Living Death (film)
Encyclopedia
Living Death, Faith Distrust Hell (literal title), Possessed (Alternative title) is a 2009 South Korea
n horror film
written by director Lee Yong Joo-I.
) returns home when her 14-year-old sister So Jin (Shim Eun Kyung) goes missing. Her mother, a fanatic churchgoer, resorts to prayer and refuses to work with the lazy police to find So Jin. Meanwhile, a neighbor commits suicide and leaves a will for So Jin, and Hee Jin hears rumors that her sister had been possessed. The whereabouts of So Jin become increasingly elusive and the dead neighbor begins appearing in Hee Jin's dreams.
2010.
South Korea
The Republic of Korea , , is a sovereign state in East Asia, located on the southern portion of the Korean Peninsula. It is neighbored by the People's Republic of China to the west, Japan to the east, North Korea to the north, and the East China Sea and Republic of China to the south...
n horror film
Horror film
Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...
written by director Lee Yong Joo-I.
Synopsis
A college student named Hee Jin (Nam Sang MiNam Sang-mi
Nam Sang Mi is a South Korean actress.- Biography :Nam Sang Mi was working in a fast-food restaurant near Hanyang University, Seoul in the fall of 2001 when someone posted her personal photos on the internet. Her popularity as an ulzzang led to her discovery as an actress...
) returns home when her 14-year-old sister So Jin (Shim Eun Kyung) goes missing. Her mother, a fanatic churchgoer, resorts to prayer and refuses to work with the lazy police to find So Jin. Meanwhile, a neighbor commits suicide and leaves a will for So Jin, and Hee Jin hears rumors that her sister had been possessed. The whereabouts of So Jin become increasingly elusive and the dead neighbor begins appearing in Hee Jin's dreams.
Cast
- Nam Sang MiNam Sang-miNam Sang Mi is a South Korean actress.- Biography :Nam Sang Mi was working in a fast-food restaurant near Hanyang University, Seoul in the fall of 2001 when someone posted her personal photos on the internet. Her popularity as an ulzzang led to her discovery as an actress...
as Hee Jin - Kim Bo-yeon as Mother
- Shim Eun Kyung as So Jin
- Jang Young-nam Jang as Su-kyeong
- Lee Chang-jik
- Moon Hie-kyung as Kyeong-ja
- Oh Ji-eun as Jeong-mi
- Ryoo Seung-yong Ryoo as Det. Tae-hwan
- Ryu Seung-Ryong as Tae-hwan
Box-office
Living Death ranked 6th place at the South Korean box office for its opening weekend of August 14–16, 2009. The movie sold 114,161 tickets taking in 3.5% of all tickets sold for the three day weekend.Release
The film was released August 12, 2009. Possessed is part of the Tribeca Film FestivalTribeca Film Festival
The Tribeca Film Festival is a film festival founded in 2002 by Jane Rosenthal, Robert De Niro and Craig Hatkoff in a response to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the consequent loss of vitality in the TriBeCa neighborhood in Lower Manhattan.The mission of the festival...
2010.