Language - Korean
Genre - Horror, Ghost
A Blood Pledge is the 5th film in the Whispering corridor’s / Ghost school series.
This
time the film is set in a catholic girls school and follows 4 main
protagonists:
Eun-Young
Soy
Unjoo
Lee
- Eugene
and
a fifth character, Jung-Un who is Unjoo’s sister. These are
the names of the characters as they appeared on the subtitles on the
version i was watching but when i have looked on IMDB and Wikipedia
some of the names are different, in fact the names are different on
Wikki to IMDB so I’ll keep using the names from the DVD.
The
film starts with Eun-Young, Soy & Eugene making a suicide blood
pact saying they will all kill themselves and, if one doesn’t go
through with it then they will be cursed with death. The
ceremony is interrupted by a knock on the door and we later find out
this is Unjoo who joins the pact. Unjoo is the only one of the
girls who goes through with the suicide. Unjoo’s sister is
waiting for her and is the only witness to Unjoo’s death.
Rumours
start going around the school about Unjoo jumping because she was
pregnant (which it turns out she wasn’t) and the other girls were
present when she jumped. Eugene, who is the leader of the girls
first denies any of their presents but eventually tells people that
Soy was there. People start to believe that soy had more to do
with the suicide, a point which seem to made more true by Eun-Young’s
increasingly strange behaviour.
As
the film progresses we learn that Soy & Unjoo used to be
inseparable friends but Unjoo became friends with Eugene and was
accepted into her friendship group. Eugene only let Unjoo join
them because she was trying to get her away from Eun-Young because
soy was now dating Ki-Ho who was Eugene’s ex. To make matters
worst Soy was the one who was pregnant with Ki-Ho’s baby. as
the film continues Unjoo’s ghost stalks the corridors making the
blood pact come true.
Out
of the 5 films I found that ‘A Blood Pact’ was one of the easiest
to watch. The story was told in a mostly linear fashion with
any flashbacks made more obvious. I think that the setting of a
Catholic school also helped as some of the symbolism and references
are present in western culture.
A
Blood Pact has some of the themes that run through all of the Ghost
school films but, instead of focusing on the relationship between to
of the pupils it took a small group and looked at how one incident
(Soy’s relationship with Ki-Ho) could change the dynamics of it.
The group is also used to power, Eugene tries to use the
suicide pact to get revenge on Soy, planning with Eun-Young that they
don’t jump. Even when the plan goes wrong and Unjoo dies
Eugene tries to take control of the situation by firstly letting the
class know that Soy was on the roof with Unjoo and then later by
trying to fake Soy’s suicide.
A
Blood Pledge is more like a modern ghost story than the other films,
it still has the same feel as the other films but the ghost effects
are are more gory but, like the others it does not go for the horror
as much as the story
A Blood Pledge is a strong film with good characters and a strong story and well worth a watch.
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