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Three years ago
there was a terrible train crash and the
train is leaving for the last night tonight. What the
passengers aren't aware of is that they just boarded a
ghost train, and the spirits on it are not very nice.
What the hell was this!? The press photos showed us scary
pictures of a ghost stewardess with white eyes along with
other creepy stills from the movie. These still pictures
were not in the movie! Now that's false marketing if anything!
I am so disappointed! Red Eye is the latest Korean horror
blockbuster and I was expecting a really creepy movie a la
The Ring on a train. What I got was a horror movie wannabe
with way too much running time to kill. I mean sure we get
a The Ring rip-off scene but even that scene comes out as
cheesy and dramatic instead of scary and intense. The ghost
stewardess do exist in the movie though, she has the long
on screen time for about 1/16th of a second since she only
appears when a light flashes quickly.
Red Eye might have been kind of good if the marketing wasn't
so complete wrong, meaning that it lied completely. There's
only one really cool scene in the movie where all the
passengers run in panic towards the front of the train but
that's not scary, that's just like any other catastrophe
film we've seen. South Korea seem to be great at this false
marketing thing. First we had Acacia, which was great but
it wasn't really horror now was it, it was more of a drama
flick with a slightly creepy undertone. Then we had Hypnotized
which was a total rip-off since only the last five minutes
of the movie was horror and the rest was a dull drama and
now this, yet another relatively dull drama with a very
small undertone of horror blend into it so that they could
market it as a new Ring rip-off.
Don't believe anything you've seen, don't believe anything
you've heard, it's all just wrong! Even if the photography
is absolutely beautiful to look at, a feast for the eye
doesn't make a feast for the brain. The twists are fairly
obvious, the ones you actually understand that is. You see,
some twists don't make any sense at all and in the end
you're just left confused and frustrated over the fact that
it seemed as if they had thrown in twists that made no
sense, just to actually have some original twists. I can
only say that I'm hugely disappointed as this train runs on
the railway to nowhere!
Nothing special, a couple of stabbings but nothing to get
all worked up about.
The same old Asian horror score, orchestra music, violins,
strings, everything we've heard a million times before.
Man am I disappointed or what!? I expected a great, creepy,
chilling horror story, especially after having seen the
press stills and the trailer. Sadly, there is little horror
to find in here, it's basically just a movie about conflicts
between various people that you hardly feel for in a train.
The climax is pretty neat though even if it's far from scary
which saves this from getting a terrible rating but don't
pay lots of money to see it because it's simply not worth it!
Review By: AnthroFred
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