Indeed, if there’s one thing that A Tale of Two Sisters has in absolute abundance it’s atmosphere. This may partially explain why films such as An American Haunting are so abject, and the genre also seems plagued by idiotic twists ever since Haley Joel Osmont saw dead people. I always find with ghost stories that they live and die by the atmosphere that the makers manage to conjure up. The film builds to a tension, before a pretty cheaty twist ending (that you can see coming from a mile away) and a simultaneously completely confusing and totally necessary last scene. It quickly becomes apparent that something is deeply wrong and Soo-mi is plagued with visions of her sister, Soo-yeon (Geun-Young Moon). Soo-mi (Su-jeong Lim) is collected from hospital by her father, Moo-hyeon (a really good understated performance from Kap-su Kim), and taken home to live with him and evil stepmother Eun-joo (Jung-ah Yum). I must have missed something…Ī Tale of Two Sisters is, as I’ve said, a ghost film.
Even so, when I came to pen this review, I did check Wikipedia and looking at their plot description I’m at a complete loss as to what the hell they’re talking about. Mrs Jarv, on the other hand, spent the entire film alternately hiding her face or asking me inane questions, which I couldn’t answer without spoiling the ending. Actually, when I first saw it I didn’t have a clue what the hell had happened in the end, and it was only on this rewatch that the penny dropped for me. Ostensibly a ghost story, A Tale of Two Sisters is actually about one woman’s descent into madness, and the nuances and subtleties of the film aren’t actually clear on first watch. In the midst of this, Ji-woon Kim’s A Tale of Two Sisters slunk onto the scene and served as a superb last hurrah for a style and formula that had become overplayed and stale. The J-Horror fetish that plagued the late 90’s and early part of the last decade was nearly played out, and the odious tripe that is Torture Porn hadn’t yet taken a massive dump on the genre. Nevertheless, it was also in many ways a transition year. Anyhoo, 2003 was actually quite a good year for Horror (or I seem to remember it as being, although I wouldn’t put it past me to be talking utter crap). I’m pretty certain I didn’t as there were a good few killings, but still, there was lesbianage, boob, minky, more boob, unconvincing shagging and more than one porn moustache.īefore I ramble off to badly on a boob filled digression instead here’s the banner carrying horror film from 2003, and there’s nary a jugg to be seen… Honestly, it’s ridiculous- if I put the title in to Google it just spits out millions of images of naked chicks, and as such is making me wonder if I didn’t accidentally watch a porn. I also can’t think of a suitable boob cover for one of them either. I’ve had to bump this film up the reviewing schedule due to being too lazy to review things at home (and yesterday too drunk) and because my next few reviews are boob filled extravaganzas I can’t get the pictures for them at work.
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