A girl takes a job as a stewardess on a train to work the night shift. Strange things start to occur and passengers start dying mysteriously. She finds out that all the stuff going on might somehow be linked to a train crash of the same train a few years back and the people who died on it. Will she be able to solve the puzzle and stop what's going on or will all people aboard the train die horrible deaths?
Not to be confused with Wes Craven's Red-Eye, this is the Korean horror movie that came out the same year. Unfortunately it's yet another kinda clichéd ghost movie, somewhat entertaining but brings nothing new and original to Asian horror.
To my big surprise I found a lot of positive reviews on the net for Redeu-ai before. But I think that if you're a fan of Asian horror and have seen a lot of those kinda flicks, this won't rank that high.
Even if a movie does not bring anything new to the scene it can still be good, see Phone, Red Shoes or Dead Friend among others. But this one was just too unoriginal, slightly boring with scares that were not very effective. And when the scares do not bite and with a story that's not that interesting, it just leaves you with a lot to wish for.
 
What you can expect are the standard Korean things when it comes to movies like good acting, visually great, nice photography etc. But even if it's nice to look at doesn't mean that the movie will deliver the goods.
The scares are way too few and it's too far between them. There are some scenes, especially one that is great when it comes to horror but it just isn't enough to carry the movie all the way
I think that if you're big fan of Asian horror flicks you might wanna check this one out but don't expect too much. If you just wanna watch a good scary Asian film there are plenty of other better ones to choose from.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: Redeu-ai, Redeye
MOVIE YEAR: 2005
DIRECTOR: Dong-bin Kim
WRITING CREDITS: Lee Yong-yeon, Seong Ki-yeong
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Shin-yeong Jang, Ji-min Kwak, Dong-kyu Lee
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: 96 min
RATING: 4/10
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