July 18, 2026

Park Eun-bin's ghost-romance Spooky in Love leads today's two-title Saturday, and the Saw franchise's last day is here

Two titles land on Netflix US this Saturday: the Park Eun-bin occult romance Spooky in Love, a weekly K-drama remake of 2011's Spellbound, and the Stokes Twins' YouTube archive jumping platforms. The eight-installment Saw franchise and The Cursed both hit their last full day today, gone tomorrow, and Land of Bad departed this morning.

The pick of the day: Spooky in Love

Spooky in Love arrives on Netflix today as the weekend's one genuine headline, and it comes with a recognizable lead. Park Eun-bin, fresh off Extraordinary Attorney Woo and this year's Netflix superhero comedy The WONDERfools, stars as Cheon Yeo-ri, a hotel heiress who has seen and heard ghosts since a near-death experience and now spends her nights settling the grudges of the restless dead (Korea Herald, July 15). She is paired with Yang Se-jong as a prosecutor terrified of the supernatural, and Ong Seong-wu as a rival hotel CEO written in as a new villain who did not exist in the source film (Korea JoongAng Daily, July 14).

• It's a remake, expanded. The show reworks the 2011 Korean hit Spellbound, which starred Son Ye-jin and Lee Min-ki and drew more than 3 million admissions. The drama keeps only the female lead's ghost-sight and overhauls everything else: the magician love interest becomes a prosecutor, the lonely employee becomes a chaebol heiress, and a new "touch-transfer" rule means anyone who holds Yeo-ri's hand temporarily sees ghosts too (Korea Times, July 14). Park called the expansion "transmedia," arguing 12 episodes give roughly six times the runtime of the film.

• Weekly, not a drop. It premieres today on tvN and Netflix simultaneously at 9:10 p.m. KST (8:10 a.m. ET), then runs Saturdays and Sundays, 12 episodes of about 70 minutes each, through Aug. 23 (TechTimes, July 16). So today brings episodes 1 and 2, not a full-season binge. The Netflix page lists it PG-13 under Romantic TV Comedies.

• No reviews yet, by design. The show premieres today, so there is no critic consensus. Director Lee Min-su told the press conference the fear factor runs "about a five" on a ten scale and that ghosts are a signal the leads are about to meet, so expect romance-weighted occult comedy rather than horror (Korea JoongAng Daily, July 14). For Park Eun-bin fans it is her return to the romance register; for genre viewers it sits closer to Hotel Del Luna than to a straight scare.

Also arriving today: Stokes Twins

Stokes Twins lands on Netflix today, but read the fine print before you tap. It is an archive of the duo's most-watched YouTube videos, the secret-rooms and prank-and-challenge clips that built them a 140 million-plus subscriber base, repackaged as a 13+ Netflix title rather than a new series (Netflix Tudum, July 9). The deal is non-exclusive, so the same videos stay on YouTube, and a separate long-form Stokes Twins original is slated for 2027 (Hollywood Reporter, July 9). The story here is Netflix's creator-economy push, the same lane as Ms. Rachel, Mark Rober, The Sidemen, and Jay Shetty, more than it is a title to review. For existing fans it is a couch-friendly front door to videos they already know; for everyone else it is a data point about where Netflix is spending.

New episodes of ongoing shows

The Apartment Job releases episode 3 today, the Ji Sung-led K-drama about a former gang boss who runs for his apartment complex's resident council to grab its reserve fund (Soompi, July 16). The weekend drama airs Saturdays and Sundays on JTBC and hits Netflix the same day, 12 episodes through Aug. 16, with episode 4 due Sunday. It opened to a modest 4.6 percent nationwide rating for episode 1 and 5.3 percent for episode 2.

Leaving this week

Today is the last full day for two departures, both gone tomorrow, July 19. The eight-installment Saw franchise, Saw through Saw VI plus Saw: The Final Chapter and Jigsaw per Netflix's own Tudum leaving page, has its final streaming day today (Netflix Tudum). The Cursed (2021), Sean Ellis's period werewolf horror, leaves the same day, with today as its last full day (howtogeek). Land of Bad (2024), the Russell Crowe and Liam Hemsworth action film, departed Netflix today, July 18 (whats-on-netflix).

Further ahead: Saturday Night (2024), Jason Reitman's film about the first SNL broadcast, leaves July 25, and Tallulah (2016) departs July 29 (howtogeek).