Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Zandra The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

Fulke Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

thisissubtitledmovies excerpt, full review at my location.It almost sounds like any schoolboys dream: war and horror in one package. However, watching this supernatural Vietnam War movie is much more of a nightmare than a dream, but in the best possible way. The movie was released in Korea in 2004, with the title R-Point, and is the fourth highest grossing Korean horror film of all time. It is now being released here on DVD as Ghosts Of War, exclusively available from Sainsbury's.For any fan of Asian horror, Ghosts Of War is an absolute must - and sure to please. It has had huge success in its native country of South Korea, and when you see it, you can see why. It has enough suspense, tension, fear and paranoia to keep anyone awake for days. After watching Ghosts Of War, you will be left with no doubt in your mind that war is indeed hell, albeit good, scary fun!

atinder It's 1972. Six months ago on an island situated south of Ho Chi Minh City and known as R-Point, nine Korean soldiers went missing. A radio transmission requesting help is still heard every evening... Now a rescue party - nine soldiers, has nine days to rescue the missing.While they are on the mission, they find shocking stuff and some see strange things like ghost in the places.This is a really good horror movie, it had great atmosphere and really creepy moments, also liked fact the fact , that they showed ghost in daylight, you don;t see that often in horror movies.I not sure, i don't think the subtitles where 100% rights, if they were, the word D***head was said a lot, which i did find unreal.Acting from everyone was really good

Aphex Nobody I really enjoyed R-Point, actually. The Korean War really worked as a setting for a horror film and the locations were just the right side of spooky, even in full sunlight.I won't go into too much detail, but there are some moments that did unnerve me a little. I don't spook easily, but when the lagging soldier takes the wrong fork in the trail and comes up behind 'his' platoon, I was far more chilled by the lack of anything really happening than some hackneyed 'boo' moment. Like Ringu, The Eye or several other Eastern horror films, R-Point relied more on creating an atmosphere than on gore or 'jumpy' bits.Acting was very good, and each soldier was believable in their own right - no stupid caricatures here, as are found in many films that place a bunch of squaddies somewhere they don't want to be (often aping, yet never bettering the 'Predator' lineup).The last section of the film was a little muddled, although there were plenty of things I did like there too. The Americans, for example (again, I won't spoil it).Really, the only reason this film doesn't score an 8 or a 9 from me is the culture clash prevalent in many Far East films when watched by a Western viewer; some of the plotting/exposition made little sense to me, not having been immersed in the culture at any point in reality.Well worth a watch, particularly if you like films with atmosphere and a healthy 'creep-factor'.

Scarecrow-88 Those who liked "Deathwatch" may wish to check out this(even better)Korean ghost tale from director Su-chang Kong about a group of South Korean troops in Vietnam searching for a missing group they heard a distress signal from. Once they get up to a location called R-Point where these old Temple Ruins are located(signifying in a different language that anyone with blood on their hands would be cursed;it's stated that this location goes untouched by either the North or South Vietnamese)weird things start to occur. They meet people, actually talking to them in conversations, only later finding their dead corpses. They set-up a base-camp at an eerie dilapidated castle and try their damnedest to find the soldiers..but even finding their own way out of R-Point seems impossible. Soon various soldiers loose their grip on sanity..we soon learn that ghosts and guns can only lead to a heap of trouble. There's possibly even some possession involved as well.I thought it was good and creepy. The setting amongst the grass-infested ruins and castle just adds to the eerie atmosphere of the ghosts often appearing from the dark.