The Closet (2020)
9/10
Insidious Meets Korea
3 January 2021
Warning: Spoilers
The start is slow and pretty easily predictable, starting out almost exactly like 0.0mhz which i just watched. However, Jung-woo ha hasn't disappointed me in a movie, really ever. And when this seemingly traditional haunting of Korea takes a turn into the closet, very Poltergeist-esquire, we get the twist we were waiting for, and that the movie needed. It is extremely emotional, but that's what these films do. They confront ugly realities of living, they don't lie to us and make things pretty and happy all of the time. They show us our demons and force honesty down our throats. And these kid actors they have, it's incredible.

After a tragic accident leaves Ina without a mother, she and her father disconnect in their grief and move to a new house to try and start over. Isn't it always the way? The new house has seen its horrors though. in twenty+ years dozens of kids have gone missing, and now, Ina has joined them. These kids were unwanted by their parents, and the first of those to die in that house, made a playground to welcome them home.
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