15 Non English Language Horror Movies to Watch During Spooky Season
We are right in the thick of spooky season and there is so much content to look forward to such as the upcoming IT prequel series, IT: Welcome to Derry, The Black Phone sequel, Black Phone 2, the new found footage horror flick, Shelby Oaks, and Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, to name a few.
And while you might also be watching some classic horror flicks, we suggest also turning to non English language horror films you may or may not have seen, or never even heard of before. Some of the best horror films aren’t in English, and we have a list of recommendations to start with.
Here are 15 non English language horror movies to watch during spooky season.
The Conference (2023) (Swedish)
Cast: Katia Winter, Adam Lundgren, Eva Melander, Bahar Pars, Amed Bozan, Maria Sid, Christoffer Nordenrot, Cecilia Nilsson, Claes Hartelius
Synopsis: “What begins as team-building fun, descends into a nightmare as a mysterious masked killer begins stalking and picking off the participants one by one.”
Where to watch: Netflix
The Devil’s Bath (2024) (German)
Cast: Anja Plaschg, Maria Hofstätter, David Scheid, Natalija Baranova, Lukas Walcher
Synopsis: “Journey back to 18th century Austria, where a woman faces a grim fate for a horrifying crime. As Agnes prepares for her wedding, sinister forces stir, plunging her into darkness and despair.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Shudder
Demon (2015) (Polish)
Cast: Itay Tiran, Agnieszka Żulewska, Tomasz Schuchardt, Andrzej Grabowski, Tomasz Ziętek, Katarzyna Gniewkowska
Synopsis: “Peter (Itay Tiran) receives a piece of land as a gift for his upcoming wedding. While preparing the property to build a home for his new family, he finds human remains in the ground. He decides to keep the discovery to himself so that all of the wedding arrangements can go on as planned. However, the deeper he tries to keep his secret, the more he seems to be under control of something — or rather someone — and from then on very strange things begin to happen.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Kanopy
Exhuma (2024) (Korean)
Cast: Choi Min-sik, Kim Go-eun, Yoo Hae-jin, Lee Do-hyun
Synopsis: “After tracing a strange ailment to a remote gravesite, a team of supernatural experts soon discover what happens when you mess with the wrong grave.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Shudder
Goodnight Mommy (2014) (German)
Cast: Susanne Wuest, Elias Schwarz, Lukas Schwarz, Hans Escher, Elfriede Schatz
Synopsis: “Twin boys who do everything together, from collecting beetles to feeding stray cats, welcome their mother home after her reconstructive surgery. But with her face wrapped in bandages, and her demeanor distant, they grow suspicious of her identity.”
Where to watch: Plex, Prime Video
Hatching (2022) (Finnish)
Cast: Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila, Ida Määttänen
Synopsis: “12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Kanopy, Tubi
Incantation (2022) (Taiwanese)
Cast: Tsai Hsuan-yen, Huang Sin-ting, Kao Ying-hsuan, Sean Lin
Synopsis: “Six years ago, Li Ronan was cursed after breaking a religious taboo. Now, she must protect her daughter from the consequences of her actions. This found footage film is inspired by a true story.”
Where to watch: Netflix
Inside (2007) (Fench)
Cast: Béatrice Dalle, Alysson Paradis, Nathalie Roussel, François-Régis Marchasson, Jean-Baptiste Tabourin
Synopsis: “Four months after the death of her husband, a woman on the brink of motherhood is tormented in her home by a strange woman who wants her unborn baby.”
Where to watch: Tubi
MadS (2024) (French)
Cast: Lucille Guillaume, Laurie Pavy, Milton Riche, Yovel Lewkowski
Synopsis: “A teenager heads to his dealer for a wild new drug before a night of partying. But when he picks up an injured woman on the way home, things take a bizarre and surreal turn.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Shudder
The Medium (2021) (Thai, Isan)
Cast: Narilya Gulmongkolpech, Sawanee Utoomma, Sirani Yankittikan, Yasaka Chaisorn, Boonsong Nakphoo
Synopsis: “A documentary team follows Nim, a shaman based in Northern Thai, the Isan area, and encounters her niece Mink showing strange symptoms that seem to be of inheritance of shamanism. The team decides to follow Mink, hoping to capture the shaman lineage passing on to the next generation, but her bizarre behavior becomes more extreme.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Plex, Shudder
Noroi: The Curse (2005) (Japanese)
Cast: Marika Matsumoto, Jin Muraki, Satoru Jitsunashi, Rio Kanno, Tomono Kuga, Miyako Hanai, Yoko Chosokabe, Yoshiki Tano
Synopsis: “A prominent paranormal journalist named Kobayashi goes missing shortly after completing a documentary. What begins as an investigation into strange noises soon evolves into the chilling mystery of a demonic entity named Kagutaba.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Hoopla, Shudder
Raw (2016) (French)
Cast: Garance Marillier, Ella Rumpf, Rabah Naït Oufella, Laurent Lucas, Joana Preiss
Synopsis: “Stringent vegetarian Justine (Garance Marillier) encounters a decadent, merciless and dangerously seductive world during her first week at veterinary school. Desperate to fit in, she strays from her principles and eats raw meat for the first time. The young woman soon experiences terrible and unexpected consequences as her true self begins to emerge.”
Where to watch: Apple TV
Terrified (2017) (Spanish)
Cast: Maximiliano Ghione, Norberto Gonzalo, Elvira Onetto, George L. Lewis, Julieta Vallina, Demián Salomón, Agustín Rittano
Synopsis: “Paranormal researchers investigate strange events in a neighborhood in Buenos Aires.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Hoopla, Shudder
The Ugly Stepsister (2025) (Norwegian)
Cast: Lea Myren, Ane Dahl Torp, Thea Sofie Loch Næss, Flo Fagerli, Isac Calmroth, Malte Gårdinger, Ralph Carlsson, Cecilia Forss, Katarzyna Herman, Adam Lundgren
Synopsis: “Elvira dreams of the weak-kneed virgin, Prince Julian, and is willing to go to great lengths to conform to the kingdom’s ideals of beauty. A surprising and raw twist on the fairy tale `Cinderella’, seen from her stepsister’s point of view.”
Where to watch: AMC+, Shudder
Veronica (2017) (Spanish)
Cast: Sandra Escacena, Bruna González, Claudia Placer, Iván Chavero, Ana Torrent, Consuelo Trujillo, Sonia Almarcha
Synopsis: “In 1991 Madrid, after holding a séance at school, a teen girl minding her younger siblings at home suspects an evil force has entered their apartment.”
Where to watch: Netflix
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