This is the general plot of the story extracted from Wikipedia (SPOILER ALERT):
"The title "Cinderella" is directed towards the orphaned girl, the black haired ghost in the story. She can be dubbed Cinderella because she was illegally adopted after the original Hyeon-su suffered near-fatal burns and disfigurement from being in a car explosion. The orphan loved her "mother" very much but after the original Hyeon-su began to recover, their mother did an operation to have the orphaned girl's face cut off and attached to the real daughter. The real Hyeon-su, having no memory of the incident was spoiled by her mother while the faceless orphaned girl was kept in the cellar. The original daughter, was forbidden to go.
Making connections back to the original Cinderella story, Cinderella was also treated badly by a step mother and was locked away in her room while her two step sisters obtained all of the fortunes.
The adopted daughter was never given any birthday parties, was never allowed to go to school, and was left inside the basement writing in her diary, hoping that one day her "mother" will make her a new face, as she promised but never did. As she grew older, she felt more betrayed after watching Hyeon-su, the real girl, grow up and become beautiful with her face and having birthday parties with her beautiful friends and thus ended up committing suicide in the basement, writing about how much she hates Hyeon-su and her friends and she wishes she could kill them all. Unfortunately, the mother finally decided to throw the orphaned girl a party and brought her a cake, only to discover that she had hung herself. Feeling it be Hyeon-su's fault, she begins haunting her friends until they go crazy with thoughts of being ugly. With those thoughts, they commit suicide by cutting up their own faces, or inflicting facial disfigurement on each other. Also, it must be noted that the orphaned girl truly loved her mother and wanted nothing more than to be with her forever. The real Hyeon-su, even before the accident, never fully appreciated her mother and was extremely spoiled. In the end, Hyeon-su's mother agrees to go onto the afterlife with the adopted girl to save her real daughter and bring peace to the orphaned girl's torturous life."
Well, the synopsis seems scary, but the movie isn't. All the gory scenes aren't bloody enough to repulse, all the suspense scenes can be easily predicted, and all the actual scary scenes (ghost appearing) are total failures. There is in several parts of the movie where the 'ghost' is just a blue eye glaring at the audience -- the thing is, the blue eyes look beautiful and not creepy...so I don't get creeped out at all. I would say it is more of a mystery movie that has connecting themes of family conflicts and love and death rather than a pure horror movie.
IMDb agrees, with viewers rating the movie an average of 5.5/10 stars.
A viewer said in his/her review:
"It's pretty dull and offers almost zero scares."Cinderella" looks slick,the acting is fine and Korean girls are jaw-droppingly beautiful,unfortunately the action moves at the snail's pace.Skip this one. "
Basically, this horror movie is for the 'light-headed' people who normally can't stand scary scenes. Believe me, it is at best a mystery movie, and more of a melodrama than anything else.
Still, worth a shot. Maybe my disappointment arised when I watched the Blair Witch Project (brrrr) the next day and compared the scare level (out of ten stars, Cinderella ranks 4 and BWP ranks 7.5).
I give this movie an 'eh' 2.8/5 stars. The 2.8 is for the amazing lead girl and the message that plastic surgery is no good! It is dangerous and pointless! You'll get attacked by a ghost if you do it. :P
Stay tuned for my next blog post on a Japanese anime movie!!!
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