The Cursed Lesson
2020 1h 33m movie Film South Korea

The Cursed Lesson

요가학원: 죽음의 쿤달리니

Synopsis

요가학원: 죽음의 쿤달리니

Online fashion model Hyo-jeong faces imminent threat of being unemployed because of the younger and more fashionable generation coming after her. While relying on surgical procedures and treatments, Hyo-jeong hears about a mysterious yoga class that helps make perfect body shape from her old high school classmate, Ga-yeong. Hyo-jeong eventually attends the yoga class with three classmates: Mi-yeon, a boxer who failed to keep her body fit, Ji-won, who has unstable mental condition, and Ye-na, a movie star who is morbidly obsessed with her appearance. Meanwhile, police start to investigate the enigma behind this yoga class after finding out that a murder in the neighborhood was committed by a woman named Bo-ra, a former yoga class student.

The 2019–2021 South Korea Window

261 South Korea films released in this three-year window, ranked here by audience rating. The Cursed Lesson sits at position #256.

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The 2020s South Korea Landscape

Catalog density by release year in the 2020s. Highlighted year (yellow) is when The Cursed Lesson premiered. 301 total titles in this decade from South Korea.

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Reception Benchmarks

5.6
TMDB Rating
10
Audience Reviews
Mixed
Critical Tier

Ranked #1,288 of 1,397 South Korea films indexed here (8th percentile by TMDB audience score).

Rating is -1.3 points below the South Korea average of 6.9/10.

Among South Korea Horror productions specifically: #67 of 89 (top 75%).

Production Details

Primary Country South Korea
Original Language Korean
Production Companies Smile Ent., Opus Pictures, Trinity Pictures
Runtime 1h 33m
Release Date November 18, 2020
IMDb tt13478812

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