Too many fans seem to be blown away

Such a frustrating disappointment

Am I Missing Something?

A different way of telling a story

Horror with a rare sense of the genre, but with a sense of horror and thought-provoking, and does seem to be something incredible. However, this is just such a movie - under the outer shell of a conventional thriller with special effects and deaths compulsory hides a deep social drama that reflects the simple truth - afraid not dead, far worse is living with their indifference, cynicism, malice. Lonely phantom standing guard over defenseless animals, not so terrible against the background of dirt, what is happening in the world of the living, it is even a kind is sympathetic, but in the end, and tears of pity as the main character and the viewer. The main character named Song Yong - gentle and tender-hearted girl with big sad eyes, claustrophobia suffering as a result of childhood trauma and adores cats. Taking on temporary care of another cat girl finds herself caught in the cycle of mystical events, which can only understand it. In this difficult task of helping her old friend Son Yong, a young police officer investigating the case about the strange death.An unusual story, delivery and excellent acting kept in suspense throughout the film, frightening at the right moments and forcing empathize Song Yong, while maintaining the suspense almost to the end. Not to say that movies like connoisseurs of the genre - it is not enough for this terrible and too heavy in terms of moralizing, but personally I liked the movie and the time spent is definitely worth. By the way, this work is necessary to take note of all the fighters for freedom and protection of animals - after seeing it is unlikely someone would want to harm our younger brothers - do not let the gods then follow a well-deserved punishment.

Cats are sinister creatures in horror tales. And director Byun did a good job in exploiting this matter in this film. The cat related shocks are combined with more traditional Asian ghost film motifs, with a bob-haired child ghost providing most of the scares and sudden jump frights. There are also a few gruesome moments and effective jolts scattered throughout. A couple of neatly staged mass feline attack sequences and the ghost getting the chance to use some nasty looking face shredding claws. All of this works pretty well. Overall, this is a beautiful K-Horror. Expect nothing new or exceptional. The story was pretty simple & decently plotted with a typical Asian flavor. Loved it.

THE CAT (2011) ** Min-Young Park, Da-eun Sin, Ye-ron Kim, Min-jae Kim, Da-eun Kim. So-so "k" horror flick about a claustrophobic pet groomer who becomes the heir apparent to a possessed cat with supernatural events enrolling her into a mystery that threatens her very sanity. While I am not a fan of the Asian 'j-horror' this "k-horror" also borrows many of its set pieces (i.e. a deathly ghostly pallored dead child with inky black facial markings; ENOUGH!!) the chiller has a few nice moments like the death in a pet crematorium yet on the whole very predictable and not so satisfying for a spine-tingler that at best may have been a weak episode of "Tales From The Darkside"(Dir: Seung-wook Byeon)

With a bland title like The Cat (with a Korean subtitle as funky as "Two Eyes See Death" according to Google Translate), it just about signals how blasé horror films can be these days especially when they dip into the generic bag of scary tricks to assemble a horror feature film by stringing together a series of cheap jump scares, and then finding an excuse to weave a narrative around the usual mystery cum unfinished business cum body to be found and exorcised type of storyline.Granted the premise and set up is something begging to be done, and done it is with this Korean film, otherwise we can make a film called The Dog and have the dog howl at every suspenseful instance to signal some supernatural presence, which doesn't really work that well. Cats usually have this connotation to witchcraft and its eyes being quite creepy to look at especially in some form of darkness, so in the animal itself you have a ready made plot device in which to weave a narrative around. Here the chief pussycat called Silky belongs to a plump woman who was found dead in the lift to her apartment, and for reasons only cat lovers can identify with, So-Yeon (Park Min-Young to wide-eyed perfection) who worked on and groomed the animal before its owner's demise, got stuck with the feline.As if one warning isn't enough, expect to see a whole slew of bodies turning up, usually accompanied by the shadowy appearance of a little girl, played by Kim Ye-Ron, whose sister Kim Sae-Ron had in recent years become a child acting force to be reckoned with in films like A Brand New Life and The Man From Nowhere. I'd wonder what made her sister take this path early in her career being decked out in face paint and acting all creepy, but herein lies the expected back story as to why and how this little girl and her cat, are out there trying to spook and become avenging angels against all cat abusers, which in a way seemed noble enough a reason to do what they did.Ultimately writer-director Byun Seung-Wook does little except to showcase that he's as capable as other directors before him who have executed the usual suspense build up, and the typical jump scares to make audiences squeal, complete with sudden loud noises, light and shadow play, and tapping upon the expertise of makeup artists who applied the feline face of death look which is inspiration for anyone wondering just how to dress up during this year's Halloween. And to make matters worse, without the numerical advantage in getting characters bumped off, or have random bodies appear just to spook, The Cat would betray that it's actually all of a short film only, being extrapolated just because of its repetitive scare tactics to introduce another dead body under extraordinary circumstances.The Cat will thrill anyone who hasn't seen his or her fair share of Asian horror films, otherwise to horror fanatics, this is yet another film exercise for the fimmaker to chalk up a genre film under his belt. This is one weak pussy after all.