Rating : i let my heartbeat raced for nothing
Cast : Song Yoon Ah, Lee Dong Wook, Lee Jong Soo
why on earth did i even watch this movie? horrors ain’t do no good to my health…even the ugliest one always makes me nearly get heart attack..
so after a row of boring drama and movies plus one good movie in a day : finishing Witch Yoo Hee (So long..oo..Dennis..), an old city drama Fog Street (ended up with a foggy head. my review : ‘what a waste of money’), chinese Kungfu Fighter (even Vaness Wu couldn’t save it), and Jang Jin’s script Big Scene (my 4th time screening the movie. am thinking to make a review later on), i said to Lee Dong Wook, “Ok, babe, make my day.”
BLAH.
i just finished it, now is about 8.30 in the morning, and i still can’t get rid of the freakin’ scenes outta my head. i fastforwarded and muted and shut my eyes and ears, and still having the damn shack in my mind. (oh..blurt it out, i don’t mind at all. i am INDEED a coward on this thing.)
oh, Arang is unique. the ghost is not like any other horror flicks. oh yes, it’s a girl with long messy hair, and bends her head like an underdog high school girl. but it wears BLACK dress..so creative..
the story itself is about a murder that leads to another murder, and then another, and another…Song Yoon Ah (Soo Young) and Lee Dong Wook(Hyun Gi) play the new-paired detectives investigating the case. after a few fact findings, they find out that all these murders somehow connected to an old case happened in a salt village 10 years earlier. the victims are those who were involved in the previous case, and seems like they all killed by odd reasons, and they all saw ghost. hmm..a serial killer ghost. now where have i heard about this before?…
Lee Dong Wook is no charming magnitude here. he’s more like a human. *sighing love* (have you realized how shallow i can be sometimes?) He is a rookie homicide detective, switching his career from forensics. (i dunno about you, but i find forensics hot…)
After the detectives found out about the salt village case, they run after the next person who was involved. but he’s hiding away, feeling distress for haunted by ghost. and how do our homicides find him?well, they break into his house, and apparently, the guy left a magazine opened, just exactly on the page where he’s leaving for. jackpot!
things get ugly when things get revealed. Hyun Gi’s not there just for a new experience. all these have something to do with his past.
then nearly by the end of the movie, i thought, hell, it’s not even a horror, it’s a sad movie.
but just when i felt relieved…dammit! it IS a horror movie!!
all in all, there’s nothing special about this movie. it’s a thriller with horror and sad romance get blended, but doesn’t turn out to be that good.
more snapshots. just click.
movie magic. now and then, young Hyun Gi and grown up Hyun Gi
when there’s an elevator, you know something’s gonna show up.
Louise, nice review of this movie tt I watched during my LDW era. Yr review is succinct n makes it more interesting than the movie itself! Perhaps I dont understd the legend of Arang 2 appreciate it better. Girls, I hv bn tied up with work, so u hvnt seen me here 4 a couple of days. Mian-ne Shenyue, I hope 2 b back in a couple of days, annyeonghikaseyo.