Top 10 Tamil Horror Films

Tamil films are not all Masala films. There are some pretty decent genre films, and horror is no exception. Here is a list of our top 10 in no particular order.

10. Zero

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Bala and Priya are a young couple who get married despite the disapproval of the latter's father due to the history of mental illness in Priya's family. As soon as they move into their new home, Bala notices Priya behaving strangely. Desperate to help his wife, Bala turns to Solomon, a psychic and occult specialist. Unknown to anyone, Priya can mentally transport herself into another realm where she meets her dead mother and other women who died during miscarriage because of a vengeful spirit from the beginning of time who seeks to do more harm than Priya thinks...

9. Pizza 

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Michael, a pizza delivery boy, is sent to a large bungalow on the outskirts of Chennai one night. The lady of the house invites Michael in and asks him to wait for a minute as she goes upstairs to get some change. Suddenly, the lights go off and Michael hears a loud noise from upstairs. He goes to check and finds the lady brutally murdered, with a slice of the pizza missing. When he tries to escape, he finds there is no way out and he is trapped all alone...

8. Maya

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Apsara is a young single mother who is struggling to become an actress. She learns about a a new, unreleased horror film which is reportedly so scary that test audiences have gone hysterical halfway through watching it. The filmmakers organize a promotional contest that will reward half a million Rupees to anyone willing to watch their film alone from beginning to end. Desperate, Apsara takes up the challenge to make some quick cash and pay off her debts. However, she quickly realizes that this is no ordinary film when she cannot escape the theater hall...

7. Yavarum Nalam

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Manohar and his extended family move into a new apartment, 13B, on the 13th floor of the building. The women in his family start watching a new soap opera on TV called 'Everyone is Well', which is also about a family moving into a new home. As days pass, they start to realise that the soap opera's story line is strikingly similar to their own life. Manohar finds a diary that reveals the apartment's terrifying past involving suicide, murder, a broken heart and much more...

6. Pisasu

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Siddharth Soundaarajan is an upcoming violinist in Chennai, who becomes traumatized after he fails to save a teenage girl from dying in a road accident. To overcome his guilt, he drives around the city aimlessly to help those in need. However, he starts to realize that he is being haunted by an otherworldly entity. This leads him to investigate the death of the teenage girl and the cause of the accident, which leads him to a shocking revelation...

5. Chandramukhi

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Senthil, and his wife Gangga move temporarily to his ancestral village for business. While there, he buys and lives in the infamous Vettaiyapuram palace. The palace is allegedly haunted by the vengeful spirit of a courtesan named Chandramukhi who used to serve the king who lived there over a hundred years ago. Gangga is fascinated by the legend while Senthil does not believe in superstition. However, things change when everyone in the palace start experiencing strange occurrences. Senthil then invites his foster brother, the psychiatrist Saravanan who is also an expert in the paranormal to help out. 

4. Demonte Colony

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Four friends decide to visit a reportedly haunted house called Demonte Colony one night. However, they find nothing spooky and return to their apartment. One of them had taken a necklace they found at the house in the hopes that they could sell it for money. Strange things start to happen and the four young men quickly discover that they cannot escape their apartment, nor can anyone outside hear their screams... 

3. Aval

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Krish and Lakshmi are a young newly wedded couple living a happy life in Srinagar. Things change when a wealthy family moves into the vacant house next door. The family's teenage daughter, Jenny develops a crush on the handsome Krish. Jenny slowly develops weird habits that worries both families. Things become worse when Jenny, who has never learned Chinese, starts to speak the language... 

2. Mercury

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Five dumb and deaf friends have a reunion in the hill station they grew up in. On that night, they kill a man by accident and try to get rid of the body at the site of an old mercury factory to avoid getting arrested. The next morning, one of them discover they might have lost something that might incriminate them. They return to the burial site to retrieve the object but find that the body has gone missing. They then find themselves being chased by something that they cannot quite explain... 

1. Villa

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Jebin Jose is an inspiring novelist who learns that his late father had left him a large villa in Pondicherry in his will. Jebin and his artist girlfriend, Aarthi visit the villa, where they find some of his father's paintings. Jebin starts to suspect that his father could see the future when some of the events depicted in the paintings come true. However, he begins to get worried when he finds some other hidden paintings in the villa showing a man resembling him killing a girl that appears to be Aarthi...