{"id":12055,"date":"2006-05-29T14:17:05","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T18:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/?p=12055"},"modified":"2006-05-29T14:17:05","modified_gmt":"2006-05-29T18:17:05","slug":"whispering-corridors-1998","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/29\/whispering-corridors-1998\/","title":{"rendered":"Whispering Corridors (1998)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Whispering\"<\/a>\u201cWhispering Corridors\u201d was not an awful film, as a matter of fact I\u2019ve yet to see a Japanese horror film that I thought was incredibly awful, but \u201cWhispering Corridors\u201d is in fact, boring. It\u2019s aggressively boring. As a matter of fact, if you or anyone you know has insomnia and you\u2019re attempting to cure it, put on \u201cWhispering Corridors\u201d and you\u2019ll find them asleep within a half hour, for sure. Ki-Hyung Park\u2019s direction is quite possibly the saving grace for \u201cWhispering Corridors.\u201d<\/p>\n

He strives not only in bleak futility of these girls\u2019 lives which are consumed by abusive authority figures, and education, but the possibility that there\u2019s really no future in the school they\u2019re in. Park\u2019s film bears an excellent atmospheric gritty nuance to it, especially in the first ten minutes which hold more suspense than the entire product combined. There\u2019s also some great imagery here particularly the main character\u2019s painting of an incident at the school, and the first ten minutes which feature a brutal death that sets up the plot for what feels like an Argento film from beginning to end, sans the gore.<\/p>\n

Park seems to direct in the vein of Argento with a story that felt mysteriously like \u201cSuspiria\u201d except with much more suspense. The story, a first part of a trilogy, begins on a high note, as a teacher of a girl\u2019s boarding school finds that she\u2019s not alone after hours and is brutally murdered by someone. The next morning two early students find her body, and the incident sets off a chain of events. As much as I wanted to become involved in the mystery which began with a high note, unfortunately most of the story is spent on utterly slow and sluggish pacing that relies on uninteresting character drama and dynamics that were never as intriguing as it thought.<\/p>\n

With the main character receiving mysterious pictures in her mind, one girl watching a small red puddle gather above her desk, and a very abusive teacher, nothing ever grabbed my attention and the bland mystery only achieves mediocrity as it lags and drags with a boring climax that was neither surprising nor frightening. Suffice it to say after watching this film, I can only imagine how dreadful the sequels will be. Of course I could be wrong. Though the film does have excellent direction, atmosphere, and imagery, it fails in many aspects as a mystery, character driven drama, and basic film altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhispering Corridors\u201d was not an awful film, as a matter of fact I\u2019ve yet to see a Japanese horror film that I thought was incredibly awful, but \u201cWhispering Corridors\u201d is in fact, boring. It\u2019s aggressively boring. As a matter of fact, if you or anyone you know has insomnia and you\u2019re attempting to cure it, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[114,302,367,409,696,703,1008,1087,1170],"class_list":["post-12055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-reviews","tag-asian-film","tag-drama","tag-foreign","tag-ghosts","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-supernatural","tag-thriller","tag-w"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12055\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}