House of the Disappeared (2017)

Director: Dae-wung Lim

Starring: Yunjin Kim,  Taecyeon

25 years ago, Mi-Hee was an ordinary housewife, married to Chul-Joong with a son. Suddenly, her husband died and her son went missing. This all took place at their house. Mi-Hee was imprisoned for 25 years. She is released from prison and goes back to the home where everything took place.

Initially, I found the film to be very cliched, and pretty much another haunted house movie that doesn’t offer anything new, but everything changed in the last 20 minutes with a very interesting twist.

The film is told in two timelines, jumping back and forth between them, but it gets a bit confusing when the timelines meet. Very interesting concept, but films of this genre generally raises a number of questions and credibility issues – similar to ‘The Others’. (I did find this to be a combination of ‘The Others’ and ‘The Amityville Horror’. The film does have some really scary moments with some great visuals and make-up.

This is a Korean remake of a Venezuelan film.

In Korean.