Summaries

A staircase leading to the dormitory of a remote boarding school usually has 28 stairs, but every so often there appears to be 29. When someone steps on the mysterious extra stair, the horror begins.

In a Korean boarding school, there is a legend about its twenty-eight steps stairway: when the twentieth-ninth step appears, the fox will grant a wish to the climber. The lesbian ballet student Kim So-hee is in deep love with her passive girlfriend and also ballet student Yoon Jin-sung. When there is a competition for a single spot in a famous ballet school in Russia, the envious Jin-sung finds the twentieth-ninth step and asks to beat the favorite So-hee. However, there is a price to pay for the wish unknown to Jin-sung and the consequence is the accidental death of So-hee. Meanwhile, the fat student Eon Hae-ju, who is despised and tormented by her classmate Han Yoon-ji, misses So-hee. When she also finds the mysterious step, she wishes the return of So-hee with tragic consequences.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Two friends at art college studying ballet find themselves competing for a single placement to go to a dance school in Russia. An urban legend about the staircase heading towards the dormitory building says that if you go up all twenty-eight steps and find a twenty-ninth, then you can ask for a wish to be granted and Yun Ji-seong knows just what she wants to wish for. But unknown to her, the wishing stairs have consequences, and she's about to find out the hard way.—Dismal Angel

Details

Keywords
  • school
  • dance
  • schoolgirl uniform
  • ballet
  • stairs
Genres
  • Horror
  • Drama
Release date Jul 31, 2003
Motion Picture Rating (MPA) R
Countries of origin South Korea
Language Korean
Filming locations South Korea
Production companies CJ Entertainment Cine-2000 Film Production

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Tech specs

Runtime 1h 40m
Color Color
Sound mix Dolby SR
Aspect ratio 1.85 : 1

Synopsis

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