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Despite the film featuring a rather tried and true storyline, it's
pretty hard to summarize it ... but I'll try anyhow:
20 years ago, a dead pregnant woman was found at the altar of a black
mass, but a doctor, Park (Ahn Sung-kee) manages to at least save the baby.
Now: The baby of back then is now 20 year old Seung-hee (Chu Sang Mi),
and for some reason the devil needs her to manifest in our world. And
while the devil waits for her, he commits a few murders, which are all
blamed on Hyun-am (Shin Hyeon-jun) - which is kind of ironic since Hyun-am
is one of the few people who know the truth and want to stop the devil
from manifesting in Seung-hee's body, and by teh way he is helped by a
dagger possessed by his lost love (?). The other people who want to stop
the devil from manifesting in Seung-hee's body are Doc Park, who has since
become a priest, and his student, Jun-ho (Oh Hyun-chul) the magical boy
(?).
A few more murders happen, and for some reason or other, Seung-hee is
pursued by a zombie soldier but saved by Hyun-am, and the two dutifully
fall in love. Hyun-am manages to convince her of the gravity of the
situation, but soon enough he finds himself on the run from the police
again and is eventually gravely wounded. In the meantime, the devil has
kidnapped the magical kid, and suddenly Seung-hee realizes the only way to
stop all this madness is to sacrifice herself, so she visits a black mass
where I think the devil awaits her. Enter Park, who insists on sacrificing
himself in her stead, but she just can't pull the trigger to kill him when
he asks her to. Enter Hyung-am, who has since acquired extra power some
way or the other, who also wants to sacrifice himself and soon enough
fights the priest Park, who has in the meantime been possessed by the
devil ... but ultimately it seems that everything is to no avail as the
devil has manifested himself in Seung-hee who all of a sudden looks like a
third rate goth-girl. But ultimately, Hyung-am can call her true self back
with things like "listen to your heart", and she can become
human just long enough to fetch his possessed dagger and kill herself,
thus closing the devil out of this our world. And the ending of course
shows Hyung-am shouting a big NNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO ... oh well.
I don't know how else to put it, I really don't, but this film is a
mess. For the most part, the script just seems to go nowhere, and is
over-convoluted considering the rather pedestrian and cliché-riddled
horror story the film is telling, and unfortunately it's confusing being
over-convoluted with being intelligent - which the film just isn't. It's a
silly little film that has not been properly thought through and that
relies heavily on situations that have been seen much better in other
films from The Exorcist
downwards. And very mediocre CGI-effects despterately trying to spice up
the proceedings don't help much either.
Rather a waste of time.
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