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Eleven
people have formed a suicide pact and are
going to spend their last night together at an
abandoned school. However, it appears that they
won't need to commit suicide as they barely get to
arrive before someone starts killing them off one
by one. As the night turns into terror, the remaining
survivors start having second thoughts about ending
their lives. Will anyone survive this night of horror?
It's only been a couple of months since I reviewed
the, at the time, least attended South Korean horror
movie of all time, Loner. The movie was a complete
mess for sure but a few weeks after I had reviewed
Loner, a new Korean horror movie was released - and
this time the attendance was even worse so now this
is the biggest Korean horror flop of all time. The
question is; did this deserve to flop as much as
Loner did? The trailer sure made this one look much
more interesting and I'm always up for an Asian
slasher flick. Unfortunately the answer is yes though,
The 4th Day is a truly terrible horror film and it's
shocking to me that it even got made.
I have to tell you, I loved the cheesy concept of
this movie. It was so ridiculous that it could've
worked. A bunch of suicidal people go to an abandoned
school to kill themselves - but someone else beats
them to it. Sounds like a winner to me. One thing
you can always count on with South Korean horror
flicks is that the movie is beautifully shot with
eye-catching visuals and great cinematography. The
4th Day is a big step back. This isn't beautiful,
this isn't eye-catching. It's low-budget and it looks
like it was shot in the late 90's. It's like North
Korea decided to make a horror film - that's how
cheap it looks. I mean, sure, it appears to be shot
on 35mm but the equipment just feels outdated.
The 4th Day is not a slasher on par with To Sir With
Love or Bloody Exams, it's more along the lines with
Bloody Beach and The Record (and even that is a huge
compliment). It's not a very long movie (about 80
minutes) but still we have eleven characters in here
that we are supposed to root for. Not easy seeing as
how they are all depressed (making the mood of the
movie very gloomy) and get flat characteristics. In
fact, I had a difficult time telling them apart at
all. I guess the body count is fairly high though
and the movie does go by rather swiftly but that
doesn't make this any less of a worthless movie.
For South Korea to produce a horror movie like this
and release it in cinemas these days is inexcusable.
It is just ridiculously bad. It doesn't surprise me
that this is the least attended Korean horror movie
of all time and I wish I hadn't been one of the few
people to pick up the DVD either. Whether you're a
slasher fan or not, I'd avoid The 4th Day like hell.
We get a crushed head, some gory stabbings and a lot
of blood splatter. Nothing huge though.
Terrible.
This mind-numbingly bad South Korean slasher flick
feels like a poor joke. They can't have been serious
when they made this ultra low-budget, incompetent
mess. This is what not to do when you make a slasher
flick people. Avoids a zero rating due to a good
pace and some okay killings - but just barely.
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