Living Death (film)

Living Death
Theatrical poster
Directed by	Lee Yong-joo
Produced by	Jeong Seung-hye Lee Jeong-se Jo Cheol-hyeon
Written by	Lee Yong-joo
Starring	Nam Sang-mi Shim Eun-kyung Ryu Seung-ryong Kim Bo-yeon
Music by	Kim Hong-jib
Cinematography	Jo Sang-yoon
Edited by	Kim Sang-bum Kim Jae-bum
Production company	Ahchim Production
Distributed by	Showbox
Release dates	August 12, 2009 (2009-08-12)
Running time	106 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	US$1,361,570

Living Death (Korean: 불신지옥 lit. "Distrust Hell", also known as Possessed) is a 2009 South Korean horror film written and directed by Lee Yong-joo. The film received 248,503 admissions in South Korea.

Plot

A college student named Hee-jin (Nam Sang-mi) returns home when her 14-year-old sister So-jin (Shim Eun-kyung) goes missing. Her mother (Kim Bo-yeon), a fanatic churchgoer, resorts to prayer and refuses to work with the lazy police to find So-jin. Meanwhile, a neighbor commits suicide and leaves a will for So-jin, and Hee-jin hears rumors that her sister had been possessed. The whereabouts of So-jin become increasingly elusive and the dead neighbor begins appearing in Hee-jin's dreams.

Cast

• Nam Sang-mi as Hee-jin
• Shim Eun-kyung as So-jin
• Ryu Seung-ryong as Detective Tae-hwan
• Kim Bo-yeon as Mother
• Jang Young-nam as Su-kyeong
• Moon Hee-kyung as Kyeong-ja
• Shin Eun-jung as Tae-hwan's wife
• Kim Yoo-jung as Tae-hwan's daughter Ji-eun
• Oh Ji-eun as Jeong-mi
• Lee Chang-jik

Production

The early working title for the film was Bi-myeong ("Scream"). It was shown during the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.

External links

• Official website (Korean)
• Possessed at IMDb
• Possessed at the Korean Movie Database
• Possessed at HanCinema
• Possessed at AllMovie
• Possessed at Rotten Tomatoes

• "Distrust Hell (Bulsinjiok / Scream) (2009)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2012-08-07.
• Living Death press meeting". Hancinema. 4 August 2009. Retrieved 2012-11-18.