Black Christmas had all the trappings of the slasher film back in 1974 but I don't think the sub-genre truly got recognised until the mid eighties where the term Spatter Film had shifted away from Herschell Gordon Lewis type fare and perched on shoulder of the masked maniac with a knife, on a calender featured day, picking one young sexually active woman off until the virginal last girl repels him.

Tonight I watched the second in the Whispering Corridors series Memento Mori aka Yeogogoedam Dubeonjjae Iyagi (1999).

More Korean girl's school fun.

It's rather sweet up until one moment that completely shifts the tone of the piece.

Even the most minor characters are very well observed.

I imagine Twin Peaks must have been a big hit in South Korea because many of the films I've been watching from there recently have a Peaksian vibe.

The film wasn't scary but it wasn't trying to be.

It's more tragic with flashes of released pent up hysteria.

4 Terrapins.