Saturday, June 30, 2012

Horror Movies - White and The Coffin

Omg guys it is 1:17 am and I am not sleeping tonight at all because I just finished the freakist movie ever called "White"(made in 2011) and it scared the crap outta me. Its a Korean horror movie and it is sooo good, scary, but good. (Japanese and Korean horror movies are always soo crazy and like just very....they are just so much more intense than american ones that are just pathetic in comparison...I mean c'mon...a shark in a lake? why not just leave the lake? And what about the one with the piranhas? =.= uh yeah...if you wanna get freaked out? Go modern Korean/Japanese horror. -old ones are kind of not so great but no old horror movies are very scary- ) My problem with horror movies is when it is a ghost movie that doesn't end, like the haunting doesn't get resolved and you still don't know how to resolve it at the end. :/ I need to know how to get rid of the ghost that is haunting me XD so yeah. So "White" is about a singing group called the Pink Dolls who is always over shadowed by a band called Pure. Not to mention the main character, Eun-Joo, a singer in the Pink dolls is always being bullied by her peers. (I find that viscous bullying is a major issue/common theme most characters deal with in Korean and Japanese dramas and movies. Not to mention there are several manga and anime that feature bullying that can often lead to death either because the aggressive ones went too far and killed the character or because the character committed suicide. Its always pretty serious as opposed to American dramas and what not where bullying is usually just talking about people behind their back.) In the beginning of the movie the group the Pink Dolls move into a new studio that had previously burned down and killed a bunch of people and Eun-Joo finds a music video on tape called "White". The Pink Dolls cover the song and they are an instant hit. They argue over who will sing lead and gain most of the spot light, all except Eun-Joo, however soon gruesome 'accidents' begin to happen to the girls who sing the lead. Before each accident the girl tells Eun-Joo they are sorry and mention to her how hot it is in the room... Eun-Joo soon begins to investigate and finds out there is a horrific past to the song and that it is actually cursed and that if she doesn't stop the curse soon...she will be the victim of the next accident. The movie kept me and my friend on our toes and it was absolutely great, so if you have the stomach for horror films, watch this one. I also watched a movie called "The Coffin"(made in 2008), its actually a super natural thriller, not a horror movie but it's pretty good. :) "Inspired by a true Thai ritual of lying in coffins to get rid of bad luck and prolong life, The Coffin is a supernatural thriller about a young man and a young woman who decide to go through the ritual in Thailand." (Synopsis from http://horrornews.net/12857/film-review-the-coffin-2008/) The movie follows a man named Chris and a woman named Sue who go through the ritual. At the beginning its very confusing and its kind of choppy as they constantly switch back and forth between the two ever few seconds. Its weird and the beginning moves really fast but it all comes together in the end and you understand it ALL. Both Chris and Sue undergo the ritual however, Chris suffers from a seizure in the coffin and Sue experiences a terrible nightmare. You soon find out that Chris did the ritual to save his girl friend Mariko who is in a coma and Sue was trying to get rid of her lung cancer. Afterwards though both Chris and Sue begin to experience a haunting and they search for an answer to ending it. Its pretty fascinating but its also kind of sad in a sweet way. It definitely kept me wondering what was going on, you know how paranormal thrillers are all about discovering answers and histories so it did what it is supposed to do, it kept me guessing. However this movie had a good resolution. I now know how to stop a haunting caused by the coffin ritual. :) So if you're like me and you NEED a resolution, 'The Coffin' had a good one. :) So yeah I watched White and The Coffin tonight and they were really good. :) If you're feeling up to a scary movie, these two are good. :D

1 comment:

  1. Well there's a glutton for punishment, watching two really scary movies at once. I think the bullying thing is dealing with two cultures that have an idea that the nail that stands up gets pounded down. Media usually examines or pulls from ideas of the culture so that'd be my guess.

    I'm not a big fan of horror but that sounds like something some friends of mine running a Japanese culture club might be interested in.

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