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The Whispering korean drama review
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The Whispering
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by Kate
Jan 1, 2020
Completed
Overall 3.5
Story 1.0
Acting/Cast 5.5
Music 5.5
Rewatch Value 1.0
A group of people going to a haunted location is as unoriginal of a plot for a horror movie as possible. There isn't much to do to make it more unique, but it still can be made into an amazing horror. It all depends on the creativity of filming, setting, and execution. Sadly, we had none of it in this movie.

The mood of the movie is all over the place. We start with horror and cheap jump scares. Then we move to the introduction of the characters which had a strong slice of life and high school romance feel. With few horror elements, it felt more like a psychological thriller or a story about a girl that cannot deal with a loss and pressure put on her. Then we get back to horror. To put it simply, I have no idea what the production team wanted to make out of it - an entertaining horror movie with jump scares? Psychological horror about losing a friend? Why even add hints of romance? There are also way too many plotlines about ghosts: the friend, owner of the amusement park, a girl from the beginning. At the end, none of them is explained and explored enough for me to care.

Any horror having a group of friends as the cast needs a good chemistry between the characters. This one failed to convince me they even like each other. They did not seem like friends and I could not understand why they would want to hang out together. They needed a group of stereotypical characters, but did not care to explain why and how such different people even connect and befriend each other.

The acting was mediocre and at times over the top. The characters were so poorly written I wanted them to die before they even got to that haunted location. The reason for them to go back to the amusement park was not well explained and built into the story. They showed one scene of Woo Sung doing a live show on the internet and it was supposed to be enough for the setting. It was not.

Overall, boring and messy. Definitely a waste of time.
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