Su-hyeon, a patient with terminal cancer, gets a wig as a present from her sister, Ji-hyeon. Strange things happen as Su-hyeon wears the wig and horror starts to sweep over Ji-hyeon as she watches her sister getting slowly possessed.
Direction
Won Shin-yun builds dread through medical sterility and domestic spaces.
Practical Effects
The wig itself: simple prop, utterly cursed energy.
Director
Won Shin-yun
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the mid-2000s K-horror wave alongside A Tale of Two Sisters and The Ring Virus, reflecting Korea's anxiety about modern medicalization of death.
Director Won Shin-yun later remade this as The Closet (2020), swapping the wig for—you guessed it—a possessed wardrobe.
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