KOREAN HORROR MOVIE DETAILS
Here are some details on ‘five’ Korean horror flicks coming this Summer. The dates are not official, not even Summer for sure, but here’s details on all the films that should be coming real soon.
SOURCE: Korean Film.org…
Below are direct quotes from site listed above:
FACE
A movie produced by Taewon Entertainment and distributed by Cinema Service. Shooting began on May 30, and a tentative release date is scheduled for October.
THE UNINVITED
The long-awaited return of Jeon Ji-hyun, following her smash hit My Sassy Girl, is an ‘occult thriller’ about a narcoleptic who is able to see supernatural spirits. The film sees her reunited with actor Park Shin-yang, with whom she co-starred in her debut film White Valentine, and is directed by Lee Soo-yeon, a short film director making her debut. The film is produced by b.o.m. Film Production and is scheduled to be distributed by CJ Entertainment in summer 2003.
Release: 8-15-2003
Url: go here.
or url: go here.
INTO THE MIRROR
(‘Geoul sokeuro’) First time director Kim Seong-ho brings us a movie of a cursed mirror, set in an upscale department store. Starring Yoo Ji-tae (One Fine Spring Day, Libera Me), Kim Myeong-min (Sorum), and Kim Hye-na (Flower Island). The movie is currently listed as filming, but is targeted for release in late June.
WISHING STAIRS
(‘Yeo-wu Gyedan’) The third film in the series of girls’ high school horror films that started with Whispering Corridors and continued on with Memento Mori. Like the others, this new film will be made by a debut director (a woman this time, named Yoon Jae-yeon), and it will star all new actresses as well: Park Han-byeol, Song Ji-hyo, Jo An, Park Ji-yeon. The story is centered around a cursed stairway on the path leading to a girls’ dormitory. It has 28 stairs, but on rare occasions a 29th
stair will appear, and if you step on it..It started shooting on March 28, and is scheduled for a Summer release by Cinema Service.
Release: 7-16-2003 or 7-31-2003, I find both release dates.
Url: posters and still: go here.
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DRAGON WARS
Directed by Shim Hyung-rae (Yongary, Tirano’s Claws). In modern-day LA, something huge is waking beneath the city. Imoogi is stirring and waiting to destroy civilization but the key to defeating him lies 500 years in the past. Odd that in its very well developed homepage, a lot of detail is given to the
various CGI monsters, but not a single mention is made of the human cast…
Status: Filming
Website: http://www.d-war.com/
Info from Seoul Now adds ‘Legend of the Evil Lake’ which didn’t appear to be Horror upon first discovery…
Among them, it has high hopes for four: horror films ‘Wishing Stairs,’ the second sequel to the 1998 hit ‘Whispering Corridors,’ ‘Legend of the Evil Lake,’ which is being shot entirely in China and ‘Into the Mirror,’ and comedy ‘Crazy for First Love,’ starring Cha Tae-hyun of ‘My Sassy Girl’ and Sohn Ye-jin of ‘The Classic.’
CJ Entertainment, Korea’s second-largest film distributor, is packing ‘The Uninvited,’ a horror film featuring top stars Park Shin-yang and Jun Ji-hyun, and ‘The Scandal’ – both in production. ‘Though they will not be screened, we have good hopes of selling them because they are great stories and feature actors and directors many foreign buyers will recognize,’ said Lee Young-jun, CJ’s International Sales & Acquisition director.
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