Best Tamil Horror Movies of 2016
Ranked by IMDb rating — 15 Tamil horror films released in 2016.
Kalam
An extortionist acquires a mansion and gifts it to his estranged son not realising the gruesome history behind the place.
Devi
The Tamil version of the trilingual horror-comedy wherein a husband finds out his wife is possessed. Also simultaneously made in Hindi as Tutak Tutak Tutiya (2016) and in Telugu as Abhinetri (2016)
Mo
Three friends who con people by exploiting their fear of ghosts are hired by a man to scare his business rival. However, things change after the three encounter a real ghost.
Darling
A lonely girl's violent descent into madness.
Aranmanai 2
A ghost enters a palatial mansion and starts attacking the men in the family. What is its back story?
Oru Nodiyil
Oru Nodiyil is a Horror movie directed by MA Chowdary, featuring Srushti Dange, Tapashree.
Vidayutham
An investigation unravels where officer Nagaraj believes the murders are not by man, but by demon force.
Peigal Jaakkirathai
Saravanan, who has suicidal tendencies, becomes part of Annachi's household as the latter, who has a fear of ghosts, believes that he will help him get rid of it. But the young man has a near-death experience after which he starts seeing ghosts!
Sowkarpettai
Lovers murdered by a moneylender come back as ghosts to make him answer for his crime. Meanwhile, an evil tantric has been waiting for them for years to take his revenge.
Zero
A newly-wedded couple's domestic bliss is smashed to smithereens when the wife starts acting crazy. Has she become mentally unstable like her dead mother, or is there a sinister force at work?
Darling 2
A group of friends goes to a hill station to unwind, but one of them gets possessed by a ghost turning the holiday into a nightmare.
Jithan 2
A man buys a house only to realise that the place is haunted by a ghost that will not let him in peace.
Jackson Durai
A cop sent to investigate allegedly ghostly affairs in a village agrees to stay in a haunted bungalow for seven days to win the hand of a girl in the place.
Dhilluku Dhuddu
A rich man decides to do away with the middle-class guy whom his daughter loves by inviting the guy's family to a palatial house on the pretence of marriage. What he doesn't know is that the place is haunted by a fearsome ghost.
Nayagi
An opportunist short filmmaker takes his unsuspecting girlfriend to an out-of-city bungalow with the wrong intention, but runs into a ghost who cannot tolerate promiscuous men.