Street Date: June 24

Official Synopsis:
Creepy chills meet visceral horror and tonsorial madness in this beautifully shot South Korean tale of Ji-hyeon, a young woman who buys her terminally ill, chemotherapy patient sister a nice new wig. After her sister starts making an alarming comeback in mental health to the point of being hostilely aggressive and overbearingly sexual, Ji-hyeon soon discovers the disturbing truth about the history of the wig, which was made from the hair of a cadaver.
  
Our Take:
If you weren’t afraid of hair before The Wig, you will be after it. That, of course, is a lie because no one is afraid of hair except some crazy lady on Maury. Want to know why no one is afraid of hair? Because that’s one of the dumbest things in the world to be scared of. So you can only imagine that a movie about a serial killer wig won’t be the greatest.

Unsurprisingly, The Wig has great cinematography. It seems that every Asian horror flick these days, no matter how dumb or similar the plots, always end up at least looking good. The other aspect that really stands out in the film is the sound design. Between the wig itself and the sister who lost her voice in a car accident trying to talk with wheezes, there are a ton of unsettling noises that would have worked wonders in a film that had stronger content.

Special features include:

* The Making Of The Wig (20 minutes) – Fully covers the filmmaking.

* Special Effects (10 minutes) – This should have been on sound effects instead.

* Behind The Scenes (9 minutes) – Candid interviews on the set.

Despite The Wig’s two strong points, the narrative is in no way entertaining and the film is in no way worth watching.

Overall Picture:
Movie: D+
DVD: B-

- Landen Chase Pelish
Staff Writer