MIDNIGHT: A Serial Killer Plays a Most Dangerous Game with a Deaf Witness in the New Tense S. Korean Thriller

By: John M Jerva

Winner of several festival awards, Dread Presents is releasing the new South Korean thriller Midnight. The taut, tense film follows a ruthless serial killer who relentlessly hunts down an innocent deaf woman who witnesses one of his merciless crimes.

The thriller from director Kwon Oh-seung is set to hit VOD this April followed by a subsequent Blu-Ray launch in May. Check out the new key art and trailer below!

Synopsis: Fear grips the country of South Korea as a serial killer, (Squid Game star, Wi Ha-Jun), stalks its residents. Kyung-mi, a deaf woman, is out late with her mother when she stumbles upon a young woman bleeding out in a dark alley. Now a witness to the killer’s brutal crime, Kyung-mi is being ruthlessly hunted down. Will she survive or become his victim?

Written and directed by Kwon Oh-seung, MIDNIGHT follows a ruthless serial killer (Squid Game’s Wi Ha-Jun) who hunts down a deaf woman through the streets of South Korea after she witnesses his brutal crime. Winner of UK’s GrimmFest Best Picture Award and Fantasia’s Silver Audience Award for Best Asian Film, Kwon Oh-seung’s debut feature has received several film festival accolades.
Written/Directed by: Kwon Oh-seung
Producer: Kim Hyun-woo
Cast: Jin Ki-Joo, Wi Ha-Jun, Gil Hae-Yeon, Park Hoon, Kim Hye-Yoon
Genre: Thriller | Foreign | Horror | Action | Independent
Run Time: 103 Minutes
Distributor: Dread Presents