Lady Vengeance: And the Lord Sent Down an Angel of Justice

I've often said that Oldboy, that perverted whodunit, is my favorite Park Chan-wook film, and sometimes my favorite Korean film period, but after re-watching Lady Vengeance, I'm not so sure. Park's final entry in his vengeance trilogy — the first being Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance; the second, Oldboy — is definitely a masterpiece in its own right, too. A mystery within a mystery within a mystery, Lady Vengeance begins as a revenge fantasy of which we know neither the crime nor the perpetrator, segues into a well-orchestrated murder plotted out at a women's prison where grrl-power informs a secret society, then returns to its original crime only to reflect it in a fractured mirror. One child's death unveils many; one woman's pursuit of retribution from a serial killer is set aside for a form of mob justice.

At the center of it all is Geum-ja (Lee Yeoung-ae), a conniving ex-convict wrongfully imprisoned for kidnapping and killing a little boy; a guilt-ridden woman willing to chop off her finger as penance for the crime she abetted; a sorrowful mom out to reunite with daughter Jenny (Kwon Yea-young) who she gave up for adoption to Australians long ago; and a guilt-free Cougar having an affair with the inexperienced teenager (Kim Shi-hoo) who works with her at the local bakery. If that sounds like a lot for one character, one actor, don't worry, Lee is totally up to the task of playing one of the more complex characters in Park's ouevre with a surprisingly light touch.

By turns haunted, crafty, bewildered, tender, and enraged, Lee underplays what another actress would overact in the hopes of taking home an acting trophy. There's no prolonged scream of rage or cry of horror from Lee. Instead, she conveys everything with a cool detachment. There's a great scene late in the movie, right after the central revenge has finally come to fruition, where the camera catches Lee smiling in a way that literally bridges grief and happiness. Unlike most performers who'd segue from laughter to tears as two kindred extremes, Lee rides the middle ground, with a quivering smile that hovers between sadness and joy for so long that you'll start thinking Mona Lisa's smile isn't so complicated. Park's touch is similarly light and ambivalent. Keeping the violence largely off camera, Lady Vengeance ends up extreme in one sense only: extremely delightful.

A Million (Movie - 2009)

• Movie: A Million
• Revised romanization: 10 eok
• Hangul: 10억
• Director: Jo Min-Ho
• Writer: Jo Min-Ho, David Cho
• Producer: Kim Ji-Yeon, Lee Nam-Seok, Jo Seong-Kyu, David Cho
• Cinematographer: Ryu Jae-Hun
• Release Date: August 6, 2009
• Runtime: 114 min.
• Distributor: SidusFNH
• Language: Korean
• Country: South Korea 

Cast

Park Hae-Il as Ki-tae Han
Shin Min-A as Yu-jin Jok
Park Hie-Sun as Director Jang
Lee Min-Ki as Cheol-hee Park
Lee Cheon-Hee as Wook-han Choi
Jeong Yu-Mi as Ji-eun Kim
Ko Eun-Ah as Bo-yeong Lee
Yu Na-Mi as Su-yeon Hong
Kim Hak-Seon as Seung-ho Ha
Jeong Seok-Yong as cameraman 

Belakangan ini lagi suka nonton movie bergenre thriller nih. Ini dia salah satunya. Movie berjudul A Million ini di rilis tahun 2009. dan dibintangi dengan banyak aktor dan akris ternama seperti Park Hae il, Shin Min Ah, Lee Chun Hee, Go Eun Ah, Lee Min Ki, dll.

Barawal dari sebuah berita menghebohkan di internet mengenai game yang bernilai 1 juta won bagi pemenangnya. Dari banyak peserta yang mendaftar terpilihlah 8 orang dari berbagai profesi yang berbeda. Mereka adalah Han Gi Tae, Jo Yoo jin, Park Chul Hee, Kim Ji Eun, Choi Wook Hwan, Lee Bo Young, Ha Seung Ho, dan Hong Seung Ho.

Ke delapan orang tersebut segera diterbangkan ke luar negeri dan dibawa ke dalam hutan yang terpencil. Sebelumnya Director acara tersebut menjelaskan tentang aturan mainnya. Akan ada 7 game dan si tiap game akan ada 1 orang yang tereliminasi. Nah, bagi yang dapat bertahan sampai akhir, ialah pemenenangnya yang mendapatkan hadiah 1 juta won.

Game pertama pun dimulai. Setelah menyelesaikan game tersebut, Director Jang memerintahkan mereka untuk menuliskan nama seseorang yang mereka ingin eliminasi pada secarik kertas. Dan terpilihlah Choi Wook Hwan sebagai peserta yang pertama kali di eliminasi.

Setelah tereliminasi Wook Hwan tidak terlihat lagi. Esoknya game kedua dimulai. Di pertengahan game kedua ini Lee Bo Young menemukan mayat Choi Wook Hwan di sungai. Lee Bo Young pun kaget dan segera berteriak-berteriak karena panik dan ketakutan. Ia pun mengatakan tidak ingin melanjutkan permainan ini lagi dan karena itulah saat itu juga Lee Bo Young dibunuh oleh Director Jang.

Mulai dari sini lah para peserta yang lain menyadari bahwa mereka akan mati satu per satu. Untuk itulah mereka memutuskan untuk kabur dan keluar dari hutan untuk kembali ke korea. Namun ternyata tidaklah semudah yang dibayangkan. Mereka sulit untuk menemukan jalan keluar, selain itu Director Jang juga memasang kamera tersembunyi di seluruh hutan, jadi kemanapun mereka pergi, Director Jang tetap bisa memantau mereka.

Walau para peserta memutuskan untuk tidak mengikuti permainan lagi, namun tanpa sadar mereka masuk dalam permainan itu karena pada dasarnya peraturannya adalah yang bertahan hidup paling akhirlah yang menang. Mereka harus bertahan hidup dalam hutan yang lebat tanpa makanan dan minuman sedikitpun. Satu per satu dari mereka pun mati.

Lalu siapa kah yang akan bertahan paling akhir? Dan sebenarnya apa tujuan Director Jang dalam permainan ini? Mau tau jawabannya mending nonton sendiri...

Sebenernya salah satu alasan aku nonton film ini karena mau liat Lee Chun Hee dan Go Eun Ha di film ini. Tapi sayang, mereka adalah peserta yang mati paling awal. Hehe...

Komentarku untuk film ini, seru, menegangkan, penuh kejutan, ga bisa ditebak. Bagi penggemar film bergenre thriller, crime, dan mysteri, film ini cocok banget.

Bagi penggemar Shin Min Ah yang biasa liat dia main di film genre comedy, romance, drama. Sebaiknya juga ngeliat akting dia di film yang satu ini. Tapi kalo boleh jujur sih aku kurang suka ma karakter Shin Min Ah di film ini. Di antara 8 peserta game, dialah yang sifatnya paling baik, type sifat tokoh utama yang selalu peduli pada orang lain, yang selalu ingin menolong orang lain. Tapi aku suka aktingnya di adegan akhir film ini. Menunjukkan kalau dia itu juga manusia biasa yang tidak selalu baik.

Wish Upon a Star (Drama - 2010)

Title: 별을 따다 줘 / Byeoreul Ttada Jwo / Pick the Stars
Chinese Title : 请摘星星给我
Also known as: Stars Falling From the Sky / Pick Up the Stars / Picking the Stars / Wish Upon a Star
Genre: Drama, romance
Episodes: 20
Broadcast network: SBS
Broadcast period: 2010-Jan-04 to 2010-Mar-16
Air time: Monday & Tuesday 20:55

Jin family

Choi Jung Won as Jin Pal Kang
Park Ji Bin as Jin Joo Hwang
Joo Ji Won (주지원) as Jin Cho Rok
Chun Bo Geun (천보근) as Jin Pa Rang
Kim Yoo Ri (김유리) as Jin No Rang
Lee Young Bum as Jin Sae Yoon
Yoo Ji In as Na Joo Soon
?? as Jin Nam Yi

Won family

Kim Ji Hoon as Won Kang Ha
Shin Dong Wook as Won Joon Ha
Lee Kyun as Woo Tae Gyu

Jung family

Chae Young In as Jung Jae Young
Lee Soon Jae as Jung Gook
Kim Gyu Chul as Jung In Goo
Jung Ae Ri as Lee Min Kyung

Other people

Lee Doo Il as Kim Jang Soo
Park Hyun Sook as Han Jin Joo
Kim Ji Young as Choi Eun Mal
Seo Young as Min Ah
Na Hae Ri (나해리) as secretary
Jo Won Suk (조원석)
Min Ji Oh

Production Credits

Director: Go Kyung Hee (고경희)
Screenwriter: Jung Ji Woo

Kali ini aku mau ngebahas drama berjudul Wish Upon A Star. Bukan drama baru sih. Tapi menurutku ceritanya bagus. Mungkin karena tema familynya kental banget di sini, aku suka banget ma cerita dengan tema yang satu ini. Mau tau kaya apa ceritanya? ini dia....

Tokoh utama dalam drama ini adalah seorang gadis bernama Jin Pal Gang. Ibunya selalu berkata bahwa tidak akan ada pria yang mau menikahi Jin Pal Gang. Kenapa? Ini dia alasannya :
1. Pal Gang mempunyai 5 orang adik yang masih kecil-kecil
2. Pal Gang sama sekali tidak bisa apa-apa. Tidak bisa memasak, tidak bisa mengerjakan pekerjaan rumah, dll...
3. Pal Gang sangat ceroboh. Semua yang dikerjakan selalu salah.
4. Pal Gang tidak pernah berpikir dulu sebelum bicara, jadi sering bicara sembarangan yang membuat orang lain yang mendengarnya naik darah.
5. Di tempat kerjanya, perusahaan asuransi, dia sering disebut "useless Miss Jin" yang artinya Miss Jin yang tidak berguna karena memang dia tidak pernah serius dalam bekerja
6. Pal Gang itu keras kepala dan selalu membantah jika dinasehati orang lain.
7. Pal Gang tidak punya tujuan hidup dan cita-cita.
dan mungkin kalo diterusin list ini bakal bisa sampe puluhan, hehe... karena memang seperti itulah Jin Pal Gang.

Namun Pal Gang mulai bersikap dewasa dan menghilangkan sifat-sifat buruk tersebut semenjak orang tuanya meninggal secara tiba-tiba karena kecelakaan mobil. Karena sejak orang tuanya meninggal hidupnya menjadi berat. Ia harus merawat 5 orang adiknya yang masih kecil-kecil. Tidak hanya itu, Pal Gang dan adik-adiknya pun di usir dari tempat tinggalnya selama ini. Dan mereka tidak bisa tinggal di hotel karena ia membawa 5 orang adik, apalagi si bungsu yang masih balita sering sekali menangis sehingga mengganggu penghuni lain di hotel tersebut, dan akhirnya mereka di usir. Selama beberapa hari Pal Gang dan adiknya tinggal di sauna.

Akhirnya Pal Gang memutuskan untuk bekerja sebagai pembantu rumah tangga di rumah seorang pengacara bernama Won Kang Ha. Sebenarnya, selama 5 tahun ini Pal Gang menyukai pengacara tersebut. Tapi mulai kini ia memutuskan untuk melupakan masalah percintaannya dan lebih memfokuskan untuk menjaga dan merawat para adiknya. Jadi ia buang jauh-jauh perasaan sukanya pada si pengacara.

Selama menjadi pembantu di rumah itu, Jin Pal Gang juga tinggal satu rumah dengan Won Kang Ha. Di rumah itu tidak hanya ditempati oleh Won Kang Ha, tetapi juga ada adiknya yang bernama Won Jun Ha, dan keponakannya yang bernama Woo Tae Gyu. Selain itu juga diam-diam Jin Pal Gang menyelundupkan adik-adiknya di rumah. Kelima adiknya juga tinggal di rumah itu tanpa sepengetahuan si pemilik rumah.

Nah, mulai dari sinilah serunya. Gimana Jin Pal Gang berusaha agar si pemilik rumah tidak mengetahui keberadaan adik-adiknya di rumah itu. Padahal si bungsu Nam Yi sering menangis, dan salah satu adiknya yang bernama Pa Rang mempunyai kebiasaan tidur berjalan. Bukan hanya itu saja, Jin Pal Gang yang tidak bisa kerja apa-apa dan selalu membuat masalah membuat situasi makin sulit.

Masalah makin rumit ketika si pemilik rumah mengetahui keberadaan adik-adik Pal Gang. Selain itu, ketiga pemilik rumah itu yaitu Won Kang Ha, Won Jun Ha, dan Woo Tae Gyu, jatuh cinta pada Jin Pal Gang.

Wah... seru kan?! Mending nonton aja sendiri. Ga nyesel kok.

Seperti yang sudah aku sebutkan di atas, yang aku paling suka dari drama ini yaitu tema tentang keluarga. Gimana solidnya hubungan 6 bersaudara itu walaupun mereka sama sekali tidak memiliki hubungan darah (oiya, lupa bilang kalau orang tua Jin Pal Gang itu hobinya adopsi anak). Apapun yang terjadi, sesulit apapun hidup yang dijalani, berkumpul dengan keluarga adalah tetap yang paling terpenting. Setidaknya itulah makna yang bisa aku ambil dari drama ini.

Mungkin kalo baca cerita di atas kesannya tuh sedih banget ya. Emang sedih sih, tapi ga terlalu kok, banyak juga lucunya. Mungkin karena karakter tokoh di drama ini mempunyai ciri khas tersendiri jadi kalo dipertemukan tuh jadi seru. Contohnya aja tokoh Jin Pal Gang yang spontanitas ketemu sama Pengacara Won Kang Ha yang berhati dingin dan sama sekali tidak menunjukkan ekspresinya. Belum lagi karakter Woo Tae Gyu yang terlalu polos dan lugu. Yang lebih bagusnya lagi akting adik-adiknya Pal Gang yang berbeda-beda sifatnya. Kelihatan alami banget. Bahkan sampai yang terkecil, Nam Yi, dia juga jago banget aktingnya, hehe...

Nilaiku untuk drama ini 85 deh, bagus... nonton ya...........

Hello Ghost (Movie - 2010)

Also Known As: 헬로우 고스트
Directed by: Kim Yeong-tak
Country: South Korea
Language: Korean
Subtitle: N/A
Release date in South Korea: 2010/12/22
Genre: Comedy
Duration: 01:51:14

Cast
Cha Tae-hyeon, Kang Ye-won, Lee Moon-soo, Ko Chang-seok

Film ini berjudul Hello Ghost. Walau ada kata "Ghost" di film ini dan memang di dalam film ini ada tokoh hantunya, tapi jangan ngebayangin kalo ini cerita horor yang menyeramkan ya. Malah ini kebalikannya. Ini termasuk film komedi yang cocok banget kalo ditonton bareng keluarga karena emang tema keluarganya juga kental banget.

Sang Man adalah seorang yatim piatu yang sedari kecil selalu hidup sendiri. Kini ia merasa sudah bosan untuk hidup sendirian. Ia lebih memilih untuk mati. Makannya ia mulai mencoba untuk bunuh diri.

Namun berkali-kali ia mencoba bunuh diri, berkali-kali pula ia diselamatkan oleh orang lain yang akhirnya ia pun gagal untuk mati.

Semenjak ia gagal untuk mati itu lah ia mulai bisa melihat hantu. Ia bertemu dengan hantu itu di rumah sakit. Tidak hanya satu hantu melainkan 4 hantu yang terdiri dari seorang bapak-bapak perokok, kakek pemabuk, wanita cengeng, dan seorang anak kecil yang rakus.

Hantu-hantu itu bilang mulai saat ini mereka akan berbagi tubuh. Itu artinya tubuh Sang Man akan dirasuki hantu-hantu itu ketika mereka butuh dan mereka akan mengikuti Sang Man kemanapun ia pergi.

Hidup Sang Man pun mulai kacau. Ia yang biasa hidup sehat kini hidupnya berantakan. Ia pun pergi ke paranormal dan menceritakan masalahnya. Sang Man ingin agar hantu-hantu itu segera pergi. Namun kata Sang paranormal tidak akan mudah untuk mengusir hantu-hantu itu untuk pergi. Mereka hanya akan pergi dengan kemauan sendiri setelah kemauan mereka terpenhuni.

Akhirnya, Sang Man pun mulai menanyakan satu per satu keinginan hantu-hantu itu yang belum terpenuhi semasa hidup. Dan mewujudkan keinginan tersebut.

Dimulai dari si kakek pemabuk. Ia ingin mengembalikan kamera yang dulu ia pinjam kepada temannya. Lalu si anak kecil yang ingin nonton film kartun di bioskop dan beli mainan robot, kemudian si perokok yang ingin mengendari taksinya ke pantai dan berenang di laut, dan terakhir adalah si wanita cengeng yang ingin hasil masakannya dimakan oleh orang lain.

Sang Man pun mencoba untuk membantu memenuhi keinginan mereka yang belum terwujud semasa hidupnya. Nah disinilah lucunya, dan kemampuan acting Cha Tae Hyun si pemeran Sang Man di tantang karena ia harus bisa memerankan 5 karakter sekaligus.

Lucu deh. Belom lagi ada kenyataan yang terungkap di bagian akhir film yang bikin kita ternganga dan menangis sesenggukan waktu nontonnya. Bagus deh............

Jujur sih, kalo soal tampang Cha Tae Hyun emang ga cakep-cakep banget, tapi aku akuin kalo actingnya bagus dan dia pinter milih film, sebut aja My Sassy Girl, Sad Movie, Miracle A Giving Fool, Speedy Scandal, dll.

Kim Ki-Duk's Best Movies

Is it a top ten list when you've only seen eleven movies? A valid question. But I guess I'm cheating a little because I'm thinking of this list as a dynamic one which will eventually contain all good movies once I've seen some more of Kim Ki-duk's films. For now, I admit movies nine and ten kind of suck — watchable but preposterous. I'm actually really curious to learn which of Kim's films you like best too so please let me know in the comments section below. Thanks!



1. Bad Guy (2001): This creepily welcome antidote to Pretty Woman is one of the most disturbed love stories about a pimp and a hooker that you'll ever see. A really compelling mind-bender.

2. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003): A Buddhist monk's coming-of-age is complicated by sex. Who can't relate to that? A beautifully told tale of how knowledge changes as we age.

3. The Isle (2000): Love really is an extreme state when you think about it but the quiet, pragmatic prostitute at this lakeside vacation resort takes her expression of devotion to a "oh, no she didn't" extreme that you'll likely never forget.

4. Time (2006): How much of who we are is what we look like and would we have the same relationships with people if we suddenly looked completely different? Kim explores the topic thoroughly with the help of plastic surgery.

5. The Bow (2005): Sure, it ends violently but this summer-winter romance between an old fisherman and the orphan girl he adopts (and trains) is probably Kim at his most gently philosophical.

6. Breath (2007): Probably as close as Kim will come to making a musical, this one's about an affair that blossoms between a killer in jail and a sculptor who becomes a performance artist.

7. 3-Iron (2004): The silent character is a signature of Kim's film and here he gives us two. The doubled symbol heightens Kim's idea that the most important things in life aren't expressed in dialogue and lessens the dramatic tension. A fair trade.

8. Samaritan Girl (2004): "Love thy enemy" gets a new spin when a young woman decides to screw then refund all the johns her best friend tricked with before she jumped out a window and died. Strangely enjoyable.

9. Address Unknown: (2001): Kim at his zaniest presents three lost souls skirting with tragedy in the hinterlands as they attempt to bond with each other only to self-destruct. Funny, though unintentionally so.

10. The Coast Guard (2002): In this implausible drama, a horny young woman and a gung-ho soldier slide into madness side by slippery side. When Kim doesn't deliver a great revelation, the violence in his films feels mean. Case in point.



Also by Kim

Real Friction (2001): This early effort from Kim — about a performance artist whose medium is murder — feels like a first film because it's overflowing with ideas immaturely explored.

Address Unknown: Blinded by One Zany Sight After Another

Does Address Unknown mean something to anyone besides its edgy director Kim Ki-duk? I mean, besides a hilariously good time for movie buffs who equate "super weird" with "super wonderful"? Is there a message here amid the escalating madness? Do these symbols symbolize something or are they simply strange images without intended meaning? (Interpret at will!) Is there something deep to be gathered from watching kidnapped dogs get brutalized then sold as stew meat or of from seeing an acid-tripping, half-blind girl (Ban Min-jung) get courted by an unstable American soldier (Mitch Mahlum) who wants to fix her bad eye then carve his name on her chest? Can sociopolitical interpretations be drawn from the mean-spirited story of a half-breed son (Yang Dong-kun) who systematically slices the breast of his unhinged mother (Bang Eun-jin) every time she goes off on her neighbors by shouting insults in English? What can we lean from the behavior of the morose young man (Kim Young-min) who shoots down his enemy after being taught the art of archery by his self-aggrandizing father (Myeong Gye-nam)? For that matter, what are we supposed to make of Address Unknown when the three main characters all end up getting blinded in their right eye or when one of them gets propelled head first off his motorcycle to a muddy slapstick death, buried up to his hips with his legs sticking out in the air? Are we supposed to take that seriously? Seriously? Is it okay to giggle? Because I sure did.

Address Unknown has a portentous tone yet as the movie gets crazier and crazier, you suspect that Kim took some of the LSD pills that the American G.I. is carrying around. Under the influence, he's forgotten to take more care in casting his characters (the American actors are particularly horrible) and crafting the dialogue. It's no relief that Kim chooses to have three largely silent characters instead of one. What we have in place of the silent enigma is a trio of mopey dopes suffering from depression. Which isn't to say that Address Unknown is too depressing! Far from it, it's actually often unintentionally funny. I wouldn't go so far as to call Kim's 2001 film his first comedy. But then again, maybe I should. Watch it, and you tell me!

Run 2 U: Pop, Pop, Pop Music; Flop, Flop, Flop Movie

There's a point midway in Kang Jeong-su's Korean-Japanese hybrid Run 2 U, where bisexual singer-songwriter Hitoshi (Kazuya Takahashi) and his hooker-turned-pop-star female lover Kyeong-a (Chae Jeong-an) scream frustratedly at the ocean to explain why their lives are so frickin' hard. It's ridiculous, as is much of the movie yet it's also oddly poignant, as the rest of the movie is not. A spot-on depiction of youthful exasperation at a world that won't let your dreams come true post haste, this anguished cry at the universe also unintentionally echoes the internal wail of viewers foolishly sitting through the entire film. Though filled with unexpected plot twists, like a tragic gay love story involving a trigger-happy thug (Tetsuo Yamashita) who likes to check out his buddy's buns in the gym shower, Run 2 U really has a lousy storyline and should've been made as a 90-minute music video, not a needlessly bilingual film.

Dramatic closeups — a finger pushing an elevator button, a hand holding a white telephone receiver — could've played out as hyper-meaningful symbolism apropos of VH1 and MTV. It's easy to picture Kyeong-a strutting around in her turquoise fan-plastic raincoat and rapping about drugs, pimps and poverty. Considering that two of the main characters are singers, the R&B treatment would've allowed Hitoshi's inner monologues, here whispered like Barry White intros, to build to soulful meditations on love — found, lost, and reborn. Why Run 2 U never actually crosses over to kinetic pop is a mystery. Seductions at the disco. High speed races on the freeway. Even a music video shoot! Does anybody else see major opportunities for a groovy soundtrack and some lip synching? I'm not sure how to deal with Massako (Maju Ozawa), the mafia daughter in love with the gay boxer, except on the editing room floor. Considering how bad she is, revamping this movie as a hip-hopera means having a legit reason to cut her part. That's what they did in the music video recap that's an extra on the DVD. And yes there really is one. And no, it's not very good either.

A Blood Pledge: Sisters Are Screwing It Up for Themselves

There are many misfortunes that can drive a young girl to suicide. For Soy (Son Eun-seo), it's an unwanted pregnancy caused by a rich pretty-boy (Choi Min-seong) who insists she get an abortion. For Eun-yeong (Song Min-jeong), it's an abusive dad who repeatedly punches her in the face whenever she's less than perfect. For Yoo-jin (Oh Yeon-seo), it's falling grades, an unsympathetic nun, and a boyfriend who cheats. And for Eun-joo (Jang Kyeong-ah), it's a way to reconnect with a former friend who once gave her an MP-3 player. The last reason is hardly the strongest but it may go to explain why the ghost of Eun-joo is so pissed off at the other three girls when they fail to live up to the suicide pact that inspired her to jump off the parochial school roof in the first place.

Because her eternal bond with Soy hasn't been sealed in the hereafter, this bitter young lady is furiously seeking retribution from the two other means girls who stole her gal pal then her life in short order. That she's not equally angry at Soy is symptomatic of classic jealousy — like the wife who hates the woman who has stolen her husband, while disregarding the fact that it's the man who has betrayed her. When you're screwed by someone you love and you want to reunite with him, you need a target for all that rage. Lucky for Eun-joo, she has two. And so she terrorizes Eun-yeong and Yoo-jin by stalking them across the school grounds, up on the roof, in the bathrooms, inside the gymnasium, over their computers, and in their dreams. She's not a pretty sight either as her steady hand reaches out from the other side to choke, grab, and drip blood. Plus, her violence is hardly restricted to personal revenge. At one point, she causes the doting mother of the guy who impregnated her bosom buddy to spontaneously combust in a stalled car that then proceeds to drift backwards before crashing off-screen to cover up the crime. Now that's angry! A Blood Pledge is the fifth installment of the Whispering Corridors series, a horror franchise united by its all-girl high school settings and its Catholic school uniforms. More interestingly though is that the movie is helmed by writer-director Lee Jong-yong who co-wrote Park Chan-wook's Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance.