This Week in Asian Horror: New Releases – November 9 to November 15, 2026

This week brings new Japanese horror to Japanese and Taiwanese audiences, a handful of Indonesian films opening around Southeast Asia, and two Cambodian releases – there are also several overseas releases for films that have already opened in their home countries.

All releases correct as of writing, but are always subject to change!

Japan – Cursed Meme (呪いのスマホ)

Release date: November 13, 2026
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror

A lonely high-school student named Yura starts seeing things after losing her best friend in an accident, and while cleaning an old school building with her classmates, they discover a battered smartphone, where watching a creepy video on the device connects them to a curse – this one seems incredibly generic, doesn’t it?

Also known as Noroi no Smartphone and The Cursed Smartphone.

Taiwan – New Group (高校人形金字塔)

Release date: November 13, 2026
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror / Satire

An unusual phenomenon spreads through a high school in New Group, where students suddenly start dropping to all fours and become motionless, forming a human pyramid in the process.

Taiwan – Banned from Broadcast: My Three Wives (放送禁止：一夫三妻)

Release date: November 13, 2026
Country: Japan
Genre: Psychological horror / Mystery

A television documentary about a polygamous family was cancelled shortly before transmission for unexplained reasons, where the footage eventually resurfaces, showing a husband and his three wives living together in an apparently orderly household.

Things become increasingly strange when the husband claims something disturbing is happening inside the house, and during a prayer gathering, all three wives independently confess to murdering him.

Taiwan – Sana: Play with Me (跟我一起玩吧？)

Release date: November 13, 2026
Country: Japan
Genre: Horror

Tawian is going hard on Japanese releases this week!

Directed by Takashi Shimizu, the filmmaker behind Ju-On and The Grudge, Sana: Play With Me features a rumour going around among the students about a game that absolutely shouldn’t be played – you go to an empty school staircase, find the 13th step, and record a date and somebody’s name onto a cassette tape – then that person dies on the date you’ve recorded.

Lovely.

Taiwan/Malaysia – Death Whisperer: Saming the Werebeast (鬼聲泣0)

Release date: November 12/13, 2026
Country: Thailand
Genre: Supernatural horror

This prequel to the Thai Death Whisperer films takes place in the 1960s, where a group of soldiers led by Yak and Sergeant Paphan enters the Khao Khwang jungle to search for a missing military officer, but the area is said to be home to a terrifying spirit capable of taking human form.

Indonesia – Dewi Siluman Ular

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Indonesia
Genre: Supernatural horror

The story here seems to involve a snake goddess and some supernatural goings on.

Malaysia – The Doll: Ghawiah

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Indonesia
Genre: Supernatural horror

The Doll: Ghawiah is the latest instalment in Indonesia’s The Doll franchise begins with an accident, a mysterious little girl and her doll, and a forest.

Malaysia – Kacau

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Malaysia
Genre: Horror

A group of friends enter an abandoned shopping mall to play Spirit of the Coin, but their game awakens an entity named Malika, and the friends soon find themselves being haunted one by one.

Malaysia – Sekawan Limo 2: Gunung Klawih

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Indonesia
Genre: Horror / Comedy / Adventure

Three years after surviving the events of the first film, the five friends reunite for a family celebration, but their reunion becomes another supernatural nightmare when Andrew’s family gets caught up in a black magic ritual.

**Malaysia – Paket Santet (Delivery from Hell)**

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Indonesia
Genre: Horror / Thriller

Paket Santet takes something completely ordinary – a parcel arriving at your house – and turns it into the starting point for a deadly curse.

Cambodia – Crazy Love (ឆ្កួតស្នេហ៍)

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Cambodia
Genre: Horror / Drama

I can’t find too much information about this one, but seems to be a romance horror about obsession?

Cambodia – The River Demon 2 (ខ្មោចទឹក វគ្គ២ / Út Lan 2)

Release date: November 12, 2026
Country: Vietnam
Genre: Folk horror

This Vietnamese horror sequel arrives in Cambodian cinemas this week, about a man that catches a two-headed snake and sells it to a wealthy woman, before mysterious deaths follow, and his young daughter begins displaying increasingly strange behaviour.

Vietnam – The Rope Curse 4: Kuntilanak (粽邪4：坤蒂拉娜)

Release date: November 13, 2026
Country: Taiwan
Genre: Supernatural horror

The fourth instalment in Taiwan’s The Rope Curse franchise arrives in Vietnamese cinemas this week, featuring a forbidden ritual streamed from Indonesia that awakens a kuntilanak, a vengeful female spirit.

More recent Asian horror movie releases.

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I am a fan of movies in general and watch quite a few every week, but my love for Asian horror started in the 90’s during the J-horror boom – you know the ones – and ever since then I’ve been hooked on discovering horror from across Asia, from the classics everyone knows to the hidden gems that deserve a much bigger audience.

On this site I explore Asian horror movies from across Japan, South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Cambodia, Malaysia, and beyond, since the big entertainment sites tend to focus only on the biggest releases.