Red Eye (2005 South Korean film)

Red Eye (Korean: 레드아이) is a 2005 South Korean horror film. On July 16, 1988, a night train bound for Yeosu departs Seoul Station and derails, killing 250 people. Fifteen years later to the day, the same route is operated for the final time, and some of the carriages used are from the original wrecked train.

A newly hired stewardess, OH Mi-sun (Jang Shin-young), works on this train. Her father, a guard on the 1988 train, died in the crash and was blamed by some for the disaster. Mi-sun, unaware of her own psychic abilities, begins to see visions of the spirits of those who died in the crash. Strange events follow: two passengers are killed by supernatural means, and the train, scheduled to stop for police, instead passes through a station because of a young couple determined to cause another crash. This couple were the two small children—brother and sister—who survived the original crash with their parents.

As the train’s lights fail, some carriages revert to their old, wrecked appearance, and glass shatters onto passengers. Mi-sun learns from a spirit rising from a black puddle that she and the couple are already dead, now inhabiting other people’s bodies. The spirit reveals that the couple’s father and his wife had planned to kill themselves and their children on the 1988 train using poison, but a stewardess, JUNG Jin-sook (Kim Hyeon-suk), accidentally kicked over the jar, forcing the father to enter the driver’s cabin and steer the train into a collision with another train, causing the original crash.

Enraged, the brother smashes Mi-sun’s head against a window four times, but he realizes the truth when his sister regresses to a child. Mi-sun’s father’s spirit takes control of the driver’s cabin, guiding the train safely through the oncoming collision. The brother reverts to a frightened child comforting his sister. As the natural and supernatural trains separate, the carriages return to normal, ghosts dissolve, and human passengers emerge. Mi-sun’s father comforts her as she dies from her injuries. The train stops at dawn, and the bewildered passengers disembark.

The scene shifts to night again: the train for Yeosu arrives at Seoul Station for its final run, and Mi-sun appears on the platform, once again a stewardess on this unnatural journey. White end titles roll against a night background as seen from the driver’s cabin.