-century mystery.

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  • Poster for The Ancestral

    The Ancestral 2022

    After suffering a family tragedy, a widower named Thanh moves his two daughters to a centuries-old ancestral home. Both daughters fall prey to sleep paralysis and night terrors. Their father seeks the help of a local psychologist, but chilling secrets and visions eventually prove that all is not what it seems in the old family house.

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  • Poster for Kumanthong

    Kumanthong 2019

    Set in a poor countryside in the Southwest region in the 1990s, That Son Tam Linh tells the story in which the central character is a scholar with an ambitious and cruel ambition. Mindful of possessing mysterious powers, he did not hesitate to hand out to kill 4 young girls.

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  • Poster for The Guardian

    The Guardian 2021

    A tragedy surrounding a pop star propels her backup singer to fame, but the new star is plagued by supernatural occurrences.

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  • Poster for Hollow

    Hollow 2014

    A young girl falls into a river and drowns. When her body is found in a remote village along the river, her uncle arrives to claim her body, only to find that she is very much alive. But when she returns to her family, unexplainable occurrences lead them to believe she is possessed.

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  • Poster for Home Sweet Home

    Home Sweet Home 2019

    Thien Tam, a young but weak boy comes home after his treatment at the hospital to find that his cousin-sister, Hai Lam, has gone away from home. Tam decides to go look for her but then finds something horrible behind her missing.

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  • Poster for House in the Alley

    House in the Alley 2013

    Until they lose their baby to a miscarriage, a young couple were happily settling into their new life in their spacious home. After the tragedy, Thao is inconsolable and won't let her baby's body leave the house. Normal life eludes her as terrifying visions undermine her sanity. Her husband, Thanh, experiences strange phenomena around their home and when his wife turns on him, he must race to uncover the secrets of the house in the alley before they lose their sanity and their lives.

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  • Poster for Ma Da: The Drowning Spirit

    Ma Da: The Drowning Spirit 2024

    In the dark waters of the Mekong River, corpse collector Le confronts MA DA - the vengeful drowning spirit, after it abducts her daughter. Determined to save her child, Mrs. Le embarks on a desperate rescue to prevent her child's ghostly fate beneath the waters.

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  • Poster for The Soul Reaper

    The Soul Reaper 2023

    Mysterious deaths occur in a community where someone, or something, is brewing The Skull Wine, the oldest form of dark magic.

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  • Poster for Vengeful Heart

    Vengeful Heart 2014

    Linh, the recipient of a heart transplant, begins having nightmares and visions leading to a house in the remote countryside. She begins to believe that the previous owner of the heart, a former resident of the house, wants her to uncover the secrets of her death.

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  • Poster for Conjuring Spirit

    Conjuring Spirit 2014

    In the wake of her husband's betrayal, a novelist and mother moves to an old building, where she receives a music box and encounters a strange spirit.

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  • Poster for Claws

    Claws 2024

    "Claws" takes the story from a lively picnic of a group of friends to a horrifying end as they fight for survival against a ferocious beast.

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  • Poster for Nước Chảy Hoa Trôi (Reborn)

    Nước Chảy Hoa Trôi (Reborn) 2021

    This short film from Nguyen Tran Trung Quan and Denis Dang tells the complicated love triangle of King Vu Linh (Denis Dang), his concubine Lam Ngọc (Phurong Gian) and personal guard Hắc Thiên (The Thinh).

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  • Stay Up Late 2022

    A woman who is up late thinks the shadow made by her coat is nothing, but she is wrong.

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  • Poster for Ghost Father

    Ghost Father 2019

    Mysterious incidents keep happening at a mansion in the midst of the pine forest. A young girl who has just moved in is about to discover the shocking truths.

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  • Poster for Rock-a-bye Baby

    Rock-a-bye Baby 2023

    A Vblogger is on the way of indentify the murderer who killed his parents by reconstructing three shocking murder cases in Vietnam, he found the commonalities between his parents' case and these three cases. At one point, he discovered that all the stories had a clue related to the fetus. And the killer who killed his parents is actually the person who has a very close relationship with him.

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  • Poster for Actress Wanted

    Actress Wanted 2018

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  • Poster for The Ancestral Home

    The Ancestral Home 2025

    A Gen Z content creator returns to her ancestral home seeking viral material, only to encounter her deceased brother’s ghost while dealing with avaricious relatives.

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  • Poster for Face Off 4: The Walking Guests

    Face Off 4: The Walking Guests 2019

    When a woman and her friends visit her home village to find a location for a client's wedding photoshoot, terror shifts their focus.

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  • Poster for The Unborn Soul

    The Unborn Soul 2023

    A couple, Tung and Thao, who have an ideal life, stable finances, and love each other deeply, have been married for four years but have yet to conceive a child. However, one day, Thao finally becomes pregnant with their first child. Strange laughter, the presence of a little girl, and unexplainable mysterious occurrences begin happening in their home. Nightmares continue to haunt Thao, and she believes that some supernatural force is tormenting her. Desperate to ensure the safety of their child, Thao decides to seek the help of a sorcerer, only to discover that a series of accidents were triggered by a mistake from years ago.

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  • Poster for Spirits

    Spirits 2004

    This story is divided in three chapters. 1) "The Visitor": The drifter writer Tran Thanh Loc arrives in an old house and is lodged by the gorgeous Hoa. Along the days, he falls in love for her and discloses the truth about the hostess. 2) "Only Child": Loc is sick, totally disconnected of the world, but his nurse Linh heals him. He writes the best-seller The Visitor about his relationship with Hoa and becomes a successful writer. He proposes and marries Linh, but when he decides to have a baby, Linh is haunted by her hidden obscure past. 3) "The Diviner": Linh's parents send the fraudulent diviner Lan to use her pretentious knowledge of Feng Shui to help Loc, and she sees ghost in the house. Her son and aspirant writer Bao does not believe on his mother until he finds a surprising secret about Loc.

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  • Poster for The Immortal

    The Immortal 2018

    Haunting dreams and visions lead An (Dinh Ngoc Diep) to a mysterious cave where she discovers the terrifying secrets of Hung (Quach Ngoc Ngoan) — a man who lived across three centuries. Hung’s tumultuous life reveals a story filled with ambition, vengeance and dark magic.

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  • Poster for Crimson Snout

    Crimson Snout 2023

    The return of Nam and his girlfriend Xuan brings countless troubles to the family. He gradually discovers the broken relationships of the family members.

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  • Poster for KFC

    KFC 2016

    A necrophilic doctor, a man wearing headphones and a bunch of cannibals are just a few of the characters in this bizarre debut by director Lê Bình Giang about the cyclical effect of violence.

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  • Poster for Muoi: The Curse Returns

    Muoi: The Curse Returns 2022

    When a young art seller is surprisingly reconciled with her long-lost best friend, both are drawn into a series of frightening supernatural events at a mysterious mansion, where an infamous spirit trapped in a painting is lurking to unleash its century-old curse once again.

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  • Poster for Vietnamese Horror Story

    Vietnamese Horror Story 2022

    The 3 interwoven stories unfold the terrifying Vietnamese urban legends revolving around an ill-fated superstar behind the iconic sugarcane lady poster, a has-been circus magician making a deal with the devil, and a sinister spirit trapped in an eerily desolate...

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  • Poster for Xưởng 13

    Xưởng 13 2018

    This is the first Vietnamese horror film set in the factory, the 13th studio introduces a new space that has never been seen on the screen. Through the words of the people around the workshop: "Hieu - he defended the dead in the workshop 13 has a strange hobby that makes everyone around the fear. Not touching or talking to people, he just likes to play with the cold hardened mannequins. Every day, dearly sing and confide in them. Dead for a year but at twilight people still hear Hien's voice pensive a song of singer Thuy Nhi as crying grievances. The mannequins who were friends with him in the past also often move for unknown reasons. They believe that Mr. Hieu's ghost is not still in the factory 13. Determined to have a clip to view millions, a group of young people broke into the factory to find the truth.

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  • Poster for Milestones 23

    Milestones 23 2011

    The film revolves around a young woman named Nha Trang with both beauty and success, she went to live in a rural outlying hoping to avoid the noise of the modern city as well as learn about the lives of poor people here. Not long after that, many horror stories in the suddenly strange happened to her, Nha Trang was afraid but she still trying to learn and deal with it.

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  • Poster for Never Trust a Stranger

    Never Trust a Stranger 2015

    Nam, 22, fled to Saigon for a murder. In one accident, Nam reached the sights of Huy, 25, a mysterious character completely unknown. Knowing Nam need money to survive, so Huy promised Nam that he will pay 200 million in exchange for he can own Nam for 20 hours. And Nam has to do everything except things that are illegal. Nam were secretly sent back to the mysterious mansion of Huy, and from here Nam has to face the dangerous game and this guy's craziness. In this house, Nam is not alone like Huy told him before, but also with one young girl was stabbed to death and 1 grave. And when Nam want to escape the ghost house, only to discover Huy also stabbed to death. The killer is somewhere in the house? Who is she? Huy's relationship with the girl like? Can Nam safely escape with 200 million or not?

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  • Poster for Jackpot Island - Kumanthong Returns

    Jackpot Island - Kumanthong Returns 2022

    The "Jackpot Island - Kumanthong Returns" continues to spread obsession and doubts about one of Southeast Asia's most terrifying divinities. Who is really hiding behind the evil, monstrous face and holding terrifying secrets? What does a deadly island and the terrifyingly mysterious appearance of monstrous mermaids have to do with this brutal and terrifying spell?

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  • Poster for Survive

    Survive 2021

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  • Poster for Land of Spirits: The Blind Shaman

    Land of Spirits: The Blind Shaman 2019

    Tinh Lam, a once-powerful shaman now struck by mysterious blindness, embarks on a quest to recover his lost spiritual abilities. As he journeys through various encounters, Tinh Lam gradually learns profound life lessons and begins to understand deeper truths about existence. When he uncovers a sinister plot by another shaman, he starts to suspect that his blindness might not be a random occurrence. Questioning the origins of his condition, Tinh Lam seeks to unravel the mystery surrounding his current state and potential hidden forces at work.

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  • Poster for The Body

    The Body 2025

    The duo Tiến Luật and Ngô Kiến Huy, with their unusual professions of body retrieval and ambulance driving, promise endless laughter for the audience through their one-of-a-kind journey to find a missing corpse in Vietnamese cinema. With the help of a supernatural force, they not only face hilariously awkward situations but also uncover chilling secrets hidden behind the bodies. Will they successfully complete this challenging mission, or will unexpected twists await them?

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  • Poster for The Lift

    The Lift 2020

    University student Trang's friend suddenly goes missing after she was last seen playing a ritual game in an elevator. She and her cousin investigate the place where the girl vanished, and get obsessively invested with what might be a door to a terrifying dark world. The exploration gets even darker when they commence a thrilling cat-and-mouse game with someone - or something - that's out to get them.

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  • Poster for Duyen Ma

    Duyen Ma 2022

    "Duyen Ma" originates from the strange fate of Minh (Kieu Minh Tuan) when he became a ghost for no reason and met Ngoc (Ngoc Trinh). Everything would be nothing special if Ngoc didn't see Minh and along with the "three cadas of 3 ghosts" who were mischievous but kind enough to help him from the homeless spirit gradually get used to ghost making. However, the magic nature is not equal to the love nature, Ngoc and Minh fall in love with each other. From here, it has "triggered" so many troubles, especially when there is the appearance of the mysterious ghost Bach Cat.

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  • Poster for The Kiss of Death

    The Kiss of Death 2008

    Within 3 days, Du must kiss An and take away her soul, or he'll face the most terrifying curse against Deaths. However, the naive Prince of Death was wooed by the hot-headed yet flirtatious An into saving her life multiple times. While trying to stay alive, An found something more important than life itself - love.

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  • Poster for Ám Ảnh

    Ám Ảnh 2016

    Film opens with the question: How to get rid of the obsession of love and death? Mai Anh did not accept the loss of her father was an accident, she became depressed and resorted to Nam's psychological treatment. About Nam, he can not forget his ex-girlfriend who betrayed and left him 3 years ago.

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  • Poster for Daydreamers

    Daydreamers 2023

    Saigon, present day. Vampires, once predators of the night, are all but extinct. The few who remain cling to a desperate truce to not kill. But in the shadows, a brother's thirst awakens, igniting a dark desire that will pit him against his own kind, shattering the fragile peace and plunging the city into a bloody new era.

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  • Poster for The Eyes

    The Eyes 2020

    The story begins after Trang recovers from a car accident coma and loses her memory. She starts seeing a ghost of a lady with blood-filled eyes wandering around her. She decides to investigate the case and discovers unimaginable secrets.

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  • Poster for Ghost at School

    Ghost at School 2011

    Writer Nam Linh specializes in writing violent stories for teenagers to read, but he does not know anything about teenagers and does not understand his son Minh Quan. Later, because of being despised by everyone, Nam Linh committed suicide. After becoming a ghost, he met the old ghost boss along with three other teenage ghosts, Thanh Mai, Nana Ly and Ngo Vinh.

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  • Poster for The Soul Lantern

    The Soul Lantern 2025

    Inspired by Chuyện Người Con Gái Nam Xương and Đèn Âm Hồn, the story is set in a rural village in Northern Vietnam during the feudal era. Thương, a mother raising her son Lĩnh alone while awaiting her husband's return from war, faces eerie events after Lĩnh accidentally discovers a mysterious lantern. The boy begins calling the shadow cast on the wall his father. According to the village shaman, the lantern is a đèn âm hồn, capable of summoning vengeful spirits. Strange and haunting occurrences unfold, leaving Thương and the villagers to question: is the shadow truly Lĩnh's father or something far more sinister?

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  • Poster for Ghost Hospital

    Ghost Hospital 2016

    A young doctor gets a new job in a haunted hospital where he meets a beautiful nurse, together they uncover the hospitals secrets. A horror comedy about a young doctor taking a new post, only to learn that the patients who passed away there may not have left after all. This place frequented by ghosts, as if they were just like living people, is Ghost Hospital.

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  • Poster for This House Is Not For Sale

    This House Is Not For Sale 2022

    The story happened in the early 90s, Mrs. Ngoc returned to her hometown to sell her father's old house with her brother, Mr. Nga. In the first days when they returned to their hometown to live in an old house, they encountered many strange phenomena. Because of the secrets and word of mouth of the villagers about the old house being haunted by the ghost of Miss Trinh, the guests who came to buy the house also left. The story only really started when Mrs. Mai Lien - Mr. Nga's wife died mysteriously, and Betty's granddaughter Ngoc returned to her hometown with her was also missing, everything began to gradually reveal interesting and non-stop drama. by the end of the movie.

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  • DEATH OF THE PIANIST 2022

    A crystal-lookalike glass bottle lead the pianist with its light, to his escape

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  • Poster for The Ghost of Hua Family

    The Ghost of Hua Family 1973

    The film is based on a tale about a wealthy family in Saigon. It was the first horror film made in Vietnam

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  • Poster for Goodnight City Radio

    Goodnight City Radio 2020

    A man tries to survive one night of pollution and ghosts.

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  • Poster for Voodoo Doll

    Voodoo Doll 2017

    After a long delay, the Doll returned to the box office race under the new name Linh Duyen: The Secret From Doll. The work of the couple director Vo Ngoc - Hanh Nhan impressed when bringing a story full of ghostly and scary about the subject of cursed figures and the principles surrounding the law of cause and effect.

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