The Guard Post (2008 (DVD) (UK Version)

The Guard Post (2008 (DVD) (UK Version)
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Debuting at #1 spot at the Korean box office on its opening week, The Guard Post (a.k.a. GP506) is writer/director Kong Su Chang’s second feature film following his acclaimed horror R-Point, which was the highest-grossing Korean horror film of 2004. This gripping military horror revolves around the mysterious mass killing of an entire squad of soldiers stationed at Guard Post 506 inside the demilitarized zone. Isolating the audience in the confined area of no man’s land at the border of North and South Korea, director Kong reflects on the scars inflicted by the country’s historical tragedy, while providing a dark, brooding, and claustrophobic atmosphere that sets up for the perfect breeding ground for death.

Just as in his previous blockbuster horror, The Guard Post sees an isolated group of people being killed off one by one by an unknown and deadly menace. The result of three years of planning and ten months of shooting, the film features an all-male cast that includes veteran actor Cheon Ho Jin (A Dirty Carnival) and Jo Hyun Jae (Scandal). Working the elements of terror on both conscious and subconscious levels, director Kong manages to retain much of the unsettling, creepy hooks from R-Point, while increasing the scale and frequency of action scenes. Portraying the descent into madness as terror devours one man at a time, The Guard Post will send a cold chill down your spine.

Sergeant major Noh Seong Gyu (Cheon Ho Jin) gets the most disturbing call of his life. An entire squad of 21 soldiers from Guard Point 506 has been massacred except for one who is in a state of deep coma. Twenty-one military investigators including sergeant Noh are dispatched to the crime scene where they discover dead bodies mutilated beyond recognition with no signs of outside attack. With the torrential rain blocking all paths to the base, the investigators find themselves trapped inside the bloodbath. Noh’s task is to solve the case in just ten hours and bring back the body of first lieutenant Yoo Jeong Woo (Jo Hyun Jae), the son of the army chief. First believed to be one of the dead, they soon discover that lieutenant Yoo is missing in action, which brings the total number of corpses down to 19. When the search team find their visibly perturbed missing man, fingers point to him as the prime suspect. But Noh is convinced there’s more to this case than meets the eye. What he doesn’t know yet is that something horrific is heading their way..
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