The Guard Post (2008): Hey what's up guys. Today I'll show
you a zombie horror film: "The Guard Post"! Spoilers ahead; watch out and take care!
The movie begins with a transmission, telling us that there's a guard post on the frontline inside
the Korean Demilitarized Zone. The soldiers stationed there are to serve 3 months in a
maze-like bunker, with all arms on deck. The scene shifts to the visuals of the same bunker,
but it's been abandoned now, and a fresh platoon of soldiers make their way inside.
The soldiers scan the area looking for clues, but aren't able to find anything of value. However,
they eventually walk into a room, filled with dead bodies soaked in blood. Among these bodies
is a bloody man named Kang, with an ax in his hands. The soldiers threaten him with their guns,
but Kang simply laughs like a psycho. The next scene shifts to an army chief named Noh,
and his assistant, who have just attended Noh's wife's funeral. Both men are in a car discussing
Noh's son's future; but then, they learn about Kang being discovered at the bunker. As expected,
Kang is assumed to be the culprit behind the murders; so Noh decides to get to the bottom
of it. Meanwhile, a soldier is ordered by his commander to send the recovered bodies as well as
Kang, to Headquarter, despite the investigation not being completed. Now Noh makes his way to
the scene of the crime, and is escorted to the murder room. On his way, he notices a soldier
running from the room feeling sick, and he also spots a message written in blood that says,
"Kill them all." Noh proceeds inside the murder room, and spots the bloody mess everywhere. there,
he meets the tasked soldier, and asks to meet the doctor handling the investigation. After a
brief introduction, Doctor leads Noh to Kang, who is in a state of unconsciousness. However,
nobody has been able to identify him just yet. The soldier explains that Headquarter wants
the bodies sent over as soon as possible; but Noh says that he has full operational
control of the situation and all personnel, so nobody will do anything unless he says so.
The soldiers continue to inspect the bunker, looking for clues, and one of
them finds some blood dripping from a pipe onto his uniform. Despite the soldier's disgust, Noh
urges his men to continue with the inspection. He comes across a bloody cake, and also locates a dog
tag. Noh continues to snoop around, and finally finds a photo of Kang, who is now revealed to be a
Corporal. Noh is now certain that Kang had killed all the soldiers in the bunker. The soldiers go
outside and take a count of the bodies, but learn that they only have 19 bodies, which is
one body short, not counting Kang. Doctor wants to leave the building and reach Headquarter; but Noh
maintains his authority, and tells everyone to unload the bodies for a recount. Doctor doesn't
agree with this, but complies with Noh's order. However, there are still only 19 bodies, even
after the recount; so Noh allows Doctor to leave with these bodies. He orders his men to search for
the missing bodies; but it's not a smooth ride, as even the sniffer dogs don't want to enter
the bunker, possibly because it's too smelly. The soldiers don't know why this is happening,
and they joke around, by saying it must be because the dogs are in heat. In the night, one of the
soldiers gets disturbed by the sound of the dogs barking, so he kicks the gate to tell them to shut
up. However, he hears an angry growl, and gets spooked out. The soldier goes to check out what's
instigating the dogs, so he approaches the kennel area with a stick. However, he finds the dead
bodies of the dogs and a soldier munching on their smelly flesh. The soldier panics upon seeing this,
and runs away while crying like a chicken. Meanwhile, Noh goes through Kang's diary,
but notices that the pages have been ripped off. A skinny soldier named Skinny, chats with Noh, and
reveals that all the soldiers' personal weapons were kept in the armory and not the barracks,
hinting that one soldier was controlling all the weapons. Skinny also expresses some suspicions,
because he hasn't seen any rats there, which should be a common sight considering all the
bodies lying around. Suddenly, the siren is sounded, because the soldiers have found a
paranoid survivor in the generator room. Noh manages to calm him down,
and then he apprehends him. Now the survivor is sat down for some questioning, and he reveals his
name to be Yoo. He claims to be a lieutenant of Guard Post 506, so Noh asks the other soldiers to
leave him alone for now. He asks Yoo to cooperate for information, but Yoo isn't ready to talk just
yet. Noh takes a break, and gets a call from the commander, who orders him to send Yoo to
Headquarter immediately. Noh ignores his orders, and cuts the call because he doesn't want to hear
more bullshit, especially the smelly one. However, when he asks Skinny about Yoo's whereabouts,
he acts clueless. Realizing that Yoo might try to escape, Noh rushes to his room, and finds
him eating the pages from the diary. Noh loses his mind and fights Yoo; after that, he has him cuffed
by Skinny. Yoo is locked up, but he says that Noh won't believe him, even if he tells the truth
about what happened in the bunker. Noh orders Yoo to tell him why he denied his soldiers their
weapons; but he simply says that Noh will figure everything out, once he has the answer to that
question. Noh doesn't like to indulge in such riddles, so he sends Yoo away in a jeep.
After this, Skinny finds a video camera in the food storage room, and gives it to Noh. The
camera seemingly shows a birthday celebration, which explains the bloody cake that Noh had
found earlier. Suddenly, the video switches to Kang, who is saying that he must kill everyone
in his platoon. Meanwhile, Doctor and his men face an obstacle on their way to Headquarter,
because there's a landslide that's blocking the road. Yoo's jeep also catches up to them,
and it only adds to the confusion. In a flashback, we see some soldiers, including Kang, who are
checking out a gun on top of the bunker. They learn that this bunker is around 300 meters away
from a North Korean guard post, and start to fool around. However, Kang accidentally fires the gun,
and it leads to counterfire from the opposing post. This causes the soldiers to get punished
for their silly actions. Their short commander named Dwarf, particularly lashes out at Kang,
because he's the one who fired the gun. Kang is made to do all the chores in the bunker,
including cooking; but he is still shown to be a decent man. Back to the present, Skinny reaffirms
Kang's character, stating that he shouldn't be capable of such gruesome murders. However,
neither he nor Noh can't say much, because the pages of Kang's diary have been ripped out,
presumably by Yoo. In the quest to uncover the mystery deaths, Noh finds Yoo's diary,
and starts reading it. Another flashback shows Yoo discussing an incident with Dwarf. It turns
out that some of the soldiers, led by Commander Ma had gone into the woods, but have not returned.
A search team was prepared to find Ma's men, but they come back injured from their trip. Dwarf goes
on to mention another incident after that, where one of Ma's men fell to the ground with abscess
flowing out of his mouth. At night, Ma himself seemingly transforms into a zombie, and his buddy
gets spooked upon discovering him. He falls off the building because of this, and then some other
soldiers are attacked by Zombie Ma. The soldiers survive the attack, but one of them dies right
after Dwarf completes his flashback to Yoo. back to the present, Noh sees Doctor and the
others coming back to the bunker because of the blocked road. Doctor asks for a cool place to
keep the bodies; but then, Kang starts shaking aggressively. Doctor tries his best to save him;
but it's of no use as he passes away. There isn't much that can be done, so Doctor and
Noh inspect the other bodies for some clues. They can't find anything of use, so Doctor tells Noh
not to damage the bodies any further. Suddenly, they're alerted about Yoo acting aggressively,
so they rush to his jeep. Yoo wants to get out of this place; but Noh drags him out of the car,
and tells him to act like a Lieutenant, rather than a crazy man. Noh eventually convinces Yoo
to sit down with him and Skinny, so that they can learn what actually happened at the bunker. Yoo
explains that he had to lock up Commander Ma's men, in order to control the weird occurrences
at his bunker, because they only started after Ma's men came back injured from the trip to the
forest. Yoo mentions one such occurrence, where one of the soldiers started smashing
his own hand in the bathroom, and in front of his naked colleagues. Then, Yoo questions one
of the zombie survivors about what happened with Commander Ma, but he panics after seeing Zombie Ma
approaching him from behind. Zombie Ma knocks out Yoo, who isn't looking, and then he goes
on to kill the survivor while he's unconscious. That's why Yoo confiscates everyone's ammunition,
and puts them in the armory for safe. Back to the present, one of the guard soldiers
collapses, and has to be treated by Doctor. Meanwhile, another soldier starts to feel itchy,
but spots a suspicious room. He inspects it, but the door slams behind him, and he can hear
a pounding sound. However, it turns out that Skinny had spotted the soldier killing one of
his own colleagues, so he rushes to Noh to tell him about this. Noh and his men catch the soldier,
and apprehend him from the suspicious room. Noh and Doctor realize that the soldier's been
infected with a zombie virus, as can be seen from the marks on his skin. In another flashback,
Yoo, Kang and Commander Dwarf face off against Commander Ma's men, who are infected with the
rage virus. Kang manages to calm one of them down, but the soldiers accidentally kill Dwarf in the
commotion. Yoo wants to arrest Ma's men; but he's out of bullets, so Ma's men revolt and capture
him. Later, Yoo manages to kill one of Ma's men, and breaks free from his imprisonment.
In the present, Doctor tells Noh that they must protect their soldiers from whatever
this zombie virus is supposed to be. After that, Noh goes through some more clues in the diaries,
and suddenly learns something important. He rushes to find Yoo, but he's not in his room. Yoo sneaks
into the van, where Kang's dead body is resting. That's when we learn that he isn't the real Yoo,
but rather, a Medic in the military. It turns out that the Medic was lying about everything,
and the real Yoo was the man who had killed the survivor, because he was infected with
the zombie virus. We learn that the real Yoo was also the one, who had gone out to the forest, and
not Commander Ma. However, the real Yoo made the Medic rewrite his diary to mislead the others.
In the present, the Medic is spotted by an infected soldier, so he tries to kill him,
but the soldier turns into a zombie. the Medic traps the zombie to the ground,
and rips it in half. he tries to escape from the bunker by driving into the gates. However,
Noh and his men catch him in the act as his escape plan fails. the Medic gets apprehended, after
which Noh reveals his true identity. However, the zombie attacks one of the soldiers, despite being
ripped in half. Noh shoots at the zombie multiple times, but can only kill him after a headshot.
the Medic gets locked up, and he thinks back to the time the real Yoo was caught by Ma's rebel
army, who blamed him for infecting everyone at the bunker. During this flashback, Kang goes
to meet his friend, but finds an ugly zombie and fears for his life. However, Kang is spared by the
zombie because he's infected as well. Kang finds his buddy, who is also infected beyond cure; so he
kills him with crocodile tears in his eyes. Back to the present, Doctor inspects all the
soldiers to see who all are infected. Meanwhile, the Medic tries to free himself, but struggles to
do so. Things get tricky, as the infected soldiers raise their guns against the other soldiers. One
of the infected soldiers turns into a zombie, so a human soldier shoots him out of fear. the
Medic manages to trip the lights, and this leads to a hardcore shootout, with some of the soldiers
getting killed in the process. However, one of the infected survivors doesn't feel any pain, despite
losing his arm. Noh goes to check on another infected soldier, but sees that he's completely
fine now. Noh thinks that the zombie virus simply goes away after some time, so he confronts the
Medic whose infection has become quite prominent. Noh angrily scolds the Medic, and says that his
men could've survived if they knew the virus would go away. However, the Medic says that he doesn't
care, because his own men didn't deserve to die like mad dogs. Later, Noh spots soldier Skinny,
who has unfortunately become infected. Noh gives him a warm hug, but sends him to meet Jesus in
cold blood. Frustrated over the virus, Noh decides to kill everyone, so that the virus doesn't spread
any further, just like what Kang had done. Doctor is against this, but Noh reveals that both of them
are also infected. Noh gets to work and kills the Medic; after which he pours kerosene all over the
bunker. Meanwhile, the other soldiers hide their rashes, and convince themselves that the virus is
fake because they don't want to die. However, they smell kerosene and hear about the Medic's
death. The soldiers suspect Noh, and confront him while he's pouring more kerosene. They threaten
him to stop his insanity, because they want to get out of this hell hole. Noh is outnumbered by
the soldiers; but then Doctor comes to help him out. A fierce shootout follows where most of the
other soldiers are killed, but Doctor runs out of ammo and gets shot as well. After all the madness,
it eventually comes down to Noh and one other survivor. They engage in muscle wrestling,
but Noh gets killed. the survivor tries to escape the bunker, while a backup team arrives at the
scene. The survivor opens the gate to the outside world, but triggers a bomb that Noh had set as
a backup. This ends up killing everyone inside the bunker, and the backup team takes protective
measures. The movie ends with a flashback to Kang recording his final words on the tape recorder,
where he talks about the zombie virus, and says not to spare anyone from this bunker.
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