Credited cast: | |||
Ha-neul Kim | ... | Min Ji-won (as HaNeul Kim) | |
Sang-mi Nam | ... | Su-in | |
Hye-bin Jeon | ... | Eun-seo (as Bin) | |
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Yi Shin | ... | Mi-kyeong |
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Hie-ju Jeon | ... | Yu-jeong |
Yun-ji Lee | ... | Eun-jeong | |
Rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
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Ran Choi | ... | Su-in's mum |
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Ju-bong Gi | ... | Detective |
Hae-sook Kim | ... | Ji-won's mum (as Hae-suk Kim) | |
Greena Park | ... | (as Grina Park) | |
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Jin Ryu | ... | Park Jun-ho |
The teenager Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia and being haunted by weird visions. When she meets her former high school friend Oh Yu-jeong, she receives a picture of her high school group of friends: Kim Eun-seo, who had recently died; Shin Mi-kyeong, who is in the hospital and Eun-jeong. Ji-won questions who took the picture, and when she visits her former friends, she recalls Han Su-in, a girl that was badly treated and humiliated by their group, disclosing her past and the fate of Su-in and finding a scary hidden truth. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
DEAD FRIEND is yet another Asian ghost story featuring the now clichéd long-black-haired-dead-girl-out-for-revenge. There is absolutely nothing new here in terms of plot or even character; if you've seen THE RING, TOMIE, PHONE or any of the other countless Asian imports than you've already seen DEAD FRIEND and plot breakdown would be as redundant as this film itself.
While the movie's plot and structure lack in originality, DEAD FRIEND betters many of its' contemporaries by showcasing some solid acting and beautiful cinematography.
If you're addicted to these ghost/revenge films as most of us are to the equally uninspiring slasher genre than DEAD FRIEND is worth a viewing strictly to add another notch in your belt.