Welcome back to the tenth day of Korean horror film recommendations! Today I will be recommending another notable title from this genre; Cello.
At first I was a little hesitant about watching this film as it is a supernatural horror, but I was pleased to find that the actual supernatural parts of the film weren’t that scary – at least not to me. This is still mostly definitely a horror though, and perhaps not for the faint hearted, because despite not being the usual nightmare-inducing horror that I watch, it was an incredibly dark film.
Cello is about a Music professor called Mi Ju, and the strange events that haunt her after she is almost in a car wreck. One day after finishing her day of teaching, Mi Ju gets ready to leave the campus but she is confronted by an arrogant and discontent student. This student claims that Mi Ju gave her a bad grade which prevented her from getting into a prestigious music school, and as such her life is ruined. This student threatens Mi Ju, and from that day onwards (this is also the day of the near-crash) she starts to receive threatening text messages from an unknown number.
Things in Mi Ju’s life start to get more and more ghastly, and unsettling visions and sounds begin to plague her – but everything starts to get worse when she buys a new cello to teach her autistic daughter to play the instrument. Dark secrets from Mi Ju’s past start rising to the surface as the ghost of someone she once knew seems to be the reason for these terrifying events.
What I liked about this film was that despite it being another ‘vengeful spirit’ movie, it had some pretty unexpected twists and turns. I never knew quite when or what to expect of the horror moments in this film, and the majority of them came out of the blue and kept me guessing as to what it all meant.
So, I would recommend this film to anyone who enjoys movies with particularly dark themes, but if you like fast-paced movies then this might not be an enjoyable one for you; it takes a while to get into the actual horror of the film, but it is definitely worth the wait. One upside for the squeamish amongst us – there isn’t that more gore in this film!
Let me know if you’ve ever seen this film or if you’re planning on watching it! And I’ll see you guys tomorrow for another recommendation.
