1999 · horror · drama
Memento Mori
Directed by Min Kyu-dong, Kim Tae-yong1h 38m1999
The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.
Our read: Memento Mori (1999) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive horror · drama entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme horror / drama, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- heavy
- intense
- bleak
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