Whispering Corridors (South Korea, 1998)

Whispering Corridors is set in a typical all-female high school in Korea and the story begins on the night before the first day of the new school year. A female teacher, Mrs Park, has discovered something mysterious and weird concerning a late pupil of the school called Jin-ju who had committed suicide in the school’s art rooms nine years previously, and her ghost was said to haunt the art rooms which had been closed up after the incident. However, before she can explain about her discovery she is attacked and murdered, and the next day she's found hanged.

Whispering Corridors is the first movie in its franchise, and it spawned four sequels. This one, and Voice (2005) are really the only ones you need to see, for the others are fairly mediocre. The horror aspects of these films are barely enough to give you a few chills, but they made a strong social commentary on the Korean school system, and they did it with a spooky ghost story in the lead. 

Genre: Drama/Horror