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Killer Toon
2013 South Korean film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Killer Toon (Korean: 더 웹툰: 예고살인; RR: Deo weptun: yegosarin) is a 2013 South Korean psychological horror film directed by Kim Yong-gyun, and starring Lee Si-young and Um Ki-joon.[2][3]
The film was successful at the box office, as it was the first South Korean horror film to sell more than one million cinema tickets since Death Bell in 2008.[4]
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Plot
A popular horror webtoon artist Kang Ji-yoon (Lee Si-young) finds life imitating her own work when her publisher turns up dead in a gruesome way, precisely mirrors the images in her latest comic. After a series of murders are connected to her webtoon, a private detective Lee Ki-cheol (Um Ki-joon) places Ji-Yoon on the list of suspects.[5][6]
Cast
- Lee Si-young as Kang Ji-yoon
- Um Ki-joon as Lee Ki-cheol
- Hyun Woo as Kim Young-soo
- Moon Ka-young as Jo Seo-hyun
- Kwon Hae-hyo as Jo Seon-gi
- Kim Do-young as Seo Mi-sook
- Kim Hae-eun as Detective Yeo
- Kim So-yeon as Mi-jin
- Oh Yoon-hong as Seon-gi's wife
- Lee Do-yeob as coroner
- Kim Ji-young as young Seo-hyun
- Oh Kwang-rok as chief detective
- Kim So-hyun as young Mi-sook
- Lee Yong-nyeo as female doctor Jin-kyung
- Seo Jin-won as editor-in-chief
- Lee Sang-hoon as internet reporter 1
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Release
Killer Toon was released in South Korea on June 27, 2013, and was financially successful on its release.[4][7] By July 15, 2013, the film grossed ₩7.79 billion (US$6.93 million). In comparison, other South Korean horror films from that year, namely Doctor and The Puppet made ₩495 million (US$441,000) and ₩228 million (US$203,000) on 68,222 and 31,713 admissions, respectively.[4] The film debuted at second place in the South Korean box office, only being beaten by the Hollywood film World War Z.[8]
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