H (2002 film)
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H is a Korean thriller made in 2002. It was written and directed by Jong-hyuk Lee, and stars Jung-ah Yum, Jin-hee Ji, and Seung-woo Cho. A serial killer, who preyed on pregnant women, has been behind bars for 10 months when a copycat killer becomes active. Detectives meet with the imprisoned killer and search for clues in an effort to head off the copy cat killer before he finishes.
Plot Synopsis
A serial killer Shin Hyun (Seung-woo Cho) targeted pregnant women and turned himself in after committing severly grisly murders. Ten months later a copycat killer becomes active, and detectives Kang (Jin-hee Ji) and Kim (Jung-ah Yum) are put on the case.They manage to track down the killer by following clues from the first two crime scenes, a pregnant school girl brutally killed with her fetus removed and a single mother strangled from behind on a bus. They had tried to pump Shin for information but without success. They stake out the killer's home, but, when the killer comes home, he notices the cops and runs. Kang follows him into a nightclub, where the killer slices off a lesbian's ear and then slits her throat, just like Shin's third victim. Kang fires four rounds into his chest and this puts him in a coma. Despite this, the murders still continue. The police capture the next suspect, but the murders still continue.
In the end, we learn that Shin's mother had tried to abort him, but he survived. The psychologist Dr. Chu (Sun-kyung Kim) had used post-hypnotic suggestion on the other two killers to make them copycat the murders. Dr. Chu is killed by Kang (imitating Shin's murder of an abortion doctor) but Kang is triggered by a CD mailed to him. Kang kills his own mother, who was a prostitute. In the course of the movie, Shin is executed and his final words are "I killed my mother." This explains the sixth and last unidentified victim, whom he brought in a bag to the police station when he confessed. Kang is about to commit suicide when Kim shows up and kills him instead. Just before the ending credits the letter "H" appears and expands into the word "hypnosis" and its definition.
Cast
- Jung-ah Yum as Detective Kim Mi Yun
- Jin-hee Ji as Detective Kang Tae Hyun
- Seung-woo Cho as Shin Hyun
- Sun-kyung Kim as Dr. Chu Kyung-sook
Notes
- H is very similar in tone to David Fincher's Se7en and its narrative structure is akin towards Silence of the Lambs.
- H was nominated for the 2004 International Fantasy Film Award for best film.
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