DEATH BELL on UK DVD in October

Korean Horror Film Arrives October 10th Source: Third Windows Films Official Site: terracottadistribution.com/death-bell (UK)

Terror Cotta, the new sub-label from Terracotta Distribution presents their first release, the Korean slasher-horror DEATH BELL (??: ?? ????, Gosa: Piui Junggangosa, 2008). Students at an elite high school, preparing for mid-term exams, are held captive and forced into a series of sadistic games. The students find themselves plunged into a deadly test where they are picked off one by one and held in impenetrable traps where they must rely on the amazing intellects of their classmates to be released, every time a question is answered incorrectly, a classmate meets their torturous, grizzly death. When it emerges that the students are being picked off according to a pattern, pupil Kang Yi-na understands exactly how much time she has to stay alive and figure out the mysteries of who is imprisoning them and what is the ghostly presence that stalks the school and seems to bind them all together, before the Death Bell rings for her. Described as "SAW meets BATTLE ROYALE", the film marked the feature debut of Chang (Yoon Hong-seung), an award-winning music video director. It was intended as a starring vehicle for Nam Gyu-ri, the lead singer of the popular Korean girl group SeeYa. Made quickly and on a tiny budget, DEATH BELL became an immediate box office success when it sold more than 200,000 tickets in the first two days of release. DEATH BELL (certification 18) will be released on DVD (Region 2, PAL) on October 10, 2011. Label: Terror Cotta Release Date: 10th October 2011 Format: DVD (Region 2, PAL) Number of discs: 1 Certification: 18 Audio: Korean Subtitles: English Running Time: 86 minutes Price: £10.99 DVD Special Features: Music Video Making of DEATH BELL (Special Effects, Costumes, Music) On Set Footage Premiere Footage Poster Shoot Trailers

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For more information on the DEATH BELL movies, please see the previous coverage here on SciFi Japan: