Deo web-toon: Ye-go sal-in

I wanted to grade this one higher than most, and was so close to do so, but sadly I got to see the last 25 minutes of the movie. It could have stopped once it hit the safety limit yet it was just dying to hit that wall up ahead. And boy did it do so!

Okey, so all in all, I would recommend it, for the somewhat different approach, for some nice tension moments, few good kills, nice drawings, well it had potential, I'll give you that. You can do a lot worse than this one, and you could do better as well. For a time waster, works just fine in my book!

Words won't do it much justice, so go ahead, give it a try. If you won't be bothered by the never ending END, you might actually enjoy it.

Cheers!

Alright, well I have actually had the 2013 South Korean horror movie "Deo Web-Toon: Ye-Go Sal-In" (aka "Killer Toon") laying around since 2019, but I just never got around to watching it. Why? Well, simply because the English title "Killer Toon" just left a foul taste in my mouth.

But I opted to get around to watching it here in 2022, and I will say that the movie was off to a great start. And I initially felt that I had been missing out on a great South Korean horror movie here by not actually getting around to seeing it. But then the movie started to falter and sputter around midways through, and its momentum settled into a mediocre slump.

Writers Sang-hak Lee, Hoo-Kyoung Lee, Sun-ho Cho and Sung-hee Jo were off to a good start, as I mentioned above, but it seems that too many creative inputs spoil a good idea, and the movie ended up being somewhat of a generic horror movie, which didn't really offer much worthwhile watching.

The acting performances in the movie were good, I will say that much, but it was a shame that the actors and actresses weren't given a properly constructed script and storyline to work with.

If you enjoy South Korean horror movies, then there are far better choices on the market than "Deo Web-Toon: Ye-Go Sal-In". I managed to sit through this movie in its entire runtime, however I found myself not particularly entertained.

My rating of director Yong-Gyun Kim's 2013 horror movie "Deo Web-Toon: Ye-Go Sal-In" lands on a less than mediocre four out of ten stars.

The plot makes very little sense. The characters all smear together. It drags on. Other than being highly stylized, the entire film is rather annoying.

Art that imitates life or life imitating art?

After a publisher is found dead, detectives find that she was reviewing a new piece of comic art that just happens to end just as her life ended. Baffled, detective look to the artist for an explanation but she is also confused and horrified. What does it all mean and how can the artist's renderings be so exact?

This was an interesting concept. It struggles to pin down a motive whether it may be based in reality or the supernatural. I loved all of the comic art. It was all really well done and the horror aspect was on point. The problem with this film is that it has a great deal of momentum in the beginning but slowly starts to lose steam. I think it could've used a little work. Some scenes seemed to be too long because they didn't offer explanations or really add much to the plot.

So, the positives for this film is that the idea is catchy, the artwork is fantastic, horror aspect is prevalent (but not in a gory way) and it starts off with great momentum. The problems are that it has unnecessary, drawn out scenes and it fizzles out in the end. Not a bad watch but has room for improvement.

If you are a webtoon horror fan you will really enjoy this one.

If you are a horror movie fan in general this movie may give you a mixed feeling about it. Still this movie surely will serve you good acting, interesting story/mystery, and most importantly decent plot twist.