Title: The Record
AKA: Zzikhimyeon jukneunda, Record
Year: 2000
Cast: Seong-min Kang, Eun-hye Park, Jae-hwan Ahn, Min Jung, Dal Bae, Jun-Hyeong Bae, Chae-young Han, Mayu Loh, Yu-Rim Choi, Tae-Yun Jang, Seo-hyeong Kim, Yeong-ho Lee, Ji-won Uhm
Director: Gi-hun Kim, Jong-seok Kim
Country: South Korea
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Story:
Four korean high school students invite the school nerd to a cabin that they hired for the summer but the rotten kids only want to humiliate him by scaring the living daylights out of him on camera, the prank goes tragically wrong and the nerd is gruesomely killed. They sware secracy after disposing of the body and the film but one year later the film turns up via a secret website and a voice over threatens to take revenge on them, one by one the kids die gruesome deaths.
The nerds sister turns up at their high school trying to find his brother but they deny having anything to do with her missing brother, they start to suspect her of stalking and bumping them off. Their teacher is distraught over the disapearence and they catch him sobbing alone in his classroom. As things start to tensifie the kids start to bikcer among themselves and they start making acusations towards each other.
Dungeon Masters Opinion:
If the plot seem familiar to you then that is because you have seen I Know What You Did Last Summer, this film is not a fresh idea which I was disopointed in because recently the far east has come up with original ideas and twists for horror films. I get the impression after watching this that this film was aimed at the korean youth culture, the gore sequences are reasonably effective and the film is watchable but that is as far as I go on my opinion of the film. The thing that attracted me to the film was the front cover, very eye catching is'nt it? If you seek this film out expecting an original idea then you have come to the wrong place, if however you are seeking some gory fun then this is the film for you.
Rating: 6/10