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Hwang Jeong-min,
Yu Seon,
Kang Shin-il,
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Shin Tae-ra
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: Not Rated
: Genius Entertainment/CJ Entertainment
: Foreign, Horror, Slashers, Supernatural/Occult, Ghosts, Korea, Asian Horror
: 103 min.
: Korean
: English
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Audiences long bored with American-style horror films have gravitated to the more creative and creepy ideas that have emerged out of Asia. For those who fall into this camp and are looking for something dark, psychological, and straight-up terrifying, this Korean splatter-fest should do the trick. When an insurance investigator uncovers something unnerving in a backwoods home he has been ordered to investigate, his own past will drive him and his family to the brink of sanity. But the personal demons that motivate him are nothing compared to the real-life horror he is about to come face to face with. This K-horror flick is full of style, twists, and dazzling performances by Hwang Jeong-Min and Gang Shin-Il.
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by NichelleR
May 28, 2009 - 1:36 PM PDT
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1 out of 1 members found this review helpful
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Granted, I had different expectations when I began watching this - the description I'd read here used words like "slasher fest" and "truly terrifying." I was in the mood for some serious Asian horror and I found it neither terrifying, nor all that slasher fest-y. (In fact, other than blood and one bit at the end, it really avoided being graphic or too gorey.)
Regardless, I'm not an expert on Asian horror, but I am a huge fan and I found this movie to be tediously predictable. Even as a psychological thriller, I found it sorely lacking and it didn't really push any buttons. I knew what was coming around every turn. I also had a hard time understanding how what was happening in the present related that strongly to the main characters past, as well. It was a loose, temporary connection.
Then there's the main characters immovable belief in humanity... laughable.
Painfully boring. And painfully disappointing. |
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