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“It’s also a fitting and classy closing to a production that rises above the clichés that generally riddle the Asian market—a truly interesting project that is totally worth checking out even if you’ve never seen any of the other GHOST SCHOOL films.”
It’s been a decade since the film WHISPERING CORRIDORS was released in Korea and several years, since the DVD release of that film and its two companion projects MOMENTO MORI and WISHING STAIRS made their debuts here in the U.S. Last year when Tartan Asia Extreme re-released the films in a GHOST SCHOOL TRILOGY box set, they neglected to mention that a fourth film in the series had been shot in 2005. That film, YEOGO GWAE-DAM 4: MOKSORI arrives on DVD Stateside from Genius Entertainment under the much more manageable title VOICE.
Like the other films in the “GHOST SCHOOL TRILOGY” VOICE only shares the most basic of plot descriptors—those being, the setting; an all-girls school, and the overall focus; a ghost story. How each film uses those broad brushstrokes to paint their celluloid picture is what makes them unique. This time however, the film seems to be combining major and minor plot points from the previous three incarnations to manufacture the latest supernatural horror story.
The basis of the story is one of friendship. Young-eon (Kim Ok-bin, ARANG) is your average high school girl with one amazing gift—her beautiful singing voice. Her best friend is Sun-min (Seo Ji-hyu). As the film opens, Young-eon is rehearsing late into the evening on campus. After Sun-min heads home for the night, Young-eon is killed by a vengeful spirit. The next morning Young-eon awakens—apparently alive—in the music room having seemingly spent the night at the school. But, once she ventures out into the bustling halls, she discovers the horrible truth about her fate. Desperate to communicate with anyone that she is still there, Young-eon discovers that Sun-min can still hear her. When Sun-min finally accepts that she’s not insane and that the voices in her head are real, the pair set out to unravel who killed Young-eon and why.
For a ghost story, and a horror film to boot, VOICE is essentially nothing more than a murder mystery, and one that has to be solved by the actual victim. The suspects are abundant, with suspicions falling on the music teacher (Kim Seo-hyeong, BLACK HOUSE) who lost her voice due to throat cancer, the new student who just returned from the nuthouse (Cha Ye-ryeon) or perhaps even a vengeful spirit of another promising teenage soprano who committed suicide in the schools elevator (Lim Hyeon-kyeong). The film successfully balances these questions dutifully doling out tidbits of information and misinformation through flashback sequences. The film also introduces a few interesting ideas about life after death—including that the spirits can visit their memories through a kind of temporal vortex and that the spirit is only held to this plane of existence as long as someone here remembers them. It’s this final caveat that makes the relationship between Young-eon and Sun-min so compelling and it’s also what sets the film apart in terms of tone—making it more of a drama than your standard Asian Horror film.
Unlike so many of it’s J and K-horror brethren, VOICE is also—for all it’s flashbacks—an incredibly linear film that isn’t the least bit difficult to follow…up to a point. It seems that Director Choe Ik-hwan decided at the last minute—where he’s going for the big resolve—to inundate the audience with far too many ideas about what transpired over the course of the film. It makes matters even more complex in that the exposition occurs between mirror images of the Young-eon characters. So, essentially she’s telling herself what happened but from the point of view of a different character. To say this dénouement requires that you put down your popcorn and pick up your brain power would be an understatement. Also, at 104-minutes VOICE is the longest film in the series other than the original and it sometimes feels every minute of it. Still, these flaws don’t distract too badly (assuming you “get” the conclusion) from the overall production making it one of the strongest entries of the set.
Finally, the film wraps up with the most melancholy closing credit sequences I’ve ever seen in an Asian Horror film and perhaps in a Western one too—really driving home the isolationism of the lost spirits in the story. In fact, for lack of a better term one could say it’s haunting. It’s also a fitting and classy closing to a production that rises above the clichés that generally riddle the Asian market—a truly interesting project that is totally worth checking out even if you’ve never seen any of the other GHOST SCHOOL films.
This week’s new releases offer everything from giant monsters to Spielberg aliens to ass-kicking martial artists and even an ash-eating medical student. Do we have your interest?
Here’s all the new genre movies that released on Friday, June 12, 2026!
These aren’t all HORROR movies, but we want you to be aware of them all the same…
Norwegian creature feature Kraken is now available on Digital.
The film was also unleashed in select theaters. Check your local listings.
In the monster movie Kraken, “unnatural behavior in wild salmon, followed by inexplicable deaths in Norway’s deepest fjord, points to the mythical Kraken. The ancient, multi-armed monster has awakened, ready to crush everything that moves or makes a sound.”
Pål Øie (The Tunnel) directs Samuel Goldwyn Films’ Kraken from a script by Vilde Eide, Kjersti Jelen Rasmussen, and Natasha Arthur. Sara Khorami, Mikkel Bratt Silset, Øyvind Brandtzæg, Jenny Evensen, Ingvild Holthe Bygdnes, Jon Erik Myre, Hans Morten Hansen, Steinar Klouman Hallert, and Filip Bargee Ramberg star.
An all girls trip into the desert for escapism fun instead implodes in violence in the revenge thriller Find Your Friends, now streaming only on Shudder.
In the film, “Amber and her four best friends flee Los Angeles for a girls’ trip in Joshua Tree, only to find themselves unwelcome in a desert town simmering with quiet hostility. As isolation sets in and encounters with aggressive locals grow more threatening, festering resentments within the group begin to surface.
“What begins as fun and reckless escape spirals into a violent struggle for control and survival, as past wounds and present dangers collide in a night that turns their trip into a nightmare.”
Bella Thorne (The Babysitter), Chloe Cherry (“Euphoria”), Helena Howard (I Saw the TV Glow), Sophia Ali (Uncharted), Zion Moreno (“Gossip Girl”), and Chris Bauer (“True Blood”) star in the feature debut by writer/director Izabel Pakzad.
Steven Spielberg is more sure today than he was when he made Close Encounters and ET that aliens are very real, and with Disclosure Day, he aims to make you a believer too.
Okay so it’s not a horror movie, but the sci-fi blockbuster is now playing in theaters.
The vague synopsis for Disclosure Day reads: “If you found out we weren’t alone, if someone showed you, proved it to you, would that frighten you? This summer, the truth belongs to seven billion people. We are coming close to Disclosure Day.”
The film stars SAG winner and Oscar® nominee Emily Blunt (Oppenheimer, A Quiet Place), Emmy and Golden Globe winner Josh O’Connor (Challengers, The Crown), Oscar® winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, Kingsman franchise), Eve Hewson (Bad Sisters, The Perfect Couple) and two-time Oscar® nominee Colman Domingo (Sing Sing, Rustin).
Based on a story by Spielberg, the screenplay is by David Koepp, whose previous work with Spielberg includes the scripts for Jurassic Park, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, War of the Worlds and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. Combined, those films earned more than $3 billion worldwide. Koepp also wrote the script for Jurassic World Rebirth.
Steven Spielberg is of course no stranger to extraterrestrial encounters, directing two of the greatest alien movies of all time: Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977 and E.T. in 1982. It’s an arena he returned to in 2005, directing an adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.
Here in 2026, Steven Spielberg sees hope in the existence of aliens. He notes in the final trailer for Disclosure Day, “How will disclosure change us? I believe for the better.”
Another movie that’s not a horror movie but worth mentioning here is the violent martial arts revenge thriller The Furious, which is now playing in theaters from Lionsgate.
Xie Miao (The New Legend of Shaolin) and Joe Taslim (Mortal Kombat) star.
After his daughter is kidnapped by a criminal network and he receives no help from the corrupt police, Wang Wei sets out on a rampage to find her himself.
His only ally is Navin, a relentless journalist whose wife has mysteriously disappeared. Fueled by a furious vengeance, the unlikely duo ruthlessly fights against the kidnappers.
Kenji Tanigaki (Enter the Fat Dragon) directs from a script by Mak Tin Shu (Kung Fu Jungle), Lei Zhilong, Shum Kwan Sin (Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In), and Frank Hui.
A disturbing weight loss craze involving human ashes opens up a haunting world of hurt for a young woman in Saccharine, which is now available on Digital outlets at home.
From writer/director Natalie Erika James (Relic, Apartment 7A), the Australian supernatural body horror film follows lovelorn medical student Hana, who becomes terrorized by a sinister force after taking part in an obscure weight loss craze: eating human ashes.
Midori Francis (“Grey’s Anatomy”), Danielle Macdonald (Patti Cake$), and Madeleine Madden (“The Wheel of Time”) star in Natalie Erika James’ latest nightmare.
From directors Arturo Ambriz and Roy Ambriz, I Am Frankelda is billed as the first ever full length stop motion movie from Mexico, and it’s now streaming on Netflix.
The history-making stop-motion film is a dark fantasy set in a world of monsters.
Here’s the synopsis: “In 19th-century Mexico, Frankelda is a gifted writer whose dark tales are ignored and dismissed. Forced to suppress her voice, she refuses to give up, even as many try to silence her. But when she is thrust into her subconscious, the very monsters she created come to life.
“Guided by Herneval, a tormented prince trapped between dreams and nightmares, she must restore balance between fiction and reality before both realms collapse. Meanwhile, the sinister writer Procustes and his conspirators plot to seize control. As Frankelda and Herneval grow closer, their bond becomes both a strength and a curse.
“To rewrite their fate, she must confront a love that defies existence and reclaim her power as a storyteller—before dark forces consume her imagination and reveal horrors beyond her creation.”
The directors said in a joint statement, “As brothers, we grew up inventing worlds together, drawing, playing, imagining. Over time we understood that fictional characters were not only companions but guides. Sometimes they felt closer than the people around us. They provided us courage, wisdom, and solace. We believe fiction is not an escape from reality but a way of understanding it. A way of converting truth into palatable chunks. I Am Frankelda comes from a lifelong love of storytelling.”
Mireya Mendoza, Arturo Mercado Jr., and Luis Leonardo Suarez lead the voice cast.
Meagan Navarro writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Mexico’s first stop-motion animated feature is a macabre beauty.” Meagan also notes in her review, “I Am Frankelda is a gothic fantasy feature whose boundless creativity is matched by its ambition.”
The lines of reality and delusion blur in Time of Death, now available on Digital.
Michael Kelly (“The Penguin,” Dawn of the Dead 2004) stars with Kevin Pollak (End of Days), Mena Suvari (Vampires of the Velvet Lounge), and Dennis Haysbert (Send Help).
In the horror-thriller, “When a prisoner vanishes without a trace, Detective Frank Morley (Michael Kelly) is sent to a decaying prison on the verge of shutdown. What begins as a routine investigation quickly spirals into a dangerous search for answers.”
Will Wernick (Escape Room 2017, Follow Me) directs from a script by Jason Rosen. They also produce alongside Kelly Delson, Jeff Delson, and Kyle David Crosby.
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