Horror Stories (film)

Horror Stories
Directed by Im Dae-woong
Jung Bum-sik
Hong Ji-young
Kim Gok
Kim Sun
Min Kyu-dong
Produced by Kim Won-guk
Min Jin-su
Written by Im Dae-woong
Jung Bum-sik
Byun Hye-joo
Kim Gok
Kim Sun
Starring Kim Ji-won
Yoo Yeon-seok
Choi Yoon-young
Jin Tae-hyun
Kim Hyun-soo
Nam Bo-ra
Jung Eun-chae
Bae Soo-bin
Kim Ye-won
Music by Heo Deok-beom
Kim Seong-hyeon
Lee Jae-jin
Kang Min-seok
Cinematography Lee Jeong-in
Kim Tae-gyeong
Yun Nam-ju
Lee Seon-yeong
Edited by Jeong Jin-hee
Kim Sun-min
Distributed by Lotte Entertainment
Release dates
  • July 25, 2012
Running time
 108 minutes
Country South Korea
Language Korean

Horror Stories (Hangul: 무서운 이야기; RR: Museoun Iyagi) is a 2012 horror omnibus film made up of four short films by five South Korean directors.

A high school student is kidnapped by a killer and has her life on the line. To survive, she tells him the scariest stories she knows; starting with Endless Flight in which a flight attendant and a serial killer is left alone in an airplane up in the air, Don't Answer to the Door, a story of eerie things happening in a house with a brother and sister who are waiting for their mother, Secret Recipe a cruel 2012 version of a folktale in which two stepsisters fight to marry a rich man, and Ambulance on the Death Zone in which the survivors in a city filled with a deadly zombie virus suspect each other of being infected while riding together in an ambulance.[1][2][3]

Horror Stories was the opening film of the 2012 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Stories

Beginning

Plot
A high school student named Ji-won is kidnapped by a serial killer with a speech impediment. The killer can only go to sleep when he listens to scary stories. Hoping to escape, Ji-won Scheherazade-like begins telling him the four scariest stories she knows.

Endless Flight

Plot
A flight attendant faces a serial killer alone, while the airplane is flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet. (Hangul: 공포 비행기; lit. The Terror Plane)

Don't Answer to the Door

Plot
Based on the Korean folktale The Sun and the Moon about a tiger who gobbles up and impersonates the mother of a young boy and his sister. A sister and brother are waiting for their mom to get home. However, their mother is late and the girl begins to get caught up in her own imagination. A suspicious delivery man knocks on the door, and the siblings try not to open it. (Hangul: 해와 달; lit. The Sun and the Moon)

Secret Recipe

Plot
Based on the well-known Korean folktale Kongjwi and Patjwi, another variant of Cinderella. Gong-ji is getting married soon to Min, a rich and handsome bachelor. But she feels anxious due to her stepsister Bak-ji's severe jealousy. Wanting Min for herself, Bak-ji undergoes plastic surgery to look like Gong-ji. What they don't know is Min's secret to maintain his young face. Meanwhile, Min watches all of this, amused. (Hangul: 콩쥐, 팥쥐; lit. Kongjwi and Patjwi)

Ambulance on the Death Zone

Plot
Among the five survivors inside an ambulance escaping at full speed from a horde of berserker zombies are a doctor, a nurse, an unconscious child and her mother. The young girl is found to have an unknown scar on her wrist, and the military doctor believes that she was infected by a zombie epidemic. The tension and anxiety level begins to climb as the nurse must make a choice between following his orders and helping the child's distraught mother. (Hangul: 앰뷸런스; lit. The Ambulance)

Sequel

Main article: Horror Stories 2

A sequel, Horror Stories 2, using the same omnibus format but with a completely different cast, was released in 2013.

References

  1. ↑ Lee, Hye-ji (20 July 2012). "PREVIEW Horror Stories: Return of authentic Korean horror film". 10Asia. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  2. ↑ Yi, Paul (30 July 2012). "Summer Season Horror Film Lineup". Arirang News. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  3. ↑ Kim, Kyu Hyun. "Horror Stories". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved 2012-08-25.
  4. ↑ Kwaak, Je-yup (18 July 2012). "Horror takes stage as PiFan opens". The Korea Times. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  5. ↑ Cho, Jae-eun (6 July 2012). "Fringe genres take center stage at PiFan". Korea JoongAng Daily. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  6. ↑ Park, Soo-mee (20 July 2012). "Anthology Chiller Horror Stories Opens Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  7. ↑ Yi, Paul (21 July 2012). "16th Annual Puchon International Film Festival Kicks Off". Arirang News. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  8. ↑ "16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival". KBS World. 7 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
  9. ↑ Conran, Pierce (24 July 2012). "PiFan 2012 Review: HORROR STORIES". Twitch Film. Retrieved 2012-11-19.

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