Deranged (2012 film)
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Promotional poster for Deranged
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| Revised Romanization | Yeongasi |
| McCune–Reischauer | Yŏn’gasi |
| Directed by | Park Jung-woo |
| Produced by | Lim Ji-young |
| Written by | Park Jung-woo Jo Dong-in Kim Kyeong-hoon |
| Starring |
Kim Myung-min Kim Dong-wan Moon Jung-hee Lee Ha-nui |
| Music by | Jo Yeong-wook |
| Cinematography | Gi Se-hun |
| Edited by | Park Gok-ji |
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Production
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Oz One Film
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| Distributed by | CJ E&M |
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Release date
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Running time
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109 minutes |
| Country | South Korea |
| Language | Korean |
| Budget | ₩10 billion |
| Box office | US$28,444,173 |
Deranged (Hangul: 연가시; Hanja: 鐵線蟲; RR: Yeongasi) is a 2012 South Korean science fiction horror thriller film starring Kim Myung-min, Kim Dong-wan, Moon Jung-hee and Lee Ha-nui. Korea's first film on an infectious disease epidemic, it was directed by Park Jung-woo, and produced by Lim Ji-young and Oz One Film. Distributed by CJ E&M, the film was released on July 5, 2012 and runs at 109 minutes.
Jae-hyuk (Kim Myung-min) is a former professor with a doctorate in biochemistry who is currently working as a pharmaceutical sales representative after losing his life savings and his job due to a bad investment he made in the stock market from advice he received from his younger brother. When a series of dead bodies are found floating in the Han River, the public is shocked to discover that the deaths are related to a fatal outbreak of virus-infected mutant parasitic horsehair worms, called Yeongasi, that can control the human brain. Those infected show symptoms of increased hunger without appropriate weight gain and excessive thirst when the worms are mature and ready to reproduce. Hence, they jump into the river to allow the worms to come out of the body. While the authorities work to find a cure, Jae-hyuk and his brother Jae-pil (Kim Dong-wan), a detective agonized with guilt for squandering Jae-hyuk's money in the stock market, struggle to save Jae-hyuk's family when they also exhibit similar symptoms.
On the first day of its theatrical release, Deranged sold 190,953 tickets, making it number one on the daily box office chart (beating Hollywood film The Amazing Spider Man which sold 149,170 tickets). The film grossed a total of ₩31,992,014,698 after five weeks of screening, with 4,515,665 total tickets sold nationwide.
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