Another Korean entry in the Tartan Asia Extreme line. At an all-girls school, students learn that if they count the steps of a nearby staircase, a fox will grant them one wish. (I don't know if the film means an actual fox or if that's a translation thing.) But the girls learn, as they often do in movies of this sort, that their wishes come true, but not as they'd hoped. That's when people start dying and ghosts start lurking.
Thematically, this tries to be like "Memento Mori" -- an incomparable mix of "The Ring," "Brokeback Mountain," and "Godzilla" -- and this film just can't live up to that. Despite some decent Sapphic teen angst and horror sequences, it's not as terrifying as it could have been. If it weren't for how superior the similar "Memento Mori" is, I might think more highly of this film. But because not everything that happened was expected and it kept a solid pace, I have no regrets watching it.
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