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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…
Like The Cursed, it leans hard into unlikely duo. The emotional territory — good vs evil — is the same. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
A mysterious light shop appears overnight in an ordinary neighborhood, and a series of strange deaths begins to surround it. A stubborn detective and a woman with no memory of her …
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
Gu San-yeong, a young woman struggling financially, becomes possessed by an ancient evil spirit after she picks up her late father's hairpin. Professor Yeom Hae-sang, a folklore ex…
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
Two shamans are called to the remote countryside to perform an exhumation ritual for a wealthy family haunted by generations of inexplicable misfortune. What they unearth isn't jus…
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
Yun Seo-ha unexpectedly inherits a plot of ancestral land from an uncle she barely knew. What seems like a quiet windfall quickly unravels as mysterious deaths surround the propert…
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
A fake-married couple must survive in an apartment building overtaken by a new infectious disease outbreak.
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
Bulgasal is an immortal creature that cannot be killed — but 600 years ago, a human woman took his ability to feel and his humanity with her when she died. Now she has been reborn,…
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
Twenty years ago, a demonic entity called Park Il-do possessed a man and committed a massacre. Three survivors — a shaman woman, a priest, and a detective — each carry the demon's …
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
A detective with a rare supernatural ability to read memories by touch teams up with a cold but brilliant criminal profiler to hunt a serial killer whose methodical crimes seem imp…
The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
A veteran detective is framed for murder and must uncover the truth while working with a young detective who distrusts him.
Both are built around systemic corruption grinding down everyone who tries to fight it. The pacing is a slow-burn dread that accumulates until the weight of it is unbearable.
The closest match to The Cursed is The Dark Nuns, scoring 31% on DramaMatch. You should also check Light Shop.
DramaMatch found 10 shows with the same story DNA as The Cursed. Top picks: The Dark Nuns, Light Shop, Revenant.
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