Memento Mori

A film review by Christopher Null - Copyright © 2005 Filmcritic.com

I never would have realized Memento Mori was actually a sequel to Whispering Corridors if I hadn't enquired as to what the "II" in the Korean title was referring to. Mori has Korean schoolgirls and a body count, but the similarity basically ends there.

The story feels simultaneously familiar and confusing: One girl discovers a shared diary revealing a forbidden lesbian romance, then there's a suicide and a ghost that mucks up the works. In keeping with the steep tradition of K-horror, it rarely makes much sense, but there's plenty of shrieking teenagers and pools of blood to distract you from the plot. Hey, maybe it resonates more with suicidal kids.

Aka Yeogo goedam II.

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Rating

3.0 out of 5 Stars

Cast and Crew

  • Director: Tae-Yong Kim, Kyu-Dong Min
  • Producer: Tae-Yong Kim, Kyu-Dong Min
  • Screenwriter: Tae-Yong Kim, Kyu-Dong Min
  • Stars: Min-sun Kim, Yeh-jin Park, Young-jin Lee, Jong-hak Baek
  • MPAA Rating: NR