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After being bullied at school once too often, Yoo-jin (Lee Se-eun), the
new girl in town, puts a spell on her tormentors - and nobody is more
surprised than her that the spell actually works. Thing is, Yoo-jin has
blackouts during each of her victims' deaths, and she feels like she's
under the influence of a vengeful spirit or something. Two of her
teachers, Mr Han (Choi Seong-min) and Ms Lee (Kim Gyu-ri) investigate ...
and come to the conclusion the girl is absolutely right, she is possessed
by Kim In-suk (Lee Yu-ri), a blind girl that died in the same school
Yoo-jin is visiting 30 years ago, and she was actually killed by her
classmates. But that's only a fraction of the story, part of a dark secret
the whole town has tried to surpress for the last 30 years. Back then, Kim
In-suk and her mother were moving here, and something was strange about
them right away. The locals soon suspected some kind of (black) magic ...
and were right even, but Kim In-suk's mother didn't use her powers for
evil, just to give her blind daughter a normal life, to be her eyes. Yet
the locals got freaked out by the newcomers, and ultimately, while Kim
In-Suk was killed by her classmates, her mom was burned alive in her own
house, but not without putting a curse on the whole village. With all
this information at hand, only one question is left open: If Kim In-suk's
spirit has returned, what about her mother's? The quite shocking answer:
mother's spirit has decided to possess none other than Ms Lee, and now
mother and daughter go on a killing spree, avenging themselves on all the
people who wronged them 30 years ago before making a getaway and starting
the quiet life they always wanted somewhere else. Back in the village,
police is baffled when they find fingerprints of a woman who died 30 years
ago at several crimescenes.
Creepy, atmospheric and effective,
this film still fails to properly convince, and it's all down to its story
that just tries too hard to be smart, contains a few too many plottwists
in an effort to keep the viewer guessing, but as a result becomes just
overly convoluted and a tad too hard to understand. That's not to say Bunshinsaba
is a total loss though, it's quite ok as far as horror for its own sake is
concerned, but the mystery plot to carry the shocks could have done with a
little (or even a lot) of ironing out.
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