coma 코마 [mini series]

genuinely creepy and brilliant




5 episodes, each shot like a feature film, really creepy, emotional, stunning, a perfect example of how brilliant Korean Cineam and tv are. I don't know what else to say other than how impressed i was with this. I love horror series' and there seem to be so few of them around.

Lee YeRim - Joo Hee
Lee SeEun - Yoon Young
Myung JiYun - Nurse Kang SooJin
Lee JungHun - Doctor Jang SeoWon
Lim WonHee - Detective Choi
Cha SooYun - Lee SoHee


Coma includes the budget and style of a movie, but is made up of five pieces to create the whole. We see the happenings inside this run down hospital from a different person's perspective each time round, and eventually develop an understanding when all points combine. i like how some things happen differently in one episode to another - the memories of one person make the incidents change often in motive but sometimes even in outcome - it is cleverly and subtly done.


We have a hospital which had ruined its reputation gone out of business and begun to close down, and relocation of patients has almost been completed. in the dirty scag-house like surroundings it is hard to believe a patient still remains but there is still just one, Lee SoHee.




Everything seems to center around this patient, but there is a tangled mess of secrets trailing back years, gradually unfolding as the corridoors and rooms are emptied and the ghosts quite literally emerge from the locked doors.

i would usually explain a little more than this but im just not going to at all, i think it is far better to let it unfold without knowing any more than this. it isnt like you wont see it coming, but it should be completely left up to the movie to tell the story. it is so well done that i wouldn't want to ruin it by explaining it in the shabby way i go about things.

The style of the series is just like the horror movies we know and love. The familiar look of the ghosts, the sounds, the colours, everything is lush and grimey - how can they make things so disgusting but yet so vivd? This will be one of those series' i plead with people to watch and lend out to anyone i can at any opportunity i think.


 i love Korean ghosties.





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