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There's a rumour that a girl is haunting a girl school in
South Korea and just when the rumours have started to cool
off a teacher commits suicide. Everything seems really
suspicious and more people start disappearing from the
school. The students are freaking out and so are the
teachers, will anyone be able to solve this mystery which
is going on in their school, or will they all disappear?
My expectations for Whispering Corridors were low, just
about as low as they could get actually as I really
hated Whispering Corridors 3. Well, watching the third
movie in the saga first was a pretty stupid idea. Anyway,
Whispering Corridors is your average ghost flick and
since I'm not to keen on many Korean horrormovies, I can
safely say that while this went beyond my expectations,
it was still not quite my cup of tea. Whispering Corridors
manages to make the same mistake that many Korean horror-
movies seem to do, they start out brilliantly but in the
end it's all just a big confusing mess and it's just not
very interesting to watch twist after twist.
The director, Ki-Hyung Park, who had nothing to do with
its sequels, makes a good debute as a director. There
are many creepy angles and even though you just know
that something is going to happen, you still jump when
it happens. The inexperienced cast feels stiff and
the acting seems somewhat forced which didn't help
the movie to get the right atmosphere. There were also
way too many characters to follow in this movie and
I kept on mixing two of them up all the time which was
deeply frustrating.
Considering the fact that this is a well known movie
which has gotten no less than two sequels and a couple
of awards, I'm surprised that there wasn't anything
special about it. It was really just your average
Korean horrormovie. I think that the idea of a girl
school might have been original for this movie but
I've seen this concept over and over again and it's
getting sickening so for me it felt everything but
original. Still it was a pretty descent movie and
it surpassed my expectations so I'm more than satisfied.
A lot of blood splatter but no real gore. I thought
this movie was meant to be gory?
Some violin music, some choir music and those damn
annoying bells that kept clinging and clonging through
the entire film. I was not impressed.
Standard movie, you get what you're promised,
Whispering Corridors that is. You figure out how
interesting that sounds for yourself. It was a bit
too depressing for my taste, I generally dislike
when women can't keep their eyes dry and instead
decide to weep like little children for half an
hour of valuable running time. Still, much better
than the dreadful Whispering Corridors 3: Wishing Stairs.
Review By: AnthroFred
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