Parasite was a dramatic horror movie that shocked the world when it won the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Annual Academy Awards, the first non-English language picture to win the Best Picture award. It was also a rare horror film to win Best Picture as well.
This has been a unique journey to the top for director Bong Joon-ho as well, as he created a monster movie masterpiece in The Host in 2007 and then a comic book adaptation of a French graphic novel Snowpiercer in 2013 before moving on to the Oscars in 2019. For anyone who loved Parasite, here is a look at 10 other movies to watch that you might enjoy as well.
THE HOST (2006)
While Parasite was a dramatic horror movie that won Bong Joon-ho an Oscar, it wasn't his first horror movie. In 2006, the director made a very different horror movie that shared one thing in common with his Oscar-winner.
The Host was a giant monster movie, with a creature attacking a coastal town. At its heart, this movie is about a dysfunctional family that fights to survive together while the monster destroys everything around them.
STOKER (2013)
Park Chan-wook made his name with the intense thrillers known as The Vengeance Trilogy, with Oldboy his most famous film of the trilogy. However, in 2013, he made an English-language horror movie that was a lot scarier called Stoker.
The movie stars Mia Wasikowska as a girl who goes to live with her unstable mother (Nicole Kidman) after her loving father dies and meets her uncle (Matthew Goode), who changes her life forever.
US (2019)
Jordan Peele created one of the best horror movies of all-time when he made Get Out, and then he followed it up with a complete mind-twisting horror movie. Us follows what looks like a perfect family of four who suddenly finds themselves terrorized by their doppelgangers.
Soon, it turns out that they aren't the only ones with these doppelgangers, but they might be the key behind the entire phenomenon, and the only ones who can stop it.
HEREDITARY (2018)
Ari Aster proved he was a filmmaker to watch when he directed Hereditary in 2018. The former Sundance Film Festival release hit theaters and was an immediate success, one of the highest-grossing movies in A24 history. It was also possibly the scariest movie of 2018.
The movie follows an artist (Toni Collette) who lives in Utah with her husband, son, and daughter. When the family's grandmother dies, they find something haunting their household, and soon it seems mother and daughter are the keys to something evil.
A TALE OF TWO SISTERS (2003)
A Tale of Two Sisters was a remake of this South Korean horror movie release in America called The Uninvited, but it was nowhere near as brilliant as this 2003 horror classic. The movie focuses on a girl released from a mental asylum to come home to live with her dad.
However, when she meets her new stepmother, she believes she needs to protect her family at all costs. However, in true k-horror fashion, nothing is as it seems.
TRAIN TO BUSAN (2016)
For people who think the zombie genre is played out, watch Train to Busan. Most zombie movies are about people trying to survive the undead while also dealing with humans that might be worse than the undead.
However, with Train to Busan, the movie starts at the beginning of the zombie apocalypse. It focuses on a father and his young daughter on a train, trying to remain together and survive this journey.
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER (2017)
While Parasite is a horror movie, it is more of a psychological thriller about two families trying to navigate their lives while manipulating those around them. In 2017, the psychological thriller The Killing of a Sacred Deer matched that description as well.
Yorgos Lanthimos is a four-time Oscar nominee, and while he did not get a nomination for this movie, it was a Palme d'Or competitor. The film tells the story of a surgeon (Colin Farrell) who meets a teenager with a link to his past, only to find his family starts to fall ill in the aftermath.
THE WAILING (2016)
Released in 2016, The Wailing is a South Korean horror movie by Na Hong-jin. The film is about a police officer who investigates killings and illnesses in a Korean hamlet in the hopes that he could save his daughter.
The superstitions of the villagers lead to hysteria when they believe the deaths are due to an outsider in the village. They send the police officer after that stranger, hoping to end the curse.
AUDITION (1999)
In 1999, one of the best Japanese filmmakers of the '90s created what might be his masterpiece. Takashi Miike directed the movie Audition, a film whose monster is a young, innocent-looking girl. In the movie, a widower's son convinces his dad to start dating again.
He makes the unfortunate decision of holding a fake casting call to meet women, but the one he chooses to date might be the worst option, and the last person he will ever see.
YOU'RE NEXT (2011)
In 2011, Adam Wingard directed the horror movie. You're Next. The film was another addition to the home invasion horror subgenre. However, what made this movie different was that the movie isn't about someone hiding and hoping to survive.
This movie is about a girl who turns things back around onto the invaders, and the hunters become the hunted this time. This horror movie has become a massive cult classic since its release.