Red Eye (2005)
"Redeu-ai" (original title)

A supernatural story about a mystic events occurring on the train, which had the route similar to the train which crashed many years ago.

Director:

Dong-bin Kim

Stars:

Shin-yeong Jang, Ji-min Kwak, Dong-kyu Lee

Cast

Credited cast:
Shin-yeong Jang	...	Oh Mi-sun
Ji-min Kwak	...	So-hee
Dong-kyu Lee	...	Jin-kyu
Hye-na Kim	...	Hee-joo
Eol Lee	...	Jong-hyun Oh
Hyeon-suk Kim	...	Jin-sook Jung
Yeong-suk Jeong
Dae-yeon Lee	...	Professor Kim
Won-sang Park	...	Jung-ho
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Eun-seo Choi
Joo-hee Ha
Hyo-ju Park
Il-guk Song	...	Park Chan-shik

Storyline

When a new stewardess joins the night shift crew of the train, she find that some mystic events become occur during the train night run. As the film goes we see that the train has more hidden secrets that lead to a suspicion that it might be linked to the crash of the same train several years ago. The 'spooky' train becomes a living thing and slowly starting to claim victims. Will the lady be able to stop this or all of the people aboard this train doomed?

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Plot Keywords:

color in title

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Genres:

Horror

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Details

Official Sites:

Official site [kr]

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

18 February 2005 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Red Eye

Filming Locations:

South Korea

Company Credits

Production Co:

Tae Chang Entertainment, Taechang Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

96 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

User Reviews

Too simple, too naive, low class

BOne of the best Korean horror? ... Are you kidding? Let's disassemble this train.

Acting was so poor and naive, like one in a B-class 60-s, say, Chinese communist comedy about countryside life.

Camera panning was weird and again naive... Looked like the only editor they could afford had taken a lifetime vacation so they just cut the film with kitchen scissors without any idea of transitions.

Sound is fine... if only one can live with a full-silent background in cabin of a high-speed train on the move.

Naivety of the script was shining bright in the climax full of pathetic (around 15-minutes) dialogs sort of "Oh, daughter, forgive me" "Oh, father, we will stay together forever". Oh, man, it was so damn romantic.

The other thing I liked about this train except decorations and the only somehow impressive scene with a girl out of the pool of blood were weak exploitations of claustrophobic fears with shots in dark tunnel, classic trick with lights turning off one by one and so on.

I would rate this as a B-class Asian horror, nothing in common with higher-class Ju-on, Ringu and more representative genre specimens from Korea like A Tale of Two Sisters or Doll Master.