With Friday the 13th just having passed us and this year’s Halloween fest only a few weeks away, it’s time to dig into horror Kpop variety show episodes to pump up the spooky aura of the season. While some of these episodes guarantee you a spine-chilling experience owing to their tremendously unbelievable production value, others follow a rather conventional route and end up making way for a laughter marathon. Either way, they’re all high on entertainment and are bound to make your October 31st eerily riotous and high-spirited.
From BTS to SEVENTEEN, to TREASURE and ATEEZ among many more, these much-love Kpop groups have all got their uncanny entertaining rides ready for your amusement. Dig into this bottomless treat that just keeps giving more and more. Happy Halloween month!
Horror Kpop Variety Show Episodes
1. Going SEVENTEEN Ego Episodes (Going SEVENTEEN Episodes 27-28)
About these Episodes: Involved in the practice of unethical cloning experiments, a top scientists proceeds with his questionable research which often ends with his failed subjects being killed off. SEVENTEEN members play a significant role in unravelling the truth behind these experiments and their own purpose in the hierarchy. While the truth will set them free, it will also make ud all question the leading scientist’s conscience. With this overarching plot, this GOSE episode is built up as an escape room scenario as each member traces his steps back to the bloody genesis of the fatal experiment.
Other SEVENTEEN Horror Content from GOSE:
SEVENTEEN Tag episodes also left the members in the dark as they had to race against shady villainous characters out to get them. Additionally, though it doesn’t overtly fall into the horror category, the Going SEVENTEEN Bad Clue episode series is equally chilling and thrilling.
2. Run BTS Zombie Episode – “BTS VS Zombies”
About this Episode: Pushed into the apocalyptic mess, the Kpop septet fight again make-believe zombies while also completing a number of missions to resolve the underlying mystery. This episode turns even some of the calmest members of the group into a screeching mess for help as the final product turns out to be a laughter riot more than posing as a horrifying ordeal.
3. MONSTA X Real Men
About this Episode: MONSTA X Jooheon meets a dark night ruled by paranormal presences and the rest goes down in the screaming contest. Although known as the monster rookies of the Kpop world, MONSTA X members are sent out in twos or so into a haunted house and even of horror themes slide away soon enough, hilarious antics and behavioural patterns will make you turn to the group for entertainment.
4. NCT Horror Nights
About these Episodes: Remember those old days when we’d get together with our friends to share and listen to all kinds of supposed real-life horror tales? NCT members kick up the Hallyuween struggle by narrating a bunch of such stories shared by their fans. It’s true that some of these stories will engross you deeply while leaving you scarred for quite some time. However, some members’ hilarious breaking points may help you break the horror bubble.
Other NCT Horror Content: NCT Dream’s Save Dream Episode 3: Vampire vs Werewolf, NCT Dream – DREAM LOOP: The Last Midnight, WayV The Abandoned School, NIGHTMARE : 저주받은 공명음 | THE NCT SHOW
5. ATEEZ WANTEEZ Episode 4
About this Episode: Set in TEEZ high school, an alternate fictional dramatisation of ATEEZ members’ lives is painted out in colours of horror and suspicion. As transfer students, the band walks into the high school in the dead of the night, as the premise of the murky episode soon shapes into a zombie apocalypse scenario that requires each one of them to have their guard up with betrayals running amok.
With a vaccine hidden in the school, and a human zombie walking among them, the students are needed to leave the premises before 11 PM, which is when the school shuts down? Being the timid group of people they are, will ATEEZ be able to escape to safety while also solving the missions along that come in their way? This episode follows a conventional route in terms of building up a situational horror theme that, at times, also assumes the looks of comedy owing to the chaos caused by the members in fear of the unknown intermeshed with the horrors of the dark.
6. THE BOYZ Wings of Escape Episodes 1-2
About these Episodes: In yet another escape mission, THE BOYZ members are trapped in an abandoned training centre which is made to look like a hellish re-creation. The clues to make way for the extreme escape are hidden all around this location but things take a severe turn as characters like the Grim Reaper also jump into the race. The situational premise grants the K-pop artists the fictional roles of boys in Paradise, where love is forbidden, but upon meeting the mysterious character of the B, they were all awakened to the feelings of this warm emotion.
Going against the will of God, the members fled Paradise and fell into Hell. And to see The B again, they all sign a contract with the Devil, which ultimately pushed them to complete the quest of finding their way out of their entrapment.
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TREASURE The Mysterious Class Web Drama
8 episodes of this TREASURE web drama series is far from what we’ve come to see as variety shows. This small-scale series takes to great heights with the dectet including members Choi Hyun-suk, Jihoon, Yoshi, Junkyu, Yoon Jae-hyuk, Asahi, Doyoung, Haruto, Park Jeong-woo, and So Jung-hwan (along with former members Mashiho Takata and Bang Ye-dam).
Senior year high school students of a class that was supposed to have 20 students, ends up with 21 as they are stuck with their resident class ghost. All they have to do is figure out who he is. Taking the shape of a supernatural mystery thriller series, The Mysterious Class throws the students in the middle of a conflict as they’re scare to uncover the identity of the poser walking among them.
Some Other Halloween Kpop variety show episodes include Stray Kids SKZ CODE episodes 8-9, MAMAMOO Solar’s Horror Stories, PENTAGON at a Haunted House, Time to TWICE episode 24, Dive Studios’ DIVE in the Dark episodes, CRAVITY Park episode 40, ENHYPEN EN-O’CLOCK episode 44, P1Harmony HARMONY FOREST EP.7 “LIFE or DEATH”, ASTRO Stress Things (ASTRO 스트레스띵) and 1 2 3 IVE 3 Episode 5 to name a few. K-pop group members’ association with other channels and brands as a means to promote their names at the time of comebacks have also produced quite a few videos that have captured these artists escaping from haunted houses and whatnot.
You are likely to find such content for almost every K-pop group out there. Just search away their names and make your Halloween Kpop variety marathon playlist a huge success.
Which of these Korean horror variety shows have you watched already? Which of these will you be watching this Halloween 2023 night? Let us know your picks in the comments section below.