Last Friends tackles issues that afflict the current
generation. Michiru's mother has brought a man back to their home and
she is bullied at her workplace where she works as a beauty parlour
assistant. She starts cohabiting with her boyfriend, a good young man
who works at the Child Welfare Division and the only person who can
give her emotional support, but ends up the victim of domestic violence
and becomes fearful of love. The boyishly charming Ruka was a classmate
of Michiru's in junior high school. She has performed brilliantly as a
motocross racer and aims to win the national championship, but as the
story progresses, a deep worry that she can neither confide in her
parents or close friends grows evident. Takeru is a hair and makeup
artist acquainted with Ruka. He is a good confidant to females due to
his kindness and perceptiveness, and finds himself attracted to Ruka
but has a phobia of sex as a result of a past trauma. The three of them
become house mates and through their associations with others, gain the
capacity to be positive about life.
Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp (Gosa dubeonjjae iyagi : Gyosaengsilseup 고死 두번째 이야기 : 교생실습)[1][2] is a 2010 Korean horror film. The film was directed by Yoo Sun-dong
and is about a group of high school students and teachers who get
locked in the school after the swimming instructor is murdered. The film
is a sequel to the 2008 film Death Bell.The story is unrelated to the previous film.
In South Korea, the high school student and swimmer Jeong Tae-yeon (Yoon Seung Ah) is found dead in the pool, which is found as a suicide. Two years later, teacher Park Eun-su (Hwang Jung Eum) joins the high school where Tae-yeon's stepsister Lee Se-hui (Park Ji-yeon) is haunted by nightmarish visions and is bullied by the student Eom Ji-yun (Choi Ah-jin). Eun-su finds it difficult to get respect in the classroom and is backed up by an older teacher, Cha (Kim Su-ro).
Se-hui and her classmates are selected for an elite "study camp" held
at the school during the summer break where 30 students study for their
university entrance exams. The school's swimming trainer is murdered in
the showers, and the words "When an innocent mother is killed, what son
would not avenge her death?" found scrawled on a blackboard. A voice
warns the students that they'll all be killed unless they can answer who
is the murderer and why. The students and teachers find they're locked
in the school when more deaths begin to happen.
Production
While writing the script, it was suggested that the characters should
solve their problems in a quiz show format like they did in the first
film. Director Yoo Sun-dong was against this ideas as he felt it was too
much of an imitation of the first film.
Yoo was influenced by his own high school experiences, stating that
"Authoritative teachers like Teacher Kang (played by Kim Byung-ok) and
Teacher Cha (played by Kim Su-ro) or the competition and violence
between the students were things that I saw and felt when I was in
school. I tried to put such horrifying elements into the film
Release
Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp premiered at the Puchon International Festival of Fantastic Film on July 23, 2010 where it was the festivals closing film.The film received wide release in South Korea on July 28, 2010.
On wide-release, the film was very successful with over 50,000 people
seeing it in Korea on its opening day. An official for the film said it
was "four times what we expected".
