Wordiezett So much average

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

trashgang I've already seen a lot of HK movies so I guessed that this one should be a gorefest. Well, it isn't. it isn't a HK, it came from Korea so it's less gore and bloody. But the storyline is okay. The movie starts pretty well with the action taking place in a train. You are immediately bound to the story. And then the credits appear and the movie slows down. You start to know the characters but it takes a bit too long. Around 40 minutes nothing happens except talking, having fun on the beach and talking again. The second part of the movie is pretty well. It starts going, with the killing of the bunch. It's a typical remake of those good old eighties slashers. Point of view, first person, the bad guy, the heroin...you get it. You will think you could guess who is doing the killings, well guess it. I said before that the killings aren't that gory. One scene will remember you of the cut out scene of The Burning. The blood flows but it's all being cut too early. Anyway, it still is a good movie especially when you think it was made in Korea. It also has a love story in it getting his point at the end of the movie and make you think about internet and chatrooms. Normally you have to order it in Korea to have it uncut, no probs , English subs are included and it's region free.

capkronos Eight internet chat buddies (four guys, four girls) who haven't met in 'real life' yet, decide to finally meet face to face and plan a group vacation to the beach. Unfortunately for one of the girls, she gets slashed to death before she even has a chance to leave the bus and join the others. The seven remaining teens do make it to their large rented beach house and spend the day frolicking on the beach, snorkling, riding around on a boat, playing in the sand (instead of making sandcastles they make a huge computer... ugh) and doing other boring things no one really cares to see. After all, this is supposed to be a slasher film and this movie spends far too much time on superfluous filler scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with slashing, gore, building suspense or anything else slasher movie fans want to see. In fact, after the first kill on the bus (which is too dark to see very well, anyway) it waits well over 40 minutes to bring us another murder, and even that, some guy killed while taking a leak, is off-screen. I'd say the entire first half is completely worthless unless you want to see a bunch of stereotyped teenagers (virgin, jock, jerk, nerd, slutty girl, etc.) running around, talking, bitching, fighting, playing Truth or Dare and generally showing how shallow and uninteresting they are.At around the hour mark, the film finally remembers what it's supposed to be doing, but it's a clear case of too little, too late. There's a minor sex scene with brief T&A and a couple of bloody - though unoriginal - murders, such as a knife going through the top of a head and fingers cut off with hedge clippers. The film also tries to function as a mystery but fails to drum up too much interest. The teens assume the killer is a chatter by the name of Mr. Sandmanzz, who they thought committed suicide because some of them, aside from nice girl Nam-kyeong (Hyun-Jung Kim), were mean to and excluded him. At least those were the rumors spread amongst their little group. The fact no one has actually met one another before this vacation means it could be either an anonymous chatter has shown up to crash their party or that there's an impostor in their group posing as Mr. Sandmanzz. Not that it really matters at the end of the day, since the majority of slasher movies are brainless and exist solely to showcase gore/murder scenes and a high body count. Sadly, this Korean effort has essentially the same paper-thin set-up of hundreds of other slashers, but isn't gory enough, or sleazy enough, or creative enough, to elevate it above the norm. In fact, I'd say it's actually a little below average as far as these things go.

Jordan A group of internet pen-pals decide to throw away the cloak of anonymity and meet up at the local beach and adjoining campsite for a weekend of fun. But what begins as harmless pranks and a little bit of lovin' soon escalates into complete chaos when a maniacal killer starts to pick off the helpless teenagers in a typically gruesome fashion. Now it's up to the survivors to work out who it could be - including the very real possibility that one of them could be hiding an extremely disturbing secret.It's a little hard to believe nowadays but the premise behind FRIDAY THE 13TH was once an original idea. The thought of another movie depicting horny and stupid teenagers being picked off by a psychopath with some trivial grudge against them - or their employers/predecessors/hamsters etc - makes me cringe but the prospect of seeing how the Koreans, whose film industry I have nothing but the utmost respect for, tackled this infamous genre was an opportunity too good to pass up. And I'm glad I decided to splash out the £7.25 to DDDHouse for the privilige! "Bloody Beach" starts in dubious fashion, with a teenage girl being stabbed to death while doing the business on a train toilet, but soon picks up when the internet pen-pals meet up at their lakeside resort."Bloody Beach" isn't trying to compete on the same level as "Battle Royale" or "Ringu"; it's a fun slasher designed to emulate the early 1980s American slashers and for a large part of the time it succeeds admirably. The deaths are inventive, the dialogue is riddled with witty one-liners, the cast are wholly believable and the director knows how to generate a decent jolt or two. Plot holes are evident towards the end of the movie but we get a satisfying final reel with a stonking conclusion and a few totally unexpected twists and turns. "Deadly Camp" may have (wrongly) claimed the title in 1999 but "Bloody Beach" actually deserves it: this is FRIDAY THE 13TH - Asian style! Recommended - ***.5 / *****

Philleh This was the first Korean movie I saw, so I guess it could be a bit biased :) A few teens who met on a chat room have decided to rent a beach house for the summer, for a summer of love, booze... and fear. As one of them is not who they say they are... who is Sandmanz? and why is he hell bent on seeing this nice people suffer? You'll have to watch it to find out :pSome really good action sequences raise this movie above the average slasher tosh that is being made at the moment, although it suffers from some rusty acting... but hey, it's a horror movie :)