Ghost Train(2025)
2025 · Tak Se-woong · 95 min
Da-kyung, a horror YouTuber desperate for views, uploads a video about the eerie urban legends surrounding Gwanglim Station—the site of the highest number of missing person cases in the country. The video goes viral overnight. Despite everyone's warnings, Da-kyung's thirst for views only grows stronger. But as she digs deeper, she uncovers a shocking secret behind the station…
Horror · Mystery
7.3150 votes
TMDB score
3/5
Intensity
2/5
Gore
2/5
Stays with you
How Ghost Train scares
There's a creeping unease that builds as the story digs into urban legends, punctuated by sudden jolts once the danger becomes real. The found-footage, youtuber-style framing adds a sense of voyeuristic dread, like you're watching someone wander somewhere they shouldn't. Its subway setting keeps things claustrophobic and isolating, with the horror leaning more toward eerie mystery than graphic violence. It's a decent pick if you like urban legend horror with a modern social-media twist, though it doesn't aim to be deeply traumatic.
On The Horror Database's 0–5 scare profile, Ghost Train rates psychological 3/5, visceral 2/5, gore 2/5, lingering effect 2/5, and overall intensity 3/5.
- Psychological: 3 of 5
- Visceral: 2 of 5
- Gore: 2 of 5
- Lingering: 2 of 5
- Intensity: 3 of 5
Slow burn vs Jump scares: 55 of 100 — balanced
Supernatural vs Real-world: 35 of 100 — leans Supernatural
Fun-scary vs Disturbing: 45 of 100 — balanced
Intensity over runtime
Shape only — no eventsReveal pacing shapeHide pacing shapeHidden by default — shows where the tension peaks and lets up.
Starts as a curious, low-key creep before settling into a steady rise of dread that peaks hard near the end and eases slightly at the very close.
Intensity across the runtime, 0 to 100: 1, 1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 3, 4, 4, 5, 3.
How scary is Ghost Train?
On The Horror Database's 0–5 intensity scale, Ghost Train rates 3/5 — solidly scary, balancing creeping dread with well-placed shocks. It works on both fronts, unsettling the mind while going for the body. Expect it to be moderately gory and scary but not punishing. Some of it will follow you to bed, but it lets go within a day or so.
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