It starts off somewhat light-hearted. It then shows how people act inauthentically to fulfill certain role expectations, and to manipulate people in order to be accepted (and paid). It explores the hypocrisy of prejudice and how people slip into an 'us and them' mentality. It alludes to how people feed off each other.

It had potential to then provide some sort of moral undertones - to provide some sort of remedy; perhaps through the characters having realisations that lead them to make positive changes. Perhaps even leading them to humility, redemption or reconciliation.

But it pretty much just veers off into a horror movie. It tries to be clever with allusions and metaphors about unconscious and repressed psychological forces. And perhaps there is some allegory for the North/South Korea divide in there as well. But the story becomes so over the top in its efforts to disturb, that it loses credibility.

If you want to wallow in pseudo-intellectual generalisations about socio-economic class conflict and long outmoded Freudian theories of psychological neuroses, then this might be a movie for you.

Verdict: Dark. Bleak. Pessimistic. Wasted Opportunity.

3/10.