kking-68641
I never saw any real explanation for anything that happened. And I never figured out the purpose or motivation of several of the main characters.
There was a shaman who never really accomplished anything, a priest who seemed to have no purpose in the show at all, a Japanese man who is the target of blatant racism (this is apparently his only purpose), and a woman who seems to be important at the end but we have no idea why she's important or who she is. There is an implication (or direct accusation) that evil is targeting this one man because of his sin, but it hits lots of other people before it touches him.
The end is a total mess - very tense, they do try to keep you on the edge of your seat, but the issue with the unclear characters bothered me too much to really enjoy the movie.
Yusuf Kemal Tok (yuketo)
The most original horror film i have ever seen. Even i hate horror movies -because of they are too boring for me- this one made my day.
ahradwan6
I'm not a big fan of horror movies and i don't regard them as my type of movies sort of speak but i watched the movie and maybe because i don't watch a lot of them i didn't get the way the movie was progressing, the last 30 minutes literally got my at the edge of my chair but the other 2 hours i felt nothing but boredom and i hoped to understand the movie at the end but it left my with a lot to wonder,,, maybe that is what the movie aims to achieve but i think it's simply not my cop of tea
RJC-99
If you like Asian horror, you probably aren't looking for the equivalent of Abbott & Costello Meet The Spooky Chick With Long Hair. That's close to what Hong-jin Na has done with his half-parody, half-serious take on his supernatural material. He's more serious than not, but he's also fatally hung his tale on a cop protagonist who's a pudgy bumbling wimp. We're meant to see multiplying local horrors as the forge that helps officer Jong-goo man up, if not in the eyes of his bored wife then at least to save his cutie pie kid. He's determined to scream and run for it like a Korean Lou Costello.This prefab spook house is filled with slapstick, zombies, ghosts, plagues, exorcisms and gore, but Na's predictable and it's always obvious where he's going next. He has an OK eye, a plodder's pacing and a manga's paint-by-number characters. His action sequences typically involve the same repeated pratfalls -- he's no Yeon Sang-ho! He does, however, pull out all the stops for a berserk tongue-in-cheek shamanic ritual that's the only memorable sequence in the film.
AD
