South Korean Hansel & Gretel Film
Hansel & Gretel (2007) by director Yim Phil-Sung is a South Korean eerie retelling of the fairy tale.
In this horror film, a young man crashes his car late one night in the middle of nowhere and is rescued by a girl who leads him to the ‘House of Happy Children‘.
Welcomed in for the night by a perfectly hospitable family, he soon finds that his place of refuge is something of a trap. Delicately rendered shocks and insidiously creepy images position this fairy-tale frightener in the same world as the films of Jean Cocteau, Mario Bava and Guillermo del Toro – even if you don’t normally like horror films, you may find this an enjoyable way to be frightened.
“This tense little terror outing is the bee’s knees, and should be at the top of your must-see list” Neo
“...a triumph for good, old-fashioned, studio-based film-making” Sight and Sound
If you’re in the UK, Hansel & Gretel is on at London’s ICA between 16th to 29th January, 2009.
Check more details on the ICA website
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4 Comments Categories : Film, Korea
I saw this movie at the Vancouver Film Festival (and met the director!) last September and it is fucking *phenomenal*.
Random observations;
Same set dec person that Chan-Wook Park used for his vengeance trilogy, and it shows in a strangely beautiful way.
The way the car crash at the beginning of the film is shot is surreal & different. It was actually jarring; I was stunned for a few seconds. You’d think after years of movies, I’d have seen all the interesting ways to see a car crash by now.
Thanks Andrew – I’m going to try and see it at the ICA – it looks and sounds like a really interesting experience to watch!
A very bizarre yet compelling film that made me wonder at every turn, from going into the house to trying to leave the forest, and finally coming to the edge and finding a cliff, all these create the wonderment in the film.
Even the magical door that just stands there in the middle of the woods.
a must see.
im 11 years old and i thought i was scary in a artistic way
different from normal classic horror films