R-Point (2004)

User Rating:

6.2/10   

Director:

Su-chang Kong

Writer:

Su-chang Kong (writer)

Release Date:

13 August 2004 (South Korea)

Genre:

Action | Horror | War

Plot:

On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nah-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead...

Plot Keywords:

Soldier | Tombstone | Vietnam | Lieutenant | Rescue Team

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Woo-seong Kam	...	Lieutenant Choi Tae-in
Byung-ho Son	...	Sergeant Jin Chang-rok
Tae-kyung Oh	...	Sergeant Jang Young-soo
Won-sang Park	...	Sergeant Cook
Seon-gyun Lee	...	Sergeant Park
Jin-ho Song	...	Sergeant Oh
Byeong-cheol Kim	...	Corporal Joh Byung-hoon
Kyeong-ho Jeong	...	Corporal Lee Jae-pil
Yeong-dong Mun	...	Corporal Byun
Ju-bong Gi	...	Captain Park
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nae-sang Ahn
David Joseph Anselmo	...	James

MPAA:

Rated R for violence and language.

Runtime:

107 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

English | Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital EX

Certification:

USA:R | Germany:16 | Iceland:16 | Argentina:16 | Singapore:NC-16 | Philippines:PG-13 (MTRCB) | South Korea:15 | UK:15 | Sweden:15

Filming Locations:

Cambodia

Company:

CN Film

A new genre of horror film

1972, what happened there?

'R-Point' - refers to a once strategically important region in an island 150 km south of HO Chi Minh city. French soldiers were fascinated by the beauty of the island, upon which a leisure facility and a military hospital were built. But the area has a secret past, a haunting curse untold for 30 years.

1st Vietnamese War -1949- 12 French soldiers who were in battle with communist guerrillas went mysteriously missing. A total of 650 people have been reported missing there without any explanation.

2nd Vietnamese War -1972- 9 Korean soldiers went missing in the area. There are accounts of unexplainable radio transmissions sent by the group for 6 months requesting to be rescued.

Are these freak occurrences real or not? The fact is that a gravestone which says 'No return' still stands, marking the entrance of the area. In addition, to this day, there are reported sightings by local people of the girl who was slaughtered mercilessly a long time ago.

The premise of this film is based on a story that has been passed on by oral tradition. Both French and Korean soldiers have gone missing in the area known as R-Point. In 1972, when American forces were being withdrawn from Vietnam, Korean troops eager to go home, dreaming of returning to their family and friends baring American made gifts and earned money from their service, were unexpectedly sent to R-Point on a mission which would prove fatal. Although their desire to return home was everything to them, once they entered the haunted jungles of R-Point, all hopes of coming back alive were lost. It was the living dead in the jungle that would not let them go. To this day, the cursed spirits of dead Korean soldiers roam R-Point, continuing to search for a way out.