Bloody Beach (2000)

One summer day,eight members of an internet chatters club,decide to go on a vacation,to the beach.Soon they are stalked and viciously killed by the killer called Sandmanz."Bloody Beach" is a typical teen slasher flick in the vein of the "Scream" trilogy and "I Know What You Did Last Summer".The characters are one-dimensional,the gore is silly and the suspense is almost completely absent.The acting is rather decent,unfortunately the script offers nothing new.Personally I'm really fed up with stupid teen slashers,so I watched this one with hesitation.Anyway,if you liked "Gawi" you can give this one a look.Still there are better South Korean horror films than this mediocre slasher("A Tale of Two Sisters" and "Acacia" especially come to my mind).4 out of 10.

When a group of Internet friends gather at the beach their fun is quickly ruined when a vacation turns into a murderous rampage. Although the plot is simple, and although much of the occurrences throughout the film are, at times, predictable, the movie is very well executed.The cinematography of Bloody Beach (Haebyeoneuro Gada) was very impressive and an unexpected surprise. Unique camera angles were often employed and the perspectives from which it was filmed were also very eye-catching. This made up for some of the unoriginality of the script. It was entertaining enough to keep one's attention, though not enough to highly recommend. Many of the bloody action sequences keep you enthralled as well as the occasional plot twisting and misleading. However, in the end, it is not enough to make the film highly recommendable or distinguished.

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 / *****

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 :)