A website called The White Room is cursing women to die after 15 days during which time they go through the same symptoms of a pregnancy, but instead of giving birth it takes their life. Soo-Jin is a reporter following along with a private investigator Choi Jun-suk to find a cure before Soo-Jin's 15 days are up.
In alot of ways this movie really does play out like the Ringu movies. In fact it's almost exactly like the Ringu movies but instead of a video tape killing it's watchers a week after watching it, the website kills it's victims 15 days afterwards, and the victims only being young attractive women. Anyways during the 15 day period before the victims die they show signs of pregnancy and right before they die their stomach's puff up like they are in full term pregnancy and then they die.
Man this movie is strange, and it wouldn't have been half bad if it was an origional story. I mean during the movie you can hint out the parts that are modeled after the Ringu movies, which I thought were pretty good, but I'm not a fan of ripping off other movies.
 
Anyways, the main character Soo-Jin checks out the website and next thing you know she has 15 days left to live, so what does she do? She moves into the apartment of one of the earlier victims. I mean what the hell? If I knew I was going to die of the same thing someone else did I surely wouldn't move into their place, that might be the reason they died in the first place!
For the most part I'd give this a pretty good rating, but as I stated earlier, I hate rip-offs.
If you're not a fan of the Ringu series you wont like this one either, but if you DO like the those movies you won't like this much either, the stories are just too similar.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Hayanbang
MOVIE YEAR: 2002
DIRECTOR: Chang-jae Lim
WRITING CREDITS: Hyeon-geun Han
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Jun-ho Jeong, Eun-ju Lee, Ji-yu Kim
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: 95 min
RATING: 5/10
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