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Shadow in the palace
South-Korea, 2007
112 min
Mystery / Horror
A movie by Kim Mee-Jeung with Park Jin-hee, Seo Young-hee, Lim Jung-eun, Jun Hae-jin, Yun Sae-ah.
Synopsis : Some time ago during the Cheoseon dynasty of Korea, the body of a servant maiden was found inside her quarter. All the chief maiden says it is a suicide. But nurse Chun-Ryung doing the autospy discovered some intriguing facts that her superior wants to hide. This is a murder ! Chun-Ryung wants to uncover the truths about this, but the road will be hard...
My Rating : 9/10
This movie is really well made and interesting. You can see how hard was the life for those young women at the court. A life were they had to be virtuous all the time. If they didn't respect those rules, it could mean death for them. It's mostly like a detective movie in a wonderful set with gorgeous costumes and great acting. The surnatural plays a part in that movie, thought it wasn't necessary, the movie would have as great without it too. I don't really wants to call it horror, but since movies like "The Uninvited"(Korean movie, not the american remake of A tale of two sisters) or " A Tale Of Two Sisters" are called horror movies, this one should be too. An interesting point about the movie is that it's almost a completly female-made movie. It was Kim Mee-Jeung's first movie and as a woman a still very patriarcal country as Korea, she did a movie with a low budget and a lot of talented young women. A proof they can do as great as their male-counterpart. But still it's a movie about women made by women. I recommand that movie !
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The Appartment
South-Korea, 2006
90 minutes
Horror
A movie by Ahn Byeong-gi with Ko So-Young , Kang Sung-Jin , Jang Hee-Jin , Park Ha-Sun
Synopsis : Sae-Jin, a young woman who lives in an apartment in a Seoul suburb, amuses herself by observing the windows of the apartments on the other side. One day she notices that the lights of some of these apartments are turned off at the very same time. She begins to suspect that this pattern is somehow related to a series of mysterious deaths in the neighborhood. She becomes more and more deeply involved as she attempts to solve the mystery...
My Rating : 8.5/10
The story is about a Lonely woman that is living alone a boring life. She's tired of hurting others and being hurted, so she shutted herself to the world. But after living a strange experience in the subway, she began to open herself to a young woman in a wheelchair. It's her who tried to make contact with Sae-Jin first. This young lovely and charming girl succeed to break her armor. So Sae-Jin began to care about her, and she notice from her windows some weaked things to happen to her new friend, but meanwhile she noticed people dying mysteriously in the appartments around the young girl's at 9:56 pm.
Well I like the movie :-)
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Whispering Corridors 4 : Voice (Yeogo gwae-dam 4: Moksori )
South-Korea, 2005
104 minutes
Horror
A movie by : Choi Ik-Hwan with (Cha Ye-ryeon ... Cho-ah)
(Kim Ok-Bin ... Young-eon)
(Kim Seo-hyeong ... Hee-myun)
(Lim Hyeon-kyeong ... Hyo-jung)
Na Eun-kyeong
Seo Ji-hye
Synopsis : While training after hours in her high-school, the aspirant singer Park Young-Eon is mysteriously killed and her body vanishes. Her ghost is invisible and trapped in the school, but her best friend Kang Sun-min, who broadcast in the lunchtime in school, is able to hear her voice. After the suicide of their music teacher, Sun-min, aided by her mate Cho-Ah, finds that another student, Hyo-Jung, died in the same elevator trunk some time ago. Meanwhile Young-Eon recalls details of her life, disclosing why she died.
My Rating : 8/10
A nice little horror story with mystery and plot-twist.
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