Ji-won is a college student who's suffering from amnesia and can't remember anything about her past. Suddenly, old high school friends of hers starts dying one by one and for some unknown reason they all seem to have been drowned. Ji-won begins to look for what could be the cause and for who's drowning them. Then she comes across another girl from her old school who's a bit strange and is apparently very afraid of even a touch of water. Could she have something to do with Ji-won's friends dying?
This isn't by far the most original horror movie coming out of Asia, although I still think it was better then your average Asian horror flick and is, if not original, at least very entertaining with a cool unpredictable twist in the end which helps and makes the movie a bit more interesting.
Since there has been so many horror movies coming out of Asia in recent times it's easy to miss the good ones when there are so many movies out there that are basically just a waste of time even for the real Asian horror buffs, but this is actually one of the good ones and if you're into Asian horror I would recommend you to check this one out, and if you're not into to it then check it out anyway, you might get into it.
 
Once again it's not original but the story is pretty interesting, well enough to keep you wanna watch anyway. It has a few scares even though you might have seen similar things before, but some stuff's still ok.
What I especially liked about about this movie is the actual drama in it over the horror which was that it was pretty much your normal korean horror with a few ok scares, but the drama part and the acting is really good. Also it's nicely directed and looks great visually.
Slow paced? No not really, not more than your average Asian horror flick, it's worth checking out but don't expect too much.
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ALTERNATIVE TITLE: The Ghost
Ryeong
MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Kim Yoo-jin
WRITING CREDITS: Tae-kyeong Kim
GENRE: Horror
CAST: Sang-mi Nam, Ha-Neul Kim, Yi Shin
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: 98 min
RATING: 7/10
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