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Anxiety of 1990s and Terror of Whispering Corridors

Arum Song 1

1서울대학교

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When describing hit movies of a certain era, senses of the audience living in that era occupy an important place. When audience watches the movie, it means that they enjoy the images by "watching" the movie instead of simply following the story, and "watching" here means a behavior of actively watching by connecting images in the movie with characteristics of images captures by the audience on a regular basis. In other words, it can be explained as something that meshes and moves along with senses of the audience who can enjoy it. This writing, which has been written with such views as focus, is a contemplation on terror creation methods of Whispering Corridors (1998), which was a big box office hit by skillfully corresponding with a sense of 1990's 'anxiety'. Whispering Corridors brought many audience to the theater when it was released in 1998, and it was a flare that signalled the resurrection of Korean horror movies that were without a pulse, and a work that showed the grammar of changed Korean horror movies. Compared to previous Korean horror movies, the biggest difference of Whispering Corridors is that it emphasizes anxiety. 1990s was studded with things that threaten individuals just as much as an expansion of popular culture that individuals can enjoy, and those things got into daily lives through incidents, incident reports and reenactment programs that presented criminals and ghosts. In such ways, anxiety detected in bedrooms settled down in senses of consumers through recognition methods based on individual's perception experience. Among them, Whispering Corridors draws terror by continuing the time of anxiety through the screen's management methods and sounds. Also, unlike previous horror movies, terror that is felt from setting familiar spaces and turning them over is done within the method of highlighting fear. Unlike other Korean horror movies that induced terror by suddenly introducing ghosts, Whispering Corridors was revealing terror by a totally different method. Also, such change can be seen as an interesting aspect revealed from senses enjoyed and experience within 1990s.

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