Dead Friend

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Dead Friend
"Dead Friend" movie poster
Directed by	Kim Tae-gyeong
Produced by	Jeong Oh-young
Written by	Kim Tae-gyeong
Starring	Kim Ha-neul Ryu Jin Nam Sang-mi
Music by	Choi Wan-hee Hyeon Gyu-hwan
Cinematography	Mun Yong-sik
Editing by	Kim Yong-su
Distributed by	ShowBox
Release date(s)	June 18, 2004 (South Korea)
Language	Korean
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Dead Friend (Ryeong) is a 2004 South Korean horror film. It is one of a number of recent South Korean horror films set in a girls high school; the trend began with 1998's Whispering Corridors. It starred Kim Ha-neul as Min Ji-won, Nam Sang-mi as Su-in, Bin (Jeon Hye-bin) as Eun-seo, and Shin Yi as Shin Mi-kyung. Ryeong directly translates into "The Ghost". Both Kim Ha-neul and Nam Sang-mi previously starred together in Too Beautiful to Lie.

[edit] Plot

Three friends from the same high school are conducting a séance with a bunshinsaba - a traditional South Korean ouija board. As the spirits are called by Eun-jung (Lee Yun-ji), the planchette of the bunshinsaba starts jumping up and down: At the same time, Min Ji-won (Kim Ha-neul), another friend sleeping in the next room, wakes up screaming. When Ji-won comes out, she has a right royal barney with Eun-jung about the séance, and Eun-jung jokingly calls for the ghost they conjured with the séance to kill Ji-won off - and says that since they didn't send the ghost back, it'll be after all their blood. Ever since that fateful night, she's had amnesia - presumably caused by shock.

After a visit to her doctor, she finds out that now her brain waves have stabilised, there's a good chance she may get her memory back. She's decided to leave college, leave her mother and go overseas, to make a new start for herself.

In time-honoured movie tradition, though, little snippets of her memory start to come back in her dreams - and they're almost always tainted by some frightening figure she can't place. Not only that, but they seem to be continually connected to water, whether in the dream itself or by the medium of a knocked-over glass of drinking water next to the bed. But soon enough, inexplicable things begin to happen to her in reality as well - echoes of her dreams, the ghosts of her forgotten past invading her waking life.

Just at this time, Ji-won gets a blast from the past: Yu-jung, one of the three friends who conducted the seance years before, comes to find her after she saw her in a dream - and not only that, one of the other girls, Eun-seo, has died after telling this girl she had seen something bizarre. It's not long before Yu-jung also has a terrifying supernatural experience related to Ji-won - and realises that the ghost they called up years before indeed really did never get sent back.

Now all of her friends who conducted the seance with her are dying under mysterious circumstances. But what is the identity of this ghost, how is it linked to her own forgotten past, and can Ji-won find out how to save herself?

[edit] External links

• "Dead Friend adds little to high school horror"

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