10 Scariest Foreign Language Horror Films

Not the 2006 Wes Craven remake, but the original Pulse from 1998 came out during the peak of late '90s/early 2000s J-horror. As a result, it was overlooked by Western audiences in favour of more well-known titles like Ringu.

This ghost story incorporates a technological element that would become more common as the 21st century rolled around, but it doesn’t have the condescending message of ‘technology = bad’, which is more common in later films.

Despite the internet becoming more dominant in our lives, the horror genre never quite captured the murky mystery of its early days – except for Pulse.

With a heavy atmosphere and equally heavy subject matter, Pulse explores two parallel storylines that eventually join up wherein shadowy spectres begin to appear on computer screen that eventually bleed into the real world.

It’s incredibly dark and has some absolutely gut-wrenching scares (that falling ghost lady in particular), and therefore can be something of an endurance test to sit through due to its’ bleakness. However, the key theme of solitude and loneliness in the face of an increasingly connected world stays with you long after the credits roll.