Product Details

• Actors: Kim Ha-neul, Gi Ju-bong, Ryu Jin-ok, Nam Sangmi, Shin Lee
• Directors: Kim Tae-kyung, Kim Tae-gyun
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: Korean
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Tartan Video
• DVD Release Date: April 24, 2007
• Run Time: 94 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000MM0LHS
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,867 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 04/24/2007 Run time: 98 minutes

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars SLOWER BUT MORE CEREBRAL THAN THE GRUDGE, June 15, 2007

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Tim Janson (Michigan) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ghost (DVD)

The Ghost or "Ryeong" is a new Korean horror film, part of the Tartan Asia Extreme line. The film is shackled with the tag line "The Grudge meets Dark Water" and that does a real disservice to the film for a number or reasons. The Ghost doesn't have nearly the scare factor of The Grudge but it has vastly superior characterization and a more complex plot. While the Grudge was a straight horror film, The Ghost is more of a mystery with horror elements.

Min Ji-Won is a student suffering from amnesia. She experienced a traumatic event a year ago and has lost all memories of her past. Something terrible happened but everyone around her avoids revealing the details. Min plans to leave her home and go to school far away to try and get her life back together. This results in an angry conflict with her mother who doesn't want to be left alone and assails Min with a guilt trip. Meanwhile her sometimes boyfriend, Park, does his best to get Min to carry on with life, but he's also unwilling to tell her about her past.

Min has become something of a pariah at school, avoided by her former friends. When those friends end up dying, one by one, apparently of drowning, Min begins experiencing visions and flashbacks. She visits one of her friends who has been hospitalized in a psych ward and she learns about Su-in, who was bullied and humiliated because her family was poor. A shaken Min realizes that she was the ring-leader of her school clique that tormented Su-in, often pretending to be her friend just so they could embarrass her later. A desperate Min tries to unravel the events that led to the tragedy and her loss of memory but Min may not like what she finally uncovers.

The Ghost also gets compared quite a bit to The Ring and yes, we do have that ubiquitous long, dark haired female ghost out for revenge but that's where the comparison ends. There's a distinctly different feel to The Ghost than The Ring and other Asian films. The Ghost really go doesn't go for the quick scares that make you jump out of your seat, preferring a more cerebral approach. You quickly find yourself caught up in wanting to know what happened to Min a year a go that caused her to loser her memories. The ghost became secondary to Min's situation.

Ha-Neul Kim as Min draws upon our sympathies for her dilemma and then promptly turns things upside down when we find out that Min wasn't such a nice girl to begin with. Just when you think things have been resolved, an unexpected twist near the end will change your whole view of the film.

I thoroughly enjoyed all of the performances in The Ghost, especially Ha-Neul Kim's and Ran Choi's, who played Min's rather twisted mother. The soundtrack reminded me of old school horror films that had that pulse-pounding quality to it. I suppose The Ghost could be criticized for being a bit slow in spots and it's a valid point. On the other hand I appreciated Director Tae-kyeong Kim's clever plot and character development. Certainly this is a different film than other Asian horror films but give it a chance, I think you will be surprised.

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric chiller!, April 25, 2007

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Z Hayes (TX, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Ghost (DVD)

This Korean horror flick is not very different from some of the other Korean horror movies that have flooded the market recently, but it is still worth a watch. Yes, there is the familiar long-haired spectre that haunts the victims in this movie, but the plot is compelling. It revolves around a college student Ji Won who is suffering from amnesia after a terrible accident. She sees troubling visions, and then some of the girls she knew from before the accident start to mysteriously die...i won;t give too much away, but suffice to say that just as you are figuring things out, there is a twist towards the end of the movie involving the concept of reincarnation & possession. Worth a watch for any Asian horror fan.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie; Definitely worth watching, August 20, 2009

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Larissa "Larissa" (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Ghost (DVD)

I bought this movie some time ago but only now got around to watching it. I enjoyed it a lot; I give it 4 stars though because I don't think it was as good as other Korean horror/mystery movies (such as a Tale of Two Sisters). I did not see "the Grudge meets Dark Water" in it at all, personally; and I don't think it's fair to compare it to Ring just because of some images of a drowned ghost girl with long hair. The title is rather misleading cause it isn't really a ghost movie. This movie deals a lot with different themes; jealousy leading to tragedy; relationships between friends; extreme guilt; identity crisis (but not in a boring way); etc, like other Korean movies of this type; It's more comparable to those than to Japanese horrors or the American remakes. If you're looking for something with only scare after scare, then I guess it isn't for you, although there are definitly scares & creepy moments. It's a movie you will be trying to piece together all throughout (so is the main character)...but it won't leave you frustrated in the end. You will enjoy the end! I thought the actresses made you really feel the emotions of the characters too. It is worth watching even if you think you're bored of Asian horror and mystery movies.