The Closet (2020)

Since it's October, though I'd watch a few horror or suspense movies this month. And this is my 5th HJW movie this year.

The Closet is about a father and daughter who moves to a new house after a traumatic accident. Yup moving to an old abandoned house in the middle of nowhere is always a good idea. LOL.

So one day the child disappeared while the father was out in Seoul working. While searching for her daughter he meets a modern exorcist who tells him that a lot of kids who lived in the house have disappeared for years and he will help find his daughter.

The movie is only 1 hour and 39 mins and I think that's why the movie felt emotionally incomplete. We know what happened during the accident but we didn't see enough reasons why there was a strained relationship between the father and daughter, enough for the ghost to take her to her special world. It just felt like both were grieving and the father didn't know how to cope and raise his child alone. The daughter seemed sad but i didn't think she hated her father.

There weren't a lot of scary scenes, the ghost of the darkness are probably the scariest but the rest were just enough creepiness. We also didn't get enough background of the exorcist and his shaman mother. So far i've seen KNG play a fiery priest, now an exorcist and i think his new drama is also about exorcism.

The reason for the ghost was heartbreaking and it felt like they could have explored the main social message in the epilogue better to have a deeper impact to the people watching.

Rating: 8/10