| Horror Stories 2 | |
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| Korean name | |
| Hangul | |
| Revised Romanization | Museoun Iyagi 2 |
| McCune–Reischauer | Musŏun Iyagi 2 |
| Directed by | Min Kyu-dong Kim Sung-ho Kim Hwi Jung Bum-sik |
| Written by | Min Kyu-dong Kim Sung-ho Kim Hwi Jung Bum-sik |
| Produced by | Min Jin-su Kim Won-guk Yoo Jae-hyeon |
| Starring | Lee Se-young Park Sung-woong Sung Joon Lee Soo-hyuk Baek Jin-hee Kim Seul-gi Jung In-sun Go Kyung-pyo Kim Ji-won Gil Eun-hye |
| Cinematography | Kim Hyeong-ju Lee Jae-hyeok Kim Young-min Jung Seong-wook |
| Edited by | Son Yeon-ji Eom Yun-ju Shin Min-kyung Kim Hyeong-ju |
| Music by | Jeong Yong-jin Yeon Ri-mok Na Yun-sik Lee Jin-hui |
Production companies | Daisy-Cinergy Entertainment Soo Film |
| Distributed by | Lotte Entertainment |
Release date |
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Running time | 95 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
Horror Stories 2 (Korean: 무서운 이야기 2) is a 2013 horror omnibus film made up of four episodes by four South Korean directors.[1] It screened at the Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival and Sitges Film Festival in 2013,[2] and won the Silver Raven prize in the International Competition at the 2014 Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival.[3]
Min Kyu-dong's 444 is set against the backdrop of the warehouse of an insurance company where a woman with the ability to communicate with the dead delves into fraudulent insurance claim cases. Kim Sung-ho's The Cliff focuses on two friends who go hiking in the woods then get trapped at the edge of a cliff. Kim Hwi's The Accident centers on three depressed girls who go on a road trip after they fail the teacher's certification exam, but a car crash turns their trip into a nightmare. Jung Bum-shik's The Escape is about a male trainee teacher who gets locked in the doorway to hell.[4][5]
It is a sequel of horror and scary tale trilogy Horror Stories, a film with a similar format which was released in 2012.[6]
- ^ An, So-hyoun (April 15, 2013). "Scary Story 2 Releases Teaser Poster for June Premiere". enewsWorld. CJ E&M. Archived from the original on June 8, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2013.
- ^ Ji, Yong-jin (May 28, 2013). "HORROR STORIES II Invited to Sitges Film Festival Again". Korean Film Council. Retrieved May 28, 2013.
- ^ Conran, Pierce (May 8, 2014). "Horror Stories II Picks up Silver Raven in Brussels". Korean Film Council. Retrieved May 9, 2014.
- ^ Jang, Sung-ran (May 13, 2013). "Return of Horror Film Geniuses, HORROR STORIES 2". Korean Film Council. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ "2013.6.14 Now playing". Korea JoongAng Daily. June 14, 2013. Archived from the original on June 24, 2013. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Jung, Min-ho (June 12, 2013). "Run screaming from this film: Contrived Horror Stories 2 is major letdown of a sequel". The Korea Times. Retrieved June 19, 2013.