Korean Horror Night

Horror is a very specific genre. Even though it is often considered one of the trashier forms of current filmmaking, many film theoreticians, despite their despect, use the genre to study viewers' emotions. If horror used to serve as a distorted mirror of various of perverse deprivations, political or social systems, today, it is being studied as a means of manipulating the human body and its emotions.

Let us also not forget that horror is a cult genre and disregarding its artistic qualities, it attracts many hardcore fans willing to dress up in their favorite horror costumes and do other unusual things. Korean horror belongs to the most progressive kind. It is mythical, incorporates complex religious metaphors and uses original storytelling. For this reason this year, we have decided to introduce two dominant Korean horror films in a single continuous night screening. The invitation is to a strange, uneasy feeling pervading your entire body, accompanied with disgust, fear, sudden jolts, laughter and a whole range of other emotional reactions.

Cinderella
Korea, 2006, 94 min.
Korean / English subtitles

Director: Bong Man-dae
Screenplay: Son Kwang-soo
Cast: Ahn Ah-yung, Ahn Gyu-ryun, Jeon So-min, Shin Se-Kyeong

Hyoon-Su lives with his mother, an illustrious plastic surgeon. Her fairytale world begins to fall apart, when the girl's schoolmates, whose looks the mother has upgraded free of charge, start dying one by one. The mother is hiding her secret in the basement. A classical genre movie, which makes you feel your body in an unpleasant way.

Bong Man-Dae
Shot straight-to-video films and TV series. His debut Sweet Sex and Love (2003) shocked with its open portrayal of sex and a bizarre story. His films are strongly emotional.

The Ghost / Ryeong
Korea, 2004, 98 min.
Korean / English subtitles

Director: Kim Tae-kyeong
Screenplay: Kim Tae-kyeong
Cast: Kim Ha-Neul, Nam Sang-mi, Yi Shini

Young Min Ji-Won hes lost her memory. A year later, she begins to remember her terrifying past and it is not pleasant at all. Especially, when the past begins to turn into the present. A conventional, but very effective ghost horror well rated also by Czech Internet fans of Asian film.

Kim Tae-Kyeong
His debut surprised Korea as another commercial blockbuster. In spite of the market being saturated with the genre, Kim Tae-Kyeong has proven that there is enough novelties to come up with to attract a million spectators to move theaters, DVD players and computer screens.