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28 May 2009 (South Korea) moreTagline:
Open the door... I know you're in there.Plot:
An ex-con moves into an old apartment building, where he encounters a domestic problem involving a police officer, his wife, and their daughter. When he tries to intervene, however, a mysterious curse entraps him. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Weekly DVD & Blu-Ray Chopping List 11/10/2009 (From Fangoria. 8 November 2009, 10:21 PM, PST)
Cinematical Seven: Best Asian Horror Films That Haven't Been Remade
(From Cinematical. 20 October 2008, 7:32 PM, PDT)
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Oh no, It's a pale Asian lady......again!.........scary stuff more (7 total)Cast
(Credited cast)| Hrant Alianak | ... | Max | |
| Jamie Bloch | ... | Carly | |
| Jesse Bradford | ... | Bobby | |
| Iza Calzado | ... | Gina | |
| Brendan Carmody | ... | University student | |
| Kevin Durand | ... | Walter | |
| Jayne Eastwood | ... | Lucille Jiminez | |
| Bathsheba Garnett | ... | Old Russian Woman | |
| Marvin Hinz | ... | Detective | |
| Stacey LaBerge | ... | Student | |
| Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | ... | Dr. Morris | |
| Carlos Leon | ... | Hector | |
| Louise Linton | ... | Katie | |
| Robert Morse | ... | Construction worker no 1 | |
| Vanessa Petronelli | ... | Waitress | |
| George Santino | ... | Manager | |
| Paulette Sinclair | ... | Helen Davis | |
| Courtenay J. Stevens | ... | Older Cop | |
| Pruitt Taylor Vince | ... | Joseph | |
| Amelia Warner | ... | Alyssa |
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After reading the other reviews I feel compelled to right a comment on this movie.
The other reviews describe it as a future 'cult hit', it is compared to 'The Exorcist' and how it is so realistic - 'something that may have happened in reality'?
Really! Well no, not at all, on any level. It is far too generic to be a cult hit, seen this type of film a million times (think 'Grudge' or 'The Ring' or any other east Asian remake), it is not even slightly like 'The Exorcist' (the build up really isn't that slow) and why the comparison is made I'll never know, as for realistic - gimmie a break, it's realistic if you live in 'spooky Asian ghost land', and last time I checked that place wasn't real.
So, in a nutshell what we have is a half decent ghost story that we've all seen before. If you've seen any of the other East Asia movie remakes then you know what to expect. In fact the 'scary' parts are identical in all the remakes - pale Asian lady and/or child pulling scary faces and moving about a bit strange.
I find it strange that when Hollywood remakes an Asian film they transplant China or were ever the original was made for the USA (Grudge being an exception), make all the characters Caucasian, but leave the scary people as Asians! Were the scary people in the Asian version Caucasian? No, so why not transplant the whole thing, I mean it's almost racist, and Asian women walking weird aren't scary!
Anyway, rant over, overall it's OK as a rental, but nothing to shout about.
5/10