Music director Clarice Eun-hae Ok discusses her path into film scoring, close collaboration with director Oh In-chun, and the creation of Mourning Grave’s music. She explains how motifs, instrumentation, and the balance of acoustic and electronic sounds shape horror, romance, pacing, and emotional memory within a multi-genre narrative. [Read More]
Musician: Clarice Eun-hae Ok
Mourning Grave (소녀괴담, 2014) review: classic Korean horror with heart, humour and romance
With ‘Mourning Grave’, director Oh In-chun extends his experience of blending horror and humour to include romance and melodrama; thereby not only fulfilling the almost requisite Korean cinema merging of love, loss and laughter elements in a single narrative but also resulting in the film feeling utterly classic, from the first frame to the last. [Read More]
A Moment (모멘트, 2010) review: a haunting exploration of karma, perception and retribution
A Moment is easily as topical today as it was when it was made in 2010, and considering recent news stories from China, perhaps even more so. A dark and twisted tale which resolutely shows that an action taken in a single moment can ultimately change the lives of all concerned, irrevocably. [Read More]
Metamorphoses (변신 이야기, 2011) review: a menacing, humorous, shape-shifting cautionary tale
Initially appearing as a gently humorous story of one man’s unrequited love for a beautiful woman, Metamorphoses mirrors its theme of “nothing is as it first appears”, to ultimately become a brutal, menacing, bloody, and extremely funny, “careful what you wish for” cautionary tale. [Read More]