Korean actress Shin Hye-sun of the hit drama “Mr. Queen is starring in the upcoming crime thriller film “Target.”
The movie takes action when a woman buys a defective washing machine and leaves angry comments on the shop’s website. Soon enough, strange things start to happen to her and becomes the sole target of a relentless psycho killer.
Shin Hye-sun in "Target" (Encore Films)
“Target” also stars Kim Sung-kyun (“Moving”), Lim Chul-Soo (“Crash Landing on You”), Lee Joo-Young (“School Nurse Files”) and Kang Tae-oh (“Extraordinary Attorney Woo”).
In the film Soo-hyun (Hae-Sun) purchases a used washing machine online after moving into her new place. When she receives a broken machine, she realizes she’s been scammed and decides to make sure the seller doesn’t get away with it.
She succeeds in finding the seller’s online account, then leaves warnings that he is a fraudster under all his posts to stop him from selling.
But terrifying things start to happen to Soo-hyun after the incident. She led an ordinary life with an ordinary job, but everything in her daily life begins to fall apart, and an investigation is set in motion to find the seller.
With the help of detectives Joo (Kim Sung-kyun) and Na (Kang Tae-oh), Soo-hyun sets off to stop the psycho seller who has invaded her life.
“Target” is directed by Park Hee-kon, who said the film pays attention to how people currently live and the social trends in place that focuses on the topic of second-hand trading.
“The audience will be captivated by the main character, whose life is destroyed by a second-hand transaction, and the intense suspense and thrills of the chase until her suffocating confrontation with a mysterious, unidentifiable killer,” said the director.
“Target” is from Encore Films that will open in Philippine cinemas on Oct. 18, to be distributed by Warner Bros.