Dead Friend



Dead Friend (Ryeong), also known as The Ghost, is a 2004 South Korean horror film. It was written and directed by Kim Tae-gyeong and was his debut feature. It stars Kim Ha-neul as Min Ji-won, Nam Sang-mi as Su-in, Bin (Jeon Hye-bin) as Eun-seo, and Shin Yi as Shin Mi-kyung. Both Kim Ha-neul and Nam Sang-mi previously starred together in Too Beautiful to Lie.

The film centers around Ji-Won, a teenage girl suffering from amnesia, who is being haunted by strange and disturbing visions. Things take a turn for the worst when she discovers her high school friends are being killed off one-by-one by what seems to be a vengeful ghost. It is up to Ji-Won to try to recover her lost memories and find out why the ghost is killing off her friends before it comes looking for her next.


 * Be Careful What You Wish For:  Unfortunately for her, there were some nasty concequences.
 * Break the Haughty: It was quite fun watching the victims' terror just before they were attacked, considering what haughty bitches they were in the past.
 * Catapult Nightmare: Practically every time Ji-Won wakes up.
 * Creepy Child: EVERY SINGLE KID IN THIS MOVIE!
 * The slow chant "Hide well...Your hair might show. Hide well...Your hair might show" was especially creepy.
 * Darkness Equals Death: Every death happens on a dark night in a dark room. For an extra kicker, it's usually a stormy night too.
 * Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette: Every character in the film. Possibly intentional? The four main girls were particularly creepy whenever they stood in a row and just stared someone down. This troper thought they were creepier than the ghost!
 * Foot Focus: Particular emphasis was put on the ghost's feet and the tracks of dirty water it left wherever it walked.
 * Ghostly Goals: The ghost had unfinished business to attend to...but not before killing off most of the film's cast.
 * I Wished You Were Dead: Eun-jung wishes a ghost would take her sister away. Guess what happens not five minutes later?
 * Kill the Cutie:
 * Nightmare Sequence
 * Ominous Music Box Tune: The movie's theme song.
 * Police Are Useless: While reporting a ghost is pretty ridiculous, it's hard not to shake your head when the police officers laugh in Ji-won's face and call her crazy when there are a bunch of random, unexplainable and downright impossible deaths happening around the city.
 * Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl
 * The Reveal: The ending.
 * Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The lovely close up of Eun-seo vomiting buckets and buckets of water.
 * Vomit Indiscretion Shot: The lovely close up of Eun-seo vomiting buckets and buckets of water.