Kwak Do Wan, Hwang Jung Min, Chun Woo Hee, Jun Kunimura, Kim Hwan Hee
Movie rating: 8/10 Neck score: B
I've been meaning to watch a real Korean horror film for a while, and my boss, who love horror films recommended this one to me. It's weird to have Korean films recommended to me when I'm the one who first recommended them to him, but that's cool. He just likes films in general, so why not. This one was superbly made. The pacing is really good, which is interesting because it's a long movie and really slow paced, but at the same time, it builds well. Well, I don't know how slow paced it can be when it starts off with death and there is plenty of death and carnage along the way. It's not super jumpy or violent, but it is gruesome. We mostly see the aftermath of the murders.
It's not really jumpy scary much, more like a suspense that builds up as we watch this ordinary man, a lazy cop in a remote mountain village, try to figure out what is going on as violent murders start happening around the village. They all have the same things in common. One family member going crazy and murdering all the rest. They all have a horrible rash before, and they usually commit suicide after all the murders. Also, they are very violent and bloody murders. People start blaming the Japanese stranger, and cite having nightmares after random encounters with him. The suspense only builds as people closer to our ordinary man begin to be affected, including his daughter.
