(2005) ***1/2
James inherits a creepy old house from his family and soon after he and his fiance Yo move in strange things begin to happen. They believe a cat may be hiding up in the scary attic when they begin to hear noises. Yo starts to dig deeper into the history of the house and slowly she uncovers a curse connected to James' family. It seems that there is an evil fetal ghost hanging around making everyone's life miserable and it needs to be fed.
The film opens up with a real freaky scene of several people hung to death in a circle, legs swinging and a small girl alive and bloody crawling on the floor in the middle of it all. This whole scenario gets explained much later in the film but it sure is an attention getter. A dark and ominous air surrounds the entirety of the film adding to the mystery as it slowly unfolds. If the film has a fault it's that it was kind of draggy in the investigative portion, but that could be me too since I've had way over my allotted amount of coffee today. Whee! The ending was unexpected and kind of disturbing, something I can almost always count on from Asian horror. Very watchable and a pretty unique storyline. I liked it and that's all I have to say about that.
2 comments:
Cool! I've cued up some Asian horror for myself this year. Looking forward to it!
This one sounds like a lot of so-so Asian horror, one memorable set piece and some decent mood-setting, but nothing spectacular.
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