Travel. It has it's ups and downs.  The ups are arriving at your destination. The downs could be anything else.  The person you wanted to be there... isn't, or some great disaster has happened delaying the journey.  Like a train crash.  It's this incident that surrounds Mi-sun in the creepy train horror flick from Korea: Red Eye.

In 1988 there was a train that crashed heading to Yeosu from Seoul.  The death toll was about 100 passengers. When they investigated the crash, they couldn't find anything that could have caused it. Mi-Sun fills in for a friend by running the snack cart on board the train from Seoul to Yeosu. She meets one of the conductors, who gives her advice on not working so hard.

The conductor tells her about the crash that happened 16 years ago and that this train is that same train... and it's on it's final run.  It's the last day for the announcer of the train too, so they hold a little party for him. Mi-sun takes the guys running the train some cake and without warning, the engineers spot a little girl on the tracks and they apply the brakes.  The train screeches to a halt for about 10 minutes or so. Once everyone has settled down again, Mi-sun enters the next car, and takes notice to a little boy drawing.  He tells Mi-sun that his Mom is at the last stop waiting for him.  She gives him a candy bar, and asks to see his drawings.  The first one is obviously his, but the next one most certainly isn't. Mi-sun asks who drew it, and the little boy begins to scribble it out. He gets some on Mi-sun's hands, and she must wash it of.  It's at this point we start to see a "different" train.  A woman dressed as a supervisor pops in for a second, and Mi-sun follows her.  So does the snack cart!

Mi-sun manages to get into the next car before the snack cart crushes her, and she notices the people in this car are the ones from the little boy's drawings. She trips and grabs a newspaper , which talks about the 1988 Olympics... in Seoul, Korea...

This film does have it's moments, and there are a few freaky moments. This isn't like Premonition (reviewed here), or The Locker (reviewed here), but it's an original film, and I would recommend anyone into horror to watch it at least once or twice.  

– Brian K. James