High school student Shu-wei is bullied every day and his teacher doesn’t care. After getting in trouble, he’s assigned to community service with his bullies. The bullies convince him to go along with them at night to break into a high rise building and steal a suitcase from an old man. They’re convinced that there is gold or something of value inside.
While in the apartment building, they encounter a monster and through a series of events, end up bringing the injured monster to an abandoned building where they hold it captive. No one knows what the creature is and decide to torture it to find out more about it. It’s incredibly disturbing.
Bullied Shu-wei is asked to participate. You hope that he’ll not victimize it since he can relate to how it feels. But he joins in and you lose all hope for any humanity. These kids are brutal.
However the teens don’t realize that the creature has a sister and she will do whatever it takes to get her back. As the sister gets closer, you end up rooting for the monsters. But then again, everyone is a monster in this movie, so you don’t really root for anyone.
This film seemed like a winner. From the title, which reminded me of something that would be said by Shaggy in an episode of Scooby Doo, to the genre of Asian horror, to monsters and teenagers. And the info I read prior to watching it referred to it as a horror comedy. But there is nothing funny about this film.
There isn’t one likable character. Everyone is incredibly mean spirited and you want the monsters to rip their heads off. You feel for Shu-wei as the victim of bullying, but then he joins the bullies in order to be accepted and becomes the thing he hates in the process. While the film is well done, it leave you wishing you’d never seen it due to the horrendous teens and their complete lack of humanity.
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