10 Terrifying Taiwanese Horror Movies You NEED To See

Found-footage is a horror subgenre with a lousy reputation, as it's considered cheap, easy to produce, lazy and entirely oversaturated. However, this 2022 film shows that there's still life in the old dog yet.

Incantation tells the story of a woman who broke a religious taboo years ago and now finds herself facing the consequences. She documents herself through video logs as she and her daughter become victims to supernatural events, all the while revealing more and more about her past mistake.

This film plays with the genre wonderfully, as it tells the story non-chronologically. You cut between the past and the present, mixing between docufilm and camera footage. The documentation allows the lead to talk directly to the audience, giving you a clear hook into the film and turning what could have been a derivative movie into a compelling piece of meta-storytelling.

Despite its found-footage format, it's beautifully shot and makes terrifying use of trypopthobia. So, if you've got a fear of closely packed holes, then you're in for a bad time.

The film also has a prominent platform on Netflix. So, it could potentially be a big step for Taiwanese horror cinema. Fingers crossed.