Synopsis
In 1972, a South Korean military base receives repeated radio transmissions from a platoon that disappeared six months earlier in Vietnam. Lieutenant Choi leads eight soldiers into the jungle to locate the missing men at a remote site known as R-Point. As the rescue mission progresses, the squad encounters unexplained deaths, disturbing apparitions, and a growing sense that the land itself remembers the violence committed there.
Factoids & Trivia
- The film combines Vietnam War drama with psychological horror, using the soldiers' gradual mental collapse to explore the human cost of fighting in someone else's war.
- Most of the movie was filmed in Cambodia. Bokor Hill Station, a former French colonial resort, was used as a major filming location and helped provide the setting's decayed, isolated atmosphere.
- The filmmakers described the project as an anti-war film. Its supernatural elements are tied to the history of violence surrounding R-Point, rather than being used solely for shock value.
- Before release, the promotional campaign included a fictional website containing invented newspaper articles, soldier testimonies, radio transmissions, missing-person reports, and a constructed timeline of events.
- The movie premiered in South Korea on August 20, 2004, and attracted more than one million admissions domestically.
- Internationally, the film was also released under the title "Ghosts of War."