Don't Buy the Seller

Don't Buy the Seller (타겟 / Target, 2023) is a South Korean thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Director Park Hee-gon built the whole premise around one mundane digital act: leaving a bad review.

Soo-hyun has just moved into a new apartment and picks up a used washing machine through a resale app. It doesn't work, the seller's account disappears, and she posts a public comment calling him out. What she doesn't know is that the seller is a psychopathic serial killer who uses the platform to find victims — and her comment just put her at the top of his list. Obscene calls come first. Then food deliveries she never ordered, and men showing up at her door. A trip to track down the seller ends with a dead body. Shin Hye-sun, well known from Korean drama, leads the cast in a much harder register here.

Kang Tae-oh plays a neighbor whose role in the situation takes time to come clear. The film earns its tension through escalation rather than plot twists — blunt and effective, if not the most intricate the Korean thriller genre has to offer. Stream Don't Buy the Seller (2023) online on iFILM.