One summer day,eight members of an internet chatters club,decide to go on a vacation,to the beach.Soon they are stalked and viciously killed by the killer called Sandmanz."Bloody Beach" is a typical teen slasher flick in the vein of the "Scream" trilogy and "I Know What You Did Last Summer".The characters are one-dimensional,the gore is silly and the suspense is almost completely absent.The acting is rather decent,unfortunately the script offers nothing new.Personally I'm really fed up with stupid teen slashers,so I watched this one with hesitation.Anyway,if you liked "Gawi" you can give this one a look.Still there are better South Korean horror films than this mediocre slasher("A Tale of Two Sisters" and "Acacia" especially come to my mind).4 out of 10.
8 Reviews
here's the sandmanzzzz
trashgang4 February 2009
I've already seen a lot of HK movies so I guessed that this one should be a gorefest. Well, it isn't. it isn't a HK, it came from Korea so it's less gore and bloody. But the storyline is okay. The movie starts pretty well with the action taking place in a train. You are immediately bound to the story. And then the credits appear and the movie slows down. You start to know the characters but it takes a bit too long. Around 40 minutes nothing happens except talking, having fun on the beach and talking again. The second part of the movie is pretty well. It starts going, with the killing of the bunch. It's a typical remake of those good old eighties slashers. Point of view, first person, the bad guy, the heroin...you get it. You will think you could guess who is doing the killings, well guess it. I said before that the killings aren't that gory. One scene will remember you of the cut out scene of The Burning. The blood flows but it's all being cut too early. Anyway, it still is a good movie especially when you think it was made in Korea. It also has a love story in it getting his point at the end of the movie and make you think about internet and chatrooms. Normally you have to order it in Korea to have it uncut, no probs , English subs are included and it's region free.
Slasher in South Korea
BandSAboutMovies28 October 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Remember the 2000 internet? Get ready to relive it in this South Korean slasher, which posits a chatroom meet-up in the sun and fun, where great looking teens who just happen to use the internet - not everyone was on it like this in 2000 and trust me, as someone who did many meet-ups, not everyone was this gorgeous - all get together to have sex and die.
Everyone except for Nam-kyeong is gruesomely murdered by a slasher named Sandmanzz, who has two z's in his name because he's either from the streets or this is how we talked in the 2K.
Supposedly, Sandmanz committed suicide when he was kicked out from the chatroom, a subject which has divided the group. Some think that he was ousted for no reason, but most think he had it coming. Regardless, like a cyber Korean I Know What You Did Last Summer, emails start coming from the killer, as do the bodies.
This has seriously the cheeriest soundtrack and the happiest teens ever. And it could have been filmed here and wouldn't rate a second look, but that fact that it's been transplanted to the other side of the world is pretty interesting.
Everyone except for Nam-kyeong is gruesomely murdered by a slasher named Sandmanzz, who has two z's in his name because he's either from the streets or this is how we talked in the 2K.
Supposedly, Sandmanz committed suicide when he was kicked out from the chatroom, a subject which has divided the group. Some think that he was ousted for no reason, but most think he had it coming. Regardless, like a cyber Korean I Know What You Did Last Summer, emails start coming from the killer, as do the bodies.
This has seriously the cheeriest soundtrack and the happiest teens ever. And it could have been filmed here and wouldn't rate a second look, but that fact that it's been transplanted to the other side of the world is pretty interesting.
Mr. Sandmanzz, bring me a, well, something I haven't seen 500 times already, at least!
capkronos15 January 2009
Warning: Spoilers
Eight internet chat buddies (four guys, four girls) who haven't met in 'real life' yet, decide to finally meet face to face and plan a group vacation to the beach. Unfortunately for one of the girls, she gets slashed to death before she even has a chance to leave the bus and join the others. The seven remaining teens do make it to their large rented beach house and spend the day frolicking on the beach, snorkling, riding around on a boat, playing in the sand (instead of making sandcastles they make a huge computer... ugh) and doing other boring things no one really cares to see. After all, this is supposed to be a slasher film and this movie spends far too much time on superfluous filler scenes that have absolutely nothing to do with slashing, gore, building suspense or anything else slasher movie fans want to see. In fact, after the first kill on the bus (which is too dark to see very well, anyway) it waits well over 40 minutes to bring us another murder, and even that, some guy killed while taking a leak, is off-screen. I'd say the entire first half is completely worthless unless you want to see a bunch of stereotyped teenagers (virgin, jock, jerk, nerd, slutty girl, etc.) running around, talking, bitching, fighting, playing Truth or Dare and generally showing how shallow and uninteresting they are.
At around the hour mark, the film finally remembers what it's supposed to be doing, but it's a clear case of too little, too late. There's a minor sex scene with brief T&A and a couple of bloody - though unoriginal - murders, such as a knife going through the top of a head and fingers cut off with hedge clippers. The film also tries to function as a mystery but fails to drum up too much interest. The teens assume the killer is a chatter by the name of Mr. Sandmanzz, who they thought committed suicide because some of them, aside from nice girl Nam-kyeong (Hyun-Jung Kim), were mean to and excluded him. At least those were the rumors spread amongst their little group. The fact no one has actually met one another before this vacation means it could be either an anonymous chatter has shown up to crash their party or that there's an impostor in their group posing as Mr. Sandmanzz. Not that it really matters at the end of the day, since the majority of slasher movies are brainless and exist solely to showcase gore/murder scenes and a high body count. Sadly, this Korean effort has essentially the same paper-thin set-up of hundreds of other slashers, but isn't gory enough, or sleazy enough, or creative enough, to elevate it above the norm. In fact, I'd say it's actually a little below average as far as these things go.
At around the hour mark, the film finally remembers what it's supposed to be doing, but it's a clear case of too little, too late. There's a minor sex scene with brief T&A and a couple of bloody - though unoriginal - murders, such as a knife going through the top of a head and fingers cut off with hedge clippers. The film also tries to function as a mystery but fails to drum up too much interest. The teens assume the killer is a chatter by the name of Mr. Sandmanzz, who they thought committed suicide because some of them, aside from nice girl Nam-kyeong (Hyun-Jung Kim), were mean to and excluded him. At least those were the rumors spread amongst their little group. The fact no one has actually met one another before this vacation means it could be either an anonymous chatter has shown up to crash their party or that there's an impostor in their group posing as Mr. Sandmanzz. Not that it really matters at the end of the day, since the majority of slasher movies are brainless and exist solely to showcase gore/murder scenes and a high body count. Sadly, this Korean effort has essentially the same paper-thin set-up of hundreds of other slashers, but isn't gory enough, or sleazy enough, or creative enough, to elevate it above the norm. In fact, I'd say it's actually a little below average as far as these things go.
Highly Entertaining Slasher...
Iguanatic27 September 2003
A group of internet pen-pals decide to throw away the cloak of anonymity and meet up at the local beach and adjoining campsite for a weekend of fun. But what begins as harmless pranks and a little bit of lovin' soon escalates into complete chaos when a maniacal killer starts to pick off the helpless teenagers in a typically gruesome fashion. Now it's up to the survivors to work out who it could be - including the very real possibility that one of them could be hiding an extremely disturbing secret.
It's a little hard to believe nowadays but the premise behind FRIDAY THE 13TH was once an original idea. The thought of another movie depicting horny and stupid teenagers being picked off by a psychopath with some trivial grudge against them - or their employers/predecessors/hamsters etc - makes me cringe but the prospect of seeing how the Koreans, whose film industry I have nothing but the utmost respect for, tackled this infamous genre was an opportunity too good to pass up. And I'm glad I decided to splash out the £7.25 to DDDHouse for the privilige! "Bloody Beach" starts in dubious fashion, with a teenage girl being stabbed to death while doing the business on a train toilet, but soon picks up when the internet pen-pals meet up at their lakeside resort.
"Bloody Beach" isn't trying to compete on the same level as "Battle Royale" or "Ringu"; it's a fun slasher designed to emulate the early 1980s American slashers and for a large part of the time it succeeds admirably. The deaths are inventive, the dialogue is riddled with witty one-liners, the cast are wholly believable and the director knows how to generate a decent jolt or two. Plot holes are evident towards the end of the movie but we get a satisfying final reel with a stonking conclusion and a few totally unexpected twists and turns. "Deadly Camp" may have (wrongly) claimed the title in 1999 but "Bloody Beach" actually deserves it: this is FRIDAY THE 13TH - Asian style! Recommended - ***.5 / *****
It's a little hard to believe nowadays but the premise behind FRIDAY THE 13TH was once an original idea. The thought of another movie depicting horny and stupid teenagers being picked off by a psychopath with some trivial grudge against them - or their employers/predecessors/hamsters etc - makes me cringe but the prospect of seeing how the Koreans, whose film industry I have nothing but the utmost respect for, tackled this infamous genre was an opportunity too good to pass up. And I'm glad I decided to splash out the £7.25 to DDDHouse for the privilige! "Bloody Beach" starts in dubious fashion, with a teenage girl being stabbed to death while doing the business on a train toilet, but soon picks up when the internet pen-pals meet up at their lakeside resort.
"Bloody Beach" isn't trying to compete on the same level as "Battle Royale" or "Ringu"; it's a fun slasher designed to emulate the early 1980s American slashers and for a large part of the time it succeeds admirably. The deaths are inventive, the dialogue is riddled with witty one-liners, the cast are wholly believable and the director knows how to generate a decent jolt or two. Plot holes are evident towards the end of the movie but we get a satisfying final reel with a stonking conclusion and a few totally unexpected twists and turns. "Deadly Camp" may have (wrongly) claimed the title in 1999 but "Bloody Beach" actually deserves it: this is FRIDAY THE 13TH - Asian style! Recommended - ***.5 / *****
Smell like slasher spirit
gila_film21 April 2003
In the spirit of the new-age slasher, this Korean flick is telling about a bunch of young internet chatter decide to make an off-line meeting in a beautiful beach. Little does they know a banned ex-member of the group, called Sandmanz, start to kill them one by one. The result is `Bloody Beach', a gore-fest.
Bloody Beach a.k.a. Haebyeoneuro Gada is the Korean attempt to make a decent slasher movie. The result is seemed quite well. Although Bloody Beach comes in the post-Scream era but the director seem very influence by the 80's slasher flick. There's many reference from that era and that makes Bloody Beach as a fine combination of 90's and 80' flick. Actually, there's nothing new here and there's routine and cliché, and the plot holes is quite abundance, but since this is a splatter gem, we can't complaint. As a Korean movie, Bloody Beach also has a bit different approaching in the story line rather than the American counterpart. The dramatic tense is build well. However I must warn you, because the pace is slow-moving, especially in the first half. But after the second killing, the pace move tolerable and able to build the fright rhythms it needs. The gores are somewhat strong and still in the cheesy concept but it nicely blend and make me do not much complaint of it. If you like a slasher with different ambience, you should check this. An Asian splatter is definitely rare to find, especially the nice one.
7/10
Bloody Beach a.k.a. Haebyeoneuro Gada is the Korean attempt to make a decent slasher movie. The result is seemed quite well. Although Bloody Beach comes in the post-Scream era but the director seem very influence by the 80's slasher flick. There's many reference from that era and that makes Bloody Beach as a fine combination of 90's and 80' flick. Actually, there's nothing new here and there's routine and cliché, and the plot holes is quite abundance, but since this is a splatter gem, we can't complaint. As a Korean movie, Bloody Beach also has a bit different approaching in the story line rather than the American counterpart. The dramatic tense is build well. However I must warn you, because the pace is slow-moving, especially in the first half. But after the second killing, the pace move tolerable and able to build the fright rhythms it needs. The gores are somewhat strong and still in the cheesy concept but it nicely blend and make me do not much complaint of it. If you like a slasher with different ambience, you should check this. An Asian splatter is definitely rare to find, especially the nice one.
7/10
Worth The Watch
jmverville26 March 2004
When a group of Internet friends gather at the beach their fun is quickly ruined when a vacation turns into a murderous rampage. Although the plot is simple, and although much of the occurrences throughout the film are, at times, predictable, the movie is very well executed.
The cinematography of Bloody Beach (Haebyeoneuro Gada) was very impressive and an unexpected surprise. Unique camera angles were often employed and the perspectives from which it was filmed were also very eye-catching. This made up for some of the unoriginality of the script. It was entertaining enough to keep one's attention, though not enough to highly recommend. Many of the bloody action sequences keep you enthralled as well as the occasional plot twisting and misleading. However, in the end, it is not enough to make the film highly recommendable or distinguished.
The cinematography of Bloody Beach (Haebyeoneuro Gada) was very impressive and an unexpected surprise. Unique camera angles were often employed and the perspectives from which it was filmed were also very eye-catching. This made up for some of the unoriginality of the script. It was entertaining enough to keep one's attention, though not enough to highly recommend. Many of the bloody action sequences keep you enthralled as well as the occasional plot twisting and misleading. However, in the end, it is not enough to make the film highly recommendable or distinguished.
Fun little horror movie.
Philleh17 February 2003
This was the first Korean movie I saw, so I guess it could be a bit biased :) A few teens who met on a chat room have decided to rent a beach house for the summer, for a summer of love, booze... and fear. As one of them is not who they say they are... who is Sandmanz? and why is he hell bent on seeing this nice people suffer? You'll have to watch it to find out :p
Some really good action sequences raise this movie above the average slasher tosh that is being made at the moment, although it suffers from some rusty acting... but hey, it's a horror movie :)
Some really good action sequences raise this movie above the average slasher tosh that is being made at the moment, although it suffers from some rusty acting... but hey, it's a horror movie :)
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