Black House (film)

Black House
Black House
	Korean theatrical poster
Hangul	검은 집
Revised Romanization	Geom-eun jip
McCune–Reischauer	Kŏm-ŭn jib
Directed by	Shin Tae-ra
Written by	Lee Yeong-jong; Ahn Jae-hoon; Kim Seong-ho
Based on	The Black House; by Yusuke Kishi
Produced by	Kim Bong-seo; Choi Joon-hwan; Yoo Il-han
Starring	Hwang Jung-min; Yoo Sun; Kang Shin-il
Cinematography	Choi Joo-yeong
Edited by	Nam Na-yeong
Music by	Choi Seung-hyun
Production; company	CJ Entertainment
Distributed by	CJ Entertainment
Release date	June 21, 2007;
Running time	104 minutes
Country	South Korea
Language	Korean
Box office	$9.5 million

Black House (Korean: 검은 집) is a 2007 South Korean horror film directed by Shin Tae-ra,^[2] that is based on the popular Japanese novel of the same title (called Kuroi Ie) by Yusuke Kishi. A Japanese film adaptation of the novel was released in 1999. The story centers on an insurance investigator that suspects a family murdered their son to receive his insurance policy.

Plot

During his first day as an insurance investigator, Jeon Joon-oh, receives a phone call from a lady enquiring if a life insurance policy could be collected if someone commits suicide. A few days later Joon-oh is asked to personally come to the home of an insurance policy holder.

When Joon-oh arrives at their home he is greeted by a grim man. They talk for a little while, before the father asks the insurance agent to go into their son's room and have a talk with him. When the insurance agent opens the son's door he finds the boy hanging from a noose, dead from an apparent suicide.

The father then shows up at Joon-oh's office and asks for the money pertaining to his son's life insurance policy. Joon-oh is suspicious of the man and tells him he has to wait until the coroner's report comes in. The man becomes furious and then leaves. The father returns the next day and the next day and the next day. Finally Joon-oh's boss decides to pay the man his son's life insurance policy. Joon-oh's life doesn't return to normal and in fact descends further downward because of a stalker that may well be the insurance policy holder that they just paid off.

Cast

Hwang Jung-min as Jeon Joon-oh, an insurance investigator
Yoo Sun as Shin Yi-hwa
Kang Shin-il as Park Choong-bae
Kim Seo-hyung as Jang Mi-na
Kim Jeong-seok as Chief Nam
Yoo Seung-mok as Ma Yong-sik
Jung In-gi as police detective Oh
Kim Young-sun as Hong-yeon's mother
Moon Ka-young

References

^ "Box office by Country: Black House Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 2021-08-27.
^ "The Black House". Newtype USA. 7 (2) p. 62. February 2008. ISSN 1541-4817.