DVD review (region 2)
Directed by Won Shin-yeon
Starring Chae Min-seo, Sa Jin-Hyon, Seon Yu
Release date 14 April 2008

A young girl, suffering from leukaemia, receives a wig from her sister. However the hairpiece is haunted and begins to cause all sorts of havoc…

If Troma ever attempted to make an Asian horror movie then it would probably be The Wig, although one imagines that Lloyd Kaufman’s goons would at least attempt to treat the ridiculous premise with the humour that it deserves. Sadly, first time director Won Shin-yeon approaches this South Korean Ring rip-off with a completely straight face and the result is just unbelievably boring.

On the plus side, you do indeed get to see an actual, bloodstained wig creep and crawl across the screen and, somewhat inevitably, it is rivalled only by the giant bunny rabbits in Night of the Lepus as the least scary sight ever put to celluloid. In the interim, however, The Wig simply spins a no-thrills plot about a “spooky” young girl with long dark hair wrecking vengeance from beyond the grave. The fact that she uses the titular noggin napkin as a manner in which to possess whomever is wearing it is neither here nor there because this adds nothing new to the now overly familiar Eastern horror genre.

As if aware that they are onto a stinker, Tartan has given this dud no extras at all. Calum Waddell

VERDICT: 3/10
Do not wig out on this pointless pot boiler.