MIDNIGHT BALLAD FOR GHOST THEATER

MIDNIGHT BALLAD FOR GHOST THEATER
(Samgeori Geukjang)

Korea/2006

Genre: Musical/ Horror/ Comedy

Synopsis:
It is late at night, just outside the humble home where a disillusioned young high school student lives alone with her frail grandmother. Despite the late hour and inclement weather the old lady is determined to go out, claiming that the neighborhood theater is about to play an old film the young girl has never heard of, one that grandma herself starred in back in the day. She wanders out into the night, never to return. The girl, now all alone, abandons her schooling to search for her missing grandmother, eventually taking a job in the box office of the theater that was to be grandma’s destination in the hope that if she simply waits there long enough the old woman will finally arrive for her phantom movie screening. But grandma’s movie isn’t the only phantom here, the theater itself playing host to a quartet of singing ghosts who appear late at night, eventually befriending the girl even as they torment the theater manager with memories he’d do anything to just leave behind. This is the Midnight Ballad For Ghost Theater...


The Grudge meets Rocky Horror Picture Show.
That was my first thought on this Film and it will probably be yours, too.

I was convinced that I'd switch off the movie after
10 minutes for it would be totally stupid and stuff...but I didn't.
Nope. Watched the whole movie. ADORED IT.

It features different types of music, not only pop songs and stuff. The songs are catchy, and after watching it the second time I found myself singing along at some parts - even though I had NO idea what it was I was singing.


The actors were pretty good singers - okay, the guy that played the owner of the theater could use some more practise, but the kinda chubby woman reminded me of some sort of korean version of Queen Latifa...she has a pretty awesome voice. A nice running gag is the owner of the theater, who has great intentions in ending his life...

The story and the feeling of the film makes up for the kinda...crappy and lame look of a certain Mr. Bullhead. ...hehehe...he...ahh, why am I still talking? Just go ahead and watch the movie!


OHMIGOD!
SINGING AND DANCING!!!