Summaries

Convenience store clerk/film student Mu Young is a university senior who has yet to make a film. He angers a visiting indie film maker who ironically picks Mu Young to receive his donation money to the film department. Mu Young finally gets a chance to make his debut: a zombie melodrama. But his inexperience, demands and impatience cause everyone around him to go crazy, turning his project into a nightmare. Fortunately, Mu Young never really had to fret, his zombie extras pitch in and he manages to finish his opus, barely surviving but learning that making a movie is like love, you can't do it alone. LET ME OUT is the ultimate tribute to low budget guerrilla film enthusiasts struggling to create. It is hope.—Anonymous

An eternal senior, Mu Young knows everything about cinema but nothing about actual film making. Critical of everyone else, he heckles famous indie director Yang Ik June at a campus screening. Later, director Yang exacts revenge on the young upstart by picking Mu Young to receive his $5000 donation to the film department. Now the dreamer Mu Young must deliver a real movie. Our hero not only has to write the script, but find the crew and actors when most have already been committed to other productions. Everything that can go wrong does. Mu Young's lead actress and love interest, Ah Young can't find her motivation, his cameraman and sound man are quirky and full of themselves, he's got a diva model who flirts with him and throws emotional tantrums. It's chaos. At one point director Yang visits the chaotic set and points out how hard it is to actually make something. Slowly, Mu Young goes from an amateur who is unfocused and uncertain to tyrannical director alienating everyone. But Mu Young never really had to fret: the zombie extras pitch in and he manages to finish his opus, barely surviving but learning that making a movie is like love, you can't do it alone. It takes a village to make it happen.—Baekdu

A Korean zombie coming-of-age story. Convenience store clerk/film student Mu-Young, gets a chance to make his first movie, a zombie melodrama. The dream project turns into a nightmare. Everything that can go wrong, does. Barely surviving his disastrous shoot, he comes to realize making a movie is like love, you can't do it alone. A movie for people who love movie making, making love and zombies.

Details

Genres
  • Comedy
  • Horror
  • Drama
  • Romance
Release date Aug 14, 2013
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) TV-PG
Countries of origin South Korea
Language Korean

Box office

Budget $130000

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 37m
Color Color
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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