Reviews

Gang In-ho takes a job working at a school for the hearing impaired in Gwangju. The movie opens with him driving to the school (and having an accident) about the same time as a young boy from the school commits suicide by walking in front of a train. From almost the beginning of his time at the school, he notices that something seems out of kilter. The school seems almost dark and unfeeling. The students not particularly friendly and one teacher is just damned mean. The movie focuses on two sisters, one of whom is especially stand-offish and the other, unfriendly and with issues about eating and their brother who seems to be bloodied and bruised worse every time he comes to class.

We eventually learn that the two girls are being abused physically and sexually by the Principal and the Asst Principal with the knowledge of one female teacher, the security guard, a local police officer and at least one staff member (who is abusing the boy both physically and sexually)

The teacher enlists the help of Seo Yu-jin, a human rights activist to help the children (and him) Initially they find little support for their cause. The police are totally disinterested in what Yu-jin tells them. Partially because here in Korea making the establishment look bad is not something people do readily and partially because the police officer is a fairly high ranking figure within the department. Finally, they turn to YTN News. And a reporter does an interview with the children that is seen on TV throughout Korea. The police reluctantly spring into action and arrest the principal, asst principal and the teacher -- no one else. The movie then moves onto the second trial. The children are 'raped' again, this time by members of the establishment.

The Superintendent for Public Instruction and the defense lawyer try to bribe the teacher into ending the case. When he refuses, they pay off the aged and mentally feeble grandmother of the children. The local evangelical community rallies to the defense of the principal. The prosecutor seems to be on the side of justice, but in the end, it appears he left the children hanging out to dry.

The movie is extremely graphic and painful. The rape scenes are not glossed over and the physical abuse of the oldest brother is difficult to watch. But more painful, is the end of the trial where the audience is left frustrated, angry and saddened by the way these three children (and their dead brother) are left with nothing even remotely resembling justice. What makes this hard to take is that, while the movie is based on the events, the events still happened and they were as horrid as the movie describes. And were it not for the book and this movie some of these people would have continued with their lives as if nothing had happened. A definite 10.

This movie had the most useless array of characters possible, with everyone more idiotic than the other. In this retelling, Michael is an animal torturer/murderer turned serial killer.

His family is something out of a pathetically bad perverted comic. Malcolm McDowell completely wastes his talent on the Loomis role. The rest of the characters have as much depth as a shallow puddle and are as interesting as watching someone put a label on a deodorant stick.

What I learned from this movie:

1. Mental hospitals allow homicidal killer use real metal forks when they eat.

2. Mental hospitals do not require their patients to shower.

3. Mental hospitals allow their patients to have filthy rooms.

4. Mental hospitals allow their patients to make hundreds of gruesome masks and hang them in their room.

5. Maximum security mental hospitals have a staff of one at night in a hallway with extremely dangerous patients.

6. These same hospitals have staff members that could barely graduate middle school that work with and taunt dangerous mental patients.

7. When confronted by a murderous psycho, a police officer will only fire their weapon 1 time.

8. In Haddonfield, teenagers often slaughter coyotes, cut them open, hang them set them in front of the grave of a woman nicknamed 'Satan's Mother.' And they steal her headstone. All as a Halloween prank.

The things that hurt this movie the most are

1. Trying to give Michael a reason for the way he is weakens the suspense. It's far scarier when you see it happen with a nice, well adjusted solid middle class family because if it could happen to them, it could happen to anyone.

2. The first Halloweens focus on the stalking by Michael made for a better movie.

3. The hick, trailer trash characters turn the movie from a tight suspenseful movie, into a silly comedic farce.

4. The first movie had a group of interesting characters -- this had none.

5. The scene where he holds her in the house is just dull and it fails in providing an suspense. No one believes he's going to get her, so there's no suspense.

6.In the end when Michael comes back to attack her again, after having been shot carries no real shock value. It's just a lame excuse to keep the movie going for a few more minutes.

7. There is no continual suspense throughout the movie to draw you in and keep your attention. The suspense is like watching a 5 minute video followed by a few commercials followed by another 5 minute cartoon.

This movie went for stupid and it seems to have nailed it. Before you defend this piece of trash by saying, "It's a movie." I agree -- it is. A really crappy movie

Don't pick this one. ****Spoiler Alert***** The plot of this aggravatingly bad movie is four friends are talked into taking the shuttle from the airport by a very zealous driver. On the shuttle with them is a rather milquetoast looking business type.

Shortly into their trip the driver of the shuttle takes an off-ramp and some lunatic driver tries to run them off the road. The end result is they get a flat tire. The driver gets one of the people on the shuttle to help change the tire and the jack slips and the guys fingers are crushed between the tire and the shuttle. It's at this point that the driver reveals himself to be a kidnapper and he has taken all the people hostage.

Now the movie gets extremely slow and tedious, as the characters do one lame thing after another. One of the men is killed trying to escape -- even that lacks any suspense. Finally it is revealed that the milquetoast business guy is in cahoots with the driver when milquetoast guy kills the other male friend by slitting his throat.

There are a couple of attempts to escape by the women. Milquetoast is beaten over the head with a tire iron -- yet he survives.

The driver is also beaten and somehow survived a head on collision with a fence at high speed while kneeling next to the steering wheel. Somehow he didn't go through the window or even get seriously injured with a collision with windshield. Yet the woman driving the shuttle is knocked unconscious -- yet she had a steering wheel to protect her and he had nothing between him and the windshield.

He is eventually able to subdue the women and get them to an underground garage that is a front for human trafficking. One of the women is killed. The other one stabs the driver in the leg with a good sized piece of broken mirror and shoots/grazes him in the head, yet he is able (in what should be a severely weakened state -- severe blood loss, two head injuries and a large leg gash) to drag her out of the shuttle, drag her to a large crate, throw her in and get it locked, all the while with her fiercely fighting him.

Now some people admire the message of the movie about human trafficking and how it is going on today. This is a serious problem. But, making an extremely boring movie about the topic does not entitle it to a higher rating.

If you love movies with bizarre scripts, zombies, some nudity, a weak lesbian love scene, a girls swim team and a guy who plays a flute while a girl fondles herself and then gets raped by him -- This is the movie for you.

The high school has been infected by a 'popular' virus as opposed to those unpopular viruses nobody likes. The antidote is brought by a medical team-- which is really the evil master looking for his trainee that has escaped his clutches. There is a serum for the students and there is a special vial for the teachers.

Everyone takes the serum, except the two main girls. Then everyone starts to become zombies, except the two girls and the swim team -- the disinfectant in the pool (chlorine???) has made them immune to the zombie-virus.

While hiding from the zombies, the two girls start talking about the swim competition that's tomorrow. I know when I'm being hunted by zombies, I often talk about sporting events that are coming up. Then they have lesbian-sex. I know that when I'm being hunted by zombies I have...wait...I'm a guy, never mind.

The scene in the classroom where the math teacher slices up his non-zombie students with meter sticks, while his zombie students feed upon the non-zombie students is just too weird. The zombie female teacher who speaks some English is also just too weird as she kills with a machete.

The main character is a water warrior master who has escaped her master so that she can live a life like all high school seniors her age. We learn she is a new student at the school about 10 minutes into the movie, which makes the ending even more confusing.

The scene with the rape-master and his flute is laughable. He plays his flute while his 'slave' fondles her genitals...she does moan and squeal well, but that's about it. Then he has sex with her.

If you think this review was disjointed, the movie is 100x more so. It's funny in places and just twisted and bizarre in others. There's enough to laugh at and enough to say "What?" and "Huh?" to make it better than 2 stars

I have never seen the first movie, so I have nothing to compare it to. But, this movie LAME, The flaws and lame twists in this movie are so absurd that you don't just have to suspend disbelief to appreciate this movie, you have to repeatedly stab your brain with a sharp pointed object not to see this 'film as pure garbage. To begin with, it would be nice to have a couple you could have some sympathy for. These two characters are the types you hope get whacked quickly so the real victims can appear -- no such luck, they are the real victims. The acting just flat out sucks --- except for the Sheriff and the killer. It's one thing for 'dead body number 5' who is on the screen for six seconds to be an awful actor, it's another thing to sit and watch two of the main characters vie for a razzie award. The movie lost me fairly early when the killer turned up in the fundie family car that just happen to be passing the car driven by the main characters who had kicked the killer out of their car the night before -- LAME! I was curious as to how the killer kept finding all of these vehicles to drive around in. The movie starts with his car that breaks down, then he has the 4x4, then the sports car...come on! They're in a desert for Christ's sake, not next to the car rental counter at LAX. Next...The killers overtaking of ALL the police cars and shooting the police helicopter was laughable. Then his escape out of the police van, by killing the guard and then shooting the drivers, the van flipping over and over God knows how many times and the killer is totally unhurt just leaps into 'idiocy.' This super villain serial killer motif takes a director of immense talent, an exceedingly competent script and solid acting to pull off. Sadly this movie has none of that.