11.19.2007

Is that a little girl?

Little girls (or boys) need to stay away from scary movies, especially when they do really, really creepy things. In this scene, taken from the movie "Phone," Yeong-ju is possessed by the ghost of a murdered woman, her father's teenage mistress.
Dead children are a recurrent theme in Asian horror movies, but they usually appear sparingly, and the acting is minimal. We've seen them in Ju-On (chalk white kid), Ringu (freaky Sadako), and Dark Water (green elevator girl), and thinking about it, the exchange of words between them and the protagonists isn't substantial.
Seo-woo Eun shows the talent of a grown up artist. At such a young age, that makes her seem unnatural, almost inhuman. Hopefully, her skills will progress as she grows older. For now, she has managed to make audiences all over shudder and wonder about their own, innocent-looking kids.

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