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The Evil Twin (DVD) (Korea Version) DVD Region 3

Jae Hee (Actor) | Park Shin Hye (Actor) | Yang Geum Suk (Actor) | Yang Jin Woo (Actor)
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The Evil Twin (DVD) (Korea Version)
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Average Customer Rating for this Edition: Customer Review Rated Bad 4 - 4.8 out of 10 (5)

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Yuki
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October 4, 2007
Not scary at all Customer Review Rated Bad 2 - 2 out of 10
The movie is not scary at all, and it's kind of confusing until the last minute. Pretty much the whole movie is so dark that you can barely things. The story is alright.
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Kham
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September 15, 2007
O.K. Movie Customer Review Rated Bad 3 - 3 out of 10
This Movie wasn't what i expected at all. if you're into the grudge and all, than this is the one for you. other wise the story line is great. this one is about to twins who drowned at first then the mother...nahh i don't want to ruined the story for you... so check it out...
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yong
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September 4, 2007
MOvie was OKay! Customer Review Rated Bad 4 - 4 out of 10
I was hoping the movie to be different, but it was a typically horror film like The Ring, The Grudge, and sooo on. The scary parts weren't scary enough, but I love the sencery of the movie. The picture, lighting and the landscapes that they shown in the movie was dramatically stunning!! Love it!
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numinair
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September 3, 2007
Evil? Awe, its only Sadako Customer Review Rated Bad 7 - 7 out of 10
As a movie this is more a dramatization similar to a theatrical play than a Korean ghost movie you will be used to, and a majority of this film features a high percentage of dialog and soliloquy than creepy atmospherics. The cinematography, though, does portrait some interesting atmospherics near the beginning, with a misty, eerie and quite dreamlike large lake panning across the screen that stimulates an alien historical setting, and other parts of the Korean landscape feature throughout. Still, this film is more a costumed drama of a past Joseun period Korea that could similarly be put alongside related films like the Japanese "Shikoku" and "Inugami" as to what to expect thematically. Not in story, but in the landscapes, period dress and traditions about old myths with the supernatural element included. It has been said, that an historically featured Korean movie, drawing from her past traditions, would be a great idea for a ghost story (and certainly is) and this movie, historically, is well made in that respect. The period dress and traditional domestic chores that would have been performed in a royal household, are showcased well here. But, to throw a spanner into that idea, this film (again) uses the "Sadako" ghost cliche of the white gowned girl with long black hair doing her 'ringu' thang in a bath, in the woods and in barns to terrorize the various local victims, but all counter acting an idea to move away from that formula and use Korean traditional type motifs for a newer form of horror. Sadako..she just won't take that skin improving and hair replenishing holiday, will she? Or is she having a holiday here in the Joseun period?

Still, by using the Girl in White again, its more the fact that this is another vengeful ghost of a betrayed girl (again) and, here, the ghost of one of two twins. Because the ghost is of a girl from a distinguished royal household, who was to be betrothed in marriage before being drowned in an accident, the idea, here, is that the ghost was once a virtuous girl (apart from the fact that she wants revenge). She's royal and pure. So, the ideal image of purity in a girl is of virginal white bridal robed (for marriage) and the dark hair of maidenhood. So, a logical distortion of this purity is to twist it into grotesque and sinister imagery. Then, you have the bedraggled and mangy white robe as a gray shroud of hopelessness, tangled and straggly hair of insanity and revenge and a form that is bent and double jointed into multiple distortions to create this archetypal shade of evil. So, why use another depiction when you've got the creme de la creme of awfulness? You'll have to ask the directors, there, who all seem equally possessed by her. Another 'Clone from the Ring/King' of white robed horror? Well, to use a twist on that pun about 'King and the Clown/Ring and the Clone', this film is certainly nearer the KATC's time frame.

One funny bit appears near the end when the 'evil' (cough, Sadako) ghost grabs one of the male characters (performed by Jin Woo Yang and coincidentally, for me, as I'm watching him in the SBS series "Magic" at the moment) and drags him into a barn to face his fate (which I won't reveal). Yes, I did say funny, as I'm sure that, although this scene was meant to be scary, the dramatic speed he's grabbed by the ankles, pulled to the ground and the camera at nose level showing a shocked and grimaced face, will cause more mirth than gasp, shock, horror and ye Gods! I think, though, due to the cliche of such scenes, the director didn't feel that it mattered much. Overall, this is a very well made movie with highly implemented styled and quality acting (Shin Hye Park is good as the royal twins), top cinematography, but for the script and the pacing, which is okay, I still don't think this will have the wide spread appeal for audiences interested in the horror genre, who will expect more from a ghost flick like this - especially an historical Korean set one. But this film is more a period drama than horror, and if you like period dramas you may like this a lot more than the horror fan will. For a Jae Hee fan - he plays a would be husband and as husbands go, he isn't in the drama a great deal. I still feel that a horror / ghost film featuring Korea's ancient past will be made as a classic chiller, but, alas, I don't feel this is the one here.
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quynh nhu
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August 31, 2007
BEAUTIFUL MOVIE ... Customer Review Rated Bad 8 - 8 out of 10
Not scary enough for an horror movie but the pictures are really very beautiful , the storyline seems familiar for those who watched the thai horror movie ALONE , story about twin sister (with of course different twist)..The thai's one is scarier but I prefer this one .
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