Advantages: Good acting, substance over gore Disadvantages: None
...folktale known as Janghwa Hongreyon-jon. The director, Kim Ji-woon, initially became known outside of Korean cinema due to this film which was the first Korean horror film to be screened in American theatres. Since this he has directed two more films, both of which have been well received.
We meet a fairly unresponsive Su-mi at a session with a psychiatrist and subsequently discover she is living with her sister (Su-yeong), father and stepmother. ... ...call into question the treatment of the girls by their stepmother but due to the uncertainty of these incidents the audience is unsure of what is real until the end of the film nears.
A Tale of Two Sisters is not a blood bath like a lot of Hollywood and European horror films nor is it solely centred around making the hair on the back of your neck stick up like a lot of Japanese horror films. The plot is complicated but gripping. Im Soo Jung, Moon ...
Advantages: Entertaining thriller Disadvantages: Some confusing bits
...Larter returns from the first Final Destination as Clear Rivers and again gives a good performance bearing in mind the limitations to her role. I like her because she is not the usual perfect beauty that directors tend to pick, which makes her easier to identify with and therefore more realistic. I spent ages trying to work out where I had seen Michael Landes, who plays the part of Officer Thomas Burke. He has recently been on our screens in Love ... ...Having seen the first Final Destination, I watched this immediately afterwards, expecting it to be pretty average. There are a lot of similarities with the first one, so that I was left thinking I'd seen it all before, but on the whole, this was a compelling film that kept me on the edge of my seat even though I thought I knew what was going to happen. The pacing is great - the film flashed by in no time at all and the viewer isn't given a moment ...
Advantages: vampires and werewolves together Disadvantages: none
As the story unfolds you will lean that, In the underworld,vampires are a secret clan of modern aritocrtic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are werewolves called 'Lycan'.,street thugs prowling the city, no one know the origin of their bitter blood feud,when the beautiful vampire warrior Selene (Kate Beckinsale) and the man with the mysterous blood line fall in love.
starting Selene tells the story of what happen long ago,then there is a shoutout ... ...the lycans,Selenepicksup a bullet after the lycan have retreated,and takes it back to the castle to find out what it is.On her way back to the castle she over hears the lycan in their cave in the under part of the streets.When Selene gets back to the castle she gives the bullet to some one to look at it only to find out that it is very deadly to vampires.she then finds out who the human is Micheal Colvin (Scott Speedman).
Selene goes out to find ...
Advantages: A fairly interesting concept for a film. Disadvantages: Does not feel at all like a Horror film and takes itself far too seriously.
When 'Gothika' came out in 2004 I went to see it in the first week of its release. It wouldn't have been my first choice of film, however a friend of mine had been looking forward to its release for some time and therefore I was dragged along to the cinema by him, something I was not complaining too much about as it sounded like an interesting concept for a film and one that I would potentially enjoy a great deal. I am not the biggest fan of Halle ... ...exactly dislike the actress and have enjoyed some of the roles she has played in the past so that was not at all going to be a problem.
'Gothika' begins with great promise, however the storyline quickly deteriorates and the film is for the most part laughable and the narrative progression is really rather awful. Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) works in an all female mental institution in New England as a psychologist alongside her husband who has the ...
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Review of Gothika (DVD)
Advantages: The acting and emotions show by the two sister is remarkable Disadvantages: Obviously not for children view as it includes some hair raising scenes too.
...not amongst those type having the special effects and the special make up like the ones in all time favourite EXORCIST.Its probably one of the best Korean movies ever made .The movie really involves you into the story and demands you to think about it personally as how the story will unfold.I personally found it irresistible to change the channels between the commercials when I saw this movie. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ... ...knew about her husband`s and the nurse`s affair she committed suicide.Su-Mi discovers the dead body and tries to help her.But her sister Su-Yeon dies of suffocation and getting crushed.Due to the aftermath Su-Mi suffers a nervous breakdown and is sent to a mental hospital. Meanwhile her father stays alone in their house with the nurse ofcourse and are later haunted by Su-Yeons and her mothers ghost.And atlast the nurse is killed by Su-yeons ghost. ...
