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{{Infobox film
|name           = Black House
|image          = Black House (film).jpg
|caption        = Korean theatrical poster
|native_name = {{Infobox Korean film name/auto|hangul=^검은 집}}
|director       = Shin Tae-ra
|producer       = Kim Bong-seo<br>Choi Joon-hwan<br>Yoo Il-han
|writer         = Lee Yeong-jong<br>Ahn Jae-hoon<br>Kim Seong-ho
|based_on       = {{based on|''The Black House''|[[Yusuke Kishi]]}}
|starring       = [[Hwang Jung-min]]<br>[[Yoo Sun]]<br>[[Kang Shin-il]]
|music          = [[Choi Seung-hyun]]
|cinematography = Choi Joo-yeong
|editing        = [[Nam Na-yeong]]
|studio         = [[CJ Entertainment]]
|distributor    = CJ Entertainment
|released       = {{Film date|2007|6|21}}
|runtime        = 104 minutes
|country        = South Korea
|language       = Korean 
|gross          = $9.5 million<ref>[https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3125432837/ "Box office by Country: ''Black House''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241216042852/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/releasegroup/gr3125432837/ |date=2024-12-16 }} ''Box Office Mojo''. Retrieved 2021-08-27.</ref>
}}
'''''Black House''''' ({{langx|ko|검은 집}}) is a 2007 South Korean [[horror film]] directed by Shin Tae-ra,<ref>"The Black House". ''Newtype USA''. '''7''' (2) p. 62. February 2008. {{ISSN|1541-4817}}.</ref> that is based on the popular Japanese novel of the same title (called ''Kuroi Ie'') by [[Yusuke Kishi]]. A Japanese film adaptation of the novel was released in 1999. The story centers on an [[insurance investigator]] that suspects a family murdered their son to receive his insurance policy.

==Plot==
During his first day as an [[insurance investigator]], Jeon Joon-oh, receives a phone call from a lady enquiring if a life insurance policy could be collected if someone commits suicide. A few days later Joon-oh is asked to personally come to the home of an insurance policy holder.

When Joon-oh arrives at their home he is greeted by a grim man. They talk for a little while, before the father asks the insurance agent to go into their son's room and have a talk with him. When the insurance agent opens the son's door he finds the boy hanging from a noose, dead from an apparent suicide.

The father then shows up at Joon-oh's office and asks for the money pertaining to his son's life insurance policy. Joon-oh is suspicious of the man and tells him he has to wait until the coroner's report comes in. The man becomes furious and then leaves. The father returns the next day and the next day and the next day. Finally Joon-oh's boss decides to pay the man his son's life insurance policy. Joon-oh's life doesn't return to normal and in fact descends further downward because of a stalker that may well be the insurance policy holder that they just paid off.

==Cast==
*[[Hwang Jung-min]] as Jeon Joon-oh, an [[insurance investigator]]
*[[Yoo Sun]] as Shin Yi-hwa
*[[Kang Shin-il]] as Park Choong-bae
*[[Kim Seo-hyung]] as Jang Mi-na
*Kim Jeong-seok as Chief Nam
*Yoo Seung-mok as Ma Yong-sik
*[[Jung In-gi]] as police detective Oh
*[[Kim Young-sun (actress)|Kim Young-sun]] as Hong-yeon's mother
*[[Moon Ga-young]]

==See also==
*[[List of South Korean films of 2007]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|1193490}}
*{{Hancinema film|Black_House}}
*[http://movie.naver.com/movie/bi/mi/basic.nhn?code=65541 ''Black House''] at Naver {{in lang|ko}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20120612175159/http://www.cine21.com/do/zlgam/detail/main?prodSeq=3939 ''Black House''] at Cine 21 {{in lang|ko}}

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[[Category:2007 horror films]]
[[Category:2007 films]]
[[Category:2000s horror thriller films]]
[[Category:South Korean slasher films]]
[[Category:South Korean horror thriller films]]
[[Category:South Korean detective films]]
[[Category:Horror film remakes]]
[[Category:South Korean remakes of Japanese films]]
[[Category:Films based on Japanese novels]]
[[Category:Films based on horror novels]]
[[Category:Films directed by Shin Tae-ra]]
[[Category:CJ ENM films]]
[[Category:2007 South Korean films]]

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