Once in a while, I am handed a free pass to do something I love to do in the evening, alone. Last Friday, Cynthia has to attend a non-work related workshop. The first thing I did, like in the past, was to pick a horror film to watch, alone.
“The Blood Pledge” is a Korean horror movie. I have watched horror films mainly from Spain, Thailand, Japan, and Indonesia. “The Blood Pledge” is quite possibly the first horror movie I have watched in Korean. And I like it. I like this movie because it is horror not for horror’s sake. Don’t get me wrong. Some scenes are pretty scary. Hair standing moments filmed in broad daylight, which I think is tougher to do then scaring people in low light. Majority of the scenes tell a good drama, in Korean style. Some scenes are pretty moving. Typically, the characters in a horror movie are not eye pleasing and the scene gets grosser and grosser towards the end. The characters in “The Blood Pledge”, except the ghosts of course, are eye candies. Towards the end, I thought I was watching a typical Korean drama. A nice surprise it was.
Back to the story, there are four girls pledged to, I suppose, die together. And then one girl mysteriously dies. The sister of the deceased sets out to seek the truth while the ghost sets out to seek what appears as vengeance. As the story unfolds, the motive gets more and more twisted. Not an ending as I would expect it to be. My only complain is the censorship in Singapore. It is ridiculous. What do you expect out of a horror film? Of course there are disturbing scenes. I felt as though I was robbed out of the best moments in the film.
One friend of mine told me that there are previous installments prior to “The Blood Pledge”. Perhaps I shall source them out, outside Singapore of course. Stupid censorship, sigh.
4 replies on “The Blood Pledge – Horror Not For Horror’s Sake, Good Stuff!”
I’m not a fan of Korean horror movie. Seen a few in the past. Can’t compare with Japanese horror movie. 🙂
DK – Well, that depends on what you are after. If one is to expect a really scary movie, the Japanese has done it well (like “The Ring”). So are the Thais (like “Shutter”).
For this Korean film, it is good to see horror and drama and not gross out all the way … ha ha ha.
Well done!! Very tempting to catch another horror movie… but but, I dare not now! hahahaha!
JT – Oh, this one is not that intense. Some parts I felt like watching a Korean drama … ha ha ha. But there are still some moments when people did scream!