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Bloody Reunion
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List Price: $19.95
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Manufacturer: Tartan Video
Starring: Mi-hee Oh, Seong-won Jang, Hyo-jun Park, Ji-hyeon Lee, Dong-kyu Lee
Directed By: Dae-wung Lim
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Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0842498030509
Format: Closed-captioned
Label: Tartan Video
Manufacturer: Tartan Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Tartan Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2007-03-13
Running Time: 93
Studio: Tartan Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2006
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(Horror) Originally titled To Sir With Love, Bloody Reunion is Lim Dae-wung’s Korean slasher about a group of young people who reunite with their now wheel-chair bound teacher. The happy gathering turns into a nightmare as old grudges and hidden truths surface and one by one the former classmates vanish in a series of unforgettably gruesome murders.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Very good movie.
Comment: Good plot twists, interesting characters.
Pretty straightforward; more a horror movie than a suspense movie.
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Summary: small twist
Comment: bloodier than most korean horror thati have seen.
has less of a depth of plot as well.
and some parts are disjointed in certain ways.
yet the bit of misdirection was pretty interesting.
I figured it out about halfway through...
still its a nice film to watch on a humdrum day.
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Summary: Korean Slasher
Comment: Like other reviewers. You're probably tired of the Asian ghost story. You seen one you seen them all. This was a breath of fresh air. I could tell that did put alot of American slasher films thought. The bunny mask reminds me of the New Halloween with little Michael.Toward the end of the film finding out the killer we thought as kinda predictable because I wonder why I hadn't seen character roaming around anywhere.But the end was a good twist.If your tired of watching ghost girls popping out of everything even you popcorn this film is for you.
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Summary: NOT THE TYPICAL K-HORROR FILM
Comment: Bloody Reunion is not your typical Asian horror film. There are no ghosts or spirits...no dark-haired girls crawling out of wells, no creepy little kids staring ominously...no, at it's core Bloody Reunion is a good ol', American influenced slasher film. The plot is standard 1980's slasher fare as the former students of an elementary school gather at her home for a reunion with their ailing teacher. An opening prologue shows police discovering several mutilated bodies at the home with only two survivors: the teacher, Mrs. Park and one of the female former students, Nam Mi-Ja. Mi-Ja relates the whole tale to a police detective while in the hospital.
She had come to Mrs. Park's home to take care of the sickly teacher and thought it would be nice to throw a reunion with some of her former students. The include Se-Ho and Eun-Young who are now married, the athletic Dal-bong, tough guy Myung-ho, the "shy guy" Jung-won, and pretty Sun Hee. The reunion is pleasant at first as old friends become reacquainted and they gather for a BBQ outside Mrs. Park's seaside home. As the alcohol flows, pent-up resentments bubble to the surface. It seems Mrs. Park mistreated all of her students in some way, leading to them becoming losers in life. She made fun of Sun-hee for being overweight leading to an addiction to cosmetic surgery; she hurt Dal-bong's led, preventing him from becoming an athlete; she ridiculed Eun-young for being poor, etc...
As the group splinters into factions, some blaming Mrs. Park while others support her, a killer is stalking about. There are some rather creative and gory kills in Bloody Reunion that certainly make the film live up to its name...One victim is bound with his mouth wide open as the killer pours broken pieces of utility blades down his throat and washes it down with a nice drink of water...that was fairly inventive. We're led to believe the killer is Mrs. Park's deformed son who was kept in the basement and would wear a bunny mask to cover his disfigured face. The killer wears the same mask.
A staple of Asian horror films is the twist ending and Bloody Reunion is no different. Unfortunately the twist ending here in the last 15 minutes undermines the rest of the film, and completely changes everything you just saw. I had to watch the last 15 minutes a couple of times to figure out what had just happened. It was a bit of confusing curveball that wasn't needed. I guess the director, Dae-wung Lim, wanted a twist that set his film apart from his American counterparts but part of the fun of those films was that we knew who the killer was in the first reel and we watched for the mayhem. The trickery here only served to derail what had been a pretty good slasher film.
One other issue I have with Bloody Reunion is the camera work. There are a few times in the film where the camera zooms in and out constantly within a matter of seconds, leaving the viewer disoriented. It was like a bad effect from a 1950's 3D movie. Very weird.
I will grade Bloody Reunion up a bit as it does come with a host of special features including commentary, interviews with cast members, special effects featurette, photo galleries, and trailers.
REVIEWED BY TIM JANSON
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Summary: Very nice Korean horror film.
Comment: Through the past couple of years the Korean film industry have made a couple of amazing films and have been more recognized with mainstream audiences. The good thing about Bloody Reunion is that it tells an original storyline instead of being yet another Ringu or Ju-on rippoff I think that the female ghost with long black hair has been done a million times before so its refreshing to see something different. Bloody reunion is a full blooded slasher film, a group of South Korean former class mates are invited to a reunion in a nice cottage located in the countryside. They meet one of their old teachers who is now in a wheelchair however tension and resentment within the group start to surface as the evening progresses and before long a mysterious figure wearing a rabbit mask starts violently killing the group one by one, there were a few nasty looking torture scenes as well as the deaths being very gruesome one character is forced to eat razor blades which is not like the typical supernatural horror film from Asia and the plot was very clever you wouldn't figure out the twist at the end and it was fairly interesting at its subject matter, I think it was about the value of friendship so its also a psychological thriller/drama. We soon find out what psychological damage the bad teacher has inflicted on her students even though some scenes were a bit melodramatic the film was terrific and very compelling to watch, the film was also visually stunning and nicely shot. I was very impressed with this film even though its not perfect the film was very good, if you liked Bloody Reunion then I highly recommend these other Korean horror films Tale of two sisters, Phone (A ringu rippoff but still good), The doll master, Into the mirror and Tell me something.
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