![]() With The Coma 2 you’ll still explore that school, but also find yourself moving around other environments, including a police station and, most memorably, a shopping district of ghosts, goblins, and eldritch monsters. The first Coma used the limited setting of a school effectively, but The Coma 2 is much more open. Then, after a study group wraps up deep into the night, Mina finds herself finally heading home… only to somehow wander into an alternative universe built of pure horror. ![]() Her best friend is dreadfully sick and in hospital, and she’s being harassed by the school’s baseball hunk, and yet on arriving at school she finds herself getting a talking to because her grades are not up to scratch. In the opening moments of The Coma 2, we’re introduced to Mina. The Coma and its sequel both act as a useful insight into Korean school environments, then, both in terms of the pressures that the system places on students and the behaviour and attitudes of the students themselves. These genres continue to be popular after they fade from the mainstream consciousness, of course, but as they do, they also become increasing self-aware, either as parody or pastiche, and so horror is a genre that is both a remarkably effective way of tracking dominant mindsets and tensions within society. Now we’re seeing a resurgence of horror stories around apocalyptic scenarios because we are all living in a time of tension and concern around what future – if any – there is for humanity. Slasher horror was a conservative reaction to the relaxed attitude towards sex and drugs that the youth of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s had developed. The gothic horror was a reflection on tensions between society and the Christian religion. This is why the horror genre goes through phases, with sub-genres fading in and out of popularity as society becomes terrified of one thing or another. ![]() Our full review.įor as long as humanity has been telling stories, horror has been used as a framing device to explore that which humanity finds terrifying. ![]() Related reading: For more Korean horror, consider White Day. ![]()
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