Review of Nightmare

Nightmare (2000)
6/10
Night of the Haunted
7 September 2008
Warning: Spoilers
***SPOILERS*** Far too complicated with a completely out of the blue and off the wall ending in effect spoiled, what was up until then, the movies heart thumping final and thus makes Nightmare- or Gawi as its called in Korean-a far less effective horror/thriller then it should have been.

The film has to do with this Korean collage student Seon-Ae who was, its obvious from her conduct in the movie, under psychiatric treatment in the USA as an exchange student for the last two years. Coming back home to Seoul South Korea Seon-Ae stays at her friend's pad fellow student Hye-Jin. That's until she can get her very mixed up head back together again.

For some strange reason Seon-Ae feels that she's being haunted by the ghost of Kyung-Ah who was killed, or committed suicide, two years ago. It was not long after that tragic event that she herself suffered a paralyzing nervous breakdown.

The down to earth and straight as an arrow Hye-Jin at first dismisses Seon-Ae ridicules story about being haunted by Kyung-Ah's ghost as just one of her psychiatric prescribed drug induced hallucinations. It's not until later when members of this student study group "A Few Good Men", as well as women, that Hye-Jin is a member of start getting murdered by someone who's got a vendetta against them that she changes her mind. It's the members of this student group who in fact were with Kyung-Ah the very last day of her life! That's when she either fell jumped or was pushed off the "A Few Good Men" studio's building headquarter's roof falling some ten stories to her death below!

There's a number of really gut wrenching scenes of members of "A Few Good Men" getting it from the unknown and unseen killer who were made to believe is the late Kyung-Ah's Ghost. ****SPOILER ALERT***The killer in fact is far more alive then were made to believe and is using Kyung-Ah's perceived evil and vindictive spirit to terrorize those who may have an inkling to his, or her, identity.

All this murder and mayhem goes back two years to the night of Kyung-Ah untimely death that in fact was in no way as cut and dry we were lead to believe. It's the killers intention to murder all of the witnesses to Kyung-Ah's death that he himself, when he freaked out on camera over a harmless kitty cat, was mostly responsible for.

What turned out to be the killers ultimate demise was one of his victims video nut Se-Hun filming the entire gruesome and blood curdling event. And there's also another one of his murder victims the washed out, after suffering a broken leg, baseball player Hyng-Jun getting a hold of the incriminating video tape and blackmailing him with it!

By the time the, who was normal up until then, crazed homicidal maniac got his hands on the video tape the cat, who in the video was as black as "Midnight", was already out of the bag.

Having murdered some half dozen people already the Killer was now determined to murder two more in order for him to finalize what he thinks is going to be his "Perfect Crime"! The killers two targeted victims are what turns out to be the only persons left alive who can expose him as well as the reason for his murderous rampage: Hye-Jin & Seon-Ae!
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