Deranged (2012)
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60% of critics liked it
(5 reviews) -
60% of users liked it
(123 ratings)
Just before dawn, gruesomely skeletal bodies surface on the Han River. The cause of death is determined to be a mutant parasite-a hairworm--that brainwashes its hosts, ultimately making them jump into bodies of water and to their death. Jae-hyuk, a salesman for a pharmaceutical firm, faces an… More Just before dawn, gruesomely skeletal bodies surface on the Han River. The cause of death is determined to be a mutant parasite-a hairworm--that brainwashes its hosts, ultimately making them jump into bodies of water and to their death. Jae-hyuk, a salesman for a pharmaceutical firm, faces an enormous terror: his entire family has become host to the fatal parasite. But while he searches for the cure to save his family, the parasite becomes a nationwide epidemic. The government takes action and builds a camp for the patients, experiencing only a series of failures in their attempts to cure them of the horrifying disease. -- (C) Official Site
- Directed By
- Jeong-woo Park, Neil Jones
- Written By
- Jeong-woo Park, Óscar Carrión
- Genres
- Drama, Horror, Mystery & Suspense
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Jul 27, 2012 Limited
- Studio
- CJ Entertainment
Critic Reviews
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Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times
A disaster film with just the right touch of reality to ground the outre genre flourishes.
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, Village Voice
Yes, there are messages about the callousness of big business and the recurring foolishness of man tampering with nature, but they're never didactic, and they never overwhelm the film's escapist thrills.
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Anton Bitel, Sight and Sound
virus thriller Deranged (Yeon-ga-si) tries hard to break free of its Contagion shackles by giving its infection a truly bizarre origin & symptomatology... [but] ends up being both preposterously silly and numbingly repetitive.
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David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews
Deranged is, for the most part, simply unable to become the tense or engrossing thriller promised by its admittedly spectacular setup.
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David Noh, Film Journal International
Terrific, engrossing and intelligent epidemic thriller from Korea, which shows up American product like Contagion and Outbreak for their shallowness and commercialism.
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Cast
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Kim Myung-min
as Jae-hyeok
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Jung-Hee Moon
as Gyeong-sun
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Dong-wan Kim
as Jae-pil
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Lee Hanee
as Yun-joo
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Eom ji-seong
as Joon Woo
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Yeom Hyeon-so
as Ye-ji
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Kang Shin-il
as Dr. Hwang
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Deok-hyeon Jo
as Tae-won
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Gook-hwan Jeon
as Prime Minister
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Lee Hyeong-cheol
as Jason Kim
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Song Yeong-chang
as Chief Kim
- Moon Jeong-hee
- Ha-nui Lee
- Myeong-min Kim
- Craig Fairbrass
- Natalia Celino
- Marcia Do Vales
- Victoria Broom
- Tabitha Quitman
