With the hot summer theaters expected to be ‘the hottest ever’, well-made horror films that will cool the necks of audiences are coming out one after another.From Korean films supported by the director of ‘The Grave’ to sequels to ‘legendary Hollywood zombie films’, they are expected to attract not only ‘horror maniacs’ but also general audiences.

‘Noise’, which opens on the 25th, takes the lead.’Noise’, which expressed its determination to maximize the sense of fear by using the everyday material of ‘noise between floors’ as its weapon, depicts the story of Joo-young(Lee Sun-bin), who goes out to look for her missing younger sister in an apartment complex that is noisy every day due to noise between floors, and what happens as she encounters mysterious incidents.

The film was sold to 117 countries before its release, and was invited to major genre film festivals around the world one after another, receiving rave reviews and solidifying its position as a box office hit.The Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival selected ‘Noise’ as “the biggest surprise of the year” and said, “It has a completely new feel in an eerie atmosphere.”

A week later, on July 2nd, another domestic horror film, ‘The Train of Horrors’, will be released in theaters.Joo Hyun-young, who gained popularity through ‘SNL Korea’, transforms into a horror YouTuber and uncovers the secrets of Gwanglim Station, where mysterious disappearances occur one after another.

Above all, ‘The Train to Mystery’ is drawing attention as it receives support from Director Jang Jae-hyun, who made ‘The Grave’ the first occult horror film to attract 10 million viewers last year.Director Jang will attend GV(Audience Viewing)held before the release and talk about the film with Director Tak Se-woong and Joo Hyun-young, the directors of ‘The Train to Mystery’.

‘American horror’ is also not to be missed.’Bring Her Back’, which was released in theaters on the 6th, is quickly gathering audiences, despite being released only CGV on the 6th, by forming an unusual word-of-mouth among ‘horror maniacs’ due to shocking twists.It is a story about adopted siblings who face a terrible secret in a remote house, and from the first day, it mobilized 17,598 people, surpassing the first-day records of horror masterpieces such as ‘Substance’ and ‘Midsommar’.

The film that will make the hearts of ‘horror maniacs’ flutter is ‘28 Years Later’, which opens on the 19th.It is the sequel to ‘28 Days Later’, which was released in 2003 and received rave reviews for “changing the zombie genre” with the shocking ‘emergence of the running zombie’ at the time.Danny Boyle, the director of ‘28 Days Later’, is back to direct, and Cillian Murphy, who starred in ‘28 Days Later’ and won the Oscar for Best Actor for ‘Oppenheimer’, participated as an executive producer.


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