14 Similar Movies To Soul

Chung Mong-hong is the writer and director of the Taiwanese horror movie Soul, which was released in 2013. The movie was chosen to represent Taiwan at the 86th Academy Awards in the category of Best Film in a Foreign Language, however, it did not receive a nomination for the award. During the 2013 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, the movie was presented in the Vanguard section.
A young guy becomes possessed by the spirit of a psychopath, and his father works with him to cast out the demon from his body.

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Similar Movies to Soul

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1: Ringu


Tomoko and Masami, both in their senior year of high school, had a conversation about an urban legend involving a videotape that, according to the tale, causes its viewers to die within seven days after receiving an ominous phone call. Tomoko then admits that she and her pals had a peculiar experience one week ago in which they watched a film and then received a mysterious phone call following the event. They get a phone call that turns out to…

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2: Gonjiam: Haunted Asylum


Two young men are documenting their tour of the defunct Gonjiam Psychiatric Hospital, which is located in an area where it is rumored that the hospital's director was responsible for the deaths of all of the patients before disappearing. The pair then proceed to Room 402, which is the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), a door to no one has ever been successful in opening. They are making an effort to open the door when all of a sudden, they hear…

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3: Noroi: The Curse


The protagonist of the movie is Masafumi Kobayashi, an investigator of the paranormal who has written a number of books and directed a number of movies about paranormal phenomena in Japan. After his house burned down and his wife Keiko was discovered dead in the wreckage, Kobayashi vanished while he was in the process of making a documentary titled The Curse. The documentary was about a curse. The documentary that was mentioned before starts playing, and the majority of the…

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4: Trollhunter


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Students from Volda University College, including Thomas (Glenn Erland Tosterud), Johanna (Johanna Merck), and their cinematographer Kalle (Tomas Alf Larsen), decided to produce a documentary about a man named Hans, who was suspected of being a bear poacher (Otto Jespersen). At the location of an illegally killed bear, the investigators conduct interviews with local hunters, some of whom note that the bear tracks are peculiar. Additionally, they speak with Finn Haugen (Hans Morten Hansen), the head of the Norwegian Wildlife…

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5: The Medium


A Thai documentary crew goes to the Isan region in the country's northeastern corner in order to film the daily life of a local medium named Nim. Nim is said to be possessed by the soul of Bayan, a local deity who is worshipped by the peasants in the region. Nim's family has a long history of women being possessed by an ancestor god named Bayan. This has been going on for decades. The sister of Nim, Noi, was the…

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6: Incantation


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The movie is narrated by a lady named Ronan, who begs the audience to commit to memory an insignia and repeat an incantation so that her daughter, Dodo, who is only six years old, can be blessed and freed from a curse. The emblem and the incantation appear quite a few times throughout the movie in an effort to inspire viewers to pray along with the characters. The events of the movie are presented in a found footage format and…

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7: Double Vision


As a form of self-punishment for blowing the whistle on corruption in the force, police investigator Huang Huo-to, who is Waiting for ren (the Mainland Chinese) in Taiwan, has consigned himself to a boring job as a Foreign Affairs Officer. His fellow officers have also turned their backs on him. After being held prisoner throughout the gunfight, his small daughter is now suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, and his wife Ching-fang has filed for divorce. Huang is on the edge…

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8: The Rope Curse 2


The Rope Curse 2 is a Taiwanese film that will be released in 2020 and will be in the Mandarin language. It will be directed by Shih-Han Liao and written by Tzu-Ming Ma (screenplay). The film features and is in the leading roles, respectively. According to the plot summary of the movie, Jia-min, who was born with an innate sensitivity to the supernatural, makes an attempt to conjure "Yi-A-Gu" with the help of two streamers. When things get out of…

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9: The 9th Precinct


Netflix has recently added a film from Taiwan called The 9th Precinct. It is mostly a supernatural thriller, but it also contains a few action sequences and some humorous parts. It covers quite a few different genres. Checking over the movie's poster (or its cover on Netflix) should give you some notion of what the movie is about, so do that first. This is a movie that doesn't take itself too seriously, and that's one of the many reasons why…

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10: The Bridge Curse


A group of college students in the Taiwanese horror film The Bridge Curse endures the consequences of daring each other to cross a haunted bridge in the year 2020. The Bridge Curse will be released in Taiwan. The film is in Chinese, however, there are subtitles in English. There is a lot of disturbing horror imagery, and there are a lot of jump scares, but it's not as bloody as a slasher movie. The premise of the film is that…

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11: Gatao: The Last Stray


The events of this novel take place six years before the events of "Gatao 2: Rise of the King," and the narrative focuses mostly on telling Ah Qing's life story. Chi meets Qing at a celebration party that is attended by numerous Gatao leaders and senators. Chi is making plans to chronicle the final moments of her hometown, the North Fort before it is demolished to make way for urban redevelopment construction. Together with Qing, she learns about the world…

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12: No Country For Old Men


Llewelyn Moss, a welder, and hunter from rural Texas, played by Josh Brolin, come across the skeletal remains of several drug runners who were involved in a violent exchange and ended up killing each other. Moss concludes that he does not need to inform the authorities about the discovery because he will keep the two million dollars as a reward himself. Because of this, the psychopath killer Anton Chigurh, played by Javier Bardem, is on his trail. He murders nearly…

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13: Better Days 2019


Chen Nian becomes the next target of the "queen bee" and ruthless school bully Wei Lai and her cronies when her fellow student, Hu Xiaodie, takes her own life due to being bullied at school. Hu's death was attributed to being bullied at school. In addition, Chen Nian witnesses a young thug by the name of Liu Beishan, also known as "Xiao Bei," being assaulted in the streets by other thugs. She tries to phone the police, but the thugs…

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