When you’re a teenager, life can be hard especially for four
young girls who decide to make a suicide pact that goes horrible wrong in the
South Korean thriller A Blood Pledge
(2009). Jeong-eon’s sister Yoo-jin’s
(Yoo Shi-ae and Oh Yeon-seo, respectfully) suicide is anything but normal. As she investigates further into the death of
her sister she realizes that Yoo-jin and her friends Soy, Eon-joo, and
Eun-yeong (Son Eun-seo, Jang Kyeong-ah, and Song Min-jeong, respectfully)
entered into a suicide pact the night of Yoo-jin’s death but only she ended up
going through with it. As Jeong-eon gets
closer to discovering the truth each of three remaining women are hunted down
by Yoo-jin’s ghost who want them all to finish fulfilling their pact. The closer Jeong-eon gets to the truth, the
more she discovers about her sister and of the nature of the pact itself.
Written and directed by Jong-yong Lee the film is an
atmospheric thriller that follows the trend of other revenge ghost
stories. This is but one of several
Korean ghost stories that takes place in a school in the series that started
with ‘98s Whispering Corridors and
includes Memento Mori (1999), Wishing Stairs (2003), and Voice (2005). These are all films that delve into haunted
schools or people haunted by other people yet take place in and around
schools. This film is very much in line
with those films and if you’re a fan of this series then you’ll at least enjoy
this one.
This is not one of the stronger films in the series as it
doesn’t provide anything different than what came before it but it is a well
done film with high production values and an interesting story that entertains
and never drags despite containing the typical ghost story clichés. Most fans of Korean horror films will
immediately take a liking to the film but casual watchers will be turned off by
how mundane everything is presented especially in terms of the fact that this
film deals with the real life tragedy of suicide.
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