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The movie looks good. The production is quite good, and the actors are believable in their nonsensical roles as students playing hide-and-seek with the ghost. The first few appearances of the ghost made me shiver, but later they just made me laugh. I’m not sure what the real intention was, but the movie definitely leans more toward comedy, with the horror elements subordinate to the humor.

The characters behave “stupidly,” as is typical in other horror movies. If you were really playing hide-and-seek, you would look for a good hiding spot and stay quiet, but the characters here do exactly the opposite. Maybe that’s the charm of the movie — it inverts expectations and offers random (or better yet, original) solutions to the presented danger.

The plot also revolves around studying and exams, which can be interpreted as a symbolic representation of the horror and stress of preparing for important tests. The second subtheme is faith, and I liked how they incorporated religion. In Korean cinema, we often have good examples of interreligious dialogue and cooperation whenever religion is mentioned. Here, it was done somewhat as a parody but still with respect for what we believe. In the end, I really enjoyed this movie.