IFC Rings the Death Bell
Thursday, October 1st, 2009
IFC has been doing a fantastic job of bringing foreign and niche horror flicks to American audiences over the past few months. Movies like I Sell the Dead, Dead Snow, Hush and countless others have been offered through their Video On Demand service. Now, they’ve announced a new title–the South Korean horror flick Death Bell.
Dread Central has an official trailer for the film up, and I thought it looked really great–until what looks like a pissed off girl ghost shows up in the latter half. If that’s what this chick is, and I hope it’s not, I have to wonder why they’d bother forcing that tired genre cliche in what looked like a really cool film that didn’t need it in the first place. Does Death Bell still look cool? Yeah, but it would have been a lot cooler without the freaky looking long haired ghostly looking Asian chick in it.
Anyway, here’s the official synopsis and the trailer. You’ll be able to catch Death Bell through IFC’s VOD service starting on October 14th.
On a Saturday, 170 days before college entrance exam, a special class for 20 top students is held at school. The 20 intelligent students include the loyal high school girl Inah, the bad-boy hunk Kang-Hyun, Ina’s best friend Myung-Hyo, the top-of-school paranoiac Hye-Young, the hallucination schizophrenic Jo-Beom, the second top insomniac Dong-Hyuk, the timid third top student Jae-Wook, and the over-sensitive sixth top student Su-Jin. The only other people left in school together with the 20 students are: the popular teacher Chang-wook, the new English teacher So-young, and the student manager Chi-young. But in the middle of class “For Elise” rings from the speaker and the TV in classroom shows the top student Hye-young trapped in the water rising tank, screaming and struggling to breathe. And an unidentified voice asks the answer to a mid-term exam question that will cost Hye-young’s life. Nowhere to run, and only 20 students and 3 teachers are in school. The bloody exams start once again for them.
