A deadly game begins in Night Has Come

by solstices

Night Has Come — LG’s next original drama on their new streaming platform U+ MobileTV — has released its first teaser, delivering thrills and chills alongside a blood-soaked mafia game. With no way out other than to vote off the mafia suspects, the terrified students do exactly that — but as it turns out, even gamified choices have real-life consequences.

As the school bell rings, morning dawns on Yooil High’s school retreat. It’s all fun and laughter until night falls and a mysterious message pops up on their phones. (The Killing Vote, is that you?) The perplexed students are instructed to vote for one schoolmate to eliminate, and they do just that, thinking it to be another harmless game — after all, who would want to believe that a mere tap of a phone screen could send someone to their demise?

Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens. A series of suspicious deaths fly by — some seemingly an accident, others clearly homicide. The students recoil in shock and terror upon discovering a dead friend in the gym, as an eerily chipper voice announces over the PA system: “Now, the mafia game begins.” The grim reality of the situation starts to sink in, and the students go from shell-shocked horror to desperate survival mode. They have to vote, or else death awaits — in other words, it’s kill or be killed.

Nowhere is this more apparent than the drama’s pre-release clip, which sends us right into the midst of the mystery. Their teacher isn’t answering their calls, and their phones keeps losing connection. The anxious students look to class president Kim Joon-hee — played by Kim Woo-seok (Finland Papa) — for guidance, and he defuses the tension by suggesting they get some rest since it’s late. He’ll go outside to scout for help in the morning, and vice president Jung So-mi — played by Jung Sori (Move to Heaven) — backs him up.

As the students disperse, Oh Jung-won — played by Choi Ye-bin (It’s Beautiful Now) — mutters that So-mi is a two-faced hypocrite. The genteel Lee Yoon-seo — played by Lee Jae-in (Racket Boys) — tries to mollify Jung-won, but they’re interrupted by their phones. Sixty seconds left till the voting phase ends, and by the end of it, class clown Heo Yul has the majority vote.

Interestingly, the voters’ rationale is that Yul created the mafia game — a claim which Yul staunchly refutes. Alas, Yul’s fate has been sealed. A sudden bout of tinnitus hits, his eyes turn completely white, and then he begins to smash his head onto the floor as if possessed. Terrified by the gruesomely bloody scene unfolding before their eyes, the students can barely stop Yul when he careens right out the window and onto the ground several storeys below.

“Heo Yul was a citizen,” the mysterious voice announces. Then the school bell rings, signalling nightfall — and as the moon rises on their phone screens, the students collapse to the floor in unison, fast asleep for the night. Creepy. It appears that there’s a supernatural force behind this lethal game, but surely nothing is truly as it seems.

Rounding out the main cast, we also have the number one bully Kyung Joon, played by Cha Woo-min (Weak Hero Class 1), and the resentful outcast Jin Da-beom, played by Ahn Ji-ho (All of Us Are Dead). We don’t get to see them beyond a brief glimpse in the teaser, but I’m anticipating their hierarchy turning on its head once the game is set in motion.

Helmed by PD Im Dae-woong (Search), with scripts penned by Kang Min-ji, Night Has Come premieres on December 4.

Via OSEN

 
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