Saturated with a variety of creeps and standard mystical horror stories, the South Korean Kaidan, through folklore, analyzes such cultural and social problems of its time as the destruction of the traditional family way of life, which clearly shows the influence of The Handmaid (1960).
Despite the chaotic use of a number of popular horror chips, stamped by the 60s (while widely used in modern Asian mysticism), the film manages to create a specific, but rather organic mix of classic stories about vengeful ghosts, instructive folklore and stories by Edgar Poe, while reducing all the paths to the Buddhist happy ending.
A cat dressed in a small robe, which turned lost its charms old woman. There will also be a shot with a crowd of spirits in white robes wandering in the night forest, foreshadowing the cemetery zombie Romero, which will appear only three years later.
All this somewhat elevates "Devil's Murder" above the more mediocre, purely entertaining European horrors of the time, and makes a worthy representative of Asian genre cinema, quite equal to Japanese.