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Teenage girl
So-Hyun wakes up from a long coma with a
severe case of amnesia. For some reason no one in the
village seems to like her very much and she soon finds
out that her twin sister drowned in a tragic accident
at the same time that she went into a coma. Her sister
was apparently the more likeable one of the twins, but
it won't stay that way for long as she's come back to
kill anyone who mistreated her in life.
Every summer South Korea blossoms with high budget
horror flicks, and this summer historical drama horror
"The Evil Twin" was first out. If you've read my
review for the Thai horror movie "The Unseeable", you
all ready know how I feel towards horror flicks with
a historical drama approach to it. If you didn't read
that review - I strongly dislike them for most of the
time. I'm not a fan of slow-paced historical epics and
throwing a long-haired ghost girl into the mix
definitely doesn't make things better. The Evil Twin
was apparently shot by a rookie director who's
watched several horror flicks in his days and is a
huge fan of long-haired ghost girls - so I was really
surprised to see that Evil Twin was more of an
emotionally loaded drama than a creepy horror flick.
Sure enough, like always with Korean horror flicks,
it does occasionally manage to give its viewer a couple
of jumps but the ghost really didn't have much to do
with the plot if you ask me. Borrowing heavily from
such movies as "Dead Friend" and "A Tale Of Two
Sisters", Evil Twin revolves around a teenage girl,
So-Hyun, who's just awaken from a coma. She's suffering
from a bad case of amnesia and soon finds out
that they were unable to save her twin sister from
drowning. Naturally, the twin sister isn't happy with
this and starts killing everyone around So-Hyun.
It may sound like a horror flick with my description
of the plot but that's only because I couldn't be
bothered with covering all of the intrigues and drama
in the movie. I'll tell you, this was a difficult movie
for me to watch as it was very confusing for most of
the time and it was hard to connect with any of the
characters since they all seem so uncertain of
themselves. Furthermore, I don't know much about the
history of South Korea so it was definitely a
challenge to really get into the movie.
At the end of the day, The Evil twin is a fairly
decent horror flick for the first forty minutes or
so, but once it starts to drag, this movie really
drags. They could have chopped 30 minutes out of
this movie easily and made it a much more entertaining
film, but it's obvious that this wasn't made for the
international market, but for the South Korean market.
Still, why they released this as a horror flick is
still beyond me as this would probably have appealed
more to a completely different audience. If you liked
"The Unseeable", you might be able to enjoy "The Evil
Twin" as well, it's very competently made, it's just
not my definition of an entertaining horror film.
Nothing.
Possibly the best thing about the entire movie. I loved
the powerful and deep drums, they created a great and
creepy atmosphere and I really wish they had been used
more. A top-notch score for a weak horror flick.
I really hope that The Evil Twin isn't just a preview
of what we can expect from this years South Korean
horror flicks as I really didn't enjoy this very much.
It was too dramatic and historical for my taste and
the horror aspect of the movie didn't get enough
attention. I wouldn't recommend it, but I'm sure many
people will love this flick.
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