Eye Candy #40 - "R-Point"

R-Point: The only horror movie I’m aware of set during the Vietnam War, about Korean soldiers on an isolated island subject to all kinds of strange and inexplicable goings-on. After murdering a Vietnamese girl, Lt. Choi is “forgiven” and for his sins, sent on a mission to R-Point, after radio transmissions were picked up from soldiers who disappeared there six months ago (the transmissions consist of the message, “we are all going to die”, which you’d think would be a red flag). Choi and his squad of volunteers, tasked with finding the soldiers, arrive and almost immediately bad things start to happen, involving ambushes, ghosts, an abandoned French plantation, madness, possession, a fallen temple, disappearing soldiers, a lake filled with dead Vietnamese killed centuries ago, the Vietcong, more ghosts, and all manner of general unpleasantness that would certainly prevent it from having its own Travel Channel special. Suitably creepy and spooky, “R-Point” is a solid little horror movie with atmosphere to spare. Not particularly gory, either. Me likey. Woodchuck sez, “Check it out.”