H (2002)

User Rating:

5.8/10   

Director:

Jong-hyuk Lee

Writer:

Jong-hyuk Lee (writer)

Release Date:

27 December 2002 (South Korea)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

An Intelligent Thriller

Plot:

A serial killer named Shin-Hyun gives himself up to police. He confesses to committing a series of particularly...

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Police | Serial Killer | One Letter Title | Multiple Personality

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Jung-ah Yum	...	Detective Kim Mi Yun
Jin-hee Ji	...	Detective Kang Tae Hyun
Ji-ru Sung	...	Detective Park
Seung-woo Cho	...	Shin Hyun
Woong-ki Min	...	Choi Young Jin
Yong-soo Park	...	Chief Jang
Hyuk Poong Kwon	...	Captain Lee
Eol Lee	...	Detective Han Jung-Woo
In-kwon Kim	...	Huh Young-Taek
Kil-soo Park	...	Bae Yong-Man
Sun-kyung Kim	...	Dr. Chu Kyung-sook
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Bu-seon Kim
Roe-ha Kim
Seon-mi Yeon

Also Known As:

Murmurs (South Korea) (working title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence and language.

Runtime:

106 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Netherlands:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Finland:K-18 | Japan:R-15 | South Korea:15 | Sweden:15 | Germany:18 | Hong Kong:IIB | USA:R | UK:18

Filming Locations:

Busan, South Korea

Company:

KTB Entertainment Corporation

Trivia:

In Korea, "going to the beach" is synonymous with committing suicide.

Goofs:

Continuity: In the club scene where Young-taek kills the lesbian, he grips her head below her chin and starts cutting her ear. In the next shot, a close up, his grip on her face and the knife has suddenly changed and he hasn't started to cut her ear off yet.

Extreme....

Tartan Asia "Extreme" doesn't really put out many "extreme" films, they seem to get the dregs and market them as such though. This one is not really all that bad but it's not exactly exciting. A serial killer in jail is thought to be in some way responsible for a continuing series of murders in the style that he favored. Three detectives on the case are struggling to find out if he's "hired" someone on the outside to follow in his footsteps although that doesn't seem possible. Most of the women being killed are pregnant and unwed, although there's a lesbian thrown in here and there for good measure. This was an OK watch but nothing terribly great, and certainly not "a cross between Silence of the Lambs" and "Seven" as the box says. Most of the Korean films I've seen have been on Tartan and they've been pretty mediocre....I'd say if you would like to see something that will chill you to the bone watch "Tell Me Something". 6 out of 10. Oh, and just when you've forgotten that it doesn't seem to mean anything the meaning of "H" is revealed at the end. Woo hoo.