whispering corridors ( hangul : 여고괴담 ; rr : yeogogoedam ) is a 1998 south korean horror film .

it was part of the explosion in korean cinema following the liberalization of censorship in the aftermath of the end of the country 's military dictatorship , and makes a strong social commentary on authoritarianism and conformity in the harsh south korean education system .

this film is the first installment of the whispering corridors film series , and was followed by four sequels ( memento mori , wishing stairs , voice , and a blood pledge ) , though none of the sequels share a continuing plot or characters with each other .

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whispering corridors
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ght at the start of the japanese horror - boom , whispering corridors was made the same year as ring . it
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first installment of the
whispering corridors
film series . it was followed by four in - name - only sequels .
whispering corridors cast list , listed alphabetically with photos when available . this list of whispering corridors actors includes any whispering corridors actresses and all other actors from the film . you can view additional information about each whispering corridors actor on this list , such as when and where they were born . to find out more about a particular actor or actress , click on their name and you ' ll be taken to page with even more details about their acting career . the cast members of whispering corridors have been in many other movies , so use this list as a starting point to find actors or actresses that you may not be familiar with .
reporting from the busan market in china , variety has revealed that park ki - hyung’s korean horror masterpiece whispering corridors will be receiving a chinese language remake , apparently to be called simply whispering corridor . only one corridor . just one .
yeogo goedan whispering corridors / cine2000 production ; screenplay by in jung - ok , park ki - hyung ; produced by lee choon - yun ; directed by park ki - hyung .
this movie definitely has a great atmosphere , i ' ve seen all of the
whispering corridors
movies and although it has its own problems it is my favorite of the series .
the
whispering corridors
series ( korean title
yeogo goedam
=
girl ' s high school
) uses an all girl ' s high school as the backdrop for each of its films .
just wanted to drop in and announce the release of not one , but two new books in audio format . whispering corridors , as well as darkside blues , are now available on audible , amazon and itunes !
if i had to pick a word to describe whispering corridors , i think i’d have to go with quixotic . in many ways , corridors is typical of 1990s asian horror : one dead girl , creepy chilling atmosphere , and a fairly predictable plot . unlike american films , which are almost always plot driven , whispering corridors is driven by mood , so much that , at times , the story only seems to exist to get the film from one tension filmed scene to the next . unfortunately , the screenwriting isn’t necessarily up to the task .
in this second installment of the whispering corridors series , a young girl finds a strange diary , capable of arousing hallucinations , kept by two of her senior fellow - students who seem to have an unusually close bond .
the
whispering corridors
series ( korean title
yeogo goedam
lit . translation
girl ' s high school
) uses an all girl ' s high school as the backdrop for each of its films .
yeogo goedan [ videorecording ] = whispering corridors / cine2000 production ; screenplay by in jung - ok , park ki - hyung ; produced by lee choon - yun ; directed by park ki - hyung . – national library
whispering corridors gets it ' s gloves off before the opening titles come up , with a ring - strength scene . a teacher , trying to convince someone on the phone about a discovery , is attacked by a ghost and killed .
during the ongoing asian film market , being held in conjunction with the busan international film festival , news surfaced that k - horror classic whispering corridors ( 1998 ) , which has spawned four popular sequels , is getting the chinese remake treatment .
it’s impossible for me to really recommend whispering corridors , since the story flaws are so hard to move past , and they make watching the movie a chore at times . however , with park ' s brilliant direction and creepy atmosphere , i can’t not recommend it either . the thing is , when the film is good , it’s really , really good . but when it’s not , it’s painfully dull . in the end , i suppose i’m glad i watched whispering corridors . however , given the chance , i wouldn’t watch it again .
whispering corridors was a sensation in korea and spawned four loosely connected sequels . the film is a supernatural horror movie about a ghost rampaging through a girls school . problem is , china refuses to make ghost - centric films and considering they have no all - girls school in china . needless to say this will no doubt be a radically different picture…
the three subsequent sequels are only linked by the theme - hauntings at girls ' schools - not by directors , stars or characters . therefore , each film can be viewed on its own , and in any order . almost the only link that i noticed , was one scene in whispering corridors where two girls walk up some leafy steps to the old school building , which looked remarkably like the iconic setting of the wishing stairs , the third film . soon i ' ll cover the rest of the films in the series . voice , the fourth , was reviewed here , though the fifth film that was rumoured to be in production hasn ' t yet materialised . so far in the whispering corridors series . . .
the original whispering corridors was directed by park ki - hyung ( acacia , 2003 ) and subsequent installments have all served as launching platforms for talented new directors . notably , the first sequel , memento mori , was co - directed by min kyu - dong ( all about my wife , 2012 ) and kim tae - yong ( late autumn , 2011 ) .
nb : apparently whispering corridors is very hard to find with english subtitles , in any format . we here at snowblood apple were lucky enough to catch the film with subs when it was shown on uk satellite channel filmfour extreme in the early part of 2002 . we ' ve finally finished our transcript of the subtitled filmfour version , which you can read here .
korean - new zealand co - production sets off gibson group , a representative film production company in new zealand announced that they signed a memorandum of understanding ( mou ) for co - production with cine 2000 , korean film production company that has made whispering corridors series and many other films . gibson group is new zealand’s representative film production company that has prod . . .
four years after the b . o . flop of “voice , ” south korea’s “whispering corridors” franchise tries once more for resurrection with “blood pledge , ” centered again on ghostly goings - on in a girls’ high school . inexplicably roasted by local crix , this fifth entry , focused on a suicide club , still managed a moderate 700 , 000 admissions in its june release ( considerably [ … ]
k - horror classic transfers over the yellow sea during the ongoing asian film market , being held in conjunction with the busan international film festival , news surfaced that k - horror classic whispering corridors ( 1998 ) , which has spawned four popular sequels , is getting the chinese remake treatment . the original film’s production house cine2000 is on board for the chinese version , as well beijin . . .
korean horror classic franchise “ whispering corridor , ” to which four loosely - connected sequels have been made , is receiving a chinese - language remake . it was announced sunday at the busan market .
directed by park ki - hyung , whispering corridors ( aka girls’ high school ghost story , or in its original korean form , yeogo goedam ) was released in korea to a wave of controversy and attempts at censorship . indeed , the film portrays an all - female school filled with such brutality , sexual abuse and violence directed by teachers at pupils , the national school board tried to ban the film’s release outright . thankfully , they failed , and so the movie went on to become one of korea’s biggest box office successes , spawning a later sequel , memento mori ( aka whispering corridors 2 , or yeogo goedam 2 : memento mori ) , an equally brave and controversial film dealing with many of the same themes as the original movie , but also with homosexuality in single - sex schools .
this year , we here at snowblood apple have had the interesting experience of watching the very best and the very worst of two very similar films from the fairly limited school ghost genre – whispering corridors , from south korea , and a frightful school horror , from japan – and awarding the honours for once to the korean movie , which poops all over the pitiful japanese attempt from a great height .
whispering corridors has much in common with the current tide of horror movie offerings from japan . however , it is hardly derivative . the material may be recycled , but the filmmakers present it in a way that is different and anything but stereotypical . don ' t watch this film expecting to see a massive body count and flying limbs . there are moments when you will see why this movie is classified as a horror film , but like most ghost stories , the power of this movie is demonstrated by what the filmmakers chose not to show us . the pace is slow and deliberate . i found it almost hypnotic , but it never lags . some of the story elements are very convoluted , but ultimately this does not detract from the overall appeal of whispering corridors . a movie for the thinking horror fan .
park’s direction is so amazing , and the atmosphere and setting so emotionally resonant , it’s very easy to forget that half the story drags along at a tedious crawl . had the film’s climax encapsulated everything i love about whispering corridors ' s moodiness , i’d whole heartedly recommend this film to anyone and everyone who would listen . unfortunately , in the last 10 minutes of the film , screenwriting once again rears its ugly head .
the storyline doesn’t really have anything new to bring to the table , but it’s really not uncommon when dealing with modern asian horror . films that follow a simple “ghost story formula” do better at the box office , and they do well because the storyline works . and , when whispering corridors is following that formula , it too does very well . there’s just something inherently creepy about a teenage girl ghost who kills people . maybe it ' s because teenage girls are so volatile , so hard to understand – making the ghost both familiar and foreign at the same time . whatever it is , the image of a uniformed 16 - year old girl with a sharp knife is enough to give me the willies . whispering corridors knows a good thing when it sees one and it doesn ' t try and break out of the box , at least when it comes to the ghost .
despite the problems , whispering corridors is still worthy of a look from anyone interested in the burgeoning asian horror scene . i ' m the first to admit i ' m completely jaded to the ever - popular girl ghost films after having sat through what seems like a million of them in the past few years . however , fans who ' re less familiar with the tropes of this particular subgenre will definitely find a few good chills littered amongst all the teenage melodrama .
the sequel of whispering corridors brings a flashier , dramatized approach which , hats down , needed a good pair of cojones to pull off . hyo - shin and shi - eun keep a secret out of their love relationship ; the former is sweet , caring and slightly suffocating , while the latter is passive and cautious . like the first part of whispering corridors , where characters find the other ones’ story , min - ah discovers a journal of the two lovers , gradually unraveling their best and worst moments . the accent drifts on the individuals , letting only three of the girls weave the narrative line . the critique is less sharp . the students are honorific bullies , taunting and stressing over people they don’t even care about . the teacher - student relationship becomes an important part of the plot , as it leads to pregnancy and ultimately suicide . but the critique could be extended on society as well , like the shock the classmates have when the girls come out , choosing to isolate them for it .
perhaps my biggest complaint with whispering corridors is that it never manages to become as good as it could have been . featuring an opening murder sequence that ' s surprisingly graphic for the new wave of asian ghost stories and a
haunted school
that just oozes atmosphere throughout its long , empty halls , i went into the film expecting something on par with the brilliant eko eko azarak : wizard of darkness & # array ; the first of the japanese misa kuroi films . that title ( made in 1995 & # array ; three years prior to whispering corridors ) was also set in the closed environment of a school , but never skimped on the gore , sleaze , and supernatural overtones . park ' s film could have been a korean variant on the same themes , but instead seems more content to play up the teenage melodrama over the spooky goings on . unfortunately , if i wanted to watch that sort of thing , i could just seek out re - runs of beverly hills , 90210 .
obviously , the movie suffers for its story problems , but , strangely , they almost don’t matter . the atmosphere created by park is simply astounding . the school location itself is conducive to creating an overall creepy vibe . shot mostly indoors , whispering corridors takes place almost entirely inside a school house , complete with blank walls and empty desks . the building seems to consist mostly of cramped , crowded classrooms and long corridors , giving the film an overall feeling of claustrophobia . this is particularly creepy , since so many of the really good scenes take place at night , the darkness heightening that closed - in feeling . when teachers are running through the halls from jin - ji , it’s no surprise she’s around every corner . there is nowhere to run . the walls feel like they’re closing in , the very building trapping them inside .
but still falls short in providing a coherent storyline . i have no doubt that this film is more intelligible to those who speak korean but i was a bit lost at times and couldn ' t keep up with all the characters . the story is about the angry ghost of a dead student at an all - girl school who periodically turns up in the guise of someone new . . . or something . like i said , it ' s hard to follow . but the eerie photography and reliance on practical scares make it worthwhile . far too many horror films these days are too slick and well - polished for their own good . whispering corridors features a certain rawness in it ' s grainy film stock and editing that gives the film a rather unique atmosphere . the gore isn ' t terribly excessive , nor is the film extreme in any way . but if you ' re in need of something different and with a weird edge to it then go for whispering corridors . try hard to keep up though . the dvd is in 1 . 85 : 1 anamorphic widescreen with dolby / dts 5 . 1 sound .
four years after the b . o . flop of “voice , ” south korea’s “whispering corridors” franchise tries once more for resurrection with “blood pledge , ” centered again on ghostly goings - on in a girls’ high school . inexplicably roasted by local crix , this fifth entry , focused on a suicide club , still managed a moderate 700 , 000 admissions in its june release ( considerably more than “voice” and “memento mori” ) and ranks as solidly entertaining , if hardly original , horror fodder . ancillary , perhaps as part of a series boxed set , beckons in western markets .
bullying , loyalty and cruelty play a role here too , but in the background ; the plot lines aren’t coherently jointed to allow the social message to get through . the tone shifted completely from the moral critique to individual guilt . the pace is either too fast or two slow , and the suspense is replaced by cheap scary shots that ruin the possible mystery . the characters raise no empathy . the plot was full with potential , but the story became only a pretext for the happenings . wishing stairs was too commercial and graphic to keep up with the whispering corridors name .
whispering corridors is a korean horror movie , although the horror is more psychological combined with a dark atmosphere set in a school . so dont mistake this for some cheap horror , because in that case youll get sort of disappointed ( which unfortunately many people have done ) . the movie was a huge success in korea back in 1998 and now there has been made four detached follow - ups . director : je - yong lee ( bimil , acacia ) starring : mi - yeon lee , gyu - ri kim , kang - hie choi , jin - hie park , ji - hye yun
this is not to say that whispering corridors is a failure & # array ; just that it often finds itself at a point where it can go one of two ways : play it safe and stick with the formula or do something daring and original . it ' s disappointing that the film always takes the safe and easy way out of these situations . there are some genuinely creepy moments here ( wherein the camera prowls the halls while a moody score accompanies it ) and a few good scares . it ' s just hard to shake the feeling that this film could have been so much more .
whispering corridors is set in a fairly typical all - female school in korea , called jookran high school for girls , and the story begins on the night before the first day of the new school year . a female teacher called mrs park ( better known by her unaffectionate nickname ‘old fox’ on account of her nasty behaviour and treatment of the students ) , has discovered something mysterious and weird concerning a late pupil of the school called jin - ju . jin - ju had committed suicide in the school’s art rooms nine years previously , and her ghost was said to haunt the art rooms which had been closed up after the incident .
if viewing whispering corridors taught me anything , it ' s that going to school in south korea is scarier than pretty much everything the average horror flick can throw at you . when you ' re not stressing out over your grades ( which is something these girls do almost as often as the japanese ) , you have to elude the sexual advances of your teachers , or worse yet , be able to take a good verbal tongue - lashing or old fashioned beatdown from them . because of all this , a killer girl - ghost haunting the grounds in search of vengeance seems almost quaint . i ' d rather take my chances with her .
in fact , it is only when the movie does poke its head out of the box that we start to experience real problems . whispering corridors is actually trying to do two things at once . on the one hand , we have the story of jin - ji , who is exacting ghostly revenge on abusive teachers and trying to relive the high school experience she never had . on the other hand , however , screenwriter jung - ok in is also trying to use this story as an indictment of the korean school system , exposing the harsh pressures and abuse suffered by students . unfortunately , whispering corridors fails at merging these two concepts together . in order to incorporate these two ideas , the fast - paced ghost story is interspersed with disturbing images of school violence , sexual harassment and bullying . while the message of the social commentary scenes is noble , they don’t relate to the haunting at all , and they’re too long and too numerous to just blend into the background . further , no matter how pure the intention , scenes of girls gossiping in an abandoned building or harassing each other in the bathroom just aren ' t that interesting , especially when you know there’s a murdering ghost around . as a result of these combined writing interests , nearly 50 % of the film seems to drag .
whispering corridors takes place in a korean all - girls’ high school . it’s kind of a crappy place to be . the competition is fierce , the teachers are abusive and students are distant and passive . oh , and its haunted by a murdering ghost named jin - ji , a student who died in an accident about 10 years ago . jin - ji’s then - best friend , eun - young , has returned to the school as a teacher to discover the truth behind the mysterious deaths . what follows is your typical haunting / mystery in which we try to figure out which of the four main girls ( ji - oh , so - young , jae - yi , and jung - sook ) is really the ghost .
korean horror classic franchise “whispering corridor , ” to which four loosely - connected sequels have been made , is receiving a chinese - language remake . it was announced sunday at the busan market . production will be handled by beijing - based beautiful creative force culture media , october pictures’ seoul branch , and the original franchise’s production house cine2000 . zhen qin , who studied film directing [ … ]
and that’s where the true horror is in whispering corridors : this film asks a lot of hard questions , to which the school board could only find an answer in attempting to have the film banned . it’s a slow - paced , moody film with many resonant images and an eerie atmosphere , so if you’re also looking for a fast fix of horror , you’ve come to the wrong place . but it’s probably the most essential film that has ever come out of korea , so if you feel frustrated by the slowness of the action and give up on it , you’re really missing out on a gem . anyone who’s ever looked back on their own school days with horror , revulsion or sadness will not fail to be touched and reminded of their own difficult past experiences by this film .
korean high - schools schools nest the territory of the living dead in the whispering corridors saga . with the ever - growing interest paid to the asian cinematography in the 90’s , the horror world started anew , with the korean film industry being no exception . the first movie in the series came out after south korea abolished censorship ; park ki - hyeong ( acaccia , secret tears ) is incisive in attacking social themes and advancing critique of the educational system , although he only directed the first one . four other sequels followed its release , keeping some of its motifs : the nearly or entirely lesbian relationships , betrayal , competitiveness among students , the lack of solidarity between them and the setting : all - female high - schools . however , the action differs from one to another and each one has its particular message .
the whispering corridors movies , with its best and worst moments , are worth watching anytime and even more savory at a second or third watch . since most of the actresses were beginners when shooting , it’s a chance to discover their roots . i strongly recommend the first two : they both bring awareness over some social issues and it’s an opportunity to analyze a side of the korean culture , as they are set into an average school . the third one will give you the chills , though not exactly scary . voice will bring you to its own gracefully - crafted world and it’s the most appealing movie in terms of visuals . last but not least , the final installment will take you through all the themes and make you emotional with one of the most dramatic ( and longest ) endings . so grab your popcorn and tell me what you thought of the movies !
whispering corridors is a korean horror film directed by park ki - hyung in 1998 about a series of unexplained murders committed by a ghost . eun - young , a former student turned teacher , investigates the murders after mrs . park , a fellow teacher calls her about jin - ju , a former friend of eun - young ' s . three students , ji - oh ( an art student ) , jae - yi ( a shy student ) , and jung - sook ( a strange and unpopular student ) , doing morning janitorial duties find her body hanging from a tree . although her death looks like a suicide , rumors fly around the school that jin - ju , an unpopular student who died years ago is back to take revenge on the teachers who tormented her . eun - young and the three students get caught up in the dark secrets of the school and must stop the ghost before she commits another murder .
korean horror . in an exclusive all - girls school , a former pupil returns to start a new job as a teacher and strikes up a friendship with two very different students . but when a teacher is found dead , apparently having committed suicide , circumstances that link the past and the present begin to unveil themselves . as the body count rises , the memories of past deaths begin to call forth a series of ghosts to haunt the corridors of this troubled school .
and , to top all of this off , the camera work in whispering corridors is simply genius . park employs a lot of dolly shots , quick cuts and fast , wide - swinging angles . the camera , it seems , has a mind of it’s own – a quiet , impartial yet active viewer of the scenes that play out before it . further , it doesn’t just observe , it reacts . in the opening scene , when mr . oh , one of the worse teachers , is walking down the dark hallway with his flashlight , scanning the halls for any mischief , the camera rolls quietly behind him , following him and the path of his flashlight . when the light passes quickly across a particularly dark corner , revealing the ghost of jin - ji , it jerks back , as if it were surprised . later in the film , when mr . oh is trapped in the very same hallways , being stalked by jin - ji , the camera swings wide from one end of the hall to the other , freezing , as if in terror , when jin - ji is seen to be at both ends at once . when she attacks , she closes the distance without moving - - one second she ' s one place , the next somewhere much nearer . as if by reflex , the camera recoils , the same way a person would if a ghost suddenly launched at their face . by making the camera sentient , park creates an emotional bridge through which the audience can connect with the movie , making the experience intrinsically more personal .
with : with : oh yeon - seo , jang gyeong - ah , son eun - seo , song min - jeong , yu shin - ae , park jeong - yun , choi min - seong , oh jeong - weon .
despite its up - and - down b . o . fortunes the past 11 years , the franchise has held to its policy of using first - time directors and actresses , several of whom have gone on to make their names . “pledge” marks the debut of lee jong - yong , who has worked for park chan - wook as an a . d . ( “jsa” ) and scripter ( “sympathy for mr . vengeance” ) , and who helms smoothly and orchestrates the shocks effectively here , though without any personal signature . among the leads , oh yeon - seo , 22 , stands out for her chiseled looks and screen presence as the suicide group’s leader .
confusing opening — replayed in full only at the end — shows a bunch of classmates at a catholic girls’ school planning a group suicide by candlelight . but only one of them , eon - ju ( jang gyeong - ah ) , falls to her death that night from the church roof . afraid of being stigmatized , the four “survivors” refuse to talk about eon - ju’s death .
as pressure mounts from fellow students and elders , eon - ju’s ghost gets to work , picking off some characters and saving others . flashbacks gradually reveal that the suicide club was riven with deep jealousies , and the original plan was not exactly what it seemed .
the plot basically spins on the gradual revelation of elements deliberately withheld at the very beginning , and the characters are moved around the board at the writer’s convenience rather than properly developed .
still , the whole thing is done with such smoothness — gliding camerawork , fluid cutting , baroque - like religioso music — that the thinness of the material hardly seems to matter at 88 minutes . sensibly , given the circumstances , the action focuses on the central characters , to the exclusion of almost everyone else ( especially teachers ) in the school .
putative lead son eun - seo , as the dead girl’s supposed best friend , is pretty but bland ; yu shin - ae is better as eon - ju’s younger sister . however , as the strong leader of the group , oh has little competition in the screen stakes .
production : a lotte entertainment release and presentation of a cine 2000 film prod . production . ( international sales : finecut , seoul . ) produced by lee chun - yeon , kim bok - geun . directed , written by lee jong - yong . story , jeong ah - mi .
crew : camera ( color , widescreen ) , gang seung - gi ; editor , kim sang - beom ; music , lee jeong - woo ; art director , yun byeong - jin ; sound ( dolby digital ) ; visual effects supervisor , yun jae - hun . reviewed at pifan , bucheon , south korea , july 18 , 2009 . running time : 88 min .
with : with : oh yeon - seo , jang gyeong - ah , son eun - seo , song min - jeong , yu shin - ae , park jeong - yun , choi min - seong , oh jeong - weon .
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production will be handled by beijing - based beautiful creative force culture media , october pictures’ seoul branch , and the original franchise’s production house cine2000 . zhen qin , who studied film directing in korea’s chungang university and directed “twin spirit , ” a horror film starring a korean actress last year , will direct the remake . according to october pictures producer charles kim , the remake deal has been made due to the growing demand for genre films in the ever - expanding chinese market .
the “corridor” franchise has been a debut platform for several young korean film talents including director kim tae - yong ( “late autumn” ) and actresses kim ok - bin ( “thirst” ) and kim kyu - ri ( “revivre” ) . casting has begun on the project with known and unknown actors expected to be hired . kim told variety that a k - pop singer also auditioned .
cine2000 ceo lee choon - yun , producer of the original korean franchise , said that he hopes “the remake will keep the essence of ‘corridor , ’ a real - life frustration and fear that high school students have . ”
the ghost story , which is set in an all - girl high school , is expected to go through some major alterations because film censors in china will not approve ghost films and china has no all - girl high schools .
“we are currently developing the script that the censorship board hopefully will not reject , ” said the chinese exec producer liu hongbin . “we chose ‘corridor’ because it is an all - time classic korean horror franchise that deeply influenced audiences in both korea and china , and i promise that this chinese version will not be a simple spin - off , nor a naive remake . ”
the film is expected to be shot , at least partly , in korea and is currently set for a 2016 release in china .
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the original film’s film production cine2000 is on board for the chinese version , as well beijing - based outfit beautiful creative force culture media and the seoul branch of october pictures . at the helm of the project will be qin zhen , a chungang university alumnus who made this year’s chinese horror twin spirit , featuring korean actress cha ye - ryun .
news of this remake comes in the midst of an expanding genre film market in asia , which has already dipped into korean content for titles such as the bushinsaba series , which has churned out three installments over 2012 - 14 , all directed by an byung - ki , who was also behind the camera for the korean original ( bunshinsaba , ouija board , 2004 ) .
unknown actors are anticipated to be included in the as - yet uncast film which will partly be shot in korea and is expected to be released at some point next year . significant modifications to the horror story are expected in order to pass the chinese censor board , which does not allow ghost films , and because china does not have any all - girl high schools . chinese producer liu hongbin is confident that the version they are currently working on will be approved by the board .
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while investigating the school files , the frightened teacher mrs . park startles and calls the young teacher eun - young hur , telling her that the deceased jin - ju jang is back . the line dies and mrs . park is attacked and killed by a ghost . on the next morning , the teenager jae - yi yoon waits for her friend ji - oh lim , who has the ability to call the spirits , and they begin a close friendship . the abusive and aggressive mr . oh , a . k . a . mad dog , is the substitute of mrs . park and prohibits ji - oh to paint and compares the performances of the pretty so - young park and the weird jung - sook kim , raising a barrier between the two former friends . miss hur misses her former friend jin - ju , who committed suicide , and while trying to contact her , she discloses a dark secret about the past of her friend and mrs . park .
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jeong - won is a man with no memory of his childhood and his real family . at the beginning of the film he witnesses the deaths of two young girls . he begins seeing the girls dead bodies . . . see full summary »
four friends make an oath sworn in blood to commit suicide one night , but the next morning only one is found lying dead on the school grounds . rampant speculation about the nature of the incident races among the student body , but the three surviving friends are tight - lipped about any of the details . however , when the victim ' s sister begins searching for answers , the plot as well as the survivors begin to unravel . even so , the reason for the suicide remains cloaked in mystery , but its true meaning revolves around a blood bond of another kind .
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there ' s a rumour that a girl is haunting a girl school in south korea and just when the rumours have started to cool off a teacher commits suicide . everything seems really suspicious and more people start disappearing from the school . the students are freaking out and so are the teachers , will anyone be able to solve this mystery which is going on in their school , or will they all disappear ?
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every three years , the gloomy halls of a highly regimented all - girl korean school are haunted by the spirit of a student who died as a result of her teachers ' cruel forms of discipline . though outwardly a gothic , sometimes gruesome horror tale , the story is actually a critique of korea ' s militaristic approach to education . at the school , it is not uncommon for errant students to be slapped or hit hard upon the head . the ghost died a decade before in a freak accident and since then her restless spirit reemerges at the same time and interval to get revenge by taking over the body of a new student and using her to cause all kinds of trouble for the instructors . one of those educators was a former student and a best friend of the deceased girl . the ghost ' s reign of terror is threatened by the presence of a shaman ' s daughter , who has at her disposal the means to send the ghost away forever . yeogo goedan was screened at the 1998 vancouver film festival . ~ sandra brennan , rovi
. . . almost a prototypical asian horror movie - sharing all the positive and negative aspects of this genre .
. the trailer said the movie that started asian horror explosion , that would be like saying the three stooges were the start of the rocky movie explosion . a rather poor korean school girl horror film , about a girl student ghost that committed suicide and returns every 3 years in class , so pretty brutal scenes how male teachers slap around female students . wouldn ' t happen in america , mommy and daddy would be running down to the lawyers office saying my child has been abused . anyway 2 stars overall , 1 star on horror . 2 - 25 - 13
occassionally chilling but disappointingly slow - paced , which is a trend that continues in other entries into the series , this being the first of five to date . the opening sequence is awesome and the best moment of the film . it does create a spooky atmosphere but there just wasn ' t enough scares , and things got a little confusing during the second half of the film . it ' s not a bad movie by any means , just not a very exciting one . there are better korean horrors out there .
somewhat more psychological than some asian horror films , the body count in this is low - though some of the effects are quite creepy . the plot is convuluted like a tale of two sisters , though not as much , and clearly ' resolves ' itself in the end .
the movie is a strongly - plotted , suspenseful and intelligent mystery with a good thematic plot and a handful of intense scenes . it ' s slow , granted , but almost everything that comes out of asia is . good performances , a twist ending and some pretty rough abuse scenes make the movie stand out from the crowd .
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before school cleaning duty : the three main characters are assigned to before school janitorial duties and it ' s where they discover the body of mrs . park .
boarding school of horrors : jookran high school for girls . not only to you have to deal with nasty class mates and teachers ; it ' s also haunted .
driven to suicide : jung - sook , an intelligent but unpopular student hangs herself after being harassed by a teacher .
goal is take vengeance on all teachers at the school because she was mistreated by them . she ' s a combination of types a and b .
in - series nickname : mrs . park and mr . oh are given by students the unflattering nicknames of the fox and mad dog .
high school : the film takes place in a girls - only korean high school .
odd friendship : jae - yi ( a shy student ) and ji - oh ( an outgoing art student ) have little contact with each other at the beginning of the film , but quickly become fast friends .
our ghosts are different : the ghost looks like an ordinary high school student , is not transparent , and walks around in the daylight .
psychic powers : ji - oh , an art student , is rumored to be able to communicate with the dead . she even conduces a seance at one point before class .
posthumous character : jin - ju . much of her character is explained through eun - young ' s flashbacks and dialogue .
sadist teacher : mr oh , a . k . a . mad dog . he beats students he disliked and sexually harasses those he likes .
spooky seance : so - young , one of popular students at the school , convinces ji - oh to hold a seance to find out whether jin - ju murdered mrs . park . the ghost starts to answer , but is interrupted by a teacher .
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damn those koreans know how to make a good horror ! . . . . . . its the second in the ghost school trilogy the first being wishing stairs ! . . . . its set in the same school as wishing stairs but something else happened in between wishing stairs and this movie and it about what happened inbeteen is where this movie picks up from ! there is a pervy male teacher who when he isnt stroking his female students behind the ears hes being violent towards them infront of the other students but he gets his very soon ! ! lol id love to see more korean ghost story type horror in this kind of apmopheric genre ! ! ! . . . . . so amazon if you could recomend some for me that would be great ! ! . . . . . . thanks
this is one of those films that you really need to watch at least twice to really get the hang of what ' s going on . first time i watched it i couldn ' t get my head round what was going on - and i was actually more shocked by the brutality of the male teacher mr oh . i don ' t like seeing violence against women or girls , even in movies , and this was just disturbing . . . but then i suppose that was what the director was wanting to show . didn ' t make it easy to watch though . as for the horror content - it ' s not a scary film in the slightest . the ending might be seen as overly sentimental , but i found it very moving . i don ' t have many korean films ( i prefer japanese ) , but the ones i hava are good , and this is no exception .


game of death is a 2010 american action film directed by giorgio serafini , and starring wesley snipes , zoë bell , gary daniels and robert davi .

the film was released on direct-to-dvd in the united states on february 15 , 2011 .

game of death ( 2010 film )

2010 ( 34th ) montreal world film festival - aug . 26 - sept . 6 , 2010 - focus on world cinema * world premiere
game of death was horribly done . i have the first box set that has chinese connection , fist of fury , way of the dragon , a special dvd and of course game of death .
the film uses 11 minutes of the original game of death , which is cautiously edited to not star any of bruce ' s associates .
heading over to netflix now to re - watch game of death… . cut the bullshit ! lol
lol great great review . now i have to see game of death . that towel bit is gold !
and before then , two films made to capitalize on the legend of game of death were made , goodbye bruce lee : his last game of death ( 1975 , starring bruce li ) and enter the game of death ( 1977 , starring bruce le ) . . . and one after , the true game of death ( 1981 , starring
bruce lee siao - long
) , which ripped off the general plot and sometimes whole segments of the film were redone almost shot for shot .
ebert , r . ( 1975 ) . death race 2000 . chicago sun - times . retrieved april 2010 . retrieved from urltoken
treyarch . ( 2010 ) . call of duty : black ops . usa : treyarch .
game of death was not bruce lee’s “last film” . enter the dragon was his last film . the footage featuring bruce in god was filmed before etd . in fact god is not a bruce lee film at all , it’s just a film that features footage of bruce lee .
suit : video game sparked police shootings .
( 2005 ) . abc news . retrieved september 30 , 2010 . retrieved from urltoken
canadian directors laurence “baz” morais and sebastien landry’s game of death takes board game horror to an entirely new level . game of death takes place in the middle of small - town nowhere where seven friends are forced to kill or be killed when they play the “game of death” . when faced with their own mortality , will they turn on each other to survive ?  originally shot as a digitial series - assembled for sxsw as a feature , game of death will have it ' s digital release two weeks following the festival .
rockstar games . ( 2010 ) . red dead redemption . usa : rockstar games .
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game gains favor , but not with the safety council . new york times . retrieved september 22 , 2010 . retrieved from urltoken
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game reaches
finish
line . the los angeles times . retrieved september 22 , 2010 . retrieved from urltoken
game of death sees wesley snipes’ final tinsel town outing before embarking on his three - year incarceration stint . unfortunately he fails to impress with game of death , a film that doesn’t live up to the standards set by his previous appearances in high octane blockbusters such as blade .
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ubisoft . ( 2010 ) . assassin ' s creed : brotherhood . montreal : ubisoft .
wow - it all becomes clear now ! i always wondered why the bruce lee sinclair spectrum game had you descending into a strange futuristic environment . it must be based on game of death ii
in the film , before voldemort kills charity burbage , draco seems to have some sympathy over her death .
robert beavers ( b . 1949 ) , still from the suppliant , 2010 . 16mm film , color , sound ; 5 min . courtesy the artist
i agree with you , james . game of death ii > game of death . part 2 was so much more entertaining , and the guy who played bruce lee’s brother did a great job of portraying jeet kune do . and you can’t go wrong with hwang jang lee as the baddie .
8 although death race 98 is sometimes referenced as a sequel to death race , based on advertisements , death race and death race 98 appear to be the same game . even the cabinet graphics are identical save for the insertion of the
98
on the banner displaying the name of the game . death race 98 is first advertised in replay in march 1976 and death race is first advertised in the april 1976 issue . given the proximity of these ads to each other and to other coverage of the game death race , with no mention of death race 98 , they appear to have been part of the same publicity campaign . the evidence offered by industry coverage from the time period suggests , as i believe , that they were treated interchangeably by the manufacture .
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perpetual media capital , a uk - based entertainment financing group , is suing the national bank of california for allegedly backing out of a promise to co - finance a film , game of death , starring wesley snipes .
: all of the guardians show no signs of fear when they face death . see also
' s death , and because of the low pay golden harvest was offering .
in this film , kreacher is voiced by simon mcburney , after the death of his original voice actor , timothy bateson on september 16 , 2009 . mcburney also voices kreacher in the video game adaptation .
research interests : history of film and film styles ; film and russian / soviet art ; filmmakers dziga vertov ; sergei eisenstein ; old versus new media ; gesture and performance ; film editing : history , theory and practice .
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i actually saw that tower of death when i was a kid . loved it . ^ ^ ( btw the game of death plot pretty much shows you in plain sight why bruce lee died , he just refused to pay the triads )
damsel in distress : hai tien ' s sister and younger brother are kidnapped by the korean mafia to force him to participate in the titular game of death .
this text is followed by a bulleted listing of the game ' s technical specifications , such as setting options and screen size . the advertisement ends by stressing the game ' s profit potential , claiming gamers will want to replay the game :
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6 i am considering death race 98 and death race as the same game . the company appears to use the names somewhat interchangeably , with the only difference between the two being the inclusion of the
98
on the cabinet graphics .
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the soundtrack was released on november 16 , 2010 in u . k . and the u . s . [ 47 ]
“the wise and wicked game : re - editing and soviet film culture of the 1920 , ” film history : an international journal , 1996 , vol . 8 , # 3 , pp . 327 - 343 .
yates and heyman have noted that some of the events of this film had an effect on the way the sixth film was written . [ 13 ]
great review . i guess i need to watch game of death ii . i bought that same set for $ 5 at a yard sale and could barely finish the final .
so the uncompleted footage for the game of death sat and collected dust , with some of it being misplaced and lost . greedy producers weren ' t about to let this stand , so in 1978 , they enlisted the director of etd , robert clouse , to make a new film using the surviving footage , footage from other times in lee ' s career , and newly - filmed footage . the result is known simply as game of death .
kareem abdul - jabbar : you have forgotten , that i too am not afraid of death .
too bad about game of death . at least bruce’s son’s last film , the crow , could be completed and end up being a really great movie despite the fact that brandon lee also died during the film’s production . hey , you should do a review of the crow movies , now that i think about it .
death race not only helped establish the exidy brand , the game established a pattern for future moral panics regarding video games . death race may have been the first of these , but controversy greeted a variety of subsequent games , many of which , like death race enjoyed a spike in sales because of the publicity . while for the remainder of the ꞌ70s and the early part of the ꞌ80s the public debate on video games moved from concerns over specific text to worries about the arcades themselves , the issue of violence remained simmering in the background , boiling over at the release of certain games or in the face of particularly horrifying acts of violence perpetuated by youth . two particularly infamous game franchises , carmageddon ( 1997 ) and grand theft auto ( 1997 ) draw inspiration directly from death race 2000 and the legacy of the death race game .
the gameplay of death race is similar to more recent games like carmageddon ( 1997 ) and grand theft auto ( 1997 ) , which allow players to drive over human or humanoid figures in the game world , and which i will discuss in more depth later . death race can be played as a one - or two - player game . the operator could adjust the game to give players between 80 and 135 seconds of playtime per purchased game with games costing 25 cents for a single - player game and 50 cents for a two - player game . each player operates one of two on - screen cars using a steering wheel , pedal , and a shift lever . the objective of play is to hit as many
gremlins
as possible . each struck gremlin leaves behind a cross - shaped tombstone which becomes an in - game obstacle for the duration of the game ; because of this , each possible iteration of the game would have a somewhat unique playing field depending on how many gremlins were struck and where they were struck .
filming for both parts started officially on february 15 , 2009 [ 31 ] and ended on june 12 , 2010 . [ 32 ]
germain , david .
daniel radcliffe : emma watson kisses ' like an animal '
, huffington post , 15 november 2010 .
“as if this film weren’t trippy enough , ” one of the colourists quipped .
( note : these differences are based upon the 2010 theatrical release ; it remains to be seen whether future release of deleted scenes , or an extended version of the film , on dvd / blu - ray might address some of these differences . )
i have yet to watch enter the dragon . i will . one warning , if you watch game of death and game of death ii , do it so only for the purpose to reinforce how different a bruce lee movie feels when he’s actually around , and that is to say that bruce is fucking awesome but his copycats are complete rubbish at even being his copycats .
yeah i saw game of death as well & i agre that it was shitty to complet a film with out bruce lee . & fuck kill bill what a peace of cunt faced cock sucking bitch piss , who the hell does silva survermen think she is what a dike
in late 1972 , bruce lee was in the middle of filming the film that was to showcase his personal style of jeet kune do , the game of death when he received an offer to star in enter the dragon . the first kung fu film to be produced by a hollywood studio , and with a budget unprecedented for the genre , it was an offer lee was unable to refuse . he was slated to resume filming the game of death as soon as that was finished . alas , before etd was even released , he died .
then here’s my impression for game of death : yes , that’s right . it is horrible… horrible . like omfg what were they thinking . i understand that they tried to make a movie out of the remnant footage of bruce lee before his death , but come on this is just ridiculous . i can’t even imagine how bad game of death 2 is going to be . the only reason i don’t shit on this movie anymore is because there is at most 20 minutes of footage with the real bruce lee near the end of the movie .
an unrelated movie made due to high demand for more bruce , using recycled lee footage as well as deleted enter the dragon footage , new scenes choreographed by yuen woo - ping and kim tai chung , called tower of death , was released in 1981 and in some markets called game of death ii .
it’s ned stark vs . melisandre , and , not unlike game of thrones , it’s bleak as all hell .
death race followed on the success of exidy ' s destruction derby ( 1975 ) , which had sold well . however , while destruction derby was one of at least three car crash games on the market , death race was presented as something innovative and exciting 5 . the first of a series of advertisements for the game to appear in trade journal replay boasted of the game ' s unique design and linked it to a variety of historical car and motorcycle - loving bad guys :
a scene is added showing death eaters stopping and searching the hogwarts express . their intentions are left ambiguous until explained by xenophilius lovegood much later in the film .
the second advertisement for death race to appear in replay ran the next month in the april 1976 issue . perhaps in acknowledgement of a feature covering the game ' s release in the issue , the ad features simple typography with a photographic image of the game cabinet ( death race from exidy , 1976 ) . exidy ' s marketing and sales manager linda robertson suggests the graphics were at least as important to the game as the gameplay :
the artwork alone on this game . . . showing the skeletons , gremlins and graveyard . . . is certain to invite immediate player interest . the play of the game is so much fun they ' l come back again and again
( death race from exidy , 1976 ) . more obviously appealing directly to operators , the ad includes promises of high profits and excellent technical service :
had no idea game of death 2 was that entertaining . was still pretty pissed off about the 1st g . o . d . , guess i should check it out . thanks for another great review !
there is a dvd titled “bruce lee : a warriors journey” that talks about the lost footage and original plot of game of death . it shows the all the bruce lee footage and is far more entertaining than the actual movie .
as media outlets cast attention , even negative attention , on the exidy brand and interviewed exidy executives , they raised the profile of the company among operators choosing games for purchase . the infamy of the death race game not only drove sales of the original game , but prodded exidy to release a sequel to the game , super death chase in 1977 8 . in a replay article giving a 10 - year retrospective on exidy ' s early success , kathy brainard ( 1983 ) says that death race received
more media attention than any other game prior to ꞌpac - man . ꞌ
brainard may have been overstating , given the heaps of press received by pong , but her hyperbole makes an important point about death race ' s infamy and what that infamy afforded . in addition to helping establish exidy as an industrial player to watch , death race helped drive exidy ' s sales and helped secure the company ' s financial position .
the best one to watch truly is hard to find . it includes all of lees actual footage from game of death . its called a warriors journey . its on dvd but in honesty it is truly rare and hard to find .
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i caught game of death on amc one night . they were just showing the bruce lee footage , none of the filler ( probably only 30 - 40 minutes total ) . it was very entertaining , and my first thought was how similar it was to a video game . fight a boss , win , ascend to the next level .
there are shots used from bruce lee ' s real funeral when billy lo fakes his death .
cut out the bullshit ? ! wow ! they should have cut the bullshit with game of death . i have that boxset . i never watched game of death ii because of the complete disrespect of bruce lee in the first game of death . it was so damn horrible and utterly disgusting to show bruce’s funeral and corpse in the film . from what the medical reports say he had an allergic reaction to marijuana and a headache pill his supposed mistress gave him . it caused his brain to swell and he died . if you got the enter the dragon special edition dvd , bruce’s wife explains why he wore the yellow track suit . it was to be as flexible as possible and to feel comfortable . thanks for doing the review , james . thuroughly enjoyed watching it .
game of death was one of the last snipes films before he landed in jail , where notwithstanding a plea to the u . s . supreme court , he ' ll be for the next three years for tax evasion . the film was released last month on dvd without playing in u . s . theaters .
to explore the lasting impact and implications of exidy ' s death race , i will begin with an overview of death race 2000 , placing it in its historical and cultural context . i then provide a history of exidy ' s death race game and the public response to the game ' s perceived violence . by placing the game in the historical context of changing cinema production codes , i show how it served as a flash point in broader discussions about what constituted appropriate subject matter for popular media . additionally , i suggest that , because death race existed in a games market already replete with depictions of militarized violence , the game triggered outrage not merely because it was violent , but because it depicted violence which clearly questioned the state ' s monopoly on legitimized violence and did not exist in other culturally accepted narratives of violence , such as the cinematic western . i outline how the reaction to death race did little to squelch the game ' s distribution , and instead had the contrary effect of driving sales and vaulting exidy into the national spotlight . further , i argue that the discourse surrounding death race helped forge a strong tie between video gaming and violence in the public imagination , effectively ensuring the development of similarly violent games . this bond has persisted to the present , leading to the development of several similar games , most famously the controversial grand theft auto franchise – the progeny of death race in both theme and reception .
mandatory unretirement : hai tien ( bruce lee ) is a retired full contact world champion and initially refuses to take part in the
game of death
and only does so after his family is kidnapped by the korean mafia .
exidy , ed . ( n . d . ) death race exidy service manual . retrieved from urltoken
the daily potter : more photos of dan , emma & rupert from the set of
deathly hallows
film production .
in the film , harry , ron and hermione apparated in shaftesbury avenue instead of tottenham court road .
ozon ' s provocative film can do much to improve attitudes towards lgbti people .
the game of death is a rather damaging account of many people’s over reliance on the belief that television has its limits . though , watching the game unfold , under the bright lights of a cheering audience , the result is really not that unexpected . if you’ve ever watched survivor or fear factor , people will humiliate themselves and others at the drop off a hat . to make the leap to hurting a stranger on what seemed like a legitimate game show isn’t really that much of a stretch , especially considering tv’s recent history of extreme prank shows .
excellent review . you didn’t mention though that the unedited footage of the final fights from game of death can be found on the “bruce lee : a warrior’s journey” documentary on the “enter the dragon” dvd & blu - ray . an excellent doc with amazing footage !
@ steven . if you’re referring to the gun shot to the face in the first game of death , billy lo didn’t die . just severly injured . he faked his death to get the people who tried to kill him , but i could see how there is an erie resemblance . seems like bruce was cursed as well as his son .
the daily potter : 2nd day photos of dan , emma & rupert from the set of
deathly hallows
film production .
a martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him .
death race from exidy ,
( 1976 ) . replay . 2 ( 4 ) , 22 .
exidy introduces : death race 98 . ( 1976 ) . replay , 2 ( 3 ) , 29 .
new ! death race by exidy . ( 1976 ) . replay , 2 ( 5 ) , 9 .
when death eaters arrive at the wedding , elphias doge approaches harry potter and says a goodbye before fleeing .
hey james , i got an idea . what say we make our own version of “game of death ? ” only , we won’t be needing stock footage , or be calling ourselves bruce li , bruce lei , bruce le , bruce lai , or bruce laing .
ph . d . in film studies from institute of theater , music and cinema , leningrad , 1984 .
by the time the end credits role , you ' ll have been entertained for an hour and a half . game of death is not a film in the least bit concerned with strong characters or even believability but it does offer up enough mindless action and violence to keep and hold the pace . snipes fans will enjoy it .
the news of moody ' s death is reduced to a statement by bill . the group drinking and toasting to him is omitted .
game of death is actually one of the most quotable movies ever , especially any line from the doctor . the doctor is one of the greatest villains ever . he’s a senile old man who somehow runs an evil crime syndicate but half the time he doesn’t seem to know what’s happening around him .
in the film , dean is not imprisoned in the manor with luna and ollivander .
4 advertisements indicate screenings of the film in january 1978 , february 1978 , march 1978 ( when the film was showing in at least four venues ) , as well as november 1979 and february 1980 . a sampling of these listings :
movie guide ,
the dallas morning news . 9 january 1978 . page 19 . accessed 24 september 2010 , newsbank / readex , database : america
s historical newspapers .
movie guide ,
the dallas morning news . 14 february 1978 . page 28 . accessed 24 september 2010 . newsbank / readex , database : america
s historical newspapers .
movie guide ,
the dallas morning news , 13 march 1978 . page 16 . accessed 24 september 2010 . newsbank / readex , database : america
s historical newspapers .
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the dallas morning news , 15 november 1979 . page 93 . accessed 24 september 2010 . newsbank / readex , database : america
s historical newspapers .
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the dallas morning news , 21 february 1980 . page 82 . accessed 24 september 2010 . newsbank / readex , database ; america
s historical newspapers .
i can’t remember the name of it , but there is a very good documentary about bruce lee and it spends a lot of time on game of death and shows all the footage that he shot prior to his death , free from any of the editing used to make it fit in better with the current movie that exists . everybody should look for it and check it out because watching the fight as bruce intended is just awesome .
wow , to think they would go as far as to put a cardboard cutout of bruce on the actor’s face . they’d might as well put the fake bruce’s face on the real body of bruce , from the original scenes from game of death . at least then it would look half - way decent .
yuri tsivian studied film history in riga ( latvia ) and moscow ( russia ) combining it with studying semiotics under the guidance of yuri lotman ( 1922 – 1993 ) , a prominent cultural scholar of the tartu university ( estonia ) in collaboration with whom yuri has written a book on film language dialogues with the screen ( tallinn , 1994 ) . the author of over one hundred publications in sixteen languages , yuri tsivian is also credited with launching two new fields in the studies of film and culture : carpalistics and cinemetrics . the former studies and compares different uses of gesture in theater , visual arts , literature and film ; the latter uses digital tools to explore the art of film editing . visit yuri’s website to learn more about cinemetrics ; use your russian to read yuri’s book approaches to carpalistics : movement and gesture in art , literature and film ( 2010 ) .
thats outstanding ! thanks james for taking the time to do this . its very enlightening and fun to watch . i didn’t know how ridiculous post - game of death ‘bruce lee movies’ were . i love seeing the lion get it’s face smashed by the chair !
the cocksure snipes of his heyday is sadly missing in game of death , with a script as thin in character development as it is leading quality . with the opening mission being as far back as the characters’s stories stretch , it is hard for the audience to feel any kind of emotion or support towards marcus .
in the book , yaxley places pius thicknesse under the imperius curse , giving the death eaters control over the ministry . in the film , pius thicknesse is ( presumably ) not under the curse , but is a willing death eater or accomplice . however , he seems to be noticeably nervous before voldemort and appears to be threatened and afraid of nagini .
christopher nolan , right , on the set of interstellar with the film’s star matthew mcconaughey . photograph : melinda sue gordon
actually there was a special on amc that went at length to explain the real plot of bruce lee’s version of the game of death . it was a feature length documentary special dedicated to i guess the 20th anniversary of enter the dragon . what i can remember is the tower of death was the center piece of the netire movie , bruce lee’s character and five others are moving up this tower fighting against the different arts of kung fu until they reach the top where kareem abdule jabbar was the supreme fighter . i believe the starting plot was lee’s character had a sister that kidnapped or poison and he enters this tournment or game of death to rescue her . i agree with the crappy version that was pushed on us and i would have loved to have seen bruce’s vision of his movie rather than this shit storm we got settled with .
i think that was a great review . from around the age of 10 i sat watching game of death in total confusion . i didn’t realise until i was a little older that the film was completed after his death . so the use of chopped scenes from other movies plus what appeared to be a cardboard cut out of lee baffled me ! so , it was great to watch something that identified the same stuff that made me scratch my head as a kid . also , the stuff about god2 was excellent . great memories and top to watch . well done !
a new york times article published in august of 1977 again summarizes the game , and quotes from driessen . however , here , the tone is different . titled
postscript : controversial
death race
game reaches ' finish ' line ,
the article presents itself as a close to a controversy that had made headlines for the better part of a year . exidy had ceased manufacture of death race earlier in 1977 , and while the remaining machines might be problematic , the game seems less of a clear and present danger . the article does recount a scene from westwood electronic amusement center in los angeles , where the reporter saw a young girl score 6 hits on the machine while under the supervision of her father , who encouraged her by saying
you sure were chasing them .
the article closes by quoting a 13 - year - old fan of the game who responds to the suggestion the game may make him violent :
that ' s stupid , and besides i don ' t even know how to drive
( harvey , 1977 ) . the issue is presented as somehow resolved , no longer a serious threat , even though children are still playing the offending game .
the advertisement featured the marquee picture from the game cabinet complete with muscle - car racing ghouls , and the first line describing the game is punctuated with tiny skull - and - crossbones graphics . the statement that the player will have to
ꞌget involvedꞌ in whatever way he wants
suggests a male audience , but more importantly , it suggests the game will provide an immersive , engrossing environment .
the film program is organized by christopher y . lew , mia locks , and aily nash .
when exidy first began manufacturing death race , the company had not considered it as one of their more important designs . according to paul jacobs , who served as executive vice president for exidy in the 1980s , the game was
originally viewed by the company as nothing more than an intermediary piece with a limited run
( brainard , 1983 ) . the game had been performing well , but had not attracted much attention and did not seem slated to become a hit when an associated press reporter based in seattle wrote a story raising questions about how child - appropriate the game was . the story captured public interest and triggered coverage in a variety of other outlets . in defending the game , exidy rarely addresses the gameꞌs intended audience ; instead , the company seeks to minimize the gamesꞌ violence and stresses that the publicity has been beneficial . jacobs repeated the belief that the publicity had been good for the company ' s image , had driven sales of the game , and had raised the image of the video game industry :
in the book , each potter decoy carries a rucksack and a cage containing a stuffed owl . the decoys do not carry either of these in the film , and harry having his owl would serve as a give - away to the death eaters .
the cultural context into which exidy launched death race as an arcade upright in 1976 was shaped not only by the film that inspired the game , but also by a broader debate about media and amusement regulation and youth access in the united states . coin - op amusements had long been regarded with suspicion in the u . s . , and moral reformers had successfully influenced the regulation of film and comic books among other media . the comics code , in particular , resulted from efforts to curb the spread of materials deemed inappropriate for young readers . while u . s . video game manufacturers may have early thought of their machines as bar amusements intended for adult consumers , the appeal to and popularity among younger players fueled moral guardians anxieties around video games . arcade video games had no ratings system to indicate the intended or appropriate audience for particular machines . even the mpaa film ratings system was quite young at the time , and as roger ebert notes in his review of death race 2000 , that rating system was not entirely effective at keeping younger viewers away from adult materials . in the absence of a clear definition of appropriate audience for death race , moral guardians seem to have assumed that the game’s accessibility to children meant it was intended for them .
when , the british company stainless games released carmageddon , in 1997 , the public response bore striking similarities to the response to death race . carmageddon is a racing game with incorporated vehicular combat in which players gain extra time by damaging other vehicles , collecting bonuses , or striking pedestrians . like death race , the game featured vehicular violence that existed well outside established and accepted narratives of violence . in the united states , the entertainment software ratings board gave the game a rating of
m ,
the board ' s second - most restrictive rating , intended to indicate that the game is suitable only for players who are at least 17 years of age . the game was censored in other countries , including the united kingdom , where censors insisted pedestrian victimsꞌ blood be changed from red to green to give credence to the claim that the victims were not human ( poole , 2000 ) . as in the case of death race , the controversy did not stifle sales and instead drove them . according to lead programmer and company co - founder patrick buckland :
we weren ' t known , the brand wasn ' t known … the game had to stand on its own two feet , and it might not have done that without the violence – though it did get fantastic reviews
( the making of . . . , 2008 ) .
in the final film in a three - part series on the biennial , artists discuss new ways of making and experiencing art .
the incite mill
is a 50th anniversary project commenced by horipro management company . all ten of the main actors awork under horipro management company . the tenth main performer will be decided after a janaury 31st , 2010 audition held by horipro .
in january 2010 , alexandre desplat was confirmed to produce the score for harry potter and the deathly hallows : part 1 . [ 46 ] the french composer recorded the music in london studios with the london symphony orchestra .
due to andromeda and ted tonks ' omission from the film , the order of the phoenix all arrive at the burrow instead of their respective safe - houses and portkeys . the aftermath of the burrow ' s burning in the previous film is not brought up , and the house appears undamaged .
on the cover of the film , cia agent marcus ( wesley snipes ) holds an obviously fake heckler & koch mark 23 pistol .
the scenes of the film were not chronologically arranged , the dursleys left before the meeting at malfoy manor in the film , however , in the book , it should be
the dark lord ascending
then
the dursleys departing
.
various pictures can be seen of the cast of hp - dh filming scenes from the film on this site . these are the shell cottage scenes , most likely .
kaya ( founded 2010 ) , installation view of serene , 2017 . mixed media , dimensions variable . collection of the artists ; courtesy gavin brown’s enterprise , new york ; on stellar rays , new york ; meyer kainer , vienna ; and deborah schamoni , munich . photograph by bill orcutt
by october , 2009 , for unspecified reasons , nbcal ' s position toward the film had allegedly changed .
the reason bruce wore the yellow suit , was because it had nothing to do with any matrial arts uniforms . bruce always said the best style was when there where no specific style . thats why kareem abdul jabbar was the hardest to beat in the orginal game of death , he didn’t have a specific style .
faking the dead : billy lo fakes his own death to mislead the syndicate . he later returns to kill them off one by one .
a dreadfully awful action film which title has nothing to do with the movies setting . a good fight at the end with snipes and daniels but the rest is awful , lots of bullets fired and not a single clip reloaded . snipes dose not attempt to act once in this film . gary daniels gives the only performance worth noticing to bad the film is a waste of his talent
that said , the rest of the film is pure crap . i just skip over the plot and go straight to the action here .
anybody who wants to know anything about what bruce’s original intentions were for game of death , please watch bruce lee : a warrior’s journey . it answers every question you ever had about god as well as includes unseen footage that makes it the most definitive version of god . after you see it , you will never watch the robert clouse version again .
“the invisible novelty : film adaptations in the 1910s . ” in : robert stam , alessandra raengo , eds . a companion to literature and film ( oxford : blackwell publishing , 2005 , pp . 92 - 111 .
alice through the looking glass the mad hatter hasn’t been himself lately , so a grown - up alice goes time - traveling in underland to help him . with mia wasikowska ( as alice ) , johnny depp ( as the hatter ) and the voice of alan rickman , in one of his last roles , as the hookah - smoking caterpillar . james bobin directed this sequel to tim burton’s 2010 film .
roger ebert , writing for the chicago sun - times , awarded the film zero stars , and did not engage with the film much in his review , choosing instead to meditate on his experience seeing an audience full of children watch the movie with glee ( ebert , 1975 ) . negative critical response to the film was not universal . in the los angeles times , kevin thomas ( 1975 ) said the film
demonstrates that imagination can overcome the tightest budget .
in addition to praising several actorsꞌ performances , he dismissed criticisms of the film ' s violence saying ,
there ' s much slaughter in ꞌdeath race 2000 , ꞌ but it ' s presented so swiftly that the film avoids an unduly hypocritical exploitation of that which it means to condemn .
exidy introduces : th race 98 it ' s indescribable . so different , it ' s in a class by itself . death race 98 is what the player wants it to be : mobsters in the 30 ' s commandos in the 40 ' s dragsters in the 50 ' s hells angels in the 60 ' s street racers in the 70 ' s the first game to require the player to
get involved
in whatever way he wants . if you liked destruction derby … double your profits with death race 98 – it ' s a chase and crash game with a twist 6 .
watcg the blood - drenched trailer below , and check out our continued coverage live from the sxsw film festival .
once identified as a controversy , death race attracted high - profile media attention . even coverage that appeared as news , rather than editorial , helped perpetuate the controversy by legitimizing concerns and raising awareness of the issue . an article in the new york times in december of 1976 indicated the game had attracted the attention not only of local authorities , but of the national safety council . in the article , the author refers to the game ' s stick figure targets as
symbolic pedestrians
and quotes extensively from the manager of the nsc ' s research department , behavioral psychologist gerald driessen . driessen notes that nearly 9 , 000 pedestrians were killed in the past year , presumably in driving accidents , and argues that video game violence is categorically different from television violence :
forgot to say . james mentioned the game kung fu being similar to god . kung fu was infact based on bruce’s original idea for god…hence the similarity .
man , i wish i could get my hands on a cantonese version of “enter the dragon . ” it isn’t a hk film without one .
rita skeeter ' s the life and lies of albus dumbledore serves little purpose in the film apart from helping harry and hermione identify gellert grindelwald .
gremlins can only be struck when they are in the central
legitimate playing field
of the game . in two - player mode , players are competing against one another for the most kills . a player therefore might choose to deliberately crash into the other player to prevent him or her from striking a gremlin ( exidy , n . d . ) . the game ranks players depending on the number of points they scored . these rankings – skeleton chaser for 1 - 3 points , bone cracker for 4 - 10 points , gremlin hunter for 11 - 20 , and expert driver for scores greater than 21 – further the horror - inspired theme of the game ( death race from exidy , 1976 ) .
ramao , t . ( 2003 ) . engines of transformation : an analytical history of the 1970s car chase cycle ,
new review of film and television studies , 1 . 1 , p . 45 .
one peculiar aspect of the controversy worth drawing attention to is the larger context of other coin - op video games available in 1976 . while the lively used market accessible to route operators certainly expanded the number of games available for purchase at any given time , i would like to focus here on the new machines sold through distributors . even a cursory glance at listings of new machines makes clear that death race was not the only violent game on the market . atari ' s offerings in 1976 included five games which could be categorized as violent : the rather self explanatory cops ' n ' robbers ; the chase and crash crash ' n ' score ; the wild west - themed gunfighting game outlaw ; jetfighter , which featured simulated jet dogfighting ; and tank 8 , an 8 - player tank warfare game . chicago coin , of course , had their chase and crash , demolition derby , available . electra ' s offerings included avenger , a scrolling shooter game in which the player piloted a fighter plane . digital offered a jet fighting game with the rather self - explanatory name air combat . meadows was manufacturing bombs away , in which players piloted bomber planes and sunk ships , and fun games had a seek - and - destroy aircraft game named biplane .
2 the video game industry took a note from the film industry
s motion picture association of america ratings system with the establishment of the entertainment software review board ( esrb ) in 1994 as a self regulatory measure in an effort to placate demands for external regulation , and today , nearly all games sold through retail outlets are rated .
“ what can we do in films that they cannot on stage ? film style and medium specificity in the cinema of the 1910s . ” ( in japanese and english ) . theater and film studies vol 1 . march 2009 , pp . 3 - 50 .
concurrently , severus snape arrives at malfoy manor , where lord voldemort is holding a meeting with his death eaters . snape informs voldemort of the date and time of harry potter ' s removal from 4 privet drive .
the compromised film’s pleasures largely come from its totally game cast . true blood breakout ryan kwanten , character actor steve zahn , and game of thrones mini stud peter dinklage plays three friends who love to act out their dungeons & dragons obsessions via larping ( or live action role - play ) , but who unwittingly summon demons and monsters while doing so . specifically through dinklage , knights of badassdom has moments where it’s like a live - action mad magazine riff on game of thrones ' current season ' s
tyrion befriends daenerys ' dragons
subplot . and with dinklage hilariously hamming it up for lynch , it’s also comparable to an earnestly made , got - lampooning funny or die skit .
harry initially tries to assist ginny in fighting a death eater at the wedding , before he is hurried by lupin to flee with ron and hermione .
keep the starky mood going all throughout the week with these like - minded films , which are streaming online and feature game of thrones cast members sean bean , peter dinklage , and more .
pmc , whose movies include the low - budget dorian gray , st . trinians 2 , and harry brown , says it provided that money , plus continued to cash - flow the production costs beyond the amount of the bridge loan , paying various fees like attorney costs as well as compensation to the film ' s actors and director . ultimately , pmc says it invested nearly $ 7 million in game of death , expecting that it would recoup its investment once nbcal put up its sum .
ten people who agree to take the same lucrative
job
find themselves locked in an underground complex and forced to play a murder game for seven days .
after dobby ' s death , bill , fleur , dean , and luna gather around harry and dobby , and say that ron brought hermione into the cottage . in the film , ron and hermione are with harry here , as well as luna . bill and fleur are not seen until part 2 , and dean is not present , as he was not captured in the film .
groundbreaking avant - garde filmmaker robert beavers uses 16mm film to portray the textures and intimacies of everyday life . beavers’s meticulous compositions serve as luminous representations of beauty and ruminations on mortality .
wedding designer jenny packham designed outfits for the wedding of bill weasley and fleur delacour in the harry potter and the deathly hallows film . [ 206 ]