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Whispering Corridors *** (out of 4)
Set in a Korean girls' prep school, it begins with a strict middle aged teacher investigating some phenomenon that has apparently been repeating itself every few years at the school. She finds some evidence in some yearbooks, but kills herself, or apparently does, before she can reveal it.
Meanwhile, two girls have become close friends. One believes she can call spirits, and is a talented painter, while the other is the school brain, and supports her friend even after the friend is kicked out of art class.
A new teacher to the school, a former graduate herself in one of the mysterious years, befriends both students, and tries to act as their mentor.
There is an old abandoned wing at the school that used to house the art classes. Some years before, a girl was imprisoned there by the others and committed suicide. It's rumored that her ghost now haunts the school, in particular the wing where she died, where workers continually meet with strange accidents.
There's lots of creepy stuff going on, and the big revelation at the end is genuinely surprising, but it fails to maintain it's creepy tone consistently, and it takes a couple of viewings to clearly identify exactly what happens at the end.
Still, for originality and the effective tone, it's worth a look.
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