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Two sisters return home after a couple of years. As soon as
they step into the house they are welcomed by their new step
mother. Neither of the girls are very fond of the woman and
the fact that she's a bit strange doesn't exactly help improving
their thoughts about her either. But something is going on
inside the house, it almost seems as if there's an uninvited
visitor in the house, running around at nights inside the
house. With a cruel stepmother and an ignorant father, the
two sisters have to handle the situation by themselves.
I have to admit that I was not very positive when I started
watching this despite all the positive reviews that it had
gotten. I had flipped through scenes in the movie before
watching it and I didn't think that it looked very promising
but I was wrong. While they still haven't been able to get
away completely from the long-haired ghost girl that seems
to be included in every new Asian horrormovie, this still
plays more like a suspenseful and dramatic thriller than a
ghost story since you only get small hints that the house
is haunted all the time.
I was not surprised to see that Ji Woon Kim had done an
amazing job on directing this film since I loved his previous
work on the segment "Memories" from the movie "Three".
I did have mixed feelings about the acting though. While the
two girls playing the sisters managed to create that sister
feeling excellently, and the stepmother handled her role
very well, I still thought that the father could have done
a whole lot better. He never really seemed to care about
what was going on in the house.
Obviously this movie has a good, or at least a complex
story since it fills up almost 2 hours of running time.
It's not often that two hours pass by just like that and
that's exactly what it felt like when I was watching this
movie. I wonder what we can expect next from Ji Woon Kim,
if his future works will be as good as this one, I can't
wait to see what he will direct next. Just a small fact,
I actually screamed out in empathy in one scene involving
fish hooks, even if it wasn't a very graphical scene, and
I rarely do that in movies.
It's actually not very gory at all, all we get is some
blood trails and something that looks like a dismembered
finger. Other than that, it's pretty dry.
This was very well put together, with pan flute music,
piano music and classical music. This is the perfect recipe
for an atmospheric and dramatic horrormovie in my opinion.
A Tale Of Two Sisters went beyond my expectations and in
the end I really liked it. It really has everything I
like in Asian horrormovies, the suspense, the drama and
the beautiful directing. If you're a fan of Asian horror-
movies, you must definitely check this one out.
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