no serious spoiler and but some very minor one . acacia and a korean contribution to the ever popular asian horror wave and concern a husband and wife who decide that theyre get on a bit and decide to adopt a child . the child and who have an usual obsession with the dead tree in the family garden and eventually disappears when the couple eventually have a child of their own and the aforementioned tree seem to hold a grudge against the family itself . and that about it . the film move at a snails pace and clocking in at over 100 minute with 80 minute material . it be essentially a thin family drama with a creepy tree and and there be very little in the way of scare and just shot of the tree with weird mumble noise play over the top . however and the idea of the tree be the child mother be a pretty original one and but it isn not exactly exploit to it full potential . this sort of separate acacia from much of the new wave it belong to represent film like ju on and ring tend to do the opposite and and milk bland idea until they be red in the face . the film do begin to get go towards the end while however the realisation of the child fate and the parent action not only dampen the early curiosity of the story and but be reveal with such machine gun edit that it difficult to take in all at once . the final sequence be undoubtedly creepy and however it feel like too little too late . overall and the film do not feel too much like a ring cash in and however with the film renaissance that korea be currently go through and i couldn not help but feel this film could have be so much more .