Mandate (2008)
Mandate (Korean: 맨데이트: 신이 주신 임무) is a 2008 South Korean horror film directed and written by Park Hee-Joon. The film centers on a series of violent crimes in the village of Hwagok-ri and the subsequent investigation by a self-proclaimed ghost hunter.
Plot
The village of Hwagok-ri experiences a decade of brutal crimes, including rape and murder, before entering a two-year period of relative peace. This tranquility is shattered when two visiting college students are murdered. A man named Kang, who identifies as a ghost hunter, arrives in the village and asserts that the crimes are supernatural in origin. Local authorities dismiss his claims, viewing him as mentally unstable. To combat the entity, Kang eventually teams up with the daughter of an exorcist who seeks to break a generational curse. Together, they utilize a specialized ghost-detection device to hunt the demon responsible for the village's turmoil.