DVD of the Day #168: Cello
Whoo! Another Korean horror film. This was an okay but pretty convoluted film. I’d heard great things about Cello but I have to admit I wasn’t that impressed. The film does the cliche “It’s all a dream ending” and then follows that up with the just as cliche “OR MAYBE IT’S NOT! OH SHAP” twist. That right there killed the film for me. I do have to admit that Mi-ju was crazy hot, but that’s about as good as the film got.
Mi-Ju is a assistant professor at a respected university. She’s got a husband and two kids and her zany sister lives with them. It’s a sweet happy wholesome Korean family. However on her birthday, strange things begin to happen. Strange awful things. Mi-Ju sees odd things out of the corner of her eye, a student begins to harass her because Mi-Ju didn’t give her a passing grade, and most of all her family begins to fall apart. WHile all this is happening her husband notices the traces of a girl from Mi-Ju’s past coming back into their life - a girl Mi-Ju never mentioned before.
Of course this girl is now an eeeevil ghost and she beginds to torment Mi-Ju’s family. She ruins Mi-Ju’s sister’s relationship and then kills her, making it look like suicide. She appears to possess Mi-Ju’s oldest daughter and gets her to kill her younger daughter by making her fall from the top of the house. Mi-Ju tells her husband that this is the ghost of a girl who she was friends with but who was always second best at everything they did. She was also jealous of Mi-Ju and eventually after Mi-Ju got a scholarship and was deemed the best cello player, she causes a accident while driving them both home. Mi-Ju lives, but her friend dies. Mi-Ju says it is this girl who has come back with her jealousy having been corrupted into insanity.
This isn’t the point of view that the ghost as, as we get to see her memories on the same incidents which differe greatly. It’s up to the audience as to who to believe. Is Mi-Ju telling the truth and the ghost is just insane or is Mi-Ju actually paying for past crimes?
There are some concepts in Cello that I enjoy, but for the most part, it’s yet another forgettable Asian horror film.
Is It Worth Keeping? No
Rating: 4/10
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