THE WIG

THE WIG
(Gabal)

Korea/2005

Genre: Horror

Synopsis:
A young woman is discharged from hospital after being treated for a cancer is seems unlikely she will survive. Having endured the devastating effects of her treatment, the woman is left without hair and her sister buyers her a wig, as way of clinging on to the little dignity she has left. However, it's not long before her sister begins to suspect that the wig has a sinister power that is rapidly taking control of her ailing sibling...

Now this was one hariy movie.
I this case, hairy means: Oh my god was that bad.
The movie started off pretty interesting, but lost substance pretty quickly and ended rather unsurprisingly.
The end was even worth a laugh, even though I'm pretty sure the writer didn't intend to make this funny. Yeah. Should have been scary and dramatic, huh? In addition to that, the ending was WAY too long and didn't make as much sense as it should have made. Not even the good acting was able to make up for this...
The beginning - okay, the first 10 minutes- WERE interesting, but then Mr.Hyun-jung Do decited to stop thinking and just get out every cliche of a horror movie he could come up with. It
even has a "cat-jumps-out-of-closet" scene! SCARY!!!
I mean - have you seen the SIMPSONS Treehouse of Horror Episode where Homer is posessed by his toupee? Same story. Only better. Ha.

But I know:
Some call it plagiarism, others call it research....
I call it boring.
End of review.

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!!!

THE FOX FAMILY

THE FOX FAMILY
(Gumiho gajok)

Korea/2006

Genre: Musical/Horror/Comedy

Synopsis:
A family of mystic foxes, dreaming about being humans - a dream that can come true! All they have to do is eat the liver of a human being.
But, as always, things don't go the way they were planned by the foxes...





So...yeah
Korean-Horror-musical Thingie.
Sounds pretty strange. And it IS strange, but strange in a good way. When I first read about the movie I was: WTF???

But - it was quite entertaining Not scary at all, but pretty funny. At least in some parts. The detective reminded me pretty much of a certain FBI Agent named MILTON DAMMERS. Check out Peter Jackson's THE FRIGHTENERS and you'll know what I'm talking about.



The bad thing: The songs aren't very
catchy. You spend several minutes trying to figure
out the melody, and just when you
think you got it, the song is over. Eh.

But: HEY! A Korean-Horror-Dance-Comedy-Musical-Thingie!!!!
Singing and dancing and stuff!

Isn't that AWESOME?!
Go and check it out for Christ's sake!!!