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* CaughtOnTape: Ji-Won accidentally videos her own murder when she drops her phone while being strangled.
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* LipstickAndLoadMontage: After sneaking out of school, Ina and Myung-Hyo change into clubbing outfits and apply makeup before goin to the club.


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* OnlySmartPeopleMayPass: The killer's questions are incredibly complicated, and everytime the protagonists fail to solve one, another student dies.
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* UnwillingSuspension: The killer hoists Myung-Hyo off the floor by one ankle and leaves her hanging there. [[spoiler:And then drops her to her death.]]

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* DeusAxMachina: When [[spoiler:Mr. Kin]] goes berserk during the memorial service, he grabs a fire axe from a case inside the auditorium and starts attacking the crowd.

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* CutPhoneLines: The killer cuts all the phone lines in the school, steals all of the students' mobile phones, and sabotages the teachers'.
* DeusAxMachina: When [[spoiler:Mr. Kin]] Kim]] goes berserk during the memorial service, he grabs a fire axe from a case inside the auditorium and starts attacking the crowd.


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* SelfOffense: A spooked Miss Choi swings at an opening door when she is searching the deserted school. It is the security guard and she buries the nails in the plank she is wielding into his palm.
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* DeusAxMachina: When [[spoiler:Mr. Kin]] goes berserk during the memorial service, he grabs a fire axe from a case inside the auditorium and starts attacking the crowd.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-Won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they killed several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-Won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they killed several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]]]
* WrenchWhack: When searching the school for the killer, Mr. Kim grabs a pipe wrench from a storeroom and carries it as a weapon for the rest of the film (for all the good it does him).
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* HooksAndCrooks: The boy carrying the mobile phones is snagged through the ankle with a hook and ten dragged up into the ceiling.
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* BringMeMyBrownPants: Myung-Hyo wets herself when a body falls from the ceiling in the auditorium.
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* DrowningPit: The first girl to be murdered is drowned in a glass tank that slowly fills with water.
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During final exams at Chang-in School, a lock-down of the school suddenly takes place. One-by-one, students disappear and are being tortured and killed by a mysterious person. In order for everyone to make it out alive, a group of highly intelligent students must answer a series of questions. As they spend more time on these questions, answers about a young girl's death slowly emerges.

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During final exams at Chang-in School, a lock-down of School the school suddenly takes place. is placed in lock-down. One-by-one, students disappear and are being tortured and killed by a mysterious person. In order for everyone to make it out alive, a group of highly intelligent students must answer a series of questions. As they spend more time on these questions, answers about a young girl's death slowly emerges.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Loaded of it.
** [[spoiler:Hye-Young was in a rectangular tank and drowned.]]
** [[spoiler:Dong-Hyuk was locked in a cage and suffocated from wax covering his mouth and was dropped from the ceiling.]]
** [[spoiler:Cha Jae-Wook died from blood loss and flower petals being stuffed down his throat.]]
** [[spoiler:Yoo Soo-Jin was stuffed in a washer.]]

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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Loaded of it.
Whoo boy
** [[spoiler:Hye-Young was is drowned in a rectangular tank and drowned.tank.]]
** [[spoiler:Dong-Hyuk was is locked in a cage and suffocated from wax covering his mouth and was dropped from the ceiling.covered in wax.]]
** [[spoiler:Cha Jae-Wook died dies from blood loss and having flower petals being stuffed down his throat.]]
** [[spoiler:Yoo Soo-Jin was is stuffed in a washer.]]



* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was slowly going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-Won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled, but made no attempt to save her. Ever since, he had been feeling guilty for not helping her.]]

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* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was slowly going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-Won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled, but made no attempt to save her. Ever since, he had been feeling guilty for not helping her.His guilt was driving him insane.]]
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** [[spoiler:Yoo Soo-Jin was stuffed in a was stuffed in a washer.]]

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** [[spoiler:Yoo Soo-Jin was stuffed in a was stuffed in a washer.]]
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* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The club scene.
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** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Kim Ji-Won's parents. They orchestrated all of the murders and willingly sacrificed innocent students to find out who killed their daughter. The father was even willing to ''set everyone on fire'' just to get the information he wanted.]]
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* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-Won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled and has been traumatized by it ever since.]]

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* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was slowly going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-Won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled and has strangled, but made no attempt to save her. Ever since, he had been traumatized by it ever since.feeling guilty for not helping her.]]



** Another one happens in the sequel when Se-Hee has a dream about playing piano with Tae-Yeon to seeing her corpse.

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** Another one happens in the sequel when Se-Hee has a dream about playing piano with Tae-Yeon to seeing her an eyeless corpse.



* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, after realizing what the whole setup was about, claimed that he wasn't going down alone. Translation: he'd rather have everyone killed before getting taken away for murder.]]

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* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, after realizing what the whole setup was about, claimed that he wasn't going down alone. Translation: he'd rather have everyone in the school killed before getting taken away for murder.giving himself up.]]



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-Won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they involved several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-Won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they involved killed several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]
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* AttemptedRape: [[spoiler:This happened with Tae-yeon in the sequel.]]
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** Another one happens in the sequel when Se-Hee has a dream about playing piano with Tae-Yeon to seeing her corpse.
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** Happens again in the sequel when the lights in the classroom go out.
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In 2010, ''Death Bell 2: Bloody Camp'' was filmed. However, instead of continuing the story of the first film, it relocates to a different school with different characters and a different murder mystery.

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During final exams at Chang-in School, a sudden lockdown of the school takes place. One-by-one, students disappear and are being tortured and killed by a mysterious person. In order for everyone to make it out alive, a group of highly intelligent students must answer a series of questions. As they spend more time on these questions, answers about a young girl's death slowly emerges.

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During final exams at Chang-in School, a sudden lockdown lock-down of the school suddenly takes place. One-by-one, students disappear and are being tortured and killed by a mysterious person. In order for everyone to make it out alive, a group of highly intelligent students must answer a series of questions. As they spend more time on these questions, answers about a young girl's death slowly emerges.



* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-Wook, killed Kim Ji-Won.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-Wook, killed was the one Kim Ji-Won.]]


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* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The premise and the ending is kind of similar to VideoGame/{{Misao}}.
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* ForDoomTheDeathBellTolls: Every time the murderer has this play whenever a new question has been prepared and a new person has been captured.

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* ForDoomTheDeathBellTolls: ForDoomTheBellTolls: Every time the murderer has this play whenever a new question has been prepared and a new person has been captured.
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* ForDoomTheDeathBellTolls: Every time the murderer has this play whenever a new question has been prepared and a new person has been captured.
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* EpilepticFlashingLights: Happens when the students investigate the girls' dorms.
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* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Loaded of it.
** [[spoiler:Hye-Young was in a rectangular tank and drowned.]]
** [[spoiler:Dong-Hyuk was locked in a cage and suffocated from wax covering his mouth and was dropped from the ceiling.]]
** [[spoiler:Cha Jae-Wook died from blood loss and flower petals being stuffed down his throat.]]
** [[spoiler:Yoo Soo-Jin was stuffed in a was stuffed in a washer.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-wook, killed Kim Ji-won.]]
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Kim Ji-won's parents. They orchestrated all of the murders and willingly sacrificed innocent students to find out who killed their daughter. The father was even willing to ''set everyone on fire'' just to get the information he wanted.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-wook, Chang-Wook, killed Kim Ji-won.Ji-Won.]]
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Kim Ji-won's Ji-Won's parents. They orchestrated all of the murders and willingly sacrificed innocent students to find out who killed their daughter. The father was even willing to ''set everyone on fire'' just to get the information he wanted.]]



* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Ina had a dream in the beginning relating to Ji-won.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled and has been traumatized by it ever since.]]

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* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Ina had a dream in the beginning relating to Ji-won.
Ji-Won.
* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-won.Ji-Won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled and has been traumatized by it ever since.]]]]
* MoodWhiplash: We go from discovering Beom with a corpse to seeing Ina and Myung-Hyo dancing at the club.



* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they involved several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]

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* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-won's [[spoiler:Ji-Won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they involved several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]
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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: The club scene.

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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The club scene.
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* BigLippedAligatorMoment: The club scene.
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* DreamsOfThingsToCome: Ina had a dream in the beginning relating to Ji-won.

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* DreamsOfThingsToCome: DreamingOfThingsToCome: Ina had a dream in the beginning relating to Ji-won.

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-wook, killedd Kim Ji-won.]]

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* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-wook, killedd killed Kim Ji-won.]]


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* DreamsOfThingsToCome: Ina had a dream in the beginning relating to Ji-won.


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* SadistTeacher: Mr. Lee is unusually aggressive with the students.


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* TorturePorn: Some of the deaths could be viewed as this.
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'''Death Bell''' is a Korean mystery thriller film made in 2008.

During final exams at Chang-in School, a sudden lockdown of the school takes place. One-by-one, students disappear and are being tortured and killed by a mysterious person. In order for everyone to make it out alive, a group of highly intelligent students must answer a series of questions. As they spend more time on these questions, answers about a young girl's death slowly emerges.

!! Provides Examples Of:

* BigBad: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, a.k.a Hwang Chang-wook, killedd Kim Ji-won.]]
** BiggerBad: [[spoiler:Kim Ji-won's parents. They orchestrated all of the murders and willingly sacrificed innocent students to find out who killed their daughter. The father was even willing to ''set everyone on fire'' just to get the information he wanted.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople: Cho Beom, the boy who was going crazy as the movie went on, was seeing images of Ji-won. [[spoiler:It turns out that he saw her being strangled and has been traumatized by it ever since.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler:Mr. Kim, after realizing what the whole setup was about, claimed that he wasn't going down alone. Translation: he'd rather have everyone killed before getting taken away for murder.]]
* WellIntentionedExtremist: [[spoiler:Ji-won's parents. All they wanted was to find out who killed their daughter. Yet, they involved several innocent students who had nothing to do with her death and kept everyone trapped in the school.]]

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