Horror Stories (film)

2012 South Korean film

Horror Stories

Directed by| Im Dae-woong
Jung Bum-sik
Hong Ji-young
Kim Gok
Kim Sun
Min Kyu-dong
Written by| Im Dae-woong
Jung Bum-sik
Byun Hye-joo
Kim Gok
Kim Sun
Produced by| Kim Won-guk
Min Jin-su
Starring| Kim 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
Cinematography| Lee Jeong-in
Kim Tae-gyeong
Yoon Nam-joo
Lee Seon-yeong
Edited by| Jeong Jin-hee
Kim Sun-min
Music by| Heo Deok-beom
Kim Seong-hyeon
Lee Jae-jin
Kang Min-seok
Distributed by| Lotte Entertainment

Release date

* July 25, 2012 (2012-07-25)

Running time

| 108 minutes
Country| South Korea
Language| Korean

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.

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

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### Beginning

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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 or when he tastes blood. In order to not get killed, Ji-won Scheherazade-like begins telling him the four scariest stories she knows.

* Directed by Min Kyu-dong
* Kim Ji-won as Ji-won
* Yoo Yeon-seok as the killer

### Don't Answer the Door

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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)

* Directed by Jung Bum-sik
* Kim Hyun-soo as Sun-Yi
* No Kang-min as Moon-Yi
* Ra Mi-ran as mother
* Lee Dong-kyu as fired employee
* No Hyeon-hee as English teacher
* Kim Tae-woo
* Kim Bo-kyung as Seon-yi's mother (voice)
* Lee Chae-kyung as Ghost, elder sister

### Endless Flight

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

* Directed by Im Dae-woong
* Choi Yoon-young as flight attendant So-jung
* Jin Tae-hyun as serial killer Doo-ho
* Woo Hyeon as captain
* Jin Yong-Wook as Detective Oh
* Jung Mi-Nam as Detective Kang
* Kim Ki-Cheon as Pilot
* Cha Jung-Won as Min-Joo

### Secret Recipe

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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)

* Directed by Hong Ji-young
* Nam Bo-ra as Baek-ji
* Jung Eun-chae as Gong-ji
* Bae Soo-bin as Min
* Na Young-hee as Bak-ji's mother
* Im Seong-min as housemaid

### Ambulance on the Death Zone

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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

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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

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1. ^ Lee, Hye-ji (July 20, 2012). "PREVIEW Horror Stories: Return of authentic Korean horror film". 10Asia. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
2. ^ Yi, Paul (July 30, 2012). "Summer Season Horror Film Lineup". Arirang News. Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
3. ^ Kim, Kyu Hyun. "Horror Stories". Koreanfilm.org. Retrieved August 25, 2012.
4. ^ Kwaak, Je-yup (July 18, 2012). "Horror takes stage as PiFan opens". The Korea Times. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
5. ^ Cho, Jae-eun (July 6, 2012). "Fringe genres take center stage at PiFan". Korea JoongAng Daily. Archived from the original on July 13, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
6. ^ Park, Soo-mee (July 20, 2012). "Anthology Chiller Horror Stories Opens Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
7. ^ Yi, Paul (July 21, 2012). "16th Annual Puchon International Film Festival Kicks Off". Arirang News. Archived from the original on October 22, 2018. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
8. ^ "16th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival". KBS World. August 7, 2012. Archived from the original on September 14, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2012.
9. ^ Conran, Pierce (July 24, 2012). "PiFan 2012 Review: HORROR STORIES". Twitch Film. Archived from the original on August 26, 2012. Retrieved November 19, 2012.

## External links

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* Official website (in Korean)
* Horror Stories at the Korean Movie Database (in Korean)
* Horror Stories at IMDb
* Horror Stories at HanCinema

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Works by Min Kyu-dong

Films directed|

| Feature|

* Memento Mori (1999)
* All for Love (2005)
* Antique (2008)
* All About My Wife (2012)
* In My End Is My Beginning (2013)
* The Treacherous (2015)
* Herstory (2018)
* The Old Woman with the Knife (2025)

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Anthology|

* Five Senses of Eros (segment "In My End is My Beginning", 2009)
* Horror Stories (segment "Beginning", 2012)
* Horror Stories 2 (segment "444", 2013)
* Horror Stories 3 (segment "A Girl from Mars", 2016)

TV series created|

* SF8 (2020)

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