![]() ![]() ![]() Any time the paranormal does show up, it’s contained to unimaginative scare sequences before reality sets back in. THE MIDNIGHT WAVE RYAN ADAMS MOVIEWhile Director Ahn is adamant about his movie being of the horror genre, and he has frequent sequences backing up his case, it’s rare to see the uncanny interact with fact. ![]() There is a hard line between the real and supernatural worlds in Arang. So-young naturally deduces the current murders have to do with the past, but with Joon-ho dead and Min-jung presumably dead as well, it’s unclear who could be carrying out the revenge now. The girlfriend of the deceased, Min-jung ( Kim Hae-in ), then disappeared a year later without a trace it’s rumored she killed herself. The mystery in Arang becomes more complicated and eerie after it’s revealed the first two victims not only knew each other, they, along with their friends, killed a teenage boy named Joon-ho ( Baek Min-hyun ) at a rural salt storehouse ten years ago. So-young and her new partner Hyun-ki ( Lee Dong-wook ), a young transferee from Forensics, now have what looks to be a spree killer on their hands. What makes an already strange death even stranger is the addition of a second victim another man later died from the same cause. And the reason for his death was a heart attack caused by prussic acid. In the 2006 crime-chiller Arang, a man’s charred corpse is discovered in the remains of a house fire, but his autopsy reveals he died before the fire broke out. Homemade folklore often played a role as well, and filmmaker Ahn Sang-hoon looked to a classic Korean story for inspiration when putting together his debut.Ī new and disturbing case awaits Detective Min So-young ( Song Yoon-ah ). During this heyday of “K-Horror,” there was a burst of spectral yarns centered around cursed objects, haunted technology, and most of all, revenge. The success of The Ring inspired Japan’s nearest neighbors to tell their own ghost stories, and South Korea certainly didn’t waste the opportunity in the mid-2000s. ![]()
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