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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Comedy
Director: Chan-wook Park
Year: 2009
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Writer/director Chan-wook Park makes psychological, philosophical and political puzzles, not simple narrative cinema, but up until now, he has always taken pains to ensure that his stories make literal sense. But with Thirst, he has taken the symbolism that was always in the background and placed […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Suspense/ Action/ Horror/ Comedy
Director: Jee-woon Kim
Year: 2010
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
At the center of the universe, all that exists is a howling nothingness. With our jobs, convenience stores, families, and friends, it can seem like the universe is a rational place, where morality and merit have a foothold. This is an illusion, an […]
≡ Category: Drama, Horror, Korea, Movie Reviews Ordered By Country, Not Worth Your Time, Suspense | ≅ 3 Comments
Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/Drama/Suspense
Director: Yoon-Hyun Chang
Year: 1999
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NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Somebody is leaving Hefty bags full of mix and match dismembered corpses around Seoul for passerby to find. So begins Tell Me Something, a would-be horror mystery.
Detective Cho (Suk-kyu Han), a disgraced cop who looked the other way at a criminal enterprise in return for having […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Suspense/ Comedy/ Drama/ Action
Director: Hong-jin Na
Year: 2008
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA ESSENTIAL MOVIE
American critics are fond of saying that today’s movies are “dark.” The Dark Knight Returns is dark. Sin City is dark. Watchmen is dark. Bullshit. You want dark? Watch Korean movies.
A case in point is Chaser.
After Joong-ho Eom (Yun-seok Kim) was […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/Action
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Year: 2006
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TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
The Host is a funny movie. And I don’t mean ha-ha funny. It’s been compared to Jaws, and to some degree, the comparison is apt. Both movies are very rich: they work as character pieces, there’s a political backstory, and then there’s the pure adventure and […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Comedy/ Horror/ Art
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Year: 2003
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
Alert readers might recall that I recently reviewed director Bong Joon-ho’s creature feature The Host. I thought it was an interesting deconstruction of a typical monster movie. Later on, when I became aware of another Korean movie called Memories of Murder, I noticed that […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Horror/ Comedy/ Art
Director: Chan-wook Park
Year: 2002
Rating:
TRASH CINEMA RECOMMENDED MOVIE
Ryu’s sister is dying from kidney failure. Ryu (Ha-kyun Shin) has been let go from his soul-killing factory job and has no way to find a donor or pay for the operation even if he does. Finally, he runs out of options and decides […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/ Horror/ Art
Director: Kyu-Dong Min/Tae-Yong Kim
Year: 1999
Rating:
WORTH A LOOK
If you’re familiar with the Tartan Asia Extreme DVD series, you’ll know that they tend to be either horror films or hard core action films. Memento Mori, which is part of the series, is kind of a horror film in the same sense that […]
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Country: Korea
Genre: Drama/Horror
Director: Jong-hyuk Lee
Year: 2002
Rating:
NOT WORTH YOUR TIME
Korean filmmakers must have really been impressed with Seven and Silence of the Lambs (as well they should be). They’ve been making variations on those two movies ever since they came out. H, one fairly recent example, came out in 2002.
Now, that’s not necessarily a bad […]
