Horror Stories 2
Horror Stories 2 (Korean: 무서운 이야기 2) is a 2013 horror omnibus film made up of four episodes by four South Korean directors. It screened at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival in 2013, and won the Silver Raven prize in the International Competition at the 2014 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.
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Revised Romanization | Museoun Iyagi 2 |
McCune–Reischauer | Musŏun Iyagi 2 |
Directed by | Min Kyu-dong Kim Sung-ho Kim Hwi Jung Bum-sik |
Written by | Min Kyu-dong Kim Sung-ho Kim Hwi Jung Bum-sik |
Produced by | Min Jin-su Kim Won-guk Yoo Jae-hyeon |
Starring | Lee Se-young Park Sung-woong Sung Joon Lee Soo-hyuk Baek Jin-hee Kim Seul-gi Jung In-sun Go Kyung-pyo Kim Ji-won Gil Eun-hye |
Cinematography | Kim Hyeong-ju Lee Jae-hyeok Kim Young-min Jung Seong-wook |
Edited by | Son Yeon-ji Eom Yun-ju Shin Min-kyung Kim Hyeong-ju |
Music by | Jeong Yong-jin Yeon Ri-mok Na Yun-sik Lee Jin-hui |
Production companies | Daisy-Cinergy Entertainment Soo Film |
Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
Country | South Korea |
Language | Korean |
Min Kyu-dong's 444 is set against the backdrop of the warehouse of an insurance company where a woman with the ability to communicate with the dead delves into fraudulent insurance claim cases. Kim Sung-ho's The Cliff focuses on two friends who go hiking in the woods then get trapped at the edge of a cliff. Kim Hwi's The Accident centers on three depressed girls who go on a road trip after they fail the teacher's certification exam, but a car crash turns their trip into a nightmare. Jung Bum-shik's The Escape is about a male trainee teacher who gets locked in the doorway to hell.
It is a sequel of horror and scary tale trilogy Horror Stories, a film with a similar format which was released in 2012.