MANILA, Philippines - In the Korean movie Horror Stories 2, parallel to the country’s Shake, Rattle & Roll ghost stories, three stories of spirits come to life in an insurance company wherein they connect with the dead to find answers to fraudulent claims. But as each case is reopened, a dark shadow surges over them and grows stronger as the memories of the dead come to life.
The movie starts to reveal dark spirits in the basement of an insurance company where an employee and her boss goes through old files for review. The company’s manager named Park (played by Park Sung-Wong) discovers that his eccentric new employee Se-Young (Lee Se-Young) has an extraordinary ability to see past events that happened by connecting to any personal belongings of the dead.
The first of Horror Stories 2 files titled Cliff focuses on two friends who got stuck on a cliff for days until one of them fell of the cliff.
A car accident happens along the way in the episode The Pain of Death when three friends decide to go on a road trip heading to the mountains drunk after they failed on their teacher certification needed to apply for a job.
A trainee teacher tries to “Escape†from the shame caused by his students on his first day in school. Brought about by mischievous students, Byeong-Shin (Ko Gyung-Pyo) finds himself in a series of humiliating situation that he cannot control. As the hidden stories are revealed from the files they thought to be fraudulent, Se-Young notices that the dark shadows of the spirits sweeping through the room slowly cast over them but Mr. Park is too preoccupied to listen to Se-Young’s warnings.
Rated R16, Horror Stories 2 is now showing from Axinite Digicinema Inc.