The Korean horror movie "Strange Tales of Mount Pheasant" is inspired by the unsolved case of 1 of the 3 major mysteries in South Korea, and the 10 corpse murders that occurred in Pyongyue Mountain in 1980 are well-known cases that have spread on the Internet and word of mouth in South Korea for 10 years.
The movie cast set Yoon Yun-sang, Lee Tae-hwan and well-known actors Kim Rui-won, Yeon Ji-wook and Cho Yoon-jin co-perform, with 5 mountain climbing cyclists, in order to train up the mountain to enter Mount Pheasant, but experienced an inexplicable vision, and fell into a desperate survival process.
"Strange Tales of Mount Pheasant" is inspired by a series of rumors of unsolved cases circulating in the famous scenic spot Pheasant Mountain, and there are waves of rumors on the Internet in the name of "18 corpse cases in Pheasant Mountain", although it is impossible to fully confirm whether it is a real case, but because of the weird and conscientious content, it has always become a hot search topic on the Internet.
Rumors pointed out that in the 1980s, when the political situation in South Korea was chaotic, the body of a climber in his 40s was found in Mount Yongyue, the body was cut into 18 pieces, the incision section was as smooth and flat as if cut by a laser beam, and then it was reported that 10 corpses were found one after another, all of which were also cut into 18 pieces, and each body was cut perfectly, without error, but with the cutting technology at that time, it could not be achieved, the police could not identify the tools to dismember the body, and the murder case was too cruel, so as not to cause social panic. So it was not made public, and finally became an unsolved case.
However, Mount Hegake has always been a well-known tourist attraction in South Korea, and the film's direct use of place names has sparked strong protests from local residents and temples, and even demanded that it be banned. In the face of controversy, director Kim Sun-woong stressed that the film is a completely fictional story, and the crew is definitely not creating from the perspective of wanting to trigger rumors, "It's just a horror work that starts from the place names and rumors that everyone knows, and I originally wanted to start from this story and recombine the content, hoping to complete a very interesting horror film."
The protagonist Yoon Yun-sang also expressed his surprise at the controversy, "I didn't expect such a protest when I took over the act, and now I feel very embarrassed, I hope everyone can coordinate well, there may be some misunderstandings between this, as long as you have seen the movie, you can understand, I hope to get a good result."
In addition to the protests caused by the title, even the atmosphere of the poster was too terrifying to cause public dissatisfaction, this poster was designed by director Kim Sun-woong himself, he urgently apologized to the public, but also made the movie horror topic to a higher level.
The movie previously announced a red leading poster on the Internet, in addition to the name of the film, there are lines like blood vessels below to form the shape of the mountains, the overall atmosphere conveys the horror in the movie, director Kim Sun-woong personally designed this poster, and as a poster used in overseas film festivals, published on his personal social account, but caused criticism and protests from the public.
The reason for the protest is that the visual experience of the poster is too terrible, although there is no horror or disgusting composition on the poster, but the overall atmosphere makes many viewers shudder, causing many people who have seen it to be shocked and frightened, which surprised director Kim Sun-woong, and immediately apologized and explained that the poster was not an official promotional poster for the movie, but only published on his personal social account, but because many fans felt that the poster was full of horror, and there were a large number of forwards, so that many viewers could see it, he also decided to delete the poster immediately. This hype made the movie terrifying and aroused the curiosity and discussion of many horror fans, because the effect was so strong that filmmakers around the world still decided to use this poster to create momentum for the movie.