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Today I'll show you a horror-mystery film: "The Closet"
Spoiler ahead, watch out and take care
The movie begins with a shaman performing a ritual, as drum beats grow louder and louder
She is holding a knife while dancing, and bells hang from the blade
On her other hand is another knife but without the bells
She suddenly stops with her hands raised in the air
The drum beats stop too; and the room is silent
The woman steps out of the room, and approaches the closet while she clinks the bells
As if being controlled by an unseen force, she slits her own throat; and blood sprays everywhere
On the other side, Sang and his daughter are both moving to a new home
Sang is on the phone, talking to someone about arranging a nanny for his 11-year-old daughter
Meanwhile, the daughter is in the backseat, looking sullenly out the car window
Her father knows that she isn't happy about the move,
and he tries to get her excited about their new house
Still, the daughter doesn't say anything
A few seconds later, Sang is forced to slam on the brakes,
because he spotted a dead deer in the middle of the road
He clambers out of the car, and sees that the carcass is already being feasted upon by crows
the daughter steps out of the car too, and runs into the forest lining the side of the road
Her father is concerned that she will get lost, so he runs after her
He finds her standing in a clearing,
overlooking a beautiful woodland house that looks like it's from a fairytale
Sang tells her that that is their new house
While unpacking his things inside the new house, a crow slams into the attic window
This sets off a panic attack for Sang,
making him remember the car accident that caused the death of his wife
He was behind the wheel, with his wife and daughter in the backseat
It was too late, when he noticed that a truck was going to crash into their car
Sang feels the walls of the room closing in around him; and he struggles to breathe
With the strength he has left,
Sang grabs his bottle of prescription pills to halt the panic attack symptoms
After he gets his bearings, he calls his psychiatrist
The psychiatrist advises him that if his panic attacks continue,
he might get life-threatening seizures again
There is also the matter of his daughter's own psychological trauma,
following the death of her mother
Because of that, the daughter became more withdrawn and depressed;
and Sang moved them to a quieter part of the country, so they could have a fresh start
The psychiatrist also suggests that if the move doesn't work,
Sang can send his daughter to an art camp for kids
That night at dinner, Sang steps away from the table to take a call
One of his architectural firm clients is threatening to cancel their contract,
because he never visits the site
Sang reasons that he can't do on-site visits yet, because he's taking care of his daughter
the daughter watches a video of her mother singing happy birthday to her,
desperately clinging to the joyful memories she has
Then, she hears a sound coming from her closet
She opens the door, and sees nothing but her dresses hanging on the rack
Unbeknownst to her, a demonic child is standing behind her
the daughter turns around and screams in fear
Sang hears his daughter's screams from his office downstairs
He rushes to her bedroom door, and frantically knocks
the daughter opens the door; and he asks her if she screamed
However, she smiles, saying that she didn't scream
Sang checks her room, and sees that everything appears to be in order,
except for the dirty rag doll she is holding
She tells him that she just found it in her room
Sang offers to throw away the ugly doll
but she is already enamored by it, so he lets her keep it
The next morning, the daughter's spirits seem to be better
She is eating more; and she even smiles at her father again
After finishing her food, she asks him if she can play in her room
Sang is surprised by this sudden shift in her behavior; but he allows her to go upstairs
Before leaving, she hugs her father, and tells him she likes the house,
and that she's happy with her new friend
When he goes home that evening,
Sang calmly explains to his daughter that
he has to go away for two months required by the project requirement
He will be going home every weekend; and he has hired a nanny who will take care of her
the daughter does not like this, and lashes out at Sang,
saying that even if she does not approve, he will still leave her
That night, as he works on the building plans, Sang hears a series of loud footsteps,
coming from the daughter's bedroom upstairs
Then he also hears violin strains
He scolds her, telling her to go to sleep
But the violin strains just get louder, and turn to ear-splitting screeches
Sang heads upstairs to reprimand her, but sees that she's sleeping soundly in her bed
He walks to the closest to investigate; and an apparition appears
It's the ghost of the same shaman shown earlier in the film
She rushes to Sang, and then slits her throat with a knife like she did earlier
He gasps as blood pours on him
The next morning, Sang suddenly wakes up back at his desk
Everything he saw was a dream, and he almost wets himself with the nightmare
But when he turns to look at the building plans he worked on the previous night,
only to find they were all torn to shreds
He heads to his daughter's room,
and discovers that her beloved violin is now angrily scratched up, and the strings are broken
Sang looks out the window, and sees his daughter in the garden
She had just slaughtered a crow with a blade;
and a strange look is on her face, with one eye slowly turning white
Sang is now even more concerned about the state of his daughter's mind
He asks his psychiatrist how things will go in the art camp, if he enrolls his daughter there
He is also being pressured by his client to go to the site
One time, he encounters his daughter in the hallway, holding her dirty doll
She is still acting weirdly, and lashes out at her father again
She mocks him for buying her things, instead of actually getting to know her
Their argument ends, with her screaming in a monster-like voice
A nanny arrives; but she couldn't care less about the daughter's wellbeing
Instead, she chats on the phone with her friend,
and talks about how rich Sang is, while wearing his dead wife's expensive rings
The nanny hears the daughter screaming, and throwing her things inside her room
but she doesn't do anything to help the kid
the daughter doesn't eat the meals the nanny prepares either
She even discovers that the daughter had hidden a goldfish inside her milk glass as a prank
The nanny gets scared, and quits on her first day
Sang arrives at the building site, and meets with his customers
He gets a text from the psychiatrist, saying that the art camp is ready for his daughter
That night, the daughter hears voices from the closet, inviting her to go with them
She gets a glazed look on her face;
and then several hands reach out, and yank her inside the closet
the daughter disappeared after that
Her father goes sick with worry; and after a month, he is still searching for her
A news segment featuring the case goes viral, which paints Sang as the probable culprit
It describes him as a mentally-disturbed workaholic,
and mentions that his daughter's disappearance is very similar to a young boy's case three years ago
Right then, a man in a diner watches the segment, and gets very interested in Sang's predicament
Sang goes through his daughter's music sheets,
only to find a sketch of a stick woman near the closet
He remembers the horrifying dream he had,
and begins to think that what happened may not be just an ordinary kidnapping
The internet in the house goes out; and Sang calls a technician to repair it
But the technician who appears, is the same man from the diner previously
He pretends that he will inspect the house to fix it; and Sang lets him in
The truth is that he is an exorcist;
and he believes that his daughter is a part of a decades-long string of child disappearances
He shows Sang an album, filled with pictures of the 32 other missing children
Like his daughter, they all started behaving strangely,
and sketching the same girl before they disappeared
The exorcist shows a video of a ritual next
It's the same ritual depicted earlier in the film;
and the exorcist explains that the family of the first missing child
had hired a shaman to perform a ritual,
and found out the child was still alive
While performing the ritual, the shaman sensed that the closet is the lair of a demonic child;
and she tried to banish it and rescue the innocent child
But the demonic child was too powerful, and instead caused the shaman to slit her own throat
The exorcist then reveals that the shaman was his mother,
and that her death urged him to continue investigating the disappearances
Sang does not believe the exorcist's story at all
But the exorcist reasons that he is the only one on Sang's side;
and everyone else thinks he killed his daughter
So Sang reluctantly agrees
The exorcist explains that souls only stay in the underworld for up to 49 days
They need to rescue the daughter's soul before then
Sang lets the exorcist set up his various ghost-detecting equipment
This includes a device, which is used to detect unusual wavelengths that denote paranormal activity
His theory is that the demonic child snatches children's souls,
and takes them to the underworld, using the closet as a portal
if the missing children stay there longer than 49 days,
they will become monsters, called the "blinded"
So Sang needs to act quickly to bring his daughter back before it's too late
Next, the exorcist pastes some paper talismans on the daughter's bedroom door
Then he sets up cameras around the room
He and Sang monitor everything from his office
Later that night, the lights start to flicker inside the room;
and weird static noises are detected by the equipment
Sang also hears his daughter's violin being played too
They leave a huge teddy bear soaked in blood, as a trap for the demon inside the closet
There is no more paranormal activity until hours later
Sang suddenly hears his daughter's voice through her bedroom door
He steps inside the room, and flings open the closet door, hoping that his daughter is back
But it turns out, they are actually the ones being baited into a trap
Then, the door is closed by an unseen force;
and the wavelength detectors start going haywire,
sensing the dozen blinded children now inside the room
One of them, a gray-faced boy with monstrous eyes, shrieks at Sang
The exorcist quickly warns him through the earpiece
He reminds him that blinded children cannot sense humans if people keep their eyes closed;
otherwise, they will consume people's souls
So Sang hurriedly closes his eyes, and the exorcist guides him in crossing the room,
without alerting the blinded to his presence
He is almost to the door, when his smartwatch begins to beep
The blinded now know his location; and they all run toward him
He tosses his smartwatch across the room,
to distract the blinded as he darts to the door, and steps out of the daughter's bedroom
Meanwhile, a blinded girl appears to the exorcist
He's not able to close his eyes; so the blinded senses him and throws him across the study
The exorcist pulls out a dagger, and chants a prayer
But both are useless against the child
With extraordinary power, she chokes the exorcist and screams
The exorcist emerges from the study, with a knife stuck in his gut
Sang immediately takes him to the hospital to get treated
As he's being wheeled to the emergency room,
he faintly whispers that the blinded girl who stabbed him, is called Jin
Sang flips through the exorcist's photo album,
and finds the details about Jin, who has been missing for three decades already
He looks closely at her photo,
and sees that the dirty rag doll that his daughter found, actually belongs to Jin
Sang pursues this lead, and heads to Jin's father's house in the mountains
Ever since his daughter disappeared, the father has been a recluse,
with weird stuff hanging on the trees around his house
Sang sees that talisman papers are also glued on his front door
Meanwhile, the exorcist's life is saved; but he still hasn't woken up
While in the hospital, he dreams of his dead mother, telling him to find her
Suddenly, he wakes up
Jin's father recounts that his daughter disappeared one day, while sleeping in the next room
His wife went out to look for her, but also disappeared shortly after
Ever since, the man lived in isolation in the mountains
Sang shows him the doll; but he panics, frantically grabbing it, then burning it
But it's too late
The doll summons the blinded girl again; and she attacks her father
Then she possesses her father, manipulating him to choke Sang
While this is happening, Sang sees the father's memories
It turns out, three decades ago, Jin's father was deep in debt, and was financially ruined
He got the idea to kill his daughter, by suffocating her with smoke inside the closet
He thought it would save her from a life of poverty and suffering
Right then, the door bursts open; and the exorcist storms inside
He restores the father to his self
However, the closet behind Jin's father screeches open, and takes him whole
The truth is that Jin is none other than the demonic child
Her traumatic death and resentment for her father who killed her,
were strong enough to transform her into a vengeful demonic child,
who preys on emotionally-vulnerable children due to similar childhood traumas
While on the drive home, the exorcist explains all this to Sang
He also adds that all the missing children had problems with their parents,
including Sang's daughter
This makes Sang feel guilty for neglecting his daughter, and blaming her for his wife's death
Because they're running out of time, Sang proposes that he go to the underworld,
and retrieve his daughter himself
He achieves this by simulating a panic attack,
which brings him close to the frequency of the underworld
Sang sits inside the closet, as the exorcist enacts a ritual and chants a prayer
When he opens the closet door, Sang is now in the desolate underworld version of his house
All around him are broken children's toys
Suddenly, knives come flying out of nowhere
He escapes to the hallway, where he fights with an apparition of his dead wife
Finally, Sang stumbles outside,
and sees the missing children happily playing while wearing school uniforms
But when he gets closer, the children all turn into their blinded selves, and attack Sang
He hears his daughter playing the violin, and he tries to reach her
However, he comes face-to-face with the demonic child herself
He attempts to appeal to her emotionally; but this doesn't work; and the demonic child chokes Sang
Meanwhile, the blinded are trying to get out of the closet, and into the real world
The only one standing in their way is the exorcist
While doing his best to block the closet door,
he gets another vision of his mother, telling him to find her
Meanwhile, the daughter starts turning into a blinded child;
and the demonic child hands her a blade, so she can kill her father
The exorcist summons the ghost of Jin's mother; and she appears in front of her child
She pleads for Jin to find peace, so they can be together finally
The demonic child slowly turns back into the innocent and scared Jin
However, the exorcist's powers get drained; and her mother's ghost disappears
Sang approaches Jin and comforts her
Because of that, Sang's daughter and the other kidnapped children's faces turn back to normal too
The exorcist beats his drums; and Sang wakes up his daughter
He carries her back to the real world just in time, before the realm closes
He and the exorcist rejoice at their victory
On the other side are Jin and her mother, finally settled at peace
Sang and his daughter's lives are going back to normal
They move to a new house; and the daughter loses her memories of the underworld
The father and daughter have a much better relationship now
However, the movie ends with another sad child in the city, finding a closet with a monster inside
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