The Guard Post

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The Guard Post
Directed by Kong Su-chang
Release date(s) April 3, 2008
Country South Korea
Language Korean
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The Guard Post is a 2008 Korean horror film written and directed by Su-chang Kong[1] after the release of his first film, R-Point. The movie takes places in modern times in South Korea, unlike R-Point as it happened during the Vietnam War.

In South Korea, the movie is known as GP 506.

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[edit] Synopsis

When soldiers and officers of GP 506 located somewhere in the vicinity of the DMZ fail to report back to their superiors, officials of the South Korean military began to get worried over the possibility of North Korean commandos since protocol requires ROK military guard posts to report after every half hour. A team of military police soldiers arrive at GP 506 to investigate the area before the military covers the whole incident up over the possibility of having a public relations mess as the base's commander is the son of a high-ranking South Korean army officer.

Though they had located two surviving soldiers, one of them being an enlisted soldier and a suspect in the mass murders and the other the said base's commanding officer, the MP team finds out that a homicidal virus is responsible for the massacre and they later get isolated in the same post due to the raging weather while being infected with the same disease.

[edit] Reception

Reception towards the film had been mixed. A review from twitch said that movie is not as strong as Kong's first K-Horror movie R-Point as the depcition of flasbacks and the present time was confusing, though the story was interesting[2]. Screen Daily notes that The Guard Post may be an attempt to be a movie based on the quasi-zombie flick[3].

[edit] References

  1. ^ R-Point Director Returns with GP 506. Retrieved on June 5, 2008.
  2. ^ Udine Report: THE GUARD POST (GP506) Review. Retrieved on June 5, 2008.
  3. ^ The Guard Post. Retrieved on June 5, 2008.

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