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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
01
Why this pick
Its girls’-school setting turns institutional pressure, friendship, and buried trauma into quiet supernatural dread, with the same mournful Korean horror atmosphere as Wishing Stairs.
02
Why this pick
A more lyrical school-set ghost story, blending intense adolescent bonds and oppressive rules with an unsettling sense that the past refuses to stay hidden.
03
Why this pick
Matches Wishing Stairs’ elegant, melancholy visual style and gradual unease, using family conflict and fragile sisterly attachment to make its horror emotionally piercing.
04
Why this pick
A cursed object drives this polished Korean supernatural horror, sustaining the same fatal-wish logic, feminine gothic imagery, and escalating sense of inescapable consequence.
05
Why this pick
Its restrained urban ghost-story approach favors lingering images, grief, and mounting dread over constant shocks, echoing the sorrowful mood beneath Wishing Stairs’ scares.
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01 / THE STORY
A staircase leading to a schoolgirls' dormitory usually has 28 steps, but sometimes a 29th step appears. Any wish you make while standing on this step comes true, even if it must come true in the most horrific way possible.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Jin-sung
So-hee
Hye-joo
Yoon-ji
Se-on
