What would you do if you chanced upon a lost, bedraggled little girl in the woods outside your new house? How about if it were right after a pair of neighbor kids had a terrifyingly supernatural experience nearby? Would you invite her into your home and unquestioningly welcome her into your open arms as she assumes the name and vocal cadences of your young daughter then drives your senile mother insane? Or would you get her over to the local Children's Services? For reasons that eventually work against her, mom Hee-yeon (Yum Jung-ah) takes the first approach in Huh Jung's creepy ghost story The Mimic. But like us, husband Min-ho (Park Hyuk-kwon) badly wishes she'd take the second option. He knows what it's like to lose a child since the couple lost their own son five years ago at a mall. Wouldn't the smart thing to do be to get this lost young girl (Shin Rin-ah) to the cops so they can track down men missing parents? Or considering the bruises all over her back, one might also get her into some proper foster care? When grandma (Heo Jin) pulls a knife on their unofficial adoptee, is anyone doing anyone else a favor by providing this young orphan a home?
Obviously, I was not consulted. And while I do have some advice for this movie's central couple, I don't know how much of it would have been useful when the tiger spirit emerged in the little girl's birth father, a shaman who'd clearly gone off the deep end, too. If this all sounds amusing, it's actually not. The Mimic is kind of scary. Not keep you up so you can't sleep at night scary. More like, you think you're not that scared but then you end up having a nightmare anyway. That kind of scary. Proceed at your own risk.
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