Doctor serves up more summer horror
by javabeans
Shudder. You know summer’s approaching when the movie industry starts churning out horror flicks and thrillers like they’re candy. Terrible, nightmare-inducing candy. So far this season we’ve had The Webtoon, Monster, and Scary Story 2; here’s the latest entry, Doctor.
The stills from this one are enough to keep me far, far away—so fair warning if you’re a wuss about horror like me. Don’t blame me when your imagination gets stuck picturing all the terrible bloody possibilities of your doctor tying you up and taking out his psychopathic instincts on your person.
It’s worse because it’s Kim Chang-wan playing the part of our crazed plastic surgeon, since I know him from a career of playing warm and/or quirky ajusshi characters (see: Coffee Prince, Triple, Queen of Reversals, End of the World). It’s always the nice ones who give you the most creeps when they turn evil.
The plot kicks off when our doctor villain witnesses his beautiful young wife cheating on him, which unleashes his dormant killer instinct and starts him on an “elaborately beautiful” (?) revenge plan. Um… I’ll give him elaborate. I’m not so sure I’m there on the beautiful part. So if B-list horror movies are your thing, have at it. I’ll… be standing over here with the less grisly titles.
Bae So-eun, a 24-year-old rookie actress whom I thought for a second was Lee Chung-ah, plays the cheating wife who shatters the doc’s illusion that his life was perfect. Message: Don’t cheat? Though I guess the message could also be: Don’t turn into a raving lunatic psycho killer.
Doctor comes from the director of The Hole and Disappearance, Kim Sung-hong, who seems to specialize in the horror-thriller genre. The movie releases June 20; watch the trailer below.
Via TV Report
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1 June
June 2, 2013 at 12:45 PM
Omg. I looked at the stills. Omg.
WHY ME WHY. T___T
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Emmy
June 2, 2013 at 3:20 PM
We must be even wussier since just seeing the stills freaks us out.
*Shudders*
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lemonade candy
June 2, 2013 at 3:24 PM
I was listening to a song and singing along when suddenly "so scary like hell" coming out of my mouth.
**Chills run down my spine**
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June
June 2, 2013 at 5:29 PM
LOL!~ I have those moments too sometimes ahahah
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dbsklove
June 3, 2013 at 1:50 AM
omg T^T gonna get nightmares from the stills D':
had to give in to the curiousity....
and i TOTALLY thought that was lee chung ah
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eternalfive
June 4, 2013 at 6:05 AM
I went ahead and looked at the stills anyway too. *shudder*
...I always do this and never learn. T_T
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2 ilikemangos
June 2, 2013 at 12:47 PM
mooooar
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3 mvl
June 2, 2013 at 12:59 PM
i'm with you java bean! i won't be checking this movie out either!
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4 Quiet Thought
June 2, 2013 at 1:12 PM
Meh. Doesn't look to have an original thought in its blood-spattered little brain. I'll leave it to the gore-porn fans.
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kumi
June 2, 2013 at 1:46 PM
Maybe the Doctor is a Fooligan ;)
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5 KdramaQueen89
June 2, 2013 at 1:23 PM
I thought it was Lee Chung Ah in the poster too!
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Anonymous
June 2, 2013 at 4:08 PM
In one of the stills, I thought she was Ha Ji-won.
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Ivoire
June 2, 2013 at 5:28 PM
So did I... She does look a little like her (imho).
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Cam
June 2, 2013 at 11:59 PM
Yea! Me 2 too! :) At first, I thought, like, 'Oo, it's Lee Chung Ah!!' but I was wrong about her. So, obviously, she's new as a 'rookie' actress, ofc.
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6 KDR
June 2, 2013 at 1:23 PM
I thought it was Lee Chung-ah as well! O_O
But yah.. I'm avoiding ALL horror now and forever...
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7 kyleD
June 2, 2013 at 1:25 PM
on the up side, it looks not too dialogue heavy, so i could go watch it when im in korea in a few weeks.
a little off-topic, does anyone know how they handle ticket sales there, so i wont make a fool out of myself?
do you say "pyo han gae chom putakhamnida" or does that sound ridiculous.
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June
June 2, 2013 at 2:35 PM
Personally, I think it's a little too... formal? I think~ n__n; It's not something I would personally say if I was only looking to buy a ticket.
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Carmensitta
June 2, 2013 at 3:32 PM
Head over to an Arirang Radio show and ask on the message board. Or ask/take a look at TalkToMeInKorean, maybe they'll answer in time or have the sentence already.
If you don't have an itinerary planned yet, check the Travel Itinerary corner on Arirang's Travel Bug. They have their own travel agent that can even create a travel itinerary based on your needs if you email/message them what kind of budget you have/where you want to go. check it out and have fun in Korea!
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정남
June 2, 2013 at 7:03 PM
You can merely say the name of the movie and the time they will understand you better that way. You can always just speak English they may not understand you completely but you will get there. Be very wary of travel phrase books it can make you look a bit odd haha.
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kyleD
June 3, 2013 at 1:55 PM
thanks for all the responses, i actually do speak korean at an intermediate level, but completely self taught with books so i feel a bit lost with whats appropriate in normal conversation at times.
i suppose i will try to not make it exaggeratedly polite. but i do think i should try to not use english too much, since i am actually going there for a language course.
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8 RB
June 2, 2013 at 1:45 PM
Looks... educational?
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Ivoire
June 2, 2013 at 1:55 PM
I love your comment, LOL!!!!!
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9 Ivoire
June 2, 2013 at 1:47 PM
Thanks for the article, JB!
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Ivoire
June 2, 2013 at 1:54 PM
After reading the text and looking at the stills, I don't know if I want to watch the trailer...
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10 Jess
June 2, 2013 at 3:00 PM
There was a scene in 'Coffee Prince' where bugs were crawling around Kim Chang Wan....that was the moment I knew he was freaky.
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11 Mawiie
June 2, 2013 at 3:20 PM
For a moment I thought it was Ha Ji Won in the 7th picture (the one where the wife is wearing an apron). I don't know why, but I always find my Asian horror movies creepier than the Western one :/
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12 Midori
June 2, 2013 at 3:56 PM
Lesson is don't marry a woman young enough to be your daughter if you don't want her to cheat on you.
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13 Noelle
June 2, 2013 at 4:00 PM
Dr. Steinman anybody? Getting Bioshock vibes.
I'm more excited about Webtoon than this. Sorry.
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14 Shego
June 2, 2013 at 4:33 PM
Okay, so the 'look at all this blood on my face' still.
There's blood on his face. All over his face, the front, the sides, some in his hair. And I think that's blood on his tie.
Why isn't there blood on his shirt? I mean, if he's ears and the side of his face got coated with blood, how does he avoid getting as little as a droplet on his shirt?
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Shiku
June 2, 2013 at 5:08 PM
There's blood on his shirt
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Shego
June 2, 2013 at 7:19 PM
Really? :o I mean, I see a bit on the collar, but other than that... Maybe its the color of his shirt and the lighting and my poor eyes.
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Quiet Thought
June 2, 2013 at 8:46 PM
To clarify, he is not wearing a red shirt. He is wearing a white shirt completely drenched in blood.
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ck1Oz
June 2, 2013 at 6:37 PM
:-)
All I keep thinking is... whoa. Hep B and HIV risks man.
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mary
June 2, 2013 at 7:35 PM
I want to help you figure this out, but I can't bring myself to take a second look at the pics. Sorry. :(
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15 snow_white
June 2, 2013 at 5:49 PM
Creepy.......
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16 Jyyjc
June 2, 2013 at 8:24 PM
Meh, horror films about people killing people don't really scare me. It's the ones with supernatural elements like vengeful ghosts that scare me(although I still watch them). It's ironic that I'm more scared of an impossible thing like ghosts rather than something possible like getting murdered by another person.
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kumi
June 2, 2013 at 8:39 PM
Sorry to disappoint you, but ghosts are not "an impossible thing". They are living beings, devoid of gross bodies, but still possessing subtle bodies.
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Quiet Thought
June 2, 2013 at 8:47 PM
This exchange sounds like the beginning tease of a good horror move.
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17 korfan
June 2, 2013 at 10:09 PM
Well, this is certainly NOT Mr. Mok!
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18 Quiet Thought
June 3, 2013 at 3:43 AM
"What's that you've got? I've got a pig."
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19 pandaren
June 3, 2013 at 3:50 AM
oh so its the creepy ajusshi from coffee prince !
haha so he ll pull out some Dusty bubble gum from the window , and enjoy it !!
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20 Hiba
June 3, 2013 at 12:43 PM
It sounds familiar the old story of a psycho caused by sock ! Lol
I'm sorry I'm not good with names but isn't she the one in flower boy ramyun shop ??! Opposite the hot guy ll won I think !! ?
Ya j remember the boys better
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21 Roland
June 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM
This is a decent and sometimes comical horror movie... I've seen this last October in the gala premiere of the movie in the Busan Film Festival... All of the casts were there!
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