Choi Jae-Hwan, Jeong Jin-an, Kong Ho-Seok

Dr. Jung Nam finds a photo album dating back to his days as an intern at the Ansaeng Hospital. He thinks back to those days where he part of his soul died. In 1942, as a young medical intern, Jung-Nam...( read more  read more... )'s arranged marriage ends when his fiancee (whom he has never met) commits suicide. Later he is assigned to monitor the morgue late at night. There he falls in love with a corpse, that turns out to be his deceased fiancee. Soon other mysterious events take place in the hospital, involving a young girl haunted by ghosts and a serial killer targeting Japanese soldiers.

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Unrated, 1 hr. 38 min.

Directed by: Jeong Beom-sik, Jeong Sik

Release Date: January 1, 2007

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  • February 17, 2009
    Three twisted tales of ghostly love take place around a similar time in a Korean hospital. It avoids too many comparisons with other Asian horrors and this is to it's credit. The main contributer to this is the setting. Wonderful set design and costumes recreate a bygone era. The...( read more) film also has more terrifying ghosts than the usual long haired dressed in white woman. Some of the scenes are beautiful, especially a wel crafted tracking shot that goes through many doors. As each slides open we see a glimpse of a moment in time from a young interns life. Some of the scares are bloody, suspenseful, creepy and shocking. It's a pretty solid film but the highlights tend to make the generic horror moments seem even less successful. A lovely film to watch with many genuine chilling moments.
  • July 2, 2009
    This South Korean creeper is part gore fest, part romance, part ghost story, and all confusing, it takes place in a hospital during the 1942 Japanese occupation of Seoul.
    Paranormal situations. Hallucinations, Premonitions, Medium audition and vision, all of that in a scenario ...( read more)of second war.
  • October 14, 2009
    Although slightly confusing story, the movie kept me interested and even managed to scare me a few times.
  • September 17, 2009
    A little confusing but still suspenseful. Not the best I've seen but still I like horror trilogies.
  • October 23, 2008
    Epitaph (2007) 'Gidam' is a horror movie about a mysterious incident that took place at the Gyeongseong Ahnsaeng Hospital in 1942.
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    Epitaph is a visually well done film though a bit hard to follow as it has three independent stories set in the same place in time? Gho...( read more)sts play a role in each of the stories as well as some scares..Overall this horror isn't scary but does manage to be interesting and entertaining..
  • September 12, 2008
    The script went all over the place. I just can't give proper credits to the film since I didn't get much of it. It was greatly directed but it didn't make sense. You get mixed up by all the jumps in the past and/or in the future. Also, the music was irritating. A scary movie is n...( read more)ot a movie in which you level the sound to its maximum capacity just so people will make a jump when you want it to. It's regrettable since the trailer looked good.
  • August 24, 2008
    Visionné dans le cadre du festival Fantasia 2008.

    Dans ce qui devait se révéler comme une nouvelle innovation en la matière de cinémathèque coréenne, Epitaph s'avère être un film lourd et surchargé d'informations, qui à lui seul aurait probablement pu laisser place à une trilogi...( read more)e. Ayant élu pour point de mire un vieil hôpital coréen des années 50, le scénario se veut un feuillage dense et corsé que le spectateur ne parvient pas complètement à percer, même à la toute fin du film. En fait, les frères Jeong, élèves du vénérable réalisateur Park Chan-Wook, maintiennent l'auditoire dans un suspense d'une permanence si impénétrable qu'on finit rapidement par se décourager tant les questions se multiplient sans même apercevoir l'ombre d'une réponse. En guise de dénouement, ces derniers tentent tant bien que mal de nous lancer sur quelques pistes de solution, mais c'est encore bien trop peu d'outillage pour parvenir à remettre en ordre ce charabia condensé de manière grotesque. L'esthétique du film est toutefois remarquable par son alliage entre le poétique et l'horreur, quoique bien similaire à quelques autres films coréens.

    Définitivement, l'adage n'est pas toujours respecté à la lettre.

    L'élève ne dépasse pas toujours le maître.
  • August 6, 2008
    A small film with great moments. If the little girl haunted by her dead mother doesn't scare you, nothing else will.
  • June 25, 2008
    Well-done, interesting story and visually stunning. I enjoyed this very much.
  • June 25, 2008
    I have to say I didn't understand a bit of the movie. Nothing made any sense to me. I think I have to watch it again!

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