#1224 Wishing Stairs

English Title: Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs
Korean Title: 여고괴담 3 - 여우 계단/Yeogogoidam 3 - Yeowoo Gyedan
Year: 2003
Country: Korea
Running Time: 97 min
Director: Yoon Jae Yeon
Genre: Thriller/Drama
Rating: 6.2

I didn't know but this is the third in a series of South Korean horror films set in a girls high schools that began with 1998's Whispering Corridors.
Once again I'm not agree with the genre!
Where's the horror? It was more drama with a little bit thriller!
The trailer looks very interesting but it was really a NOT movie!
As in the prior two movies, this film has strong indications of friendship, betrayal, and the taboo of lesbian affairs in an all-girls school

I like the second, Memento Mori, more!!
The storyline was much better than this one!
The painting and the art sculpture freaks me out!!
They just looks like so creepy!

Park Han Byul is the GF of Seven LOL and I saw her before in the movie that I still didn't finish Fate!
Song Ji Hyo looks so familiar!? Where is she from??
Right she was playing the Queen in the movie A Frozen Flower with OPPA Jo In Seong & Joo Jin Mo that I still want to watch on DVD!
Also I didn't know Kwak Ji Min was in here! Who did she played? She is fifth on the cast list and I don't even know who she was. LOL I think the one with the cake?
I saw her earlier in Kim Ki Duk's Samaritan Girl!



Summary:
The legend goes that if you climb the twenty eight steps leading up to the school dormitory, counting each step aloud, and find a twenty ninth, a spirit will appear and grant you a wish.

The movie takes place in a girl's art school and focuses on two friends studying ballet, however their friendship soon turns sour when they find themselves competing for a single spot in a Russian ballet school. Ji Seong remembering the old legend of the "Wishing Stairs" wishes for a place in the prestigious arts school, and in a shocking turn of events, she gets it, at the cost of her best friend, Kim So Hie's life. However, it's only when the extremely odd character of Hye Ju wishes the dead girl back, that an unspeakable evil is released


Cast:
Song Ji Hyo - Yun Ji Seong
Jo An - Eom Hye Ju
Park Han Byul - Kim So Hie
Park Ji Yeon - Han Yun Ji
Kwak Ji Min
Hong Soo Ah

Trailer:


[credits: wikipedia.org, imdb.com, hancinema.net]

#1108 Memento Mori

English Title: Memento Mori
Korean Title: 여고괴담 II
Year: 1999
Country: Korea
Running Time: 89 min
Director: Kim Tae Yong & Min Kyu Dong
Genre: Drama/Thriller

This one is the second in a series of South Korean horror films set in a girls high schools that began with 1998's Whispering Corridors.
The Korean title that is given to this movie is Yeogo Goedam II that means Whispering Corridors II but the characters, setting, and stories are different.
Although I'm not really agree with the genre of this movie.
In the first 40 minutes there wasn't any at all.
After there are few shocking moments but not enough to call it a K-horror. More like thriller!

The movie is a little bit complicated.
The past and the present day are crossing eachother that made a little bit confused!
The story is touching between 2 lesbian high school girl.
It was really bad how the story developed further in the movie.
The genre ruined it all!

I didn't know Hwang Bo Ra was also in here! I actually still don't know what character she is playing only saw her name in the cast list!
I saw Bo Ra in the game show Love Letter Real Romance & X-Men ^^




Summary:
Min Ah finds a strange diary, capable of arousing hallucinations, kept by two of her senior fellow-students, Hyo Shin and Shi Eun, who seem to have an unusually close bond. But Hyo Shin suddenly kills herself, for no obvious reason, and the entire school is shocked and depressed. Min Ah, however, starts to feel different. It's almost as if she's somehow possessed by the dead gir

Cast:
Kim Min Sun - So Min Ah
Lee Young Jin - Shi Eun
Park Ye Jin - Hyo Shin
Baek Jong Hak - Mr. Goh
Han Min -
Seung Yeon Han -
Kong Hyo Jin - Ji Won
Kim Jae In - Yeon An
Chae Yoon Seo -
Hwang Bo Ra -
Lee Hye Mi -
Lim Seong Eon -
Park Ji Yeon -
Kim Kyeong Jin -
Maeng Bong Hak - Biology Teacher

Rating: 7.6
Trailer:


[credits: hancina.net, imdb.com, wikipedia.org]