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A Tale of Two Sisters
Why this pick
Like Phone, this Korean psychological horror builds dread through a troubled household, unsettling female relationships, and a steadily deepening supernatural mystery.
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MOVIE2002 1h 40m KOR
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Why this pick
Its patient investigative momentum, contagious technological curse, and mournful atmosphere echo Phone’s blend of urban unease and supernatural detective work.
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The Wailing
Why this pick
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The Call
Why this pick
Another Korean phone-centred thriller, but driven by a tense connection across time; it shares Phone’s intimate technological menace and increasingly desperate female-led suspense.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
After writing a series of articles about a pedophilia scandal, journalist Ji-won receives threatening calls on her cellular and subsequently changes her number. Her close friend Ho-jung, who is infertile, and her husband Chang-hoon invite Ji-won to move to their empty house in Bang Bae that is newly furnished. When Ho-jung's daughter Young-ju answers an anonymous phone call on Ji-won's new cell phone, the girl screams and begins to show a disturbing attraction for her father and jealous rejection towards her mother. Meanwhile, Ji-won receives more mysterious phone calls and sees a teenager playing Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" on the piano. After investigating her phone number, Ji-won discovers that the original owner of the number, Jin-hee, had vanished and that the two subsequent owners of the number had died mysteriously in unusual circumstances. Her further investigation about Jin-hee reveals that the teenage schoolgirl was obsessively in love with a man who had broken up with her.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ha Ji-won
Ji-won
Kim Yoo-mi
Ho-jeong
Choi Jung-yoon
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