, the folkloric thriller written and directed by Jang Jae-hyun, would most likely receive a three-star rating, and aptly so, because the more you dig into the film, the more you excavate the strange, if not meandering, routes it pursues to build toward suspense, which pays off at certain points, until it loses its force.
On the one hand, it works because it affords the film enough foundation to arrive at a pretty compelling message between what is spiritual and material, between what is imagined and not. And the film is at its best when its characters perform the rituals, chiefly exhibiting how captivating Kim Go-eun is in how she allows her character to simply just flow through her — a perfect vessel, as one might say.
Yet, this narrative device, on the other hand, is also what causes the film to lose its steam. It dwells too much on plot twists that it eclipses the suspense altogether. For a work that is supposed to keep you guessing, it has this tendency to overload you with too much information, but somehow failing to substantiate why the repeated digging needs to happen in the first place, or how one plot point leads to the next.
The attempt to look gory also doesn’t translate that much because the supernatural forces don’t really feel as terrifying as one might expect them to be. If anything, the film induces more tension when it focuses on the incidents that happen prior to the supposed payoffs.
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