''Nightmare'' (; lit. "Scissors", also known as ''Horror Game Movie''; released in the Philippines as ''Gawi: The Nightmare'') is a South Korean horror film, released in 2000. It stars Kim Gyu-ri,

Ha Ji-won Jeon Hae-rim (; born 28 June 1978), better known by her stage name Ha Ji-won () is a South Korean actress. She is best known for the historical dramas '' Damo'' (2003), ''Hwang Jini'' (2006), and '' Empress Ki'' (2013), as well as the melodra ...

and

Choi Jung-yoon Choi Jung-yoon (born 9 May 1977) is a South Korean actress. She is best known for starring in Korean drama, television dramas, with leading roles in ''Romance Hunter'' (2007), ''Manny (TV series), Manny'' (2011), ''Ojakgyo Family'' (2011), ''Ang ...

, and was directed and written by

Ahn Byeong-ki Ahn Byeong-ki (born November 5, 1966 or 1967) is a South Korean film director, film producer, producer, and screenwriter specializing in horror films. His representative horror works are ''Phone (film), Phone'' and ''Bunshinsaba (2004 film), Bun ...

, who also later directed ''

Phone A telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be easily heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into ele ...

'' (2002), '' Bunshinsaba'' (2004) and ''

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'' (2006) The film was the 6th best selling film of 2000 with 322,000 admissions in Seoul after 5 weeks of screening.

Plot

After their college graduation, a clique of six friends went separate ways. Sun-ae moves to the

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. Hye-jin pursues her tertiary education in psychology. Hyun-jun, due to an injury to his knee, is unable to keep playing sports and is stuck working in a scrapyard. Se-hoon opens an art studio. Jung-wook works as a lawyer and is married, but has an affair with Mi-ryeong, who is now an actress. After a few years, Sun-ae returns home and tells Hye-jin she was being pursued by the supposedly deceased Kyung-ah. Hye-jin visits Se-hoon, who is haunted by dreams of a woman whose face he can't remember. Hye-jin herself begins having visions of Kyung-ah. Back when they were in college, Hye-jin befriended a girl named Eun-ju. Members of the clique began experiencing strange accidents. Sun-ae exposed Eun-ju's true identity as Kyung-ah, a girl from Sun-ae and Hye-jin's past. Kyung-ah was rumoured to be a "possessed" child who spread deaths and misfortune. One of the casualties was Hye-jin's father. Hye-jin told Eun-ju to stay away from her. That night, Hye-jin witnessed Eun-ju committing suicide. Kyung-ah kills Se-hoon. Hye-jin calls the rest of the group and Jung-wook claims Sun-ae blamed herself for causing Kyung-ah's death, and reveals she went to the U.S. to seek mental treatment, not education. Desperate to escape his job, Hyun-jun blackmails Jung-wook into becoming his lawyer. He hands over a tape showing Jung-wook and Mi-ryeong having sex, recorded by Se-hoon, who had a habit of recording people. Se-hoon also recorded Kyung-ah's death. Hyun-jun is killed next. Hye-jin angrily asks Sun-ae her why Kyung-ah is going after them. Kyung-ah appears, visible only to Sun-ae, who runs away. After almost being drowned by Kyung-ah, Mi-ryeong begs Jung-wook to stay with her, but he refuses. She breaks up with Jung-wook and is found dead in her bathroom. Hye-jin finds Se-hoon's video tape and learns what happened the night Kyung-ah died. After Hye-jin left, an altercation ensued, triggered by Kyung-ah's cat attacking Jung-wook and him trying to kill it. In the confusion, Hyun-jun fell and broke his leg, and Kyung-ah also fell and passed out from a head injury. To protect themselves, the five decided to fake Kyung-ah's suicide and push her body off a building. Kyung-ah woke up but Jung-wook killed her anyway. Jung-wook breaks into Hye-jin's apartment to find the video tape, but Sun-ae attacks him. He chases her to the same building Kyung-ah died. Fixated on protecting his career, he attempts to kill Hye-jin and Sun-ae to cover up the truth. Sun-ae impales him with a metal rod, killing him. Some time later, Sun-ae and Hye-jin meet. Kyung-ah appears, this time visible to Hye-jin as well, and kills Sun-ae so that the two of them can finally be together.

Cast

* Kim Gyu-ri as Hye-jin *

as Seon-ae *

as Eun-ju/Kyung-ah *

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as Hyun-jun *

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as Jung-wook * Jung Joon as Se-hun *Jo Hye-yeong as Mi-ryeong

Production

Incidences

The actors had injuries and incidents while making this film, and also mentioned ghost sightings in the toilet.

Release

''Nightmare'' was released in South Korea on July 29, 2000. In the Philippines, the film was released as ''Gawi: The Nightmare'' on March 3, 2004.

Home media

Tartan Video's Region 1 release of the film has a vertically stretched image, (the 1.85:1 film is presented in 1.74:1) which causes noticeable distortion of angles, as well as making everything appear thinner than it should.

Remake

A Chinese remake of the film, titled ''

Bunshinsaba 2 ''Bunshinsaba 2'' () is a 2013 Chinese horror film directed by Ahn Byeong-ki. Plot A group of six: Song Qian, Nana, You Feng, Yufei, Yang Zheng, and Hongrui have gone their separate ways after attaining their bachelor's degree, with Song Qian p ...

'' (筆仙II, ''Bǐxiān II''), also directed by Ahn Byeong-ki, was released on July 16, 2013, as part of a trilogy of the

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-language films directed by Ahn. The title refers to the director's 2004 Korean film, '' Bunshinsaba'', though none of the films in the trilogy bear any resemblance to it. It starred Xin Zhilei,

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, Zhang Haoran, Sienna Li, Sun Shaolong, Yang Fan, and Zhang Tingting. It is almost a

shot-for-shot Shot-for-shot (or shot-for-shot adaptation, shot-for-shot remake) is a way to describe a visual work that is transferred almost completely identically from the original work without much interpretation. Production uses In the film industry, most ...

remake, aside from the setting, language, and actor changes, a few details (Hyun-jun previously played

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, whereas his Chinese counterpart, Hongrui, played

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), and an additional scene that pays homage to the 2004 film ''Bunshinsaba''.

References

External links

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''Nightmare''
at HanCinema

at Koreanfilm.org {{DEFAULTSORT:Nightmare (2000 Film) 2000 films 2000 horror films 2000s ghost films 2000s Korean-language films 2000s slasher films Films directed by Ahn Byeong-ki South Korean films remade in other languages South Korean horror films South Korean slasher films 2000s South Korean films