Wednesday, 26 January 2011

The Wig (2005) 7/10

Starring : Chae Min-seo, Yu Seon, Lee Jeong-seong
Director : Won Shin-yeon
Running Time : 103 mins

A young woman named Su-hyeon (Chae), recovering from treatment for leukaemia, is given a gift of a wig from her sister Ji-hyeon (Yu) to make her feel better about losing her hair. As the weeks pass, Su-hyeon starts to recover far more quickly than expected, and Ji-hyeon starts to suspect that the wig might be responsible for the changes in her sister.

This is a genuinely creepy movie that manages to convey terror without doing anything majorly terrifying. By downplaying the changes in the main character the director has managed to make this more of a psychological horror than an outright scare-fest. It's just a shame that Americans seem to have decided to change the translation of this movies title from The Wig to... Scary Hair?!?

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