“Arang” is the 2006 Korean Summer horror blockbuster, This film is the debut of Ahn Sang Hoon as the director who was prepared the production that previously went under the title of “Line” for several years. The DVD itself will included the commentary of Sang Hoon about this first debut also from some of the cast, a small collection of deleted scenes, two behind-the-scenes featurettes and the theatrical trailer, only that…??
The story is like a merged of CSI and The Ring, is a supernaturally-themed murder mystery. It starts with a mysterious death of a man after him receiving an e-mail with a link to a strange website.Veteran detective So-young and her rookie partner Hyun-gi are attached to investigating the case, and soon their hands full after another victim dies in similar way, what’s so strange is that all of the victims seem to have died due to an acid unleashed inside of their bodies and received an e-mail from the same sender before they died. They start to realize that the recent serial killings may have something to do with a mysterious disappearing of a girl and an incident that occurred ten years ago, in a salt house.
Overall the movie is like any other Asian horror flick, still repeating the cliché of the modern Asian ghost movie formula, including half seen figures, ghosts lurking in video cameras, haunted websites and countless shots of long black hair appearing in unlikely places, there’s even one scene where the entire roof inside a shower is covered with hair. Instead some sequences are actually ripped out of the Thai horror “Shutter” where the ghost appears only on camera during a wedding shots and elevator scene lifted from “The Eye”, maybe someone can unclogged this mess and let some fresh ideas run through.
But “Arang” is still entertaining as a horror, the cinematography is quiet excellent especially the shot of the beach and a lighthouse. The fusion between two genres: crime drama and supernatural story seems quiet interesting, however maybe it would be better to see more of the investigation side of the story rather than the horror side. That’s a twist plot at the final sequence even the twist is quiet predictable too.
But “Arang” is still entertaining as a horror, the cinematography is quiet excellent especially the shot of the beach and a lighthouse. The fusion between two genres: crime drama and supernatural story seems quiet interesting, however maybe it would be better to see more of the investigation side of the story rather than the horror side. That’s a twist plot at the final sequence even the twist is quiet predictable too.
Product Details:Actors: So-yeong Choo, Won-jung Jeong, Ok-bin Kim, Dong-Wook Lee, Jong-su Lee
Directors: Sang-hoon Ahn
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language: Korean
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 1
Studio: Tartan Video
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