How ultimate is this post? It's been exactly six years since her last one was done(!), she had five posts in 2015 and none since then so wonder what happened? To make a short story long will say why there's this post and perhaps many more on the horizon. Been trying to ween off dramas a bit and start viewing more films which I tend to enjoy more. Was looking for some Korean horror flicks from the past few years that weren't mega hits and I tend to prefer low budget films. Discovered the 2020 movie "The Call", skimmed through some reviews and didn't read them too closely as not to find out all that took place in the film.
Most thought it was a superb film though a bit confusing in the last forty minutes but all in all worth a watch. To my surprise Shin-Hye had the lead role and said to myself there's an actress who I hadn't thought about in years. So viewed the movie which was one of the best new horror films I've seen in quite a long time and will end the post off with event pics and a mini review. This could be one of the largest posts of the year as it may contain a hundred pics.
Seems most of my fave Korean actresses don't appear in many magazines and when they do the spreads are always way too small. That's not the case for Shin-Hye who from 2016-20 may have appeared in more mags than any other actress. So there's many sets to post and will have a few in all of her upcoming posts, this spread is from the July 2017 issue of InStyle.
Now on to what reintroduced me to Shin-Hye which was "The Call" movie. It was scheduled to come out in March of 2020 but we all know what happened then and like most Korean films in the Spring of 2020 the release was delayed. But in the case of this film it never was released in cinemas and instead was aired on Netflix Global beginning in November 2020. This batch of pics is from an event to promote the movie on February 16, 2020 and of course no one knew what was about to happen the following month. Shin-Hye did look terrific at the but not as fabulous as she looked in the film, she's always been an attractive woman but to me her looks have gotten so much better over the years.
Shin-Hye plays the lead role of Seo-Yeon, it's November 2019 and she's traveled from Seoul to the countryside to visit her ailing mother who is in the hospital with a brain tumor. However Seo-Yeon lost her phone on the train and at her mother's house all that was there was a cordless phone. One day she received a call from some woman crying out for help but of course she thought it was a wrong number. The calls continued and eventually Seo-Yeon talked to this woman who somehow was calling from the year 1999! The woman's name was Young-Sook and what made it eerier was that she was living in the same house Seo-Yeon was at. So that began an odd friendship, with both in different time periods perhaps they could help each other out?
That's what happened and in the beginning only good things were done to help each other out. However the woman Young-Sook was a bit deranged, she's been in and out of institutions and her stepmother, who thinks she's a Shaman, constantly abuses her and in November 1999 actually killed her stepdaughter. But Seo-Yeon from 2019 was able to help her friend and instead of Young-Sook being murdered it was her stepmother! As mentioned Young-Sook was a bit deranged and she ended up committing several other murders including Seo-Yeon's father who died three times in this movie! So what took place during this stretch of time in 1999 also took place in 2019 such as Seo-Yeon getting burn marks on her and she watched the second death of her father which was the best scene of the movie. So will be doing a pair of posts at the end of next week for this film, it's an easy enough one to find and highly recommend it, some screenshots from it. Will have some videos in those posts so after these pics is a new CM for Castelbajac that already has over 1.4 million views.
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