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Omnibus film "Scary Stories" begins with a female high school student who is kidnapped by a killer with a speech impediment. In order to survive, she tells the scariest stories to the killer. > Story 1: "Beginning" (무서운 이야기) [Director: Min Kyu Dong] 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 or when he tastes blood. In order to not get killed, Ji Won Scheherazade-like begins telling him the four scariest stories she knows. > Story 2: "Don't Answer to the Door" (해와 달) [Director: Jung Bum Shik] 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. ~~ Adapted from the folktale "The Sun and the Moon", about a tiger who gobbles up and impersonates the mother of a young boy and his sister. > Story 3: "Endless Flight" (공포 비행기) [Director: Im Dae Woong] A flight attendant faces a serial killer alone while the airplane is flying at an altitude of 30,000 feet. > Story 4: "Secret Recipe" (콩쥐, 팥쥐) [Director: Hong Ji Young] 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. ~~ Adapted from the folktale "Kongjwi and Patjwi", another variant of Cinderella. > Story 5: "Ambulance on the Death Zone" (앰뷸런스) [Director: Kim Gok and Kim Sun] 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 one of the zombies. (Source: Wikipedia) Edit Translation

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  • Country: South Korea
  • Type: Movie
  • Release Date: Jul 25, 2012
  • Duration: 1 hr. 48 min.
  • Score: 7.0 (scored by 907 users)
  • Ranked: #9590
  • Popularity: #5411
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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Goliath1357
11 people found this review helpful
Apr 17, 2014
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Overall 7.0
Story 6.0
Acting/Cast 7.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 6.0
I am a fan of horror anthologies so this movie really appealed to me. I enjoyed the concept of someone telling scary stories in order not to be killed themselves. I liked the stories but none of them had a conclusive ending, they all just stopped at one point. I also found each of the stories a bit confusing and random. I felt like the film tried to create a creepy atmosphere with jump scares and jarring imagery rather than actually tell a developed story.
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Kate
2 people found this review helpful
Jan 4, 2020
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Overall 5.0
Story 5.0
Acting/Cast 6.0
Music 7.0
Rewatch Value 1.0
The idea behind the movie was quite nice: telling a few horror stories and linking them with Kim Ji Won's character as a storyteller.

[ Haewa Dal ]
The best quality of this part is the amazing use of sounds and silence. While it does at times rely too heavily on jump scares, some scenes have built an amazing atmosphere with the use of strategically placed silence and slow motion. I was on the edge of my seat and wanted the scene to end because I felt all tense and needed to know what would happen. That's when they stretch it out with slow motion and ambient sounds. This setup was extremely effective.

What's more, I appreciate how the 2nd half of the story rather than going with supernatural horror, showed the true horror of reality and how terrifying people can be.

[ Fear Plane ]
I don't have much to say about this story. It was... boring. The idea itself was nice and it could be used to create an interesting thriller, it just did not work when framed as a horror story. The ending did not make much sense. Neither the human nor the supernatural aspect was scary.

[ Kongji, Patzzi ]
For such a short story there were simply too many elements and it couldn't end right. They should have picked either the rivalry between sister, the husband's story or the supernatural element and developed just one, but well... we can't always have what we ask for. The "scary" scenes were quite funny and ridiculous at times. Definitely overdone with how gruesome they were supposed to look.

[ Ambulance ]
Nothing worse than too much shaky camera in a zombie movie. The plot was as unoriginal as possible. The ending was extremely predictable from the beginning.

Overall, I believe they had nice ideas for all the short stories, but no direction at all. In all of them the human element was supposed to be the true horror. The ghosts and supernatural beings were there just for jump scares. The first story was directed the best, and I would recommend ending the watch on this one.

Since all the stories were directed by different people and plot wise have no connection to each other, we can easily treat them as short separate horror movies, instead of one production.

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  • Movie: Horror Stories
  • Country: South Korea
  • Release Date: Jul 25, 2012
  • Duration: 1 hr. 48 min.
  • Content Rating: 18+ Restricted (violence & profanity)

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  • Score: 7.0 (scored by 907 users)
  • Ranked: #9590
  • Popularity: #5411
  • Watchers: 2,260

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