The supernatural thriller “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon” opens with a near-comatose woman splayed on the floor of her room in an institution, wearing only a straitjacket as the obligatory Sadistic Attendant verbally and physically mocks and abuses. Clearly, this attendant has not seen movies such as “Terminator 2” and “Kill Bill Vol. 1”; if she had, she’d know she was about to experience some serious pain before the patient escaped.
This bloody and brutal sequence is our introduction to a young woman named Mona Lisa (Jeon Jong-seo), a Korean immigrant who has been held in the “Home for Mentally Insane Adolescents” (that’s what they call it) for some 10 years now, ever since she was 12 years old — and for reasons unexplained, Mona has decided now is the time she’ll put her powers of telekinesis to work. Simply by staring at someone and moving her arms, Mona can make that individual puppet her movements — even if it means they’ll punch themselves in the face, unholster their gun and shoot themselves, you name it. Not that Mona is looking for trouble; she’ll only unleash her powers if you mess with her.
