Bloody Beach
Bloody Beach
| 12 August 2000 (USA)
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A group of Internet chatters decides to spend the summer together at a beach, renting an apartment and trying to know each other for real (or maybe they just want to have sex). Apparently a guy named "Sandmanz" committed suicide when he was ousted from the chatroom, and the group has split opinions on the matter. Some think he was just a psycho with no life, and he had it coming. Some others, like Yoo-na (the one who got closer to him), think that someone spread lies to force him to quit. Suddenly, the group is decimated by a mysterious figure who keeps e-mailing everyone that his/her fate will not be unlike Sandmanz's. The search for the killer begins, while people die right and left. (lovehkfilm.com)

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Console

best movie i've ever seen.

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filippaberry84

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

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Bumpy Chip

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

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Geraldine

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

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trashgang

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.

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capkronos

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.

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J. M. Verville

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.

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gila_film

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

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