Horror Stories (film)

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

Horror Stories
Directed byIm Dae-woong
Jung Bum-sik
Hong Ji-young
Kim Gok
Kim Sun
Min Kyu-dong
Produced byKim Won-guk
Min Jin-su
Written byIm Dae-woong
Jung Bum-sik
Byun Hye-joo
Kim Gok
Kim Sun
StarringKim 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 byHeo Deok-beom
Kim Seong-hyeon
Lee Jae-jin
Kang Min-seok
CinematographyLee Jeong-in
Kim Tae-gyeong
Yoon Nam-joo
Lee Seon-yeong
Edited byJeong Jin-hee
Kim Sun-min
Distributed byLotte Entertainment
Release date
  • July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)
Running time
108 minutes
CountrySouth Korea
LanguageKorean

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 "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, "Endless Flight" in which a flight attendant and a serial killer are left alone in an airplane up in the air, "Secret Recipe" a cruel 2012 version of a folktale in which two stepsisters fight to marry a wealthy cannibalistic 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.

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. (Korean: 해와 달; lit. The Sun and the Moon)

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

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 Baek-ji's severe jealousy. Wanting Min for herself, Baek-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. (Korean: 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. However, the test comes back negative, but the doctor isn't buying it. In the ensuring chaos that follows, which the doctor tries to throw the girl off the ambulance, the driver accidentally swerves off the road, and the doctors uses the chance to take his gun out and attempt to shoot the girl. However, the nurse ends up shooting him. However,the gunshot attracts a horde of zombies which begin chasing them. everyone manages to survive and get on, but the zombies catch up and kill the doctor. The mom, still insistent that her daughter isn't bitten, tries to prevent the nurse from throwing her daughter off, the nurse beginning to believe that the girl's infected. However,the driver is bit, and accidentally shot by the mom after a brief struggle for the gun. The mom succeeds in shooting the nurse out of the car, which kills her. Coming the next morning, the girl and mom embrace, the girl not having been bitten after all. But the mom was bitten during the struggle, and turns in front of her daughter. (Korean: 앰뷸런스; lit. The Ambulance)
  • Directed by Kim Gok and Kim Sun
  • Kim Ji-young as Hyun-soo's mother
  • Kim Ye-won as nurse
  • Jo Han-cheol as army doctor
  • Park Jae-woong as ambulance driver

Sequels
Main articles: Horror Stories 2 and Horror Stories 3

A sequel, Horror Stories 2, using the same omnibus format but with a completely different cast, was released in 2013. A final sequel, Horror Stories 3, was released in 2016.

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. Archived from the original on 13 July 2012. 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. Archived from the original on 26 August 2012. Retrieved 2012-11-19.
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