Voice is the fourth installment of the whispering corridors series and manages to add some new facets to the genre, like memento mori did. The screenplay borrows from the original work only the general. For now, this beguiling mystery further enhances the reputation of south korean cinema. Ghost school horror whispering corridors memento mori. Memento mori 1999 is that from someone who feels like a psychopath, the world is most definitely consisting of complete lunatics, and not only that, but the setting of your world is not a jail, nor an institution, but the cruelty that is high school. The focus of the film, like the story, is on exploring the experience of this type of memory loss. Memento mori 1999 the sequel of whispering corridors brings a flashier, dramatized approach which, hats down, needed a good pair of cojones to pull off. Although this film bears no real connection to the first, they share a common theme of supernatural happenings in a girls school. In the film leonard is the name of the man character, and he is flashing back of what had just at. The constant jump scares get old and the story structure. A dark ghost story about suicides at an allgirl korean school. Therefore, the movies motives arent really those of an actual horror flick. I dont know where youre from so i cant say for sure what sites you have access to.
Unlike american films, which are almost always plot driven, whispering corridors is driven by mood, so much that, at times, the story only seems to exist to get the. Memento mori english sub viewasian, the film revolves around the relationship between two high school students, yoo shieun lee youngjin and min hyoshin park yejin. As with the original whispering corridors, the sequel memento mori 1999 is a relatively lowbudget affair with writerdirectors handling their first feature film. Memento vs memento mori one of my favorite movies is memento. The coming months should see the availability of a memento mori sequel, while a 3rd film is on the way. Whatever the korean equivalent of the sibilant s is, the characters in memento mori are lisping it repeatedly throughout the second fright flick of the whispering corridors series. While investigating the school files, the frightened teacher mrs. Watch as the central tragic romance between femme psycho diarist hyoshin park yehjin and coldhearted jock shieun lee youngjin is reflected in. This is a horror film that is based around a relationship between two schoolgirls. Memento mori 1999, wishing stairs 2003, voice 2005, and. That said, it doesnt mean that memento mori is necessarily a bad film. However, the movie stays true to its original formula, too, and doesnt present itself as a mere horror film, but works heavily on a drama and character level.
It tries to tell a da vinci code esque story of murder and intrigue with clues hidden in artwork and a quasireligious journey spanning. Faca parte do filmow e avalie este filme voce tambem. Strange rumors start to spread at the catholic girls high school after unjoo committed suicide one night. Memento mori, an equally brave and controversial film dealing with many of the same themes as the original movie, but also with homosexuality in single. After persistent investigation, jungun finds out that on the night of the incident, soy, eugene, eunyoung, unjoo, the four of them had tried to commit a joint suicide after making a vow. This is the 1st film by both collaborating directors kim. They can be photographs or anything left behind by the dead. With kanghee choi, gyuri kim, minjung kim, roeha kim. Whispering corridors was credited with being the beginning of the asian ghost. This is the 1st film by both collaborating directors kim taeyong and min kyudong. It would also explain why no one thought to make each entry take place at the same school or have linking characters.
Additionally, both are horror films with strong character exploration. Memento mori is 100 minutes of fantastic, naturalistic acting, with a wonderful story, music, editing and cinematography. If i had to pick a word to describe whispering corridors, i think id have to go with quixotic. Whispering corridors photos view all photos 10 movie info. This diary is completely chock full of creativity, with realistic drawings. Again, completely inexplicably, she does, and then of course finds a message on. Unlike american films, which are almost always plot driven, whispering corridors is driven by mood, so much that, at times, the story only seems to exist to get the film from one tension filmed scene to the next. The first movie is just called whispering corridors. Jeanfrancois gratton shoot studio creative director. The supernatural stuff seems tacked on, and doesnt really make a lick of sense, but the film generates so much good will that its impossible to get too sore about. Feb 19, 2016 memento vs memento mori one of my favorite movies is memento. On the next morning, the teenager jaeyi yoon waits for her friend jioh. It is a sequel to 1998s whispering corridors, and is also set in an allgirls high school, but the films are otherwise unrelated. Its a little too heavy with symbloism at times, but ultimately, memento mori is a rewarding experience that leaves us eager to continue the story.
As the two girls become romantically involved, their taboo friendship causes them to be marginalized by the other students. Eunyoung, a former student turned teacher, investigates the murders after mrs. Whispering corridors is a korean horror film directed by park kihyung in 1998 about a series of unexplained murders committed by a ghost. Lee seongjin, park yehjin, lee youngjin, kim minsun.
Memento mori is the most recent short film creation from montreals photovideo collective shoot studio. Memento mori 1999 directed by min kyudong, kim taeyong. It is a sequel to 1998s whispering corridors, and is also set in an allgirls high school, but. In many ways, corridors is typical of 1990s asian horror. Memento mori is a south korean movie that doesnt know what it wants to be, and when it finally decides what it should be, it makes the wrong choice. Whispering corridors may 30, 1998 memento mori december 24, 1999 wishing stairs august 1, 2003 voice july 15, 2005 a blood pledge june 18, 2009. Unjoos younger sister jungun who attends the same school gets suspicious about unjoos death. They are depicted as petty, mean spirited, vain, and thoroughly snotty. Memento mori, being part of the whispering corridors series, is an unsual film in the sense that it is actually a drama, even though it is an installment in a horror series. Every whispering corridors film features a different plot, characters and settings. Whispering corridors is a south korean supernatural horror film series.
From what i have read online korea does not look lightly on such a relationship, and segments of the original form of the movie have actually been destroyed, making the relationship between the two girls less physical that it actually was, apparently. In fact, i actually didnt really like this film that much the first time i saw it just because i thought the story was a little bit too similar to memento mori a jilted lover comes back from the dead to get revenge on her exgirlfriend and haunt the school, and the romantic relationship between the two girls wasnt pronounced enough. Sep 17, 2007 memento mori is a south korean movie that doesnt know what it wants to be, and when it finally decides what it should be, it makes the wrong choice. Following the boxoffice success of the south korean school ghoststory whispering corridors known as yeogo goedam in korea, a followup was released in 1999, entitled memento mori aka yeogo goedam 2, or whispering corridors 2. It tells the story of two schoolgirls, hyoshin and shieun whose intense friendship eventually blossomed into a. Park startles and calls the young teacher eunyoung hur, telling her that the deceased jinju jang is back. It seems to me that as the whispering corridors series goes on, the degree of commentary the films make about high school lessens in each installment. There may be a ghost involved in the happenings on screen, but the filmmakers successfully avoided to depict any. Codirectors taeyong kim and kyudong mins follow up film to the successful whispering corridors was 1999s memento mori. The whispering corridors movies are by no means scary however they make up for horror in everything else. Feb 26, 20 second film of whispering corridor series, enjoy. Film korea subtitle indonesia whispering corridors. It was a surprise hit in south korea, where it ranked third in the highest grossing domestically produced films of the year.
Which is cool, but also kind of sucks because that happens to be one of the favorite movies thats listed on stuff white people like, which makes my love for what i think is a completely unconventional and complex thought provoking movie seem banal. Thankfully, they failed, and so the movie went on to become one of koreas biggest box office successes, spawning a later sequel, memento mori aka whispering corridors 2, or yeogo goedam 2. The story centers on a student, lim jioh, and her new friend, jae. Memento mori, for those who dont know, is a latin phrase that, loosely translated, means images of death. Kim minseong, kim tae yeon, kim taeyong, min kyudong. In the end, this film is a good supernatural romance but not recommended for fans of the traditional horror genre.
Memento mori was the first korean film i ever saw, and at the time wasnt extremely impressed, however, i found whispering corridors a bit more interesting, a bit more engaging and even a bit more predictable. What could have been just a retread of the first film, memento mori, sometimes called whispering corridors 2, now stands on its own, almost seperate from the rest of the series. There are not many sequels in korean cinema if you compare it to the endless stream of sequels from hollywood, but sometimes a rousing success will lead to them. The short is a mysterious contemplation of the ambiguity of beginnings and ends and the subtleties of defining turning points.
Oct 23, 2008 in many ways, corridors is typical of 1990s asian horror. Memento mori, aka yeogo goedam ii, is an innameonly sequel to a film by the english title, whispering corridors. While officially a sequel of whispering corridors, its actually more of a spiritual successor. In this second installment of the whispering corridors series, a young girl finds a strange. Its hard to classify, its good as a drama, it also delivers shocks, and is not without a little blood. In this case, we have kim taeyong and min kyudong, both of whom would go on to have both critical and commercial success, the former making the korean critical darling family. The film was only beaten by a promise and the letter. The series uses an allgirls high school as the backdrop for each of its films. Love and ferocity, desire and repulsion, need and egocentricity all have their moment of complexity and. Each film has a different story even though they are set in the same all girls school where some creepy happenings have been going on.
Hyoshin and shieun keep a secret out of their love relationship. Park, a fellow teacher calls her about jinju, a former friend of eunyoungs. Jul 19, 2012 memento mori 1999 the sequel of whispering corridors brings a flashier, dramatized approach which, hats down, needed a good pair of cojones to pull off. Memento mori is a 1999 korean horror film directed by kim taeyong and min kyudong. Memento mori, yeogo goedam ii, yeogo goedam dubeonjjae iyagi. Unfortunately, the film fails completely as a horror, is not good as a drama, and is unforgivably. Memento mori is a 1999 south korean horror film, and the second installment of the whispering corridors film series. Corridors 2 memento mori 1999 cimu videot azsiai horror nevu felhasznalo toltotte fel az film animacio kategoriaba. I have no proof, but ive always believed memento mori was a terrible film produced beforehand and they slapped on the whispering corridors title to give it some credit. This socalled sequel to the 1998 film whispering corridors actually has very little in common with it, employing different directors, a different cast, and a completely different storyline, locale, and aesthetic. The story centers on a student, lim jioh, and her new friend, jaeji, who are in their senior year at a haunted school.
The cherry orchardsakura no sono japanese film, the handmaiden korean film, dramamystery. Every three years, the gloomy halls of a highly regimented allgirl korean school are haunted by the spirit of a student who died as a. Whispering corridors was released in may 30, 1998 in south korea. The original whispering corridors was a scathing indictment of the abuses that youth endure at school and the second pointed a finger at the rigidity of social structures and.
Whispering corridors on dvd 8078390089 from tartan video. As in whispering corridors, memento mori is set in a south korean allfemale school. This homoerotic creepshow is like a lesbian hall of mirrors. The film takes the basic plota man who suffered the loss of his shortterm memory in the traumatic moment of the assault on and murder of his wife is seeking revenge. Whispering corridors is the first of three korean horror films, set in high schools specializing in art, the other two being memento mori and wishing stairs, that proves that the koreans deserve a share in the new wave of horror such as japans ringu and juon. It tells the story of two schoolgirls, hyoshin and shieun whose intense friendship eventually blossomed into a lesbian relationship.
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