FIFTY FIFTY's "After-School Exorcism Club" Expands From Short-Form Drama to Big Screen

K-pop girl group FIFTY FIFTY is moving from streaming to the big screen. The members star in "After-School Exorcism Club: Girls' Night", which opened exclusively at CGV theaters on Wednesday. Seven new stills from the film were released alongside the premiere.

The project marks the first time a Korean short-form drama has been expanded into a theatrical feature. It is also set for an official screening at the 30th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival, better known as BIFAN, one of South Korea's main genre festivals.

Directed by Jung Joo, the Kitts original film is billed as a high-teen occult comedy about five high school girls who team up to take down a ghost haunting their school. It builds on "After-School Exorcism Club", the premium short-form drama released through Kitts in May. The theatrical version has been selected for BIFAN's special program "Platform Showcase: Short-Form Cinema."

To set the film apart from the short-form series, the team added new animated sequences made only for theaters. The stills show the five students poring over an exorcism logbook to plan their next move, and joining hands to face down the ghost at the center of the school's urban legend.

The FIFTY FIFTY members each carry a distinct role. Keena plays Na Jin-shim, the lowest-ranked student in school who can see ghosts and becomes the team's exorcism ace. Yewon plays Choi Woo-su, the top-ranked perfectionist with a sensitive constitution. Moon Sua takes on Wang So-ra, a student athlete with sharp reflexes. Athena plays Jo A-young, the only daughter of a local power broker and a devoted occult fan. Hana rounds out the group as Geum Jo-yeon, a member of the school broadcasting club.

The film was designed from the start as a multi-format project, with planning that covered film, mid-form series, and short-form drama all at once. It also shares a fictional world with FIFTY FIFTY's fourth EP, "Imperfect-I'mperfect," tying the group's music and screen content into one storyline.

For a group that broke through on streaming charts, the move into theaters points to where Korean short-form content may be headed next, as the format pushes past phone screens into spaces traditionally reserved for full-length film.