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Sequel
  
Horror Stories 2

Country
  
South Korea

5.7/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Horror

Duration
  

Language
  
Korean

Horror Stories (film) movie poster

Director
  
Im Dae-woongJung Bum-sikHong Ji-youngKim GokKim SunMin Kyu-dong

Release date
  
July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)

Writer
  
Beom-sik Jeong (segment), Gok Kim (segment), Sun Kim (segment), Dae-wung Lim (segment), Kyu-dong Min (segment)

Initial release
  
July 25, 2012 (South Korea)

Directors
  
Min Kyu-dong, Beom-sik Jeong, Kim Gok, Ji-Yeong Hong, Dae-wung Lim, Sun Kim

Music director
  
Kim Seong-Hyeon, Kang Min-seok, Jae-jin Lee, Heo Deok-beom

Cast
  
Kim Ji-Won
(kidnapped student),
Yoo Yeon-Seok
(kidnapper),
Kim Hyeon-soo
(Sun-Yi),
No Kang-Min
(Moon-Yi),
Ra Mi-Ran
(mother),
No Hyeon-Hee
(English teacher)

Similar movies
  
Movies about South Korea, Horror movies

Horror stories 2012 korean trailer


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.

Contents

Horror Stories (film) movie scenes

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 is 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.

Horror Stories was the opening film of the 2012 Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival.

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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.
  • Directed by Min Kyu-dong
  • Kim Ji-won - Ji-won
  • Yoo Yeon-seok - Man

    • 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)
  • Directed by Jung Bum-sik
  • Kim Hyun-soo
  • No Kang-min
  • Ra Mi-ran - mother
  • Lee Dong-kyu - fired employee
  • No Hyeon-hee - English teacher
  • Kim Tae-woo
  • Kim Bo-kyung - Seon-yi's mother (voice)

    • 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)
  • Directed by Im Dae-woong
  • Choi Yoon-young - flight attendant So-jung
  • Jin Tae-hyun - serial killer Doo-ho
  • Woo Hyeon - captain

    • 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 watchesdfwrfewll of this, amused. (Hangul: 콩쥐, 팥쥐; lit. Kongjwi and Patjwi)
  • Directed by Hong Ji-young
  • Nam Bo-ra - Bak-ji
  • Jung Eun-chae - Gong-ji
  • Bae Soo-bin - Min
  • Na Young-hee - Bak-ji's mother
  • Im Seong-min - housemaid

    • 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)
  • Directed by Kim Gok and Kim Sun
  • Kim Ji-young - Hyun-soo's mother
  • Kim Ye-won - nurse
  • Jo Han-cheol - army doctor
  • Park Jae-woong - ambulance driver

    • Sequel

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

    References

    Horror Stories (film) Wikipedia
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    Horror Stories (film) IMDbHorror Stories (film) themoviedb.org