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Three Beggars (1928)
삼걸인 IMDb TMDB
other title: 삼걸인
There is a town with a well called 'Bachelor's Well' after a young man dug the well and jumped in to kill himself when his love for a girl from a rich family ended miserably. The story is about a ferryboat rower, a bum with a limp, and many other men all fighting to get the love of one girl. Three beggars who die with grudges against this town appear every night as ghosts to haunt and curse their foes.

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Mountain Monster (1931)
산괴령 IMDb TMDB
other title: 산괴령
The son and a daughter from very conservative families fall in love and when their parents oppose their relationship, the two come up with a scheme. The girl dies and her ghost appears in front of each family every night to beg for their parents' consents for their marriage. Frightened senseless, the parents decide to marry the son and the deceased daughter's ghost. On the day of the meeting, the numerous guests seem uneasy. But the bride who steps down the aisle is not a ghost - their daughter is still alive.

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The Story of Jang-hwa and Heung-ryeon (1956)
장화홍련전 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 장화홍련전 / 薔花紅蓮傳 …
Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon, the daughters of Bae the official governor, die of their stepmother's unfair maltreatment. Jang-hwa's ghost appears in front of a district judge every night begging for clarification of their deaths. The district judge lets the stepmother confess the cause of Jang-hwa's death, and then punishes her. It clears all enmity.

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The Great Story of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon (1962)
대장화홍련전 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 대장화홍련전 / The Story of Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon …
Bae's two daughters, Jang-hwa and Hong-ryeon, are abused to death by their stepmother. But Jang-hwa cannot just go away to the other world. She becomes a ghost, haunting the governor every night to help her take her revenge. The governor orders an investigation. Jang-hwa's stepmother finally confesses what she did and the governor punishes her.

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The Iron-Eating Monster (1962)
松都末年의 불가사리 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 松都末年의 불가사리 / Bulgasari …
During the later years of Goryeo Dynasty (918-1392), a talented martial artist is murdered. His resentment makes him born again as Bulgasari, a monster that grinds and eats up iron. The monster takes his revenge on the traitors responsible for his death.

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The Gates of Hell (1962)
지옥문 IMDb TMDB
other title: 지옥문
Two thousand and nine hundred years ago, Buddha is deeply touched by Mongryeon's love for his parents. Lady Cheongche falls to hell because she betrayed her husband. Buddha saves her and helps her go to heaven.

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Bride from the Grave (1963)
무덤에서 나온 신랑 IMDb TMDB
other title: 무덤에서 나온 신랑
A new groom becomes suspicious of his bride on the first night of their marriage. Seeing her go out of the room in the middle of the night, he follows her. The bride goes to a cemetery and drinks blood from a body she has exhumed. The bridegroom is so shocked that he dies of heart failure. His friends watch the bride's every move to find out the cause of his death. And they realize that she is a sleepwalker.

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A Ghost Story (1964)
Mokdandeunggi TMDB
Baek Ho-bin actor: 조미령 / 이성구 …
other title: Mokdandeunggi
This is a horror movie in which a ghost, bearing a grudge, sleeps with a man in order to attain Buddha-hood.

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A Neckless Beauty (1966)
목없는 미녀 IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 목없는 미녀 / 無頸美女 …
Right after Korea's liberation, O Yun accidently finds out through Choe Sang-bae about a large amount of gold nuggets Japanese soldiers left behind, O kills many of his colleagues to take all the gold to himself. In the end, a neckless beauty among the dead shows up and takes her revenge on him.

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Sell Your Life (1966)
목숨을 판 사나이 IMDb TMDB
other title: 목숨을 판 사나이
A female zoology student saves a man whose life was so miserable as to choose to die and puts him on her test bed to make him a monster. She makes the monster take his father's revenge one by one. She is crushed to death under a huge building tore down by the monster.

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A Girl of White Hair (1967)
백발의 처녀 TMDB
other title: 백발의 처녀
A villa keeper maid is defiled her chastity by her master, a rich man who owns a big company, and even gets killed. Her departed soul does not leave this world and takes a revenge on his family members by tormenting them one by one into death. The vendetta ends when her mother kills the master.

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A Regret (1967)
한 WikiData IMDb TMDB
유현목 actor: 문희 / 李顺载 …
other title: 한 / 恨 …
This film is a compilation of three short horror stories. They include a story of a wife ghost who was separated by death with her husband. She met him after praying for meeting a husband for 100 days. The wife ghost finally leads him to death. In the second story, a ghost of a dead wife who is jealousy of her husband's love of a barmaid sets them on fire. In the third, a male ghost tests a chaste woman's will not to be tempted by men.

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A Virgin Ghost (1967)
처녀귀신 TMDB
심우섭 actor: 방성자 / 이예춘
other title: 처녀귀신
A man receives the news of Dr. Go's death, one of his respectable seniors, and rushes to the mountain villa where Go has lived. There he finds Go has become a murder ghost because of a virgin ghost's spell. The virgin ghost is the soul of a woman who died because of Go. Maid Ok-sun comes under threat of death by ghost Go. He who has loved the good-natured maid Ok-sun saves her from being killed after a die-hard battle with ghost Go.

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Witch Castle (1968)
Manyeo Seong TMDB
Park Yun-gyo actor: 이예춘 / 박미영 …
other title: Manyeo Seong
A scamp Sang-hyeon who has crush on Hui-jeong shadows her to her house. He sneaks into her home and is surprised by a ghost. He stabbs the ghost who turns out Hui-jeong's mother. Hui-jeong gets married to Yeong-min and lives together with her father who has nobody to turn to. But Yeong-min's mother hates her daughter-in-law and mistreats her. She in the end kills Hui-jeong's father and attempts to kill Hui-jeong. Her dead mother appears to save Hui-jeong from the wicked mother-in-law.

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Grudge (1968)
Han 2 IMDb TMDB
other title: 恨(续篇) / Han 2
The film deals with three different episodes. The first one deals with a story of an artist and a daughter of a noble scholar; the second about the life of a talented flutist and his love; the third about the story of love between a ceramicist who was commissioned to make a ceramic for the royal family and his wife.

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Legends (1968)
전설따라 삼천리 IMDb TMDB
other title: 전설따라 삼천리
Three traditional Korean folktales. Story 1: The kindness and good deeds of a poor couple earns them a bag of gold from heaven. Story 2: A brave man battles a bloodthirsty ghost. Story 3: A man must choose between devotion to his lover or duty to his parents.

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Ghost Story (1968)
괴담 WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
other title: 괴담 / 鬼故 …
An omnibus of the story of three women. In the first, a ghost takes revenge on the man who killed her sister. In story two, a woman decides it's payback time for a sexual predator. The final story tells the tale of a woman's opium addiction leading to a gruesome death.

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Herb of Desire (1968)
상사초 WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: 상사초 / Herb of Longing
Two traditional stories. In the first, a girl marries the bravest man in the village so she can send him into a monster's lair to collect an mystic herb which can save her father's life. In the second story, even death cannot prevent a devoted wife from helping in her husband's success.

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The Magical Sword of Skeletal Spirit (1969)
백골령의 마검 TMDB
other title: 백골령의 마검
A man who left his wife to study for a government exam happens to see a drowning woman in a mountain and rescues her. To thank him she takes him home deep in the mountain. He ends up staying with her for years, putting his study behind. But she learns that the woman he saved from the drowning sea was a vampire. Meanwhile his wife finds where her husband is with the Buddha's revelation, kills the vampire and brings him back safely to their home.
Feb. 19, 2026