The Cat is a 2011 South Korean horror film

Horror film

Horror films seek to elicit a negative emotional reaction from viewers by playing on the audience's most primal fears. They often feature scenes that startle the viewer through the means of macabre and the supernatural, thus frequently overlapping with the fantasy and science fiction genres...

 directed by Byun Seung-Wook. The film is set in Winter in South Korea, winter, where So-yeon (Park Min-yeong) works at a small pet-grooming shop called Kitty N Puppy. So-yeon sufferers from claustrophobia and starts having apparitions of a ghostly young girl with cat-like eyes (Kim Ye-ron).

Release

The Cat premiered in South Korea on July 7, 2011. On it's opening week, it grossed $2,048,882 in South Korea placing it at second place at the weekend box office. It grossed a total of $4,514,589 in South Korea and $4,461,042 with it's foreign markets.