15 January 2014

Living Death (South Korea, 2009)

A college student named Hee-jin returns home when her 14-year-old sister So-jin goes missing. Her mother, a fanatic churchgoer, resorts to prayer and refuses to work with the lazy police to find So-jin. Meanwhile, a neighbor commits suicide and leaves a will for So-jin, and Hee-jin hears rumors that her sister had been possessed. The whereabouts of So-jin become increasingly elusive and the dead neighbor begins appearing in Hee-jin's dreams.

Living Death (a.k.a. Possessed) is a fantastic thriller that barely has any flaws at all. It delivers an eerie and ghostly atmosphere, plays on the more subtle horror strings rather than just gory shock value, and in the end, just proves to be exactly what you want when you're tired of the same horror formula being repeated over and over again. 

Genre: Horror/Mystery/Thriller

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