Cinema One encores Korean horror hit film
As Cinema One now caters to an immense audience nationwide, it likewise considers greatly what viewers demand to see again. Due to insisted viewers' demand, the undisputed movie cable channel encores the Korean horror hit R-Point on Sunday Cine Premiere on November 16.
Starring Korean screen star Woo Seong Kam (Spider Forest, 2004 and The King the Clown, 2005), Byung Ho Sohn, Tae Kyung Uhm, Won Sang Park, and Nae Sang Ahn, “R-Point” marks the directorial debut of Su Chang Kong or Kong Soo-chang, the screenwriter behind Asian blockbusters like Tell Me Something and Ring Virus.
Being passionate about the Vietnam War and its atrocities that brought influence of timelessness, “R-Point” is one of Kong's best movies he closely anchors and continuously tackles.
This he already did as a co-screenwriter for the movie, The White Badge, which was adapted from An Jung Hyo's groundbreaking English language novel.
Originally entitled Nam Na-yeong in Korea and released internationally with the title R-Point in 2005, this adventure-horror-suspense is a chilling story of a ragtag team of Korean soldiers who get what they bargained for.
In summer 1972, at the height of the Vietnam War, strange radio transmissions are received from soldiers of Battalion 53 -- soldiers who were thought to be dead six months earlier.
Traumatized Choi Tae-in, still recovering in the hospital from a battle in which he was the only survivor, is sent with a platoon of hicks, nuts and psychos to investigate the source of the radio signals in a Bermuda Triangle-like area known as R-Point.
For five days the motley crew, who are being shot at by mysteriously invisible Viet Cong, hole up in a decaying mansion, and slowly realize the mansion is haunted by people massacred by Chinese 100 years earlier. One by one, members of the group go down. This reflects the movie's chilling catchlines "can't tell the living from the dead!"…"can't tell the enemy from myself!"…We're dying! Do you copy!"
Catch R-Point and fill your Sunday night with thrill on Cinema One's Sunday Cine Premiere on November 16 at 8 pm. Available on SkyCable Gold, SkyCable Silver and other quality cable operators nationwide.