Whispering Corridors
1998
Set in a seemingly normal private all girls’ school where life is what you’d expect for young teenagers, until a past alumni returns as a teacher and strikes up a new friendship with two very different students. When a teacher is found, apparently having committed suicide, a horrific course of events ensues which inextricably .. Read more
| Starring | Kang-hie Choi, Gyu-ri Kim, Min-jeong Kim, Yong Soo Park |
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| Director | Ki-Hyung Park |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
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Whispering Corridors
Set in a seemingly normal private all girls’ school where life is what you’d expect for young teenagers, until a past alumni returns as a teacher and strikes up a new friendship with two very different students. When a teacher is found, apparently having committed suicide, a horrific course of events ensues which inextricably links both the past and the present. As the body count rises, the memories of the deaths unleash the echoes of ghosts down the corridors.
| Starring | Kang-hie Choi, Gyu-ri Kim, Min-jeong Kim, Yong Soo Park |
|---|---|
| Director | Ki-Hyung Park |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 46 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Drama, World Cinema |
| Language | Korean |
| Subtitles | English |
| Released | DVD: 14 Nov 2005 Production year: 1998 |
| Format | DVD |
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More an allegory on the rigidity of the Korean education system than a gory chiller, Park Ki-Hyung's debut feature is an assured amalgam of generic tropes and populist snipes. Its setting in an all-girls' school briefly evokes Dario Argento's Suspiria. But as various sadistic teachers meet their grisly ends, it's clear that Park is more interested in the militarisation of youth than graphic displays of Gothic bloodletting. Lee Mi-Youn impresses as the resourceful heroine, although Kim Kyu-Li has more fun as the teen possessed by a suicide's malevolent spirit. A supernatural element would also inform Park's more sedate follow-up, Secret Tears.
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The highest grossing Korean film of its year, a gory supernatural thriller set in a high school for girls. Teachers who... read more on Time Out
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Scream if you want to go faster...
The first in a series of horror movies from Korea which are connected by the high school theme. Hugely popular in its homeland, 'Whispering Corridors' has also been billed as the film that started the Asian horror boom.
Released in the same year as 'Ringu', 'Whispering Corridors' is certainly far less creepy than its more successful sibling. It just doesn't come across as that kind of movie. Thankfully, for the most part, it also avoids most of the horror conventions which have become somewhat cliched over the last few years.
There's plenty of good stuff here, as a human drama it touches on issues that youngsters can relate too. The feeling of isolation, desperation and the need to fit in. Taken as a horror movie though Whispering corridors falls at every hurdle.
You can't blame over familiarity here, the fact remains that this first chapter of this very popular franchise lacks any real thrills, any decent chills and takes an eternity to get where its going.
Not without its merits but Momento Mori and The Wishing Stairs are certainly superior movies. Whispering corridors needs to make itself heard if its going to prove as popular as anything Hideo Nakata has to offer. -
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Spooky stuff but no classic
One of the Asian horror films that's swept up in the current craze for all things spooky and Eastern.
Sadly, this one lacks the edge of the recent classics. Reminiscent of 70's English ghost films, this one is definitely watchable but isn't that memorable. -
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