If light, romantic, funny movies are too familiar to be a little boring, maybe you should refresh and change the movie genres, one of the good suggestions is horror anime. The film is attractive, thrilling by new actors, unexpected details, super attractive images will surely make you fall in love from the first time you enjoy it. If you have been eager to plow movies, want to learn about the horror anime genre, this article is for you. Let's come right away: "Top 10 super horror anime movies you definitely can't miss"!
1 Elfen Lied
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What Happened In Elfen Lied
- IMDb score: Updating
Launch date: 2004
Genre: Horror
Running time: 13 episodes
Country: Japan
Director: Lynn Okamoto
Voice Actor: Lucky voiced by Sanae Kobayashi, Kouta voiced by Chihiro Suzuki, Yuka voiced by Mamiko Noto,.
The film begins with the escape of a young girl named Lucy from a research institute on an island off the coast of Kamakura in Kanagawa. The girl is unarmed and wearing nothing on her body but a metal hat that covers her face and a series of fascinating details behind, let's take a look.
2 Tokyo Ghoul
Tokyo Ghoul
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Release Date: July 29, 2017 (Japan)
Directed by: Kentaro Hagiwara
Adapted: Tokyo Ghoul
Tokyo Ghoul is one of the most popular horror anime series. The main character of the film is Kaneki Ken, an ordinary student that couldn't be more normal. During a chance meeting with Rize Kamishiro, he fell in love with this beautiful girl. However, Rize's true identity is that of a cannibal and Kaneki is chosen as her prey. Fortunately, while preparing to "eat" him, Rize was hit by a falling beam and died afterwards. Rize's organs were transplanted into Kaneki's body, turning him into a "semi-ghoul".
Since then, Kaneki has had to find a way to adapt to a half-human-half-Ghoul life. He must integrate into the world of cannibals while dealing with enemies while keeping his identity a secret from other humans.
Tokyo Ghoul is one of the most popular horror anime series. The main character of the film is Kaneki Ken, an ordinary student that couldn't be more normal. During a chance meeting with Rize Kamishiro, he fell in love with this beautiful girl. However, Rize's true identity is that of a cannibal and Kaneki is chosen as her prey. Fortunately, while preparing to "eat" him, Rize was hit by a falling beam and died afterwards. Rize's organs were transplanted into Kaneki's body, turning him into a "semi-ghoul".
Since then, Kaneki has had to find a way to adapt to a half-human-half-Ghoul life. He must integrate into the world of cannibals while dealing with enemies while keeping his identity a secret from other humans.
Tokyo Ghoul is one of the most popular horror anime series. The main character of the film is Kaneki Ken, an ordinary student that couldn't be more normal. During a chance meeting with Rize Kamishiro, he fell in love with this beautiful girl. However, Rize's true identity is that of a cannibal and Kaneki is chosen as her prey. Fortunately, while preparing to "eat" him, Rize was hit by a falling beam and died afterwards. Rize's organs were transplanted into Kaneki's body, turning him into a "semi-ghoul".
Since then, Kaneki has had to find a way to adapt to a half-human-half-Ghoul life. He must integrate into the world of cannibals while dealing with enemies while keeping his identity a secret from other humans.
Tokyo Ghoul is one of the most popular horror anime series. The main character of the film is Kaneki Ken, an ordinary student that couldn't be more normal. During a chance meeting with Rize Kamishiro, he fell in love with this beautiful girl. However, Rize's true identity is that of a cannibal and Kaneki is chosen as her prey. Fortunately, while preparing to "eat" him, Rize was hit by a falling beam and died afterwards. Rize's organs were transplanted into Kaneki's body, turning him into a "semi-ghoul".
Since then, Kaneki has had to find a way to adapt to a half-human-half-Ghoul life. He must integrate into the world of cannibals while dealing with enemies while keeping his identity a secret from other humans.
3 Highschool of the Dead
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Highschool of the Dead School Corpse Set
IMDb score: 7.2/10
Launch date: 05/07/2010
Genre: Horror, Fiction
Running time: 12 episodes
Country: Japan
Director: Tetsurō Araki
Voice Actors: Junichi Suwabe, Eri Kitamura, Nobuyuki Hiyama
Highschool of the Dead is a Japanese animated horror and fiction film. The film told about a catastrophic pandemic that had a lot of people dying and turning into zombies.
The main characters of the film are a group of students, a young girl and a graduate school nurse who must fight with everything to escape this deadly pandemic.
The film has shown the survival of humans, the main characters always try to survive despite facing many dangers.
4 School-Live
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- Genre: Horror, Casual
Director: Masaomi Andō
Norimitsu Kaihō
Studio: Lerche
Runtime: 12 episodes
IMDb score: 7.2/10
School-Live is a school horror anime whose main character is a schoolgirl named Yuki. Yuki has no idea that her school is under zombie attack, her life is still peaceful thanks to the help and protection of the school club members. After learning this fact, Yuki joins the club to save survivors and find a way to solve the zombie epidemic.
5 Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories
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Genre: Folk, Horror, Supernatural
Director: Tomoya Takashima
Written by: Hiromu Kumamoto
Studio: ILCA
Runtime: 118 episodes
IMDb score: 7.1/10
The style of character creation in the film is modeled after the art of paper cutting, making the atmosphere of the film more creepy.
Each episode is a different horror story, integrated into it are philosophical lessons about life. If you love the creepy feeling when watching movies, you should not ignore this series.
6 Parasyte: The Maxim
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Parasyte: The Maxim
- Author: Hitoshi Iwaaki
Genre: Bio Thriller, Thriller, Sci-fi
Books: Animal Parasite - Volume 1, Animal Parasite - Volume 3, Animal Parasite - Volume 4, MORE
Adaptations: Parasite (2014), Kiseijū Kanketsu-hen (2015)
The film is set in a world where alien creatures come to Earth called Parasites. The story begins when an alien named Migi only controls the right hand of Shinichi Izumi, a high school student.
7 Corpse Party: Tortured Soul
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Corpse Party Ep 1 [Vietsub]
Genre: Horror, Action
Studio: Asread
Release date: 07/24/2013
Episodes: 4 episodes
Duration: 30 minutes/1 episode
To bid farewell to their friend Mayu Suzumoto who is about to transfer to another school, the group of close friends perform a friendship ritual together called "Sachiko forever after". Just as the ritual was completed, an earthquake suddenly struck and the group was suddenly taken to the Heavenly Host School, the cursed place that had been abandoned for so long.
They discover that this is where the horrific murder case once took place. The ghosts of dead children are constantly trying to control and kill them. In order to appease and pacify the ghosts, they are obliged to make the ghost of the perpetrator confess all his sins.
8 Shiki
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First published: September 1998
Author: Fuyumi Ono
Genre: Japanese manga
Shiki is a horror anime combined with crime solving that is very well received and loved by the audience. The film opens with doctors claiming that the village has a mysterious epidemic that causes the villagers to die en masse, the corpses keep piling up until the doctor Toshio Ozaki discovers that the corpses are all sucked of blood before dying.
Combined with the investigation of the case, they believe that it coincides with the appearance of a new family moving into a mysterious castle in the village and all suspicions are placed on that new family. The film with a lot of fascinating details is highly appreciated by the anie film enthusiast community both for the script and the creation of the characters.
9 King Of Thorn (2009)
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King of Thorn Movie Theme
Original release date: October 10, 2009
Director: Kazuyoshi Katayama
Adapted by: King of Thorn
Music composed by: Toshihiko Sahashi
The film is set when Medusa, a virus that claims 100% of the lives of sick people spreads across the Earth, an organization called Venus Gate has set up the "Hibernation" project with 160 people who will be selected to be put into a glass cage, completely isolated from the outside world for 100 years.
However, 48 hours later, some people suddenly woke up and realized that the treatment facility had turned into a garden surrounded by strange creatures and monstrous phenomena. The main character Kasumi is one of the lucky ones chosen. However, on the run after awakening, she discovers her identity as well as the true purpose of this project.
10 Ito Junji Collection
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Junji Ito Collection
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Studio: Deen
Release schedule: 05/01/2018
Episodes: 12 episodes
Duration: 24 minutes/1 episode
Although Studio Deen's Ito Junji Collection does not fully adapt the spooky, creepy, and suspenseful manga of the "king" of horror stories Ito Junji, this is still an extremely worth watching anime work when it has recreated the scariest characters such as Tomie Kawakami, Soichi Tsujii,...
In addition, the episodes are reconstructions of Junji Ito's most famous short stories such as Town Without Streets, American Southern Crossroads, Fashion Model,... also haunts viewers with gloomy images, colors combined with dreary sounds, bizarre character movements.
