|
Available on DVD! To buy, click on link(s) below and help keep this site afloat (commissions earned) |
Always make sure of DVD-compatibility!!!
|
|
|
|
|
Apparently the spirit of Jin-ju, who 9 years ago died in her school
under mysterious circumstances, does return to the school & finds
nothing better to do than kill her old class teacher, then hang her body
in the school yard. The school personnel does pretty little to calm the
disturbed students though, above all the perverse teacher Mad Dog, whose
answer to everything seems to be a sound beating. Ji-oh & Jae-yi,
the girls who originally found the dead teacher, try to cope their
trauma by painting, an attempt that is at one instance brutally punished
by Mad Dog, while Jung-sook - former best student of the class - has a
considerable drop in grades. & then there's Eun-young (Lee Mi-Yeon), former
student of this school & actually classmate & best friend of
Jin-ju, who does beginning to sense something is not right, but her
investigations lead to nothing when she is unable to find some missing
yearbooks that would be vital to solving the mystery. When a few days
later Mad Dog is murdered but his body not found, only Ji-oh, a
spiritually gifted girl, feels he is actually dead & thinks it
possible she might have killed the teacher while being possessed by
Jun-ji. & she is also told the truth of this girl's death soon, as
Eun-young tells her the real circumstances of that event, that Jun-ji
was bullied & locked into the art room, with Eun-young unable &
too afraid to help her, & in the art room she met with a fatal
accident. Immediately after that story is told, Jung-sook hangs herself and
Ji-oh finds the dead body of Mad Dog. But Eun-young also finds the
missing yearbooks & finds out thuat shy & modest Jae-yi is
actually the corporeal manifestation of spirit Jun-ji - but almost too
late since Jae-yi is already preparing to kill her too. But fortunately
Ji-oh has somehow come to the same conclusions as Eun-young, & she
can talk Jae-yi out of her purposes & persuade her to disappear
permanently - which is only possible because Jun-ji/Jae-yi sees her only
true friend in Ji-oh. This movie is not without atmosphere or
suspense - which makes it such a shame that the script is actually way
to complex for a movie of roughly 100 minutes: Many of the subplots
& characters as well as the elaborate critique of the Korean
educational system do just distract from the actual story & do take
the horror its sting while not actually leading just about anywhere.
Also the bittersweet ending is just about the worst a horrorfilm could
have, distracting considerably from the fact that this film was supposed
to be scary.
|