2016
Yeon Sang-ho
Horror Action Drama
A father and daughter board a train to Busan as a zombie apocalypse sweeps South Korea, forcing passengers to fight for survival.
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2021
6 eps
Netflix
Thriller Horror Sci Fi
Supernatural beings appear to condemn humans to hell, sparking a religious movement and societal chaos.
The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2021
8 eps
Netflix
Sci Fi Horror Thriller
In a future where Earth's water supply has almost completely dried up, an elite team is dispatched to retrieve a mysterious sample from an abandoned lunar research station. What th…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2018
16 eps
tvN
Melodrama Drama Thriller
A temporary teacher notices that one of her students is being severely abused. On impulse, she takes the child and runs — and in doing so becomes both criminal and savior. Mother i…
Like A Quiet Place, it leans hard into sacrifice. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2024
8 eps
Netflix
Horror Action Thriller
The final chapter of the monster apocalypse saga, as Cha Hyun-soo and surviving humans face the collapse of civilization and the final confrontation between human desires made fles…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is emotionally heavy — you'll need to sit with it after.
2021
12 eps
tvN
Thriller Romance Horror
A fake-married couple must survive in an apartment building overtaken by a new infectious disease outbreak.
Like A Quiet Place, it leans hard into survival horror. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2020
16 eps
MBC
Thriller Mystery Sci Fi
A man in 2020 and a woman in 2019 are mysteriously connected by a one-minute daily window across time, working together across the temporal gap to change both their fates.
Both are built around the complicated, consuming love and damage that only family can deliver. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2024
12 eps
Netflix
Drama Thriller Sci Fi
An asteroid is going to hit Earth in 200 days. Most institutions have collapsed. A middle school teacher stays in her small town to protect her students while the world outside the…
Both are built around survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.
2020
10 eps
Netflix
Horror Thriller Sci Fi
Residents of an apartment complex fight for survival as humans turn into monsters reflecting their deepest desires.
Like A Quiet Place, it leans hard into survival horror. At its core, it's about survival that strips characters down to what they're actually made of.
2025
6 eps
Netflix
Horror Supernatural Thriller
Two nuns — one a veteran exorcist trained in the old Vatican methods, one a skeptic who joined for reasons she hasn't admitted to herself — are dispatched to a remote village where…
Both are built around characters making devastating sacrifices for people they love — and the aftermath. The pacing is tense enough to make you watch through your fingers.