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Hwa-i-teu: Jeo-woo-eui mel-lo-di (2011)
Well paced and truly frightening
Well I will say that I been getting more into Asian horror over the past few years. This film is by far different that most Asian Horror Films that I seen, Different in terms of the main focus of the film, which they focus around a struggling Korean Pop Band who steals a song that happens to be cursed and they become popular. You would think an idea like that would fail for a horror film right? Wrong.......... the plot for this film is well paced and horror in the film just builds up as the film goes on.
The things I really enjoyed about this film were the actresses. The Cast for this film is really attractive and good looking and fit the appearance of a K-Pop band. Plus this is probably one of the few films I saw where things weren't predictable in the plot in the horror. Also I loved the horror scenes they were really terrifying and scary, non of that cheesy Jump Scare stuff. If you jump in this film your most likely jumping out of your cloths into a shell.
Overall this film was great and of course with the main focus of the horror being a Asian Ghost Girl with long hair looking for revenge is what knocks this rating down. This movie is very recent and came out last year so I'd say give it time before it becomes more popular and perhaps gathers a "Cult" following.
Honogurai mizu no soko kara (2002)
I'm highly disappointed in this film
I went into this movie expecting something great, and extremely creepy and traumatizing scary. Instead I just got a bunch of half scare scenes that made me say "WTF is that it" I was expecting the scares to be really disturbing and make me jump out of my skin. But instead I was sitting there expecting more to happen but nothing happened. The one thing about this film I do enjoy though, is the plot. I felt the plot was well done and the purpose of the ghost mysteriously appearing out of no where was relevant. I see this film gets a lot of great positive reviews and praise from other people which is fine since that's their opinion. I never seen the American version so I don't plan on comparing the two. I just felt that this film lacked the scares and haunting images you would see in other J-Horror movies like Ringu and Ju-On. Like I said I'll give this film props for the plot, but I'm disappointed in terms of the horror provided in this film.