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Movie Name:
Ghastly
Country:
Korea
Release Date:
Aug 4, 2011
Duration:
1 hr 32 min
It all begins when Ka Hee (Hwang Ji Hyeon), an emotionally and psychologically damaged woman, finds a spirit medium to help her address her troubles. Her inability to give birth to a child had long tortured her, and now she will do anything to cheat that fate.
She ends up burying an orphan in a large traditional pot used to bury kimchi underground during the winter and killing him. What she gains for this merciless act is a child of her own. Ka Hee eventually gives birth to a son she names Bin, but Ka Hee soon meets a brutal death.
The film continues as Bin’s aunt Sunny (Han Eun Jeong) and her husband, Jang Hwan (Park Seong Min) come to live with the now orphaned Bin in his home, which is haunted and where the pot still is. Bin also starts to reveal his violent side.
I would simply describe it as cheap and lazy. The scariest part of the movie was me worrying about anyone with epilepsy watching it and getting a seizure. It was filled with random flashy light and quickly changing scenes/pictures. Both the story and the acting was questionable, as if they overdone it but did not do enough at the same time. How is that even possible? Most side plots bring NOTHING to the main story; the characters are not consistent in their portray and motives. Also, why they introduced the sub-plot line of the husband having hots for Yoo Rin was beyond me, since it NEVER led to anything. Truly. The sub-plot is just gone at some point, never to be mentioned again.
Ju-on: Girl in Black
Country:
Japan
Release Date:
Jun 27, 2009
Duration:
60 min
A nurse named Yuko (Kago) has a strange experience while taking care of a girl named Fukie. Test results show a cyst inside Fukie’s body, but that cyst is actually the leftover grudge from a baby who was unable to be born. The cyst’s grudge spreads to Fukie and everyone around her. Soon Fukie’s father goes mad and commits murder. Fukie’s sister Mariko has special spiritual power, and together with their mother, they have some success driving out the evil spirit. But the worst of the grudge is yet to come.
I’m well aware that Japanese horror often goes for unusual scares and gruesome pictures, but some lines should not be crossed. At some point, it goes from scary and disturbing to ridiculous and laughable. And if you put baby Voldemort in the belly of a young girl, you have crossed the line. The thing is: it was overall boring. I could barely remember any scene right after I finished it. Not to mention the failed jump scares that were so strangely timed and often out of place, I could not care less about them. It was an edgy mess presented unintentionally in a truly comedic way.
The Whispering
Country:
Korea
Release Date:
Jul 13, 2018
Duration:
1 hr 31 min
After the notorious college entrance exam, Eun Ha and her friends are supposed to have fun but are still busy to build a better career to enter a better college. “This is going to be our last winter as a teenager, and we should do something memorable!” Woo Sung, the teenage ‘Youtuber’ suggests an idea to go out for a trip. On their way to the beach, they unexpectedly arrive at a spooky closed-down haunted house, where the owner killed his wife and daughter. Despite a shaman’s warning to stay away from this haunted house, Woo Sung plots to broadcast a fake live show of ghosts. When they are shooting, each friend disappears one by one after hearing a whisper. And when Eun Ha is trying to find her friends, she hears another whisper of somebody she knows.
Truly nothing worked in this movie. What even was it? Started as a typical horror, moved on to be a slice of life set in high school. Then it gives the psychological thriller vibes, to end with some cheap jump scares typical for found footage and paranormal horrors. They introduced too many plot lines for both living and dead characters, but in the end, none of them is explained and explored enough for me to care.
Worst aspect? The cast had no chemistry. Nothing was believable coz I could not even grasp why these people were friends and decided to go anywhere together. You had all types of stereotypical horror characters, but since there was no clear connection between them, I felt like they might kill each other before the ghosts do. I kind of wanted them to die as soon as possible, so both their and my suffering would end, and I could turn the movie off.
Horror Stories II
Country:
Korea
Release Date:
Jun 5, 2013
Duration:
1 hr 35 min
“Beginning Story – 444”: Department Head Park and new employee Se Young walk into the secret basement storage room to take out old files. Park knows Se Young possesses a freaky talent, which is to communicate with the dead. Park orders Se Young to draw out secrets from cases that are suspected of insurance fraud. At 4:44 AM, when their stories about to end, a dark shadow is cast over them.
“Cliff – Jeolbyuk”: Dong Wook and Sung Kyun are stuck on a dizzying cliff, where they can’t see the ground. They only have one candy bar. In order to live, one of them has to die.
“Accident – Sago”: Ji Eun, Mi Ra, and Sun Joo fail a teacher certification examination. To cheer themselves up, they set out on a road trip. Due to an accident, it soon turns into a nightmare.
“Escape – Talchool”: On his first day as a trainee teacher, Byeong Shin is humiliated by his students. He follows a strange story told by his student Tan Hee, who is possessed by black magic. He then becomes locked in the entrance to Hell.
I don’t even know. The first Horror Stories was not that great either, but at least the connecting plot was engaging and interesting to watch. Here, they failed from the Beginning (Story). Cliff legit seemed like a Snickers ad and Accident was painfully predictable and boring with close to zero horror elements in it. I was a bit excited for Escape since I enjoyed the story from the Horror Stories directed by Jung Bum Sik, but what I’ve got here I could never predict. It didn’t fit the mood of all the other stories, was far more focused on ridiculous humour and crazy plotlines than horror, but it was at least a bit entertaining.
Even though the first Horror Stories were mediocre, this had even less plot, less interesting characters and less proper scares.
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