36 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestTo Seok Hee’s horror, she finds Do Kyung infected. She does her best to bring her son back to his senses, but it doesn’t seem to work. Ki Hoon finally saves Soo Jin, but Ki Hoon fails to keep his eyes shut. Now Soo Jin has to save Ki Hoon from the haunted Buddha statue.
A giant Buddha statue is unearthed in a small rural town. The mayor believes that it will change the town into a major tourist attraction. However, a catastrophe starts to grow. A centuries-old curse is unleashed from the statue, and it starts to eat up people's souls and make them non-human. Jung Ki-hoon, as archaeologist tries to seek the truth behind the paranormal phenomenon.
Direction
Yeon Sang-ho's signature dread in miniature rural scale.
Production
That Buddha statue design will haunt your dreams.
Acting
Koo Kyo-hwan sells cosmic horror with weary resignation.
Creators
Yeon Sang-ho, Jang Kun-jae
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The series draws on Korean Buddhist folk beliefs around 'gwishin' and improperly venerated objects, updating them for capitalist desperation.
That 5.8 TMDB score is criminal—this is Yeon Sang-ho's most underrated work, hobbled by Disney+ burying it in marketing hell.
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