[Review] The Priest

Horror, thriller, romance

Oh Soo Min was a little boy. His mother has been possessed by a demon. His father denied that and said that she was sick and the doctor was trying to cure her. He quickly went to the church to find the Father. By the time the Father arrived at his house and his mother fall from her room up stair. Everyone was shocked to see that. His mother was then died on the spot with 360 degree turning her head.

The hospital was full of patients. There was a child being sent to the hospital for treatment. Due to he was bleeding continuously, the medical personal was unable to stop the bleeding. The doctor Ham Eun Ho rescued him by underwent the surgery as they suspected that his internal organ was bleeding. The surgery was failed at first, but suddenly there is electricity disturbance and the child was alive again. The doctor was shock and curious on how can he be alive again and how he can run like a normal people after the big surgery being done.

Years after years, Soo Min has grown up. He became the Priest. There was a child being possessed by the devil demon. He bleeds everywhere in his body. One of the Father was being terrified by the powerful demon. He was then sent to the jail for attempting to kill the child with the cross. Soo Min’s senior went to the police station to meet the Father whereas Soo Min went to the hospital to look for that child. When he arrived at the hospital, the child ran away from his room. He managed to find him and found that he was being possessed. The doctor also looked for the child. Soo Min tried to distance the child from the doctor, but they did not listen to him. Soo Min found an abandoned place near the hospital. He prepared everything that was going to use for praying. He kidnapped the child and brought him to that place. Dr Ham found out and followed them to the abandoned place. She was shocked to see the child became a totally different people. Soo Min quickly dragged her away in order not to let her get hurt. Soo Min tried to get the demon out of the child, but he insisted not to leave the body. Later, the child fainted and Dr Ham tried to rescue him.

The Father Moon believed that the demon did not disappear completely. He asked Soo Min to go the hospital. The demon was then possessed Dr Song. Dr Song was tired and fall asleep while Eun Ho was searching the internet regarding the exorcism. Suddenly, Dr Song awake and attacked her. Luckily, Soo Min came by and able to stop the incident. Father Moon told Eun Ho that she was being possessed by the evil spirit and asked her not to let her fall asleep. Soo Min also from time to time monitored Dr Song and Eun Ho condition. Finally, Eun Ho agreed to cooperate with Father Moon in order to perform prayers. Father Moon did his research and found that in order to cure Dr Song, they need to enter into Dr Song subconscious. He requested Soo Min to enter into Dr Song’s dream as the demon was stayed in there and subsequently tried to take over the body. It was an adventure for Soo Min to look for Dr Song and at the same not to let the demon to notice the present of Soo Min in her dream. They did not succeed for the first time. They entered into the dream the second time. Finally, they succeeded to perform prayer for Dr Song.  In the end of the prayer, in his dream, he dreamt about Eun Ho. He was curious and asked the detective whether he went to South America before and also asked Eun Ho whether they had meet before.

There was a practise doctor who always made mistakes. When he cleaned the pool, he saw a doctor robe in the pool. He took it and wore it. He was then being possessed. He attacked one of the nurses by the wheelchair. The nurse was badly injured and mentally ill as well. Eun Ho suspected something amiss. She looked into the CCTV and informed Father Moon about it. They then started to make a plan in order to find out who was the one being possessed. They split the salt all over the hospital. They finally found the Jae Moon. When they were about to perform prayer at the garage, the demon started the attack with the cars parked in there. Things did not go as smooth as it is. Detective Koo was being hit by the car and was hospitalised for injury. The demon escaped. Father Moon was wondering why the demon possessed different kind of person but was surrounded with Dr Ham. He went to the Jae Moon’s house for a look. He saw there was a many photo of Dr Ham have been taken. He asked Dr Ham to stay at his house for the time being. Dr Ham was stubborn and did not want to go at first but later being persuaded my Father Oh. While she was staying at there, the phone rang. She picked up the phone and answered the call. She was surprised that the wire was unconnected when her friend called her. She was shocked. The demon called her and threatened her that he might hurt her friend. She followed his instruction and came to the hospital. Father Moon woke up and took a drink. He noticed that Dr Ham has gone. He looked into the CCTV and found out that she left the house. They quickly went to the hospital to find her. They contacted Detective Koo for assistance. Detective Koo’s partner picked up the call. She went to find Dr Ham. Unfortunately, the demon controlled her and shot herself in front of Detective Koo. The demon told Father Moon that he was the one who released him and trained him to become stronger. The demon was then escaped once again.

Detective Koo blamed himself for not been able to protect his partner as he treated her as his daughter. His partner’s mother asked him to catch the murder for the sake of her daughter or else they will not perform the funeral for her. Detective Koo was sad. He asked Father Moon to visit his partner and catch the demon. Father Moon did not want to visit her. He has more important task to do. The police station questioned the detective about the case of his partner and they believed that she was not the one who will commit suicide. Father Moon revealed that the reason why Detective Koo joined the team. His daughter had been possessed by demon and Father Moon was unable to rescue his daughter at that time due to inexperience. Dr Ham started to curious about what had happened 8 years ago as she felt that the demon kept looking for her. She asked her colleague to hypotheses her in order to recall her memory.

Father Moon requested the mother-of-pearl box to be used to capture the demon. However, it was prohibited. Bishop told him to return back the box after 3 days as the Sister come to the church. Bishop also warned him that it was his mistake for releasing the demon and caused problem to the society. He might get fired as well as Father Oh.

The demon found him and transformed into his partner face. The detective knew it was demon. He tried to use holy water to flash her but at the same time he was blaming himself for not been able to protect her. He found Jae Moon at the hospital. Father Moon and the team came to the hospital to find Detective Koo so that he won’t do any mistake. Detective Koo cannot accept the fact that Father Moon query about him has been possessed by the demon. He decided to quit the team. Father Oh went to his house. He found that his house has traces of demon. Although Detective Koo has not been possessed yet, he will soon possess. When he visited his partner at corpse area, he has been possessed by the demon.

The Bishop told Father Oh to return the mother-of-pearl-box to the church, and also informed him about the consequences of not returning it. Father Oh did not want the team to be disbanded. He wanted to hand over the box to the church. He brought Dr Ham to the gallery in order to ensure her safety. They never thought that the demon can entered the gallery easily. The demon threatened Father Oh to give him the box. Father Oh has no choice but brought the box back to the gallery. He also informed Father Moon about it. Father Moon founded the priest that performed prayer eight years ago. He asked him about how to let the demon revealed his name in order to lock it into the mother-of-pearl-box. He told him that he has to give up being the priest of the Lord and become the priest of the demon. In order to do that, he has to sacrifice himself to stay in hell in his afterlife. Father Moon has no other choice, but to capture the demon in order to put him back to its place. Once the demon has been locked in the box, he then committed suicide. Everyone was upset about the news.  Before Father Moon died, he told Father Oh and Dr Ham to meet Sister Lee Hae Min. Sister Lee helps Father Oh and Dr Ham to recall their past.

Due to Father Moon passed away, everything was a mess in the gallery. According to Father Moon’s will, Father Oh should take over his place and conduct his duty as an exorcism priest. However, Sister Lee told the team that Father Oh has regained his memories. He will be given a chance to become a regular man. Bishop has been cursed by someone as a puppet in order to release the powerful demon from the mother-of-pearl-box. Luckily, Sister Lee managed to stop that from happening. Based on Sister Lee explanation, a nun cannot perform exorcism on demon. They can only embrace them from doing something bad. She suggested the team to move the mother-of-pearl-box to Tanah Cecil and buried there forever. That was the place which prevents the demon from entering. It was surrounded by the holy water. Young Pil (one of the teammates) drove with the box to there. On the way to there, he has been cursed and met in an accident. The mother-of-pearl-box was then being taken by someone else.

Dr Ham was going to Venezuela as a volunteer doctor soon. She asked Father Oh to come along with her. He couldn’t. He as a priest cannot get marry to anyone. When Dr Ham was about to fly, Father Oh came to the airport to say goodbye to her. Unfortunately, the flight had flew. He then went to the place where he can regain his past memories with Dr Ham. Dr Ham did not take the flight. She contacted his friend and got to know his whereabouts. She came to there and met him.

The team contacted Father Oh about Young Pil’s condition. They headed back to the gallery in order to find out who was the one to steal the mother-of-the pearl-box. They believed that the followers of the demon were the one who stole the box. They are not being possessed. They are human that willing to follow the demon. Father Oh and the team are curious about how their plan has been exposed. They find Detective Koo for help in order to find the person who stole the box. They managed to find the place where the followers belong. Based on their finding, they are being watched by the followers. They found that they are after Sister Lee. They quickly went to the hospital to find her. Unfortunately, it was too late. The follower already attacked her. Father Oh was after the follower. He was shocked to see that the follower has his mother face.

Sister Lee was injured. Dr Ham bought her to the hospital for treatment. While Young Pil was investigating the case, before he managed to find out who was behind it, he was then being attacked again by anti-cross and died. Everyone was upset about Young Pil sudden death. Sister Lee asked Dr Ham to join the team as her medical skill would help the team to resolve the problem. Detective Koo found out the traces of the demon’s follower. They went to the abandoned hospital ran by the nun. They split into 2 teams. Father Oh was surprised to see his mother there. She told her that she did not attack Young Pil. She came to advise him not to trust Sister Lee, and yet told him that he was actually in the dream. She told him that dream has an error just like what Father Peter said before. Father Oh was then realised that something amiss there. Sister Nun was then attacked his mother and told him not to trust her as she was not his real mother and she was the demon that disguised herself as his mother. At first, he did not know who to trust. He was then observed the surrounding by himself.

Suddenly, he found himself at the church. He was with Dr Ham. He was going to excommunicate with the Lord. Dr Ham told him that she hoped that he can became the ordinary person and no longer a priest when he came out from the discussion room. During the discussion room, he made his decision that he wanted to excommunicate with the Lord. He came out from the room and went back again to say goodbye with his fellow colleague. He met Sister Lee and asked her which god she loyal to. She did not answer him. Father Oh asked her again and again. He observed the surrounding that there are many anti crosses in the church. He knew that he was living in the dream. Dr Ham in front of him was not the real Dr Ham. Sister Lee grabbed Dr Ham and asked him to stab her. He did not want to. In fact, he stabbed himself. Later, he was awake from his dream. He saw Dr Ham, Father Moon and others still appeared beside him. He was relieved about it.

He told them what was happened in his dream. Father Moon recorded it through video camera. The exorcism was not successful. Father Moon told the team that the demon was trying to implant fear on them by showing their future in Father Oh’s dream. Father Moon asked someone to check whether Sister Lee was being possessed. At the same time, they tried to find out who was the one being possessed. Father Oh afraid that the same incident will be repeated. They tried their best to avoid any mistakes. The demon possessed a paralysed patient. He also harms Dr Ham.

Luckily, one of the nurses brought her to treatment. Father Oh also came by. He prayed for her. They found out the patient and pay a visit to his house. Father Moon and the team get the patient permission in order to perform exorcism on him. During the process of exorcism, the police came by. That demon pretended to be the patient and acting in front of them. They are being cheated by him. The police captured Father Moon and the team. Only Father Oh managed to escape with the mother-of-pearl-box. He has no place to go but went to Dr Ham’s house. Ms Shin was being released from the police station. They (Father Oh and Ms Shin) lured the demon with mother-of-pearl-box. The demon got caught. Father Moon and the rest of the team member also arrived at the scene before Father Oh declared to be the evil worshipper. Before they managed to lock him in the box, the demon destroyed it. Those being possessed by the demon before were suffering unknown illness. They told the same story that they dreamt of the demon that possessed them. Not only them, even the nurses were suffered with the same illness.

Ms Shin informed Father Oh that Sister came back to Seoul in secret. Father Oh was nervous that she might be possessed by the demon. He informed Father Moon about it. Young Pil found the traces of Sister Lee. He went to the Church and captured a photo of dagger. The team could not contact him anymore. Everyone was nervous. They therefore went to the place to look for Young Pil. Father Oh saw that dagger before. He said that that dagger was in his dream where it used to kill the demon. Father Moon told Father Oh that priest cannot touch the dagger unless they are in difficult situation. The demon was managed to entered Church. The priest inside the area was also surprised about it. The priest managed to rescue Detective Koo, Father Moon and Ms Shin when they are being attacked by the demon. Father Oh was surprised as that priest was the one who being possessed by the demon in his dream. He did not believe him. They were then performed an energumen test. None of them is possessed. However, the priest told them that according to Sister Lee, one of the priests being possessed. They studied the purpose of the demon. They came to the conclusion that Dr Ham was its target. Father Oh stole the dagger in order to avoid killing Dr Ham with it. Father Oh quickly went to the hospital to look for Dr Ham. He saw her being possessed. He quickly brought her to the gallery to perform exorcism. Father Oh gave up the Lord and became the evil worshipper in order to let the demon to reveal his name. Father Moon managed to come over and performed exorcism on Father Oh. With the help of Sister Lee and Father Oh’s recorder, Father Moon managed to destroy the demon. Dr Ham wanted Father Moon to erase the memory of Father Oh. On the other hand, she wanted to join the team as to assist them to capture the demon.

The storyline is interesting and I like it very much. Although the viewing rate is low, I can say that the drama is really worth watching. For me, the drama has been successfully delivered the unexpected scenarios and climate throughout the drama.

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