Bloody Reunion is described as a horror/slasher movie, but because of all the hype and good reviews of this movie, I was expecting a better storyline than what is usually found in this genre. I am a huge fan of Asian horror in general because of the greater depth of their story lines, yet this movie remains confusing throughout. Also, even though I'm not a big gore-hound, this movie really doesn't provide the gruesome killings expected by most American slasher fans, although those scenes were quite unique.
***SPOILER ALERT*** Confused storyline: The most significant problem I had with this film is that what did and didn't really happen is not fully explained. We find out that the story told to the police by the one surviving student,who is also Mrs. Parks caretaker, is a lie. We are then told that these students meet every year with their teacher, that they are all in fact successful, that the student known as "Shy-Guy" never really existed, that the young woman caring for the inexplicably wheelchair bound Mrs. Park is in reality the student known as "Shy Guy", and that all of the nasty things the young woman described as being done to the other students, were in reality all done to her by Mrs. Park. Confused? It gets even better. Also, we find out that all of those former-students were killed with poison, and then mutilated by the young woman. Why would she kill her former classmates? Well, we are shown a flashback of this young woman as a student, and in this scene she is humiliated by her classmates and her teacher, Mrs. Park, when she has her first menstruation in class: They all insist that she has defecated in her pants. (Wait, there's more) She goes home to her poor mother, who loves her more than anything, and after telling her mother what happened, the mother is so angry that she goes marching off to the school(clutching her daughter's bloody underwear as proof) and is killed when she is hit by a car. The girl left school, and hasn't been seen until she shows up to care for Mrs. Park about a year before the reunion. Oh, and this young woman also keeps her dead mother in her old apartment, and Mrs. Park may or may not have had a hideously deformed son that she kept in her basement who liked to wear the same bunny mask the killer is described as wearing when the young woman tells her fabricated story to the police. At the end of this movie I was left wondering: What really happened? Who really existed? Why did I pay $29.00 at Borders for this movie?
***SPOILER ALERT*** Confused storyline: The most significant problem I had with this film is that what did and didn't really happen is not fully explained. We find out that the story told to the police by the one surviving student,who is also Mrs. Parks caretaker, is a lie. We are then told that these students meet every year with their teacher, that they are all in fact successful, that the student known as "Shy-Guy" never really existed, that the young woman caring for the inexplicably wheelchair bound Mrs. Park is in reality the student known as "Shy Guy", and that all of the nasty things the young woman described as being done to the other students, were in reality all done to her by Mrs. Park. Confused? It gets even better. Also, we find out that all of those former-students were killed with poison, and then mutilated by the young woman. Why would she kill her former classmates? Well, we are shown a flashback of this young woman as a student, and in this scene she is humiliated by her classmates and her teacher, Mrs. Park, when she has her first menstruation in class: They all insist that she has defecated in her pants. (Wait, there's more) She goes home to her poor mother, who loves her more than anything, and after telling her mother what happened, the mother is so angry that she goes marching off to the school(clutching her daughter's bloody underwear as proof) and is killed when she is hit by a car. The girl left school, and hasn't been seen until she shows up to care for Mrs. Park about a year before the reunion. Oh, and this young woman also keeps her dead mother in her old apartment, and Mrs. Park may or may not have had a hideously deformed son that she kept in her basement who liked to wear the same bunny mask the killer is described as wearing when the young woman tells her fabricated story to the police. At the end of this movie I was left wondering: What really happened? Who really existed? Why did I pay $29.00 at Borders for this movie?