Actually these old Korean gothic horror films of 80s should be regarded as rip-off of popular Korean TV show called "Tales of Old Town". This TV anthology series was really popular because of its scenes with long haired female ghost. This long haired female ghost is one of the most popular types of the ghost in Korean pop-culture.
It is traditionally known as a virgin ghost. This concept of virgin ghost is based on medieval folk theory something like a virgin girl dies and this girl is so sad to be dead, so she turns to be a ghost usually attacks men or female rivals. And this virgin ghost has been most effective horror theme of Korean horror movies. Anyway in this movie, there is no actual virgin ghost, but there is a grandma ghost who looks like virgin ghost.
This film "Daugher of a Ghost" is one of the bad example for one of old Korean gothic horror films. This movie has a really weak story. Actaully there is no plot in a sane normal sense. The only purpose of this movie is just remaking bunch of chep scenes picked from Korean horror TV shows. Of course, these scenes are so cheap, which include long tedious meaningless old Korean shaman exorcism, which is performed by real shaman from local fortune teller. Another scene includes a random object from other occult horror film which is from western style horror film.
And most of all, there is a flying coffin which is with some unknown smoke like it has some rocket booster. And of course, somehow this film says this old ghost sucks blood and the ghost is vampire. Because British Hammer Horror film was also very popular in 70s and 80s of Korea.
So the film maker picked some scenes and shot them, and just attached some weried thing they called a story. It is like this: There was a daugher. And she was abused by her stepmother. So her real mother who is already dead gets so angry. Now this real mother becomes a ghost and killing people. So it is actually the story of a daugther of a ghost. But this daugher is not the actual bad guy, unlike son of dracula or daughter of dracula. They were bad. But in this movie, daughter of a ghost is O.K., but her mom is real problem. Final conclusion of this movie is very meaningless.
In this final conclusion, there is no honor, and there is no decency for regular human movie fan. It is like this: This daughter suddenly gets tired of all this mess of murder and revenge, so she dicided to be a buddihst, and she ran out from the our material world, like finding her own Nirvana.
(Jiyoung Kim as the ghost)
One more thing. the actress who played the ghost in this film is Jiyoung Kim. And she is now very actively working TV actress. Suprisingly, in most of TV shows of today, her acting and her work is really good.
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