Continued from Tony Perez's Electronic Diary (October 19, 2018 - March 12, 2019) http://tonyperezphilippinescyberspacebook41.blogspot.com/

Photo by JR Dalisay / April 21, 2017

Sunday, August 21, 2022

Watched all 16 episodes of South Korea's 2021 Sell Your Haunted House. Daebak Realty exorcises vengeful spirits from haunted houses and helps their clients resell the houses at good prices. At the same time, two scammers con their own clients by fabricating ghosts and selling the clients contraptions designed to drive them away, and a gang of wicked real estate dealers oppresses poor people and forces them to abandon their homes to give way to redevelopment projects.

The paths of all three groups cross each other.

This is an entertaining screening with supernatural subject matter. It is promoted as a horror comedy but it really is not, though there are light moments in some of the episodes. Among the haunted establishments featured are a commercial building, an art museum, an apartment unit, a PC cafe and a sauna, a house, and a parking lot. The second half of the series is devoted to the characters, ambulant spirits, and the resolution of subplots. The props are interesting, though they verge on the fantastic and require a bigger amount of suspension of disbelief. The actors' performances, however, were outstanding.

The movie imparts indirect messages: that assistance should be extended not only to spirits but to the living whom they leave behind, and that all encounters with spirits are directly and phenomenologically correlated with the psychics' past, perhaps due to the defense mechanism projection.

It was quite intriguing that the issues in this movie were actually serious ones, but were shrouded in tongue-in-cheek treatments.  


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