A location-based Korean spook story – fairly standard, but effectively chilling. The Salmokji reservoir has an undefined bad reputation and seems to be off the beaten track. People notice that one image on a ‘street-view’ type internet service seems to show the traditional Asian ghost image of a lank-haired woman poking her head out of the water – it’s a Let’s Scare Jessica to Death image too – and the company sends Han Su-in (Kim Hye-yoon) and a small crew off to get alternative, non-scary images from the same location … though in real life you’d expect the extra number of clicks they’d get from curiosity-seekers would outweigh any concerns about improperly representing a stretch of wilderness which barely has a beatn track to be off of let alone a street to be viewed.
On arrival, the crew car bumps into a peculiar cairn of stones, dislodging some – and a strange old woman of the Crazy Ralph persuasion nags them into replacing the stones while making wishes. The wishes will, of course, come back to haunt them. Su-in is initially ticked off that half her crew have taken this gig in the hope of getting in some fishing while an intern (Jang Da-ah) wants to film clips for her horror youtube channel … then another producer (Kim Jun-han), who has been off work after a family tragedy, shows up unannounced and pitches in to help with what ought to be a simple job, though reporting this back to head office raises eyebrows and hackles and brings another concerned suit, Su-in’s ex-boyfriend (Lee Jong-wan), out to the site. After all this set-up, the film turns into a relatively conventional get-them-one-by-one horror with freak accidents, Evil Dead-style possessions, contrivances to lure folks out onto the dangerous waters and an array of familiar, if still creepy imagery. Kim holds the film together while the rest of the cast just do schtick until the time comes to get got. Written and directed by Lee Sang-min, his first feature after contributing to the anthology App the Horror.