Killer Toon


Killer Toon is a 2013 South Korean psychological horror film directed by Kim Yong-gyun, and starring Lee Si-young and Um Ki-joon.
The film was successful at the box office, as it was the first South Korean horror film to sell more than one million cinema tickets since Death Bell in 2008.

Plot

A popular horror webtoon artist Kang Ji-yoon finds life imitating her own work when her publisher turns up dead in a gruesome way, precisely mirrors the images in her latest comic. After a series of murders are connected to her webtoon, a private detective Lee Ki-cheol places Ji-Yoon on the list of suspects.

Cast

Killer Toon was released in South Korea on June 27, 2013, and was financially successful on its release. By July 15, 2013, the film grossed . In comparison, other South Korean horror films from that year, namely Doctor and The Puppet made and on 68,222 and 31,713 admissions, respectively. The film debuted at second place in the South Korean box office, only being beaten by the Hollywood film World [War Z |World War Z].