The Chaser, is a 2008 South Korean action thriller film starring Kim Yoon-seok and Ha Jung-woo, inspired by Yoo Young-chul, a real-life Korean serial killer, and self-confessed cannibal, he admitted to murdering how many people?
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The Chaser (film) The Chaser () is a 2008 South Korean action thriller film starring Kim Yoon-seok and Ha Jung-woo. It was directed by Na Hong-jin in his directorial debut. Inspired by real-life Korean serial killer Yoo Young-chul, the film was shot on location around Mangwon-dong in the Mapo District, Seoul.
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Yoo Young-chul Yoo Young-chul (born April 18, 1970) is a South Korean serial killer and self-confessed cannibal. Although he admitted to murdering 21 people, mostly prostitutes and wealthy old men, the Seoul Central District Court convicted him of 20 murders (one case was dismissed on a technicality). Yoo burned three and mutilated at least 11 of his victims, admitting he ate the livers of some of them. He committed his crimes between September 2003 and July 2004, when he was arrested. Yoo explained his motives in front of a TV camera saying "Women shouldn't be sluts, and the rich should know what they've done."
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Charles Ng Charles Ng Chi-Tat (; born December 24, 1960 in Hong Kong) is a serial killer who operated in the United States. He is believed to have raped, tortured and murdered between 11 and 25 victims with his accomplice Leonard Lake at Lake's cabin in Calaveras County, California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills 150 miles east of San Francisco.
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The Journals of Musan The Journals of Musan () is a 2011 South Korean film by Park Jung-bum, based on the experiences of Park's friend Jeon Seung-chul, a North Korean refugee he met while attending Yonsei University; Jeon was diagnosed with stomach cancer and died in 2008, less than 6 years after he defected to South Korea.
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Melvin Carter Melvin Carter, known as the College Terrace Rapist, is an American serial rapist who confessed to at least 100 rapes of women between 1971 and 1980.
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Charlie Brandt Carl "Charlie" Brandt (February 23, 1967 – September 13, 2004) was an American serial killer. Brandt, a native of Indiana and longtime resident of the Florida Keys, committed suicide in September 2004 after he stabbed his wife, Teresa "Teri" Brandt, seven times and decapitated and severely mutilated his niece, Michelle Jones, by removing her heart. An investigation by police concluded that Brandt hung himself in Jones' garage after committing the murders.
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Joseph Paul Franklin Joseph Paul Franklin (born James Clayton Vaughn, Jr.; April 13, 1950 – November 20, 2013) was an American serial killer who gained notoriety for numerous murders in the late 1970s and early 1980s. His killing spree was the subject of a fictional novel entitled "Hunter" by White supremacist William L. Pierce, who said of Franklin that “he saw his duty as a white man and did what a responsible son of his race must do.”
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Daniel Lee Siebert Daniel Lee Siebert (17 June 1954 – 22 April 2008) was an American serial killer on Alabama's death row. He was convicted of three murders and confessed to at least five. During questioning he indicated that he was responsible for at least 12 deaths. Siebert died on April 22, 2008 in Holman Prison near Atmore of complications from cancer.
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Elizabeth Wettlaufer Elizabeth Tracy Mae Wettlaufer (née Elizabeth Mae Parker; born June 10, 1967) is a convicted Canadian serial killer and former registered nurse who confessed to murdering eight senior citizens and attempting to murder six others in Southwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2016.
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Marcelo Costa de Andrade Marcelo Costa de Andrade (born January 2, 1967), a.k.a. "The Vampire of Niterói", is a Brazilian serial killer convicted of raping and killing 14 boys.
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Barend Strydom Barend Hendrik Strydom, also known as the White Wolf (Afrikaans: "Wit Wolf" ), is a convicted spree killer who was sentenced to death for shooting dead seven black people (and wounding 15 more) in Strijdom Square in Pretoria, South Africa on 15 November 1988. He had earlier killed a woman and injured another in a trial run in preparation for the massacre.
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Jung Young-bae Jung Young-bae is a South Korean film director. Jung, a former television producer, debuted with the family drama "Cherry Tomato" (2008). That same year, he released his second film "Santamaria" (2008), a comedy which starred Jung Woong-in and Sung Ji-ru. His third film, an erotic drama "A Pharisee" (2014), won Best New Actress (for Viki, a former member of Dal Shabet) and Best New Cinematographer at the 34th Golden Cinema Festival in 2014.
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John Martin Scripps John Martin (born John Martin Scripps, 9 December 1959 – 19 April 1996) was an English spree killer who murdered three tourists—Gerard Lowe in Singapore, and Sheila and Darin Damude in Thailand—with another three unconfirmed victims. He posed as a tourist himself when committing the murders, for which British tabloids nicknamed him "the tourist from Hell". He cut up all his victims' bodies, using butchery skills he had acquired in prison, before disposing of them.
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Choi Dong-hoon Choi Dong-hoon (; born 1971) is a South Korean film director. He ranks as one of the most consistently successful directors working in contemporary Korean cinema, with all five of his films becoming commercial hits -- "The Big Swindle" attracted 2.12 million viewers, "" at 6.84 million, "" at 6.13 million, "The Thieves" at 12.9 million, and "Assassination" at 12.7 million.
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Monster (2017 film) Monster is an upcoming South Korean period thriller film directed by Heo Jong-ho. It stars Kim Myung-min, Park Hee-soon, Lee Geung-young, Choi Woo-shik, Park Sung-woong, Kim In-kwon and Lee Hye-ri.
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Serial killer (disambiguation) A serial killer is a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (i.e., a "cooling off period") between them.
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Ali Kaya (serial killer) Ali Kaya (born 1980) is a Turkish serial killer. Nicknamed "The Babyface Killer", Kaya is responsible for ten murders.
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Na Hong-jin Na Hong-jin (born 1974) is a South Korean film director and screenwriter. For his feature film debut "The Chaser" (2008), Na won Best Director at the Grand Bell Awards and Korean Film Awards.
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Mohan Kumar (serial killer) Mohan Kumar (born 1963), also known as Cyanide Mohan, is a serial killer who preyed on women looking for marriage. A Mangalore fast track court tried and convicted him for the murder of 20 women.
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Kim Sung-ryung Kim Sung-ryung (born February 8, 1967) is a South Korean actress. After winning the Miss Korea beauty pageant in 1988 (she later represented her country at the Miss Universe 1989 pageant), Kim began her career as a reporter on KBS's showbiz news program "". In 1991, she made a memorable film acting debut in Kang Woo-suk's "Who Saw the Dragon's Claws?", though she became more active in television in the next decade. She returned to the big screen in 2007, with notable supporting roles in "Shadows in the Palace", and "Rainbow Eyes", followed by "The Client" (2011), "Mr. XXX-Kisser" (2012), "The Fatal Encounter" (2014), and "The Target" (2014). As she entered her forties, Kim also became known for the television dramas "You're Beautiful" (2009), "The Chaser" (2012), "Yawang" (2013), "The Heirs" (2013), and "Queen's Flower" (2015).
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Voice of a Murderer Voice of a Murderer (; lit. "His Voice") is a 2007 South Korean crime thriller-drama film written and directed by Park Jin-pyo, starring Sol Kyung-gu and Kim Nam-joo. It was the third top-grossing domestic film of 2007, with 3,143,247 tickets sold. The story is a fictionalized account of a real-life kidnapping case in 1991.
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David Carpenter David Joseph Carpenter (born May 6, 1930), a.k.a. the Trailside Killer, is an American serial killer known for stalking and murdering his victims in State Parks in California. Carpenter killed several people on hiking trails near San Francisco, California. Carpenter killed at least 10 people, with one attempted victim, Steven Haertle, surviving. Carpenter used a .38 caliber handgun in all but one of the killings, with a .44 caliber handgun being used in the killing of Edna Kane on Mount Tamalpais.