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R-Point

2004
Action, War
1h 47m
During the Vietnam War, a squad of South Korean soldiers encounter strange happenings on a haunted island. Full Metal Jacket meets The Shining in this atmospheric Asian horror (Channel 4)
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R-Point

2004
Action, War
1h 47m
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Rated 08 Aug 2009
89
91st
I guess objectively it's just an average horror flick, but I think it's one of the creepier films I've seen. I think the doomed soldiers feel really works in this case. The plot is similar to Event Horizon, which is another horror film that I inexplicably like despite it not being that great.
Rated 02 Feb 2015
72
72nd
There are only two kinds of Korean horror movies: good ones and bad ones. I'm sorry that's not more profound. This movie won't change your life, but it hits a lot of the right notes if you're in the mood. You know, the mood for a Korean horror/war hybrid. I'm not the only one that gets in that mood, am I? It's better than Frankenstein's Army and that has a Nazi R2D2.
Rated 02 Mar 2007
40
19th
Passes the time.
Rated 14 Aug 2007
75
74th
Korean war/ghost horror flick set during the Vietnam war. It's kinda like Apocalypse Now (minus the shattering boredom) meets Ju-On, but the story is a little confusing. Some tasty war violence, a couple of bad actors, and the creepy bits are too few and far between until the last 15 minutes or so. Still worth checking out, it's one of the few ghost horror movies since Poltergeist to entertain me.
Rated 23 Sep 2007
2
33rd
Has a promising start, but quickly gets bogged down in a myriad of plots, subplots, and sub-sub-plots. All that's left in the end is a tangled mess of story-lines that are never fully resolved. Still has some really beautiful shots.
Rated 24 Jun 2018
50
27th
Macabre Month of Horror review: https://youtu.be/lfaHhFvGRAI
Rated 29 Oct 2018
30
8th
Beach, please. Horror??? where???!!! I mean, a woman as a ghost. As a War film—if any War film does not contains War—it is good but as a Horror one. Just Asian as an Asian film can be, way beyond boring.
Rated 09 Oct 2022
65
41st
Clearly devisive, but R-Point from the get-go sets itself up to be a chiller, and it succeeds on its merits. I have no insight into what it must be like to be automatically conscripted and sent into a cold-warish conflict, so I bet this hits differently in Korea. What I personally appreciate is a solid equal parts war+horror, rarer than I want, and a lot of the film’s horror is shot in broad daylight. Day horror hits hard as fuck.

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