301 302
This Korean horror movie offers a feminist twist in that it centers on two female protagonists living next door to each other in a high rise apartment. The title refers to their respective apartment numbers. The story opens as one of the women, a compulsive cook, is being questioned about the mysterious disappearance of her neighbor, the other woman, a traumatized writer suffering from anorexia nervosa. The two meet when the friendly cook tries to give the writer some of her newest creation. The writer later throws the food away. Still a friendship is born and as they converse, the tragic reasons for the writer's condition come to light. Dark secrets from the cook's past are also revealed. It is she who offers up the grisly final solution to the writer's guilt and continual pain.
Song-Hee Kang in 301 wants to introduce herself to her neighbour Yoon-Hee Kim in 302, and so cooks a delicious meal for her. But 302, buried in her paperwork, is not only even less open than her appartment, but, having taken 301's present, brings it straight back up again. Unsuspecting 301 happily prepares the most lavish meals for her neighbour, who cannot bring herself to smell or look at them, let alone eat them. When 301 discovers her food among 302's refuse, she is appalled, and forces 302 to eat it. Her lack of success gives rise to a feeling of hopelessness, until she discovers why 302 is unable to take any food. 302 gradually disappears, getting thinner and thinner. There seems to be only one more thing left to do..
RATED MATURE. MUST BE OVER 18 TO VIEW
Cast:
Bang Eun-jin - Song - Lives in room No. 301
Hwang Sin-Hye - Yun - Lives in room No. 30
13 Beloved (game of death)
13 Beloved is an adaptation of the 13th Quiz Show episode from Eakasit Thairaat's graphic novel, My Mania. 13 is a new and very secret competition offering a grand prize of 100 million Baht. The contestants are chosen from those most afflicted with problems involving work, money, family and love. If they can complete 13 tasks, they will receive riches beyond their wildest dreams.
A man named Phuchit is delighted to be offered the chance to compete, not realizing that there is a catch. The 13 challenges will test a contestant in every aspect of their life from love to religion. Even their moral values.
Cast:
Krissada Sukosol Clapp - Phuchit
Achita Sikamana - Tong
Sarunyu Wongkrachang - Surachai
Nattapong Arunnate - Maew
Alexander Rendel - Tay
Penpak Sirikul - Maggie
4 Horror Tales
Four dark tale from South Korea ...
FEBRUARY 29 (2 wol 29 il)
Dir. Jung Jong Hoon
Ji-yeon, a toll-gate ticket girl, is frightened by a mysterious black car, which pays a bloodstained
ticket fee at midnight. Her fear deepens after her colleague, Jong-sook, tells her that 12 years earlier a prisoner transport vehicle caused a traffic accident wherein all the prisoners involved died – and some of the corpses disappeared. Afterwards, a murder occurred near the toll-gate on February 29th every four years. Soon, odd events become increasingly frequent, usually involving a doppelgänger of Ji-yeon. When Jong-sook is killed on the fateful February 29th, Ji-yeon – with the help of two detectives – starts looking into matters herself.
Cast:
Park Eun-hyeIm
HoLee Myeong-jin
Im Hyeon-kyeong
Choi Yoon-jeong
Baek Eun-jin
Yoo Yeon-soo
FORBIDDEN FLOOR (Nebeonjjae cheung / Hidden Floor)
Dir. Kwon Il Soon
Min-young moves onto the fifth floor of a new studio apartment with her six-year-old daughter, Joo-hee. She's concerned when her downstairs neighbour, HAN Chang-soo, says that he cannot tolerate the noise above him, even though the two women live tranquilly. Furthermore, she is anxious about other residents' strange behaviours – never mind the mysterious deaths. Min-young hardens herself mentally after the move into the new house, largely because of her daughter's unprecedented odd behaviour and continual run-ins with a bizarre woman. Convinced that Joo-hee has fallen sick and perturbed by the mysterious events around the studio apartment, Min-young looks to disclose the truth by herself...
Cast:
Kim Seo-hyeong
Kim Yoo-jeong
ROOM MATES (D-Day)
Dir. Kim Eun Kyung
Roommates Yoo-jin, Eun-soo, Bo-ram, and Da-young are cramming for a college entrance exam. It's difficult for them to adapt to the stifling atmosphere of the women's lodging institute – and to get along with each other due to their differing personalities. Yoo-jin has the most difficulty with the stuffy institute life; she begins to have visions of events that took place at the institute in the past – like the tragic fire that occurred years ago. Yoo-jin gradually becomes consumed with fear, and the relationship among the four intimate friends begins to suffer.
Cast:
So I-hyeonLee
Jong-hyuk
Kim Young-joon
Park Choong-seon
Kim Hye-seon
4Bia
Happiness (Thai title: Ngao/Lonliness; directed by Youngyooth Thongkonthun) : A young woman, stuck in her apartment thanks to the cast on her leg, communicates with the outside world via cell phone and text messages. She begins receiving text messages from a stranger, who seems friendly enough, and there’s no reason for her to read between the lines when he mentions that he’s currently dwelling somewhere “cramped.” After sending the mysterious stranger her picture, things become spooky.
Tit for Tat (Directed by Paween Purikitpanya) : Imagine a childish payback like writing a joke about your friend's parents on the blackboard. Then imagine a payback of vocational schoolboys who curse people they hate on a deadly charm. Let's see how excruciating these curses will bring to the table and the bloody time is on to kills everyone who fact this event.
In The Middle (Directed by Banjong Pisanthanakun) : On a remote camping trip through a lonely jungle, four teenagers begin to tell ghost stories to entertain themselves. Eventually, the young men become frightened by their own stories and fight over who gets to sleep in the middle of the tent which they believe, is the safest and most secure spot to sleep...or so they think.
The Last Flight (Directed by Parkpoom Wongpoon) : Flight attendent Pim, goes aboard an airliner on a charter flight for the Princess of Khurkistan. What was supposed to be an ordinary flight turns into something tragic when the princess forms an allergic reaction to something she ate. After the royal house of Khurkistan requests that her body be sent back immediately for cremation, Pim (Chermarn Boonyasak) is required to remain on the plane and escort the body - the only passenger - for the return flight.
While the 4 stories above appear to be isolated, the chronology of the events are: a) Story 3 ("In the Middle"). One of the teenagers' name is Ter. b) Story 4 ("Last Flight"). Ter is mentioned as the brother of Pim's colleague and fellow stewardess, Tui (not seen in movie) who could not accompany the flight as her brother had drowned. c) Story 1 ("Happiness"). The girl with the broken leg is seen reading the online news about the Princess's death. d) Story 2 ("Tit for Tat"). The image we see of the curse is the image of the girl with the broken leg who had died with her eyes open.
3 Extremes
Dumplings - An aging actress wishing to reclaim her youth goes to a woman who makes dumplings that supposedly have regenerative properties. However, they contain a gruesome secret ingredient.
Cut - A successful film director and his wife are kidnapped by an extra, who forces the director to play his sadistic games. If he fails, his wife's fingers will be chopped off one by one every five minutes.
Box - A soft spoken young woman has a bizarre recurring nightmare about being buried in a box in the snow. Searching for her long lost sister, she realizes her dreams and reality may possibly be connected.
