Watched all episodes of Korea's Goedam, a montage of eight, brief, urban horror vignettes. A student assaulted by a ghost in a school rest room. A taxi driver who takes on a malevolent spirit as a passenger. A video blogger with a trickster doppelganger. A stalker doll in a school locker. A student who gets run over by a truck and comes back to meet her teacher. An elevator that transforms people into shriveled cadavers. A paper talisman torn off a door, allowing evil entities to come through. A shaman who gets her just deserts after starving a girl to death, killing her, and entrapping her spirit.
Each vignette averages only ten minutes or less. As a result, the sequences are terribly disjointed and the viewer does not know exactly what is happening and why. It is only the last episode that manages to be a complete story told in that short period of time.
I am reminded of the creative writing exercise in which one must tell the story of one's novel in six words.
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