 to avoid links and angering the TDF Gods (pbut), hence the lack of linkage bud. But if you're looking for a good example of South Korean horror I'd recommend 'A tale of two sisters'. IMDB will no doubt assure you as to if it's your kinda thing. If you haven't already seen it then I also recommend looking up 'Oldboy'. Not horror, just brilliant.
Be warned! The ending is stomach churning. Also avoid the Spike Lee remake, it's missing any spark of the original brilliance. 
I think the one on Netflix is the original, but I'll doublecheck that.
Well, I watched it, and...umm... yeah, this particular theme has been divisive and/or repulsive, and equally, retroactively mesmerizing (a very important distinction, that, lol), from time immemorial. Someone has been reading their Sophocles, or whoever is the East Asian equivalent of him, it seems to me, with a crucial difference being that WE don't know the real relationship between the characters from the beginning, so that if we are enticed by certain scenes, then we may be set up for a dose of implicit guilt of our own later on, depending on precisely how we are constituted. I can tell you that as the father of a seventeen year old daughter, it was pretty unnerving, although I'd like to think it would be in any case. But I thought it was well done and an original take on the theme, even though in some ways it reminded me of 'Angel Heart,' a great and very unsettling movie in its own right. By the way, it was the original 2003 production, since I don't prefer to smoke Spike Lee joints, either. The fight scenes were outrageous, and I liked some of the comic bits, too, like how everything ground to a halt whenever someone's silly sounding cell-phone went off, including the soundtrack. Thanks for recommending it.
Good analysis, Angel Heart comparison and all. It's a twisted movie but nonetheless brilliant on many levels. Personally I think it epitomises a lot of what is sorely missing from western movies nowadays.
Yeah, but I forgot to even mention the revenge element... lol. And that all of the violence seemed to have a definite point to it, which is often lacking nowadays.
I nevertheless watched the Spike Lee version of Old Boy and loved it!
Then I rewatched the Korean version of The Tale Of Two Sisters.
You'd never know the American version of Two Sisters was the same story!
Did you ever watch The Grudge or The Ring?
Finally, two movies that really shook me up!
I think it's the "hair hiding the face" scenes, that scare the cr*%p out of me!
The American version of 'Ring' is one of my favorite horror films, not least because of the outstanding musical score of Hans Zimmer. If you ever rewatch that some day, you should listen to the suite at the end of it when the credits are rolling, wherein Zimmer arranges all the musical themes in the film into a more or less continuous piece, so that you can give your undivided attention to them in a way not really possible in the film itself. It really is mesmerizing, very high quality, very effective stuff, and, whether or not the average moviegoer realizes it, has to have been a major reason for the film's success, in my opinion. The solo piano cue alone that comes near the beginning of the film is worth the entire price of it, as far as I'm concerned, because it is THAT good for what it's supposed to be doing.
My wife and daughter both have really long hair like the Samara character. Even now, every now and then, when one of them gets out of the shower, she'll do that comb over while her hair is still wet and prance around freaking everybody out. It's cute.
I hadn't noticed the Hans Zimmer score for that one so I'll have to rewatch. I love how he can make the simplest motifs sound so compelling and urgent. I thought what he did with Inception was astonishing.
Oh, heck yeah, the 'Inception' score is one of his very best, no doubt about it. Parts of it are sometimes even used to promote other films now, like they used to do with Elfman's 'Edward Scissorhands' a lot some years ago. If you rewatch 'Ring,' be sure to check out that suite at the end of it, with the volume set high enough to hear everything. There's a lot of interesting stuff going on in there. At one point, he has a woman's voice doubling the 1st violins, but you can just barely hear it; it's like a ghost haunting the part. Since the timbre of the violin is so close to that of the human voice, I thought that was an especially subtle touch from the maestro. It changes the instrument to something haunting and familiar without your really being consciously aware of it. There's a virtual instruments forum where I hang out sometimes where Zimmer himself actually posts occasionally, under the name Rctec. He'll reply to anyone, too, if what you've got to say is interesting enough and he thinks he can offer you some good advice. Man, you'd never find ANY of those other Hollywood big shots doing something like that, which is yet another reason I really like him a lot. However great he is at what he does, he seems not to have forgotten where he came from. One time, a young composer from Iran started a thread, critiquing some of Zimmer's work and talking about how much he admired him and had learned from him, and suddenly Zimmer himself showed up in the comments to respond to some point he'd made... The poor kid just fell all over himself for a bit, lol, but finally got it together enough to get back on point. That was interesting to watch, but Zimmer was pretty modest and all about the music.
edit- changed India to Iran... got the country wrong.
Totally! Those Asian horror movies rule!
I sound 12 years old.
Man if those things happened in my house, I'd die on the spot from a heart attack!
And I certainly wouldn't be snooping around by myself or "investigating" a noise or a trail of water......!
I watched Tale of Two Sisters but this version was American.
It was totally improvised, LOL.
Sooo bad, I felt "awkward"!
I'll have to try the Korean one.
I watched the Korean Tale Of Two Sisters, was it ever different.
Really cranks up toward the end, eh?
That's the best they could come up with??? Low rating well deserved.
Best... Cases Ever Caught on Tape, i feel as if a whole series of this is coming, but no high definition yet. Yeah, i don't know, if we unleash the body language experts, what would that say about some of the facial expressions here?
Yeah, I noticed that, too. Every single video was fuzzy as hell, and while I'm no body language expert (at least insofar as I'm consciously aware, lol), I could swear every last one of these people had something to hide. That is, that what was going down was a deliberate deception, rather than some truly unexplained phenomenon probably of psychological origin, which is the way I tend to view "genuine" ghosts. I love the idea of sprites flitting around in the backyard, but we're going to have to do better than this, folks. But... what the hell, I guess it's all just entertainment, anyway.
No expert either. It's hard to pinpoint what the giveaways would be, but the general feeling i get is that they almost laugh at us in the face. Yep, those 'genuine' ghost are interesting.
I love a good ghost story as much as the next person, but I also appreciate it when the teller would own up to the fictional nature of it, OR... give me just about anything else, I guess, rather than these feeble attempts to pull the wool over my eyes. These guys had pretty poor aim for the target in this one, I'm afraid. To make a small pun, the efforts to deceive were just a little too transparent. Of course, I don't really expect anything else from these types of shows these days, but some sure are better at it than others.
This TV production was cheesy and disorganised. I was hoping for better.
Pretty much! This was so lame!

Did you ever happen to read Harry Price's account of the "Rosalie" seance? I read it recently and was pretty deliciously spooked by it. I'm sure it had to have been a hoax (although he himself was not sure of this), but it was very cleverly done, and the storytelling skills he brings to bear on it are of a pretty high order for the genre.
Thank you so much for bringing him to my attention. That sounds like a wonderful read!
When I was very young (in the early 70's), my mother gave me a few Edgar Cayce books to read, and a little gem called More Canadian Ghosts.
The last book I read on the subject was Canadian Ghost Stories, back in 2001.
I understand his stuff on Borley Rectory is pretty good, too, but a lot longer than the Rosalie account, which is only a few pages. He was a decidedly dour looking old dude (for his entire life! lolol), and his writing style remained pretty Victorian, but that's a part of the charm of it for me. Yep, I read