DIRECTOR Jung Sik, Jung Bumshik 

CAST Kim Bokyung, Kim Eungsoo, Lee Dongkyu, Jin Goo, Kim Taewoo

RELEASE DATE July 14, 2021

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Joining the recent slew of local and foreign horror films currently screening in cinemas is a chilling Korean horror classic, returning to theaters 14 years after its original release. The debut film of brothers Jung Sik, Jung Bumshik, who would later strike out on their own, Epitaph (2007) is a ravishing tale of ghosts and murder set in a hospital in Korea in the 1940s during the Japanese Occupation, the so-called ‘Colonial Era’. Years before the Colonial Era became a hot box office topic with blockbuster tales of resistance fighters, Epitaph used the aesthetics and uncertainty of the period as the backdrop to a deeply unsettling modern horror classic.

Beefing up the conventional horror omnibus format, the film comprises three separate stories at the same hospital one winter with crisscrossing characters. The first of these focuses on a resident doctor who is engaged to a young woman, who he has never met, but their forthcoming betrothal comprises a gruesome surprise. Next is the story of a young girl brought into the hospital after being injured in a car accident that took both the life of her mother and her Japanese stepfather. She is tormented by ghostly apparitions within the institution’s walls. Lastly, a married couple of doctors in the hospital become embroiled in a ghastly case of serial slayings, as Japanese soldiers in the area keep winding up dead.