# Bloody Beach (해변으로 가다)
**Bloody Beach** (해변으로 가다, *Haebyeoneuro Gada*, literally "Going to the Beach") is a 2000 South Korean horror film directed by Kim In-soo, in which members of an online club who meet in person for a beach vacation are killed one by one by a masked figure. It was Kim's debut feature and one of a cluster of Korean horror films released in the summer of 2000.[1](https://www.filmmakers.co.kr/movies/en/20000001) • [2](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Original title / romanization | 해변으로 가다 (*Haebyeoneuro Gada*)[3](https://asianwiki.com/Bloody_Beach) |
| Director | Kim In-soo (김인수), debut feature[1](https://www.filmmakers.co.kr/movies/en/20000001) • [2](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001) |
| Release | August 12, 2000, South Korea (Cine21 lists August 22)[4](https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20000001) • [5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) |
| Running time | 88 minutes per Cine21 and Cinematheque; the Korean Film Database lists 90 minutes and IMDb 91 minutes[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) • [4](https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20000001) • [6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291043/) |
| Genre / rating | Horror, mystery, thriller; rated 18+ (청소년 관람불가) in Korea[1](https://www.filmmakers.co.kr/movies/en/20000001) |
| Admissions | 84,227 (Cine21)[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) |
| Production / distribution | Koo & Film; Cinema Service Co., Ltd.[1](https://www.filmmakers.co.kr/movies/en/20000001) |
## Spoilers
### Plot
Eight members of the "Sea Love" (바다 사랑) computer-communication club travel to the seaside for a summer vacation. On the train to the meeting point at Jinju, the member Do-yeon is left alone in the carriage after the other passengers disembark, and a figure in a wide-brimmed hat and work boots cuts her throat with a knife.[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) • [7](https://tv.apple.com/kr/movie/%E1%84%92%E1%85%A2%E1%84%87%E1%85%A7%E1%86%AB%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B3%E1%84%85%E1%85%A9-%E1%84%80%E1%85%A1%E1%84%83%E1%85%A1/umc.cmc.2vdkjonwjocm50y6ylfi96bht) The remaining seven, unaware of the murder, begin their holiday at a beach villa.[7](https://tv.apple.com/kr/movie/%E1%84%92%E1%85%A2%E1%84%87%E1%85%A7%E1%86%AB%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B3%E1%84%85%E1%85%A9-%E1%84%80%E1%85%A1%E1%84%83%E1%85%A1/umc.cmc.2vdkjonwjocm50y6ylfi96bht)
On the first night, talk turns to Sandman, a former club member who had been driven out of the group and was said to have killed himself, a story that had heated up the club's message boards before his disappearance. The mood in the villa turns cold, and the members begin to die one by one at the hands of a figure whose boot prints they keep failing to notice.[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) • [7](https://tv.apple.com/kr/movie/%E1%84%92%E1%85%A2%E1%84%87%E1%85%A7%E1%86%AB%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B3%E1%84%85%E1%85%A9-%E1%84%80%E1%85%A1%E1%84%83%E1%85%A1/umc.cmc.2vdkjonwjocm50y6ylfi96bht) IMDb's synopsis states that every member except Nam-kyeong (Kim Hyun-jung) is murdered by the mysterious "Sandmanzz".[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291043/)
## Cast and crew
The main cast pairs the young actors with their characters as follows: Kim Hyun-jung as Nam-kyeong, Yang Dong-geun as Jae-seung, Lee Jung-jin as Sang-tae, Jae Hee as Won-il, Lee Seung-chae as Yu-na, Lee Se-eun as Young-woo, and Jin Tae-seong as Jeong-min.[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) • [3](https://asianwiki.com/Bloody_Beach) Kim Gyu-ri and [Lee Eun-ju](https://www.edgepedia.org/lee-eun-ju) appear in supporting or guest roles.[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) IMDb credits Kim Gyu-ri as Do-yeon, listed "as Kim Min-seon", while the Kyunghyang Shinmun review at the time of release described Kim Min-seon, the lead of *Memento Mori* (*Yeogo Goedam Dubeonjjae Iyagi*, 1998), as making a special appearance as the victim killed on the train.[6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291043/) • [8](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200008031722331)
Behind the camera, the screenplay is credited to Shim Hye-won, Park Mi-young, Son Kwang-soo, Baek Seung-jae, and No Jin-soo (sources vary on the full list); Kim Yun-su was the cinematographer, Kim Sang-bum the editor, and the music was composed by Jo Yeong-wook together with Bang Jun-seok. Gu Bon-han produced, and Lee Dae-hun's work as production designer was his first film credit.[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) • [9](https://madebykr.com/en/films/10016-bloody-beach/) • [1](https://www.filmmakers.co.kr/movies/en/20000001)
Filming locations included Sangju Beach on Namhae island, the Hanrye mountain lodge at Namhae, Jinju Station, Cheongnyangni Station in Seoul, and Chilpo Beach on the east coast.[2](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001)
## Context in Korean horror
The film appeared during a brief, intense boom in Korean horror that had been set off by Park Ki-hyung's *Whispering Corridors* (1998), and it set out to rework the Hollywood slasher formula, in the line of *Scream* and *I Know What You Did Last Summer*, in a Korean setting.[2](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001) Its central premise drew directly on the era's communications culture: the story takes place at the transition from PC-communication services to the internet, when online communities were beginning to extend into offline meetings, and the film plays on the gap between relationships formed online and the people encountered in person.[2](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001) A contemporary review in the Kyunghyang Shinmun described it plainly as a horror film about revenge and serial murder, in which chat-club members are slaughtered in turn, and noted that the opening killing establishes it as a slasher movie.[8](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200008031722331)
**Reception.** The film did not achieve notable awards or large-scale box-office success; Cine21 records 84,227 admissions and an audience rating of 4.28 out of 10, and IMDb shows a user rating of 4.8/10 from 367 votes.[5](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035) • [6](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291043/) A Cinematheque retrospective essay judges that it underperformed commercially next to contemporaries such as *Scissors* (*Gawi*, 2000) and was criticized for imitating familiar Hollywood slasher conventions, but argues that its fidelity to genre convention makes it a measure of the Korean film industry's genre capacity at the time, and a cultural record of early internet culture and late-1990s slasher influence.[2](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001) A 2000 review in the online magazine Kinocine credited the film with effective editing, music, and genuinely tense final twenty minutes, while faulting the lead actors' performances.[10](https://www.kinocine.com/2000/08/2000-bloody-beach-2000.html)
The film was invited to the Imagine Film Festival in 2002.[4](https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20000001) The Kyunghyang review noted that the ending, in which Lee Eun-ju's character receives an email inviting her "to the sea", left open the possibility of a sequel, though it expressed doubt that one would be made.[8](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200008031722331)
## The director
Kim In-soo debuted as a feature director with this film. According to a study of the film club "Shadow Play" (그림자 놀이), he passed through the student-movement ferment of the 1980s, studied in the United States, and returned to make *Bloody Beach* his directorial debut in 2000; he is a graduate of Kyung Hee University's English literature program.[11](https://journal.kci.go.kr/kdrama/archive/articlePdf?artiId=ART002873806) • [8](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200008031722331)
## References
1. [Bloody Beach (2000) – Korean Film Database, Filmmakers](https://www.filmmakers.co.kr/movies/en/20000001)
2. [해변으로가다 (Bloody Beach), Cinematheque](https://www.cinematheque.co.kr/cinema/20000001)
3. [Bloody Beach, AsianWiki](https://asianwiki.com/Bloody_Beach)
4. [Bloody Beach (2000), Korean Film Council (KOFIC) database](https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/filmsView.jsp?movieCd=20000001)
5. [해변으로 가다 (Bloody Beach) 상세정보, Cine21](https://cine21.com/movie/info/?movie_id=4035)
6. [Bloody Beach (2000), IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0291043/)
7. [해변으로 가다, Apple TV (Korea)](https://tv.apple.com/kr/movie/%E1%84%92%E1%85%A2%E1%84%87%E1%85%A7%E1%86%AB%E1%84%8B%E1%85%B3%E1%84%85%E1%85%A9-%E1%84%80%E1%85%A1%E1%84%83%E1%85%A1/umc.cmc.2vdkjonwjocm50y6ylfi96bht)
8. [소름끼치는 복수행각 '해변으로 가다', Kyunghyang Shinmun (August 3, 2000)](https://www.khan.co.kr/article/200008031722331)
9. [Bloody Beach (2000), MadeByKR](https://madebykr.com/en/films/10016-bloody-beach/)
10. [[해변으로 가다] 2000년 한국호러영화, Kinocine (August 24, 2000)](https://www.kinocine.com/2000/08/2000-bloody-beach-2000.html)
11. [영화 동아리 <그림자 놀이> 관련 연구, KCI journal archive](https://journal.kci.go.kr/kdrama/archive/articlePdf?artiId=ART002873806)
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