The closet

I'm not normally the guy who watches a movie with subtitles, But I have before and I was against watching this one, but my wife talked me into it and really, after twenty minutes or so, I was all in. It's a nice take on the American movie Poltergeist. Kid gets taken to the realm of the dead through a closet. I will say the acting, as far as the kids, was superb. The adults did a fine job too, but to see that range in kids that young is astonishing. Over all I think this movie did the horror genre a great job. I recommend it to anyone looking for a decent horror flick. Peace.

Korea is fastly becoming one of my favorite countries to produce horror films. Train to Busan is one of my favorite modern horror films and after watching the closet, it's not far behind. It's creepy, well written, well acted and left me in a ball of tears at the end. Highly recommend this film

Pretty funny that they mention 'interstellar' but not 'insidious' or 'the conjuring' which basically has the same plot as this movie: let's go find the missing kid to their realm, but of course added with some korean flair.

Non-creatively borrowed (to say politely) theme elements done many times before. 1. Family with tragic history go to live in an isolated house with a past. 2. Usual vengeful spirit inhabiting some hidden space (this case a done before closet). 3. A child is the object of the spirit's attention who also happens to be a child. A stuffed toy as prop, of course. 4. Brief appearances by said spirit-child to possess the human child & bring her into the spirit world. 5. A bit of newspaper digging brings up past child disappearances. 6. A spirt hunter cartoonishly shows up & brings the usual electrical magnetic field detectors to locate spirits, but as any high school student will tell you they're only good at telling you that electricity is in the house - duh! 7. Usual circle of candles w/drumming, chants, and ancient textbook showing pictures of nasty spirits.

South Korean horror movie, The Closet reminds me of the story, Battle Royale. Where parents turn to desperate and inhuman solutions due to hardships of the economy in a sick society that has leeched all compassion and joy out of life... and the innocents who pay the price.