Review of Ghastly

Ghastly (2011)
Passable
8 December 2012
It's a good breakthrough for most horror movies where the first act doesn't give away the horror. With this one, the director immediately started with a morbid scene which is I guess not very common. Seeing a lot of horror movies, nothing's different on this one. But I won't take it negatively, for I think that with a thousand movies getting released each year, everything will have some semblance somehow..same style, similar approach, same ghosts. Nothing can be remarkably different. So I'm going to critique the film standing alone. The story is not unique. Revenge, family, a cliffhanger..we've seen it all. Make up was slightly poor. Han Eun-jeung was good. Then again, I've always believed in her potential to act. The scene with Yoo-rin (Hyomin) in the end was messy, yes it was literally messy but the way it was arranged was just messy and ineffective that instead of giving the eerie/scary feel to cement the horror, I was actually thinking how absurd and unbelievable and over the top the scene was. But I have to give it to the kid who played the main character Bin. He was just cute and awesome! He was able to carry the movie, at such a young age giving life to a vengeful soul. I love him. Overall, this is just one of those average Asian horror movies we have. Nothing astounding, yet not below par either.
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