A Blood Pledge (DVD) (2-Disc) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3
Oh Yeon Seo (Actor)
| Jang Kyeong Ah (Actor)
| Lee Jong Yong (Director)
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numinair
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November 2, 2009
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November 2, 2009
Supplement - Full OST + cast dancing to SuJu
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Although I don’t normally do a double review I just wanted to add a bonus DVD extra review as some nice features here. The most interesting being the 22 track music OST (look out for two pages of music lists on the DVD soundtrack menu) with some excellent and effective music and suitably haunting and emotional here, too. Ominous dark electronic music, orchestral and piano themes and two nice songs (one theme sung by the 5 girl cast members with a making of as well). Also interesting are interviews with the cast members as a group; Gyung-ah Jang (Eon-joo), Eun-seo Son (So-yi), Min-jeong Song (Eun-young) Yeon-seo Oh (Yu-jin) and Shin-ae Yoo (Jeong-eon - Eon-joo’s sister). Oh, there’s no doubting these five actresses are faces for future Korean screen and they fit perfectly in the canon of performers in the Yeo-go-kuei-dam series. Certainly young actresses well equipped for future movies who act excellently, are nicely photogenic and are highly mature and pleasant to interview (if you grasp a bit of Korean the girl’s interviews on the bonus DVD is worth seeing). There are some nice poster and photo promotional shoots made showing at one point Eun Jo and So-yi entangled with their hairs (their bonding love?). Funnily enough due to no printed leaflet in this set (T_T) it came to mind that it would be interesting to have the full sets of poster promotional shots as a bonus on any future DVDs (similar to full screen scene still galleries), as well as the ‘making of’ promotional shoots. Other bits are some deleted scenes, a special movie screening and trailers. The menus to this film are nicely and gothically effective and also a quick K-pop girl band jolly with the 5 actresses dancing to Dam Bi Son and Super Junior’s ‘Sorry Sorry’. DVDs are packaged in a slip cased cover. Unfortunately, unlike the “Voice” luxury 2 disk set, present limited edition Korean DVD releases are standard looking due to high costs in making them. One last thing the extras DVD is also a Region ALL disk (the film being a R3). |
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Movie - Good 5th Yeo-go-kuei-dam
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Funnily enough I received and watched “A Blood Pledge” on the day of Halloween and also indulging presently in “Obscure - The Aftermath” PSP survival horror video game, I certainly had a spooky Halloween. I anticipated “A Blood Pledge” to have an average story by reviews, but found it better than expected. Maybe it lacks artistic license about corrupted souls, life and death, but the story is credible, effective and as a respectable final revelation concerning the girl's initial and deceptive suicide blood pledge. In fact a ghostly murder mystery as such. The girls attempt suicide for various depressive social reasons by deciding to jump off their school roof together but only one, Eon-joo (Jang Gyung-ah) falls to her death then returning as a restless revengeful ghost to fulfill ‘unfinished business’ with the other 3 girls due to the suicide sham. Like the previous 4 films it also touches on the social - parental bullying, rivalry and jealousy, forbidden pregnancy and also Catholic religious overtones - along with the hint of a suppressed lesbian relationship between Eon-joo and So-yi as the centre of the ghost curse here. Domestic social concerns of harsh schooling, bullying teachers and parents or girls needing to be the most acceptable students in the dorm (or deem themselves failures) are the crux of these Yeo-go-kuei-dam horror movies. The fear of failing, losing or falling ironically. “A Blood Pledge” is also (of course) a strikingly visual ghost movie with stylishly haunting Gothic feel. The school building is pretty eerie with soul stirring lighting effects and cinematic atmosphere. I loved the big ominously lit school at night and the arched window as the girls walk to the rooftop to fulfill their pledge. Some excellent haunting music, too. “A Blood Pledge” is a good fifth outing in the series and to be expected a moderate type of horror. It’s not overly scary or bloody (apart from one girl’s suicide drop with her fall from roof to ground and a blooded hand scene), but I like these films for what they are and not because they have to get me running to the toilet with terror-induced panic. (Witty, too, like when So-yi falls off a swing). Excellent acting, too, as the incredible young actresses debuting here are so well versed at their art, they’re professionals already. Yes, Korean’s can continue these long haired girls in haunted schools and I’ll certainly look forward to Yeo-go-kuei-dam 6, 7, 8 and onwards. |
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