A doctor sits alone in the room, waiting for his patient to arrive. The movie opens in a mental hospital, in a large, sparsely-furnished interview room. Enough information is provided for you to make up your own mind, but just enough is left out to make you doubt that what you saw was really what you thought it was. Whether it is a psychological horror tale, a ghost story, or both - or something altogether different - depends on your particular response to the film. As a "horror" film, it is difficult to classify. It is filmed with meticulous attention to detail, style and texture.
Even in those rare instances where a film's premise makes no sense at all under scrutiny - for example, Face, a movie whose "surprise twist" made me shout out loud in disappointment - chances are the film will be so well made that it will still be involving, compulsively watchable, and forgiveable in spite of its lapses.Ī Tale of Two Sisters needs no apologies: it is not only one of the best nominal horror films of recent years, it is also a very good film in its own right, regardless of its genre. Korean film makers tend to take the genre very seriously, and even when their scripts are not of the first rank they bring to their efforts a uniform level of technical excellence. While their films have been influenced by Japanese and American models, they seem so far to have resisted the urge to dissipate their energies in creating artificially-extended series along the lines of Ring or Ju-on.
South Korea has emerged as one of the strongest contributors to horror cinema in the early 21st century.
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