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Someone dressed in a red raincoat and a white mask is killing off the students
at a college after some friends pulled a prank on a guy which went way out of
hand a year ago.
This is Korea's take on I Know What You Did Last Summer. There is nothing
original about the plot at all, and not only does it copy the whole
IKWYDLS idea, it also borrows from Scream and from The Burning. Another
thing that is annoying is that the cover shows a girl with no eyes, which
makes you believe that it's a supernatural ghost flick, which the Asians
are so good at making, when it really is just another teenage slasher flick.
All actors do a terrific job and manage to lift the movie up a few levels,
I've missed the big-breasted bimbo in Asian slashers, so it was really
nice to have one finally. The directing is average, making the movie
look very light and grainy at some points. If it would have had a better
use of light and a sharper picture (now this is the DVD's fault), this
would have looked as if it was much higher budget, even though it probably
was a cinema movie.
Even if this movie rips off all recent slashers, I still kind of liked it.
I mean, if someone copy's something already good, then the result won't be
totally awful right? And since we're probably not going to get an 'I Will
Always Know What You Did Last Summer', it feels nice to have this movie as
a stand-in.
I can't help wondering what the budget of this movie was, so if anyone knows,
please give me an email, also, I would like to know if this made it onto
cinema in any country or if there is another cover available (not making it
look so supernatural). The Record is nothing that you watch over and over
again, but you watch it ones, just to have seen it. It's entertaining and
it's fast moving, so at least you get some guilty pleasure out of watching
it.
Oh
no! Two off screen kills! That is just too bad. Oh well, I guess we have
to settle with the other gore we get which is: a very gory arm dismembering,
some stabs in the stomach, a slit throat and a knife in the head. Not too
shabby considering it's a "hip" slasher.
Wow
what a mixed bag! We get some short drum'n bass for the opening, some
Korean hip hop, some rock, some slow mood piano music, some rave sounds
without any drums and some pop music, very nice. Too bad that the DVD's
sound was so bad that you could hardly hear the music, and the thing
that bothers me the most is that it's made for Surround, but it plays
awful on my surround system, and the sound is very noisy and it doesn't
feel as if they have reduced the wind and such from the sound. But the
sound is fine when I play it on only the TV speakers, well, not fine,
but better. So I don't know what's up with that.
A
total rip-off of I Know What You Did Last Summer, but a quite entertaining
one. There are some good gore scenes to keep us interested, a good looking
cast, and a soundtrack that suits everybody. But the picture is quite grainy
and so is the sound so that's a major minus and I can only give this three
stars. Still, I think it's worth a watch, as long as you don't have to buy
the rubbish DVD.
Review By: AnthroFred
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