The Phone

A Seoul winter. A plastic-wrapped handset still warm from the carrier. Voicemails from the dead play themselves. Screen digits flash numbers of the deceased. Ahn Byeong-ki folds Hitchcock’s paranoia into a handset, quietly deadly.

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Ahn Byeong-ki directed The Phone in 2002. See Ahn Byeong-ki's full filmography, where to start with Ahn Byeong-ki, or where to go after you've seen everything by Ahn Byeong-ki.

The Phone was released in 2002 (KO original-language production), with a runtime of 103 minutes.