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Gangster Seok-tae (Kwon Oh-jung) takes off with some of his gang's
diamonds, transporting them inside of his body - but then he has a
car-accident in the middle of nowhere, and when he is helped by a friendly
sextet of farmers living in a nearby mansion - the only one for miles
around - his troubles are just beginning. Because while he's shitting out
the diamonds, the farmers play a harmless little prank on him, which
accidently kills him ... and when our farmers find one of his diamonds hje
has tried to hide in his nose (!), they decide to just let him disappear
by walling him up. And when it turns out that Seok-tae isn't even really
dead yet, they just beat him over the head with a shovel.
However, Seok-tae's gang doesn't take lightly to jewel thieves, so they
send gangster Yang-yi (Lim Chang Jung) and his men after Seok-tae, and
Yang-yi soon figures the farmers must be hiding Seok-tae, but no matter
how rude they bully the farmers, they just won't talk. The situation is of
course not made any easier by the fact that the whole area is haunted and
the resident ghost (Lim Eun-kyeong) has especially taken to scaring the
living shit out of Yang-yi.
Eventually, while Yang-yi and his men are out investigating the area,
the farmers decide to remove Seok-tae - who since got a nail driven
through his forehead - from his hiding place behind the wall and bury him
for good. However, Seok-tae still is not dead and eventually makes it out
of his grave, but just when he thinks he has gotten away (with all the
diamonds but one), he is struck by lightning, thanks to the nail in his
forehead ...
Yang-yi and his men have since decided to bury the farmers alive if
they won't talk (which they don't), when they suddenly find Seok-tae and
the diamonds. It seems the farmers couldn't be luckier as they are left
off the hook just in time, but when they learn that Seok-tae carried more
than one diamond with him, they decide to get the others too and
counterattack ... and soon enough, they have Yang-yi's men all tied up,
and he can only escape them when making it to the nearby haunted
schoolhouse ... where he soon enough is attacked by the resident ghost -
but having to choose between facing the ghost and the farmers, he rather
sticks with the ghost, and soon enough she decides to stop scaring him and
instead opens up to him. It turns out that she once was Song-yi the
daughter of the schoolmaster, but when the farmers - all ex-convicts -
came to the area they killed everyone in sight including the schoolmaster
and his daughter ... and since then she has to wander the earth. Soon
enough, Yang-yi and the ghost have become friends, and he tries to win her
over to his side in his fight against the farmers, but to no avail - but
at least she saves him from the Ghost of Death.
However, having cheated death (or rather the Ghost of Death), Yang-yi
walks right into the clutches of the farmers, who soon enough decide to
cut his belly open because he has since swallowed Seok-tae's diamonds. But
before that can happen, enter Seok-tae - or rather the corpse of Seok-tae
possessed by Song-yi, and Song-yi tries to scare the living shit out of
the farmers, but to no avail, they have grown too accustomed to her being
around, and even in a one-on-one fight, she loses out against the farmers
and suddenly seems to disappear ...
Somehow, Yang-yi and his men end up all walled up while the farmers
want to go to town to fetch more of his gang's diamonds he has promised
them, but then Song-yi possesses the driver of their car and causes them
to have a fatal accident - and the car's explosion brings down the wall
our gangsters were kept behind. Now all that's left to do for them is to
honour Song-yi's grave ...
Strongly acted and wickedly funny horror/gangster-comedy with more
plottwists than one can think of without ever becoming just plain silly or
relying to much on cheap slapstick. It seems every time you think to know
where the film is going, it comes up with a turn of events more hilarious
than the last one (the best part is probably when Yang-yi starts
sweettalking the ghost girl) and even the ghost story element, which seems
to be a little out of place at first (the film playing more like a
gangster comedy), beautifully makes sense in the end.
Definitely recommended.
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