Wishing Stairs (2003)
"Yeogo goedam 3: Yeowoo gyedan" (original title)

A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins

Director:

Jae-yeon Yun

Writer:

Soyoung Lee (screenplay)

Stars:

Ji-hyo Song, Han-byeol Park, An Jo

Cast

Credited cast:
Ji-hyo Song	...	Yun Jin-seong
Han-byeol Park	...	Kim Sohee
An Jo	...	Eom Hye-ju
Ji-Yeon Park	...	Han Yun-ji
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Su-a Hong
Wu-jin Jang
Ji-min Kwak
Jung-Hee Moon

Storyline

In a Korean boarding school, there is a legend about its twenty-eight steps stairway: when the twentieth-ninth step appears, the fox will grant a wish to the climber. The lesbian ballet student Kim So-hee is in deep love with her passive girlfriend and also ballet student Yoon Jin-sung. When there is a competition for a single spot in a famous ballet school in Russia, the envious Jin-sung finds the twentieth-ninth step and asks to beat the favorite So-hee. However, there is a price to pay for the wish unknown to Jin-sung and the consequence is the accidental death of So-hee. Meanwhile, the fat student Eon Hae-ju, who is despised and tormented by her classmate Han Yoon-ji, misses So-hee. When she also finds the mysterious step, she wishes the return of So-hee with tragic consequences.

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Plot Keywords:

ballet | stairs | art class | statue | third part | 

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Taglines:

Do you dare to climb the 29th step?

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Genres:

Horror | Drama

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for violent and disturbing images

Details

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Release Date:

1 August 2003 (South Korea)

Also Known As:

Wishing Stairs

Filming Locations:

South Korea

Company Credits

Production Co:

Cine-2000 Film Production

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Kim So-hie: Fox, fox, please, grant my wish... Let us be together... Always.

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Connections

Followed by Voice (2005)

User Reviews

Embarrassed to say that I was scared...

I was hanging out in Seoul when this movie was in the theaters there. Not speaking a word of Korean I randomly picked a movie to watch, which was this one. So I go in with my number one combo of popcorn, coke and fried squid and sit down to watch the movie. OMG for not knowing what was really going on at all I was scared out of my gourd. Mind you I was 24 at the time 6'1 200 lbs and was sitting there saying to myself 'oh god that sound means the ghost is coming, I think I have to fix my hair in front of my face as my hand coincidentally covers my eyes...' Trying to be discreet as possible about diverting my attention as the ghosts unrelentlessly appear in the scenes. The movie was cinematographically done awesome, the sound in perfect harmony with a horror movie and if you can watch it on the big screen with surround sound flooding you, you'll probably be sleeping with the lights on at night. Unfortunately I talked to a couple of friends of mine who saw the subtitled version in the privacy of their own home and said it was hardly scary and actually reminiscent of Nickalodians "Are You Afraid of the Dark". But when I saw it I was saying 'Oh sweet lord I'm going to die of a freakin heart attack if this movie doesn't end soon.'