Revenant (2023)

This drama isn't that scary.

In my opinion, this drama is not that scary compared to The Guest. I'm not sure if it's just me not focusing while watching or the storyline is a bit confusing. It's a bit difficult for me to understand the situation in this story, especially the connection between people who commit suicide and evil spirits. But this story gets more interesting towards the end of the episode.

The acting for all the actors is undoubtedly very good. Kim Taeri's acting really deserves the Grand Prize.

I don't think I want to rewatch this drama again, for me it's enough to watch it once but if you want to understand it better, you have to watch it again

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Revenant, at times could be pretentious and a little try hard.

Personally, I don’t think the story got all that interesting until we got fully into the lore of the evil spirit and how we got to this point. They did the unraveling of the mystery of who the spirit was pretty well. I also appreciated how they highlighted that you can be a victim and not be a good person.

Once we hit the ep.9 mark and everybody stopped acting like they were working on a secret side project and started working together, it picked up a little.

The drama also started some side stories that they didn’t conclude properly and for the most part, its purpose was to remind us of the drama’s main messaging(which it already wouldn’t let us forget)-that human nature is a greater evil than those creatures could ever be and as such, ghosts can only be as bad as the desires of the host they’re latched onto.

The scariest part of this drama for me were the eyes. The shaman lady’s eyes sent shivers down my spine every time I saw her. Kim Tae Ri did a really good job of showing that sort of insidious mirth in her eyes that made me want to look away. The young grandma as she looked through a child and saw only wealth. The look of glee in eyes that should not be filled with glee, filled me with dread.

Everything else(fear wise) could be attributed to good scoring. They did a good job with the music choice and pacing cause you know a thriller/horror is only as good as it’s scoring-the music tells you when to be scared and Revenant didn’t miss a beat (no pun intended)

Overall, it was a good watch. I can’t hype up Kim Tae Ri’s acting in this enough but she brought it🔥

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㊙️ The Most Evil Deal ⚔ °7.4° °VG°

Revenant; definition: A person who has returned, especially supposedly from the dead.

“People around you will die. People you don't like or wish would disappear will die. Evil spirits are said to grow by fulfilling a person's desires.” The folklore prof looked very serious when he said this. (He must be insane!)

Next thing, the guy who scammed their family hung himself.

Let's get this out of the way: There's too many unexplained things out there for all of them to be a coincidence. Whether it's supernatural or super dimensional (perhaps there's no difference between the two) any fair-minded person who looks at the evidence would agree that there's quite possibly, even probably, more to our existence than this 3D plane.

Lost time, memory lapses, purchases she doesn't remember, things she doesn't remember saying or doing… Ku San Young is increasingly confused and disturbed. Is it multiple personalities? D.I.D? Drugs? Nope. It's possession. Most cultures in the world have lore, myth and/or downright belief that possession exists. There's psychologists, and other highly educated people who do - because they've seen it, like Dr. Richard Gallagher, Ivy League grad, board-certified psychiatrist and Columbia/New York Medical College professor.

San Young doesn't deserve this. She's not an evil person. An evil spirit shouldn't want to hang out with her, right? Sure, she was thinking about killing herself, but she pulled back. The scammer had taken everything. Her mother is impossible to deal with... She /didn't/ jump, though. The woman on the /other/ side of the road did. And then the evil spirit left the woman across the road and latched onto her. Now, Su Young can see spirits, AND this weird folklore professor is texting her, approaching her, and saying all kinds of weird things to her, like everybody around her is going to die. Another thing he says is that doors are the passageways between worlds. If someone knocks at the 🚪, make sure you know who it is before you open it.

® is a 2023 release that is rated 89 on AWiki. It is 1 season consisting of 12 70-minute episodes. What a creeptastic opening. Watch the opening credits. They are short in length and tall in imagination. To get right to the point, ® is good, but not great. Its greatest failure is that the characters don't completely possess its audience. We remain on the outside and never fully bond with the protags. Don't wait around for love: They just tease us. Perhaps they are looking at a S2? Nothing has been announced.

Furthermore, ® is scary, but it's much sadder than merely scary. It's loosely tied, with many fine working elements that come together to make an interesting, imminently watchable show that leaves one feeling quite morose along with the sense that it could have been better. Ep12 runs into problems - Stupid people, stupid actions, stupid plot turns. It's mostly confined to 2 scenes. They recover.

The show can get creepy. It isn't on the level of some of the darker Hollywood stuff, but it has bona fide chills. There's many deaths. The primary evil spirit is a child ghost. The ghost's backstory is horrifying. Anyone who finds child abuse to be a particular trigger may want to avoid ®: It took a toll on me. Child sacrifice is/was not as uncommon as we would like to believe. Child abuse is/was not uncommon at all. There were many moments when the show weighed heavily on me. The plain, oft repeated & proven fact is that a group of people can talk themselves into any action, no matter how heinous.

There's more good than bad to ®. We've got an all-star cast. Kim Tae Ri (Mr. Sunshine-9, Twenty-Five Twenty-One, Space Sweepers-7.6) is FL Ku San Young. She's fantastic. Young is a little woman who casts a big shadow. It's a shame she kills herself in ep1. Wait… that was the woman on the /other/ side of the bridge. Young caught herself in time. But her mom blew the money. They're wiped out. That didn't change. Yang Hye Ji (Sweet Home-8.4, Wonderful World-7.8, When the Weather Is Fine-9) portrays her BFF, Baek SeMi, who is put-off and often hurt by the recent changes in Young's personality. Ye Soo Jung (Mine-8, Link: Eat, Love, Kill-6.7) has a guest role as Kim Seok Ran, San Young's paternal grandmother. She's a fantastic actress.

Park Ji Young (Save Me, The Red Sleeve) plays Yoon Kyeong Moon, San Young's mother. As of ep5, I'm not in love with her performance, but she is a beautiful woman. She has to play a person who has been through severe trauma. Her backstory is rough. (We will see, I thought to myself early on). In the final analysis, her part drags the show down. She's annoying and she does irritating things.

Oh Jung Se (It's Okay to Not Be Okay-9, Queen of Tears) plays ML Yeom Hae Sang. He's been following Professor Ku Kang Mo/San Young's father's career (Jin Seon Kyu of Space Sweepers-7.6, Kingdom-8.3) for a long time. The legend, Na Byung Hee, is his grandmother and CEO of Joonghyun Capital. Her first credit is from 1977. I've seen her in No Gain, No Love-7.4, Inspector Koo-8.4, Start-up-8, Hospital Playlist-9, Saimdang, Light’s Diary-8.5, & Along With the Gods: The Two Worlds-7.2, and I've just been watching since 2020. She can play the sweet grandmother, the frustrated mother, or the queen b!+ch. She's fabulous. In ® she acts possessed, or at a minimum, oppressed. Never seen her like this before - Her character is really dug into her evil - total commitment.

Both police officer roles, and the actors that portray them, are underutilized. That isn't about screen time. There's something missing from their character arcs. Kim Won-Hae (Black-9, Signal-8.6, and so many more) plays officer Seo Mun-Chun. He's terrific in every role. In ®, though he is a cop and deals with facts, his personal history is such that he knows there are supernatural phenomena out there. On one level he knows, on another level he refuses to accept it. This creates a lot of tension in him as well as an obsession with strange suicide cases and other unexplained phenomenon. Its only result is that it has garnered him the moniker ‘Detective Shaman’. He happens to be friends with folklore professor Yeom Hae Sang. Hong Kyung (Weak Hero Class 1, DP-8.4) is the other ML, Lee Hong “Sae”, a young detective. He had the highest score of his year on the exam. He's partnered with Sr. Ofr Seo Mun-Chun. Everything his senior says and does make Sae uncomfortable. This partner will say things like ‘As a detective he's supposed to be easing the grudges of the Dead.’ How can anybody say that in this age of science & globalism? Sae wonders how he got stuck with this nut. “Do you want to come with us?" Sae's asked by Professor Yeom & his senior. “No thanks,” is his clipped reply. “I'll conduct a more rational investigation.” The viewer is “in” on the inside joke and the over-the-top irony weighing down this statement.

The screenwriter is the highly talented Kim Eun Hee (Signal-8.6, Kingdom-8.3), and the directors are Lee Jung Rim (V.I.P) & Kim Jae Hong (Through the Darkness, Flex X Cop-8.5).

The main theme is: The love of money is the root of all kinds of evil + Money doesn't solve every problem. What is done for money (and food) in the show rivals documented dark histories and many horrifying conspiracy theories about what still goes on today. The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the Six Paths in Buddhism, we learn. Being hungry and thirsty, hungry ghosts always covet, and their realm was created by human desires. This basic template loosely shows up in anime, and the classic Chinese work, Journey to the West (A Korean Odyssey-7.2 is based on it). It isn't completely unlike Dante's Inferno, either. The writer has been sprucing up on her folklore.

There are a few amusing scenes. Our FL and the professor are conducting their own investigation while the police are rationally investigating “the facts”. They are working from completely different angles. Yet they still end up at the same places at the same time. It's probably the best element of the show.

Will you like this? ® is a show for fans of the horror and supernatural genre. It happens to be my least favorite genre- probably because Hwood's stuff tends to be so evil feeling, but I still like a good scare every now and then. I thought The Ring, for instance, was very well done. In my estimation, the good outweighs the bad, but ® is not on the watching level of The Cursed 8.3, The Wailing-8.8, or even Uncanny Counter S1 (S2 is horrible). Hopefully this provides some light in the darkness.


QUOTE🗣

Humans are more terrifying than ghosts.


〰🖍 IMHO

📣7.3 📝7.5 🎭7.5 💓4 🦋5 🎨7.7 🎵/🔊7 🔚6 🤗4 ▪ 🌞4⚡5.5 😅3 😭5 😱5 😯4 🤢4 🤔5 💤0


Age 16+
The primary evil spirit is a child ghost. The ghost's backstory is horrifying. Anyone who finds child abuse to be a particular trigger may want to avoid this show.

Rated TV-15: Parents Strongly Cautioned.

Re-📺? Highly doubtful


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🎎 -
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⚡/🚀 -
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"Revenant" it's a horror drama about a woman named San Young. Strange things start to happen around her and San Young realizes that she's possessed by an evil spirit. She can't control her body and doesn't remember anything that the evil spirit does when it's inside her.

It's an incredible drama, both in suspense and horror, there is a tension that remains throughout all the episodes.

Kim Tae Ri is spectacular, the expressions, the way we could instantly know that it was the spirit and not her simply by looking at her and I liked it mainly because even though there were Hae Sang and Hong Sae, San Yeong saved herself, she had to realize that the way she belittled herself was food for the spirit, she was her own enemy and she had to start live for yourself.

I feel sorry for Hyang Yi, she really wasn't at fault for what happened to her, the horrible way she and her sister died, but at the same time, none of the people she killed were at fault either, Hae Sang's grandmother was the monster that started all this.

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with each episode progressing, you're on the edge of your seat for sure~

You can always blindly trust Kim Taeri.

The drama was well-written, with every plot-twists in mind that would come out as surprising but explained well. The horror was spine-chillingly beautiful, the cinematography, the timeline from past to present was done well, and acting of each characters, main and support were superb.

The main story plotline was perfect but the side story of all those ghosts were heartbreaking. Just tells us, not every ghost is a vengeful ones. They were humans once just like us who just wants to protect their loved ones as their final wish. You will feel scared, anger, fear, sad all the emotions in one go as the story progresses, especially knowing a child was sacrificed by those rich adults who wanted nothing but had greed for more money. The child actress as we've seen from her other projects is such a talented one, she will become one of the best actress of her generation someday.

The past story of the ghost and how she was used by the rich depicts the true story of how rich would do anything and abuses the poor people in real life was mind-numbingly heart-wrenching and yet I felt even hatred towards the ghost for betraying her own family especially her own sister.

Everything about the plot was done fantastically and even if there was something missing, the acting of these actors covered it all.

Kim Taeri should be getting daesang for this acting role. Ku Sangyoung/the devil, her portrayal of a vengeful spirit with so much hatred towards people was perfectly brought to the screen from the pages. From being just a child who wanted nothing but affection from others, the feeling of loneliness, then to such spiteful spirit she did so well. Not only her body language, even her eyes will be acting at the same time.

You should definitely watch the show if you love Kim Taeri and love horror genre. It's one of the memorable story that will make you want to re-watch as soon as you're done watching it the first time.

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It's just perfect when you don't have the will to watch to anything

i didn't had any will to watch any dramas, I just finished my exams and now almost every drama I was starting, i wasn't able to even watch the first episode, there were popular ones too, but I saw this one on my insta feed and it caught my attention [ i'm a frequent kdrama watcher, I started watching since 2017 december and i have a specific preference] i watched it and it was worth it, you know sometimes when you don't want to do anything but that one thing suddenly caughts your attention and you start getting out of it, it's kind of that, I think I will watch it again with someone specific, the genre isn't just horror but the story is a bit more attractive, i never wrote any reviews about things I watched but it was genuine too good and i just love the cast, kim tae ri is too perfect, if i could ever cast actors for kdramas iw ould go for the cast of this one. the story is perfect and the cast makes it a must watch. Hope you would watch this masterpiece.

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Shocking on how underrated it is‼️‼️

(This is my first time writing a Review so I hope it makes sense 😭)

Out of all the kdramas I've watched this has to be one of my favorite. The acting and writing of this show was amazing especially kim taeri's acting. Ive watched a lot of series that kim taeri has starred in and honestly think this was one of her best. I feel this genre was made for her because it showed off her true potential for example that one scene in episode 10 seriously creeped me out and as a person who loves watching thrillers/horrors it shocked me since im not easily creeped out lmao.

The reason why im giving the acting a 9.5 because I felt like the the grandma could've put more effort into her acting. Her screams of distress(?) were just not doing it for me ifyk yk😭. The casting for the other characters was amazing though 👍

I'm the type of person to skip boring parts of a series/movies to get to the good parts but everything about this series was interesting not once did I skip a scene. I have to say for me most of the time when watching a kdrama the plot feels rushed and like it's missing something especially the endings of some but this kdrama felt complete. Their was no questioning on what will happen later on it was clear on how the characters might live on into the future. I also like how there was no romance between characters but just simple flashbacks of the old times when it came to hongsae and sanyeong. (although their may have been a bit of tension in my opinion)

Each episode had me left wondering what would happen next and second guessing my predictions, overall this was a great series especially for a 12 episode kdrama.

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The best horror this year

Alright, let's talk about "Revenant"
First things first, this show is seriously intense! It's got murder, mystery, and enough plot twists to make your head spin faster than a merry-go-round. I couldn't tear my eyes away for a single second!

The main character, Park Min-woo, is a total badass detective with a dark past. He's on the hunt for a creepy serial killer, and let me tell you, these murders are like something out of a horror movie! They had me on the edge of my seat, screaming, "Who did it? Tell me, damn it!"

The suspense is off the charts! Every episode leaves you hanging, dying to know what happens next. And just when you think you've cracked the case, BAM! They hit you with a mind-blowing twist that leaves you shook.

The cast is brilliant – they bring their A-game to the table. You'll be rooting for the good guys, booing the bad guys, and constantly changing your mind about who's behind all the chaos.

Visually, "Revenant" nails it! The dark and eerie vibe adds a whole new level of creepiness. I swear, I felt like I was right there, investigating the crime scenes myself!

And let's not forget the psychological aspect – it's mind-boggling! They dive deep into the characters' minds, uncovering secrets you never saw coming. It's like peeling back layers of an onion – you never know what you'll find!

In a nutshell, "Revenant" is a rollercoaster of emotions.

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