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Korean horror movies have been here for a while and if you are aware of that, you probably know they've put out some really good movies. While I would not put this at the top of any list, I still think it is a really good one. Visually speaking but also from a story standpoint. Characters are flawed as they should be and make decisions that are wrong .. in a way.

Again sometimes it is very hard to know what to do - not to mention certain things are ok to happen or should happen so the story is more interesting. And theer is more to this than just the space of the closet ... there's something behind it (no pun intended). This can be a good/frightening time, if you dig it

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.

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.

Name a korean horror movie. I've seen it. Where did all the good korean horror from the early 2000s go ? Somehow people thought "The Wailing" was a great movie and now everyone is trying to copy it. Exorcism, Shamanism everywhere. Where did the subtle creeping up your brain horror go ? This movie is like an american exorcism movie. It even has jump scares. It starts rather promising but becomes kinda uncreative quick. I have seen most of this somewhere before, in a better form, in an US movie(Insidious). That's not the kind of horror I want from a korean horror movie. Theres a hundred better US movies with that topic out there. Not impressed at all.

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.