Namgeuk-ilgi (2005)

Director:

Pil-Sung Yim

Writers:

Joon-ho Bong (writer)
Pil-Sung Yim (writer)

Release Date:

19 May 2005 (South Korea)

Genre:

Horror | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

Strange things begin happening to an expedition deep in the Antarctic.

Cast

Kang-ho Song	...	Choi Do-hyung
Ji-tae Yu	...	Kim Min-jae
Hee-soon Park	...	Lee Young-min
Yoon Jae-Moon	...	Kim Sung-hoon
Duek-mun Choi	...	Seo Jae-kyung
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Hye-jeong Kang	...	Yoo-jin
Kyeong-ik Kim	...	Yang Geun-chan

Also Known As:

Antarctic Journal (International: English title)

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:15

Filming Locations:

Korea

Company:

Sidus Pictures

Pretty effective psychological chiller.

An expedition team led by Choe Do-hyung marches on toward the Antarctic Point of Inaccessibility,one of the most difficult places to reach on the planet Earth and trodden upon only once by a Soviet team in 1958.Min-jae,formally trained in mountain climbing at Switzerland and in awe of the charismatic Do-hyung,is joined by the bookish navigator Young-min,the rather thuggish but sharp communications expert Seong-hoon,the genial cook Geun-chan and the electronics specialist Jae-kyung.When Min-jae discovers an old journal left by a British expedition 80 years ago, he begins to notice odd parallels between the journal entries and his team's experience."Antarctic Journal" is an impressive horror film that slightly resembles "R-Point" and "The Thing".There are some genuinely unnerving moments and Kenji Kawai's score evokes the utterly cold and relentless atmosphere of Antarctica.Unfortunately the film leaves a lot of questions unanswered.Still it gets a solid 8 out of 10 from this viewer.