This is the trailer for the Death Bell, a 2008 Korean horror film directed by first timer Yoon Hong-Seung. It hits theaters Friday and OnDemand today, courtesy of IFC Films. It looks like the perfect Asian equivalent of Saw, and by perfect I mean perfectly stereotypical, because in this one, instead of having to chop off their own limbs, the Asian kids take a test and the bad guy kills them if they get an answer wrong. Haha, get it? It’s funny because Asians are good at school. *pulls eyelids slanty* Oh rook at me, me rove-a math! Me no can have dlinky because I rate for impoltant beezaness meeting! Ha… losers. *brushes crumbs off snuggie, squirts EZ cheese into mouth*
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When did torture porn become worth paying for to see in the theater? Did I miss something? These all seem extremely stupid to me. Now if you’ll excuse me, my soap box needs polishing.
Relax, it’s a North Korean history test. Everybody knows that every single answer is “Kim Jong Il”.
If only my bed would eat me…It sure would be a lot easier for me to fall asleep at night.
To appease the religious right in America, they’ll add in the plot point that at this school, they don’t say the Pledge of Allegiance in the morning.
Geisha is……tardy.
I thought this was a BBC international docu on the Korean school system.
Cue ‘For Whom the Berr Torrs’ by Metarrica
This was a training video destined for schoolteachers in China that accidentally got leaked. Instead of trying to cover it up, they just went with it.
Look, the test giver has Seouless eyes.
Miss a question, and you Diahatsu!
Rigsaw: I wan to pray a game.
Vodka, Geisha doesn’t feel tardy!
Is the first death really that scary over there? I figured they were so used to drowning girls that it wouldn’t have any effect…
Sula Ho missed a question, how was she killed, test giver stabbed a Kerean penn in Sula.
Have you seen Junior’s glades?
The sequel will have a nearly identical plot. It will be a 38th parallel story.
In Japan they have had a problem with bullying. One kid got bullied for so long and ignored when he complained. So he figured he’d make his point by chopping the bullies head off and stuck it on the fence post in front of the school then sat in front of it waiting to be arrested.
I don’t know where I was going with this, but Japan is hardcore!
North Korea is going to kidnap the first two reviewers that bash the film.
Jirish: how did he know he got the right guy?
Putting a new slant on the Saw franchise.
[skips to Maloo]
So – I have no audio here, can someone tell me if this is in English or Japanese?
… because this is exactly the kind of movie that calms my nerves when I’m stressed out, but foreign languages don’t work for me.
This isn’t the Korean version of Saw, it’s the Korean version of Fellis Bue-rer’s Day Off.
Being Asian I can tell you that this movie is completely inaccurate…it’s the parents who are supposed to kill their kids
Koreans are fucked up.
I blought my pencirrr. . . as werr as 2 pens, a cacurator, a lulerrr, and my pocket plotector. . . Gimme somting to write on!
It was symbolic so I guess he didn’t have to be picky.
(I hope hell isn’t too hot, I’m sensitive).
Bell? I thought they bang gongs…
ps I realize there is a miniscule difference between Japan and Korea, I just wasn’t paying attention the first time.
This is available in widescreen for slant eye and fullscreen for round eye.
Al, comments like that only hurt the feelings of Japanese and Korean men’s penises
This is the Korean version of Saved By The Bell. Mr. Berding is so the guy pulling the strings behind this.
What did they put her in the drier for? Everyone knows Asian girls have to be Hung.
Jirish, it’s dry heat. Just watch out for chafing.
Neil Diamond had a cameo role in this which wound up on the editing room floor, so now he’s got the Hong-Seung blues.
WAIT! Is this the movie David Caradine was filming when he died? It sounds like he was filming the final seen when we get to see who is putting the students through all of this.
Or maybe it’s just me.
No! I actually think David Carradine had a rope around his neck and balls so there is no way he could have been filming the final scene.
In Japan, this would be a game show.