“From now on, you’re my snitch.” Navigating both the criminal underworld and law enforcement agencies, professional snitches called “yadang” provide covert information about the drug world to prosecutors and police. When a drug bust at a party attended by high-profile second-generation VIPs entangles those involved into a dangerous conspiracy, a seasoned yadang must do everything … [Read More]
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Forgotten (기억의밤, 2017) review: psychological thriller marred by clunky exposition
If you were to watch only the first half of Forgotten, you’d likely assume you were mid-way through an intriguing, even gripping, psychological thriller-cum-horror. However, hugely protracted dialogue driven exposition, story contrivances and character arc predictability ultimately detract from this early success in the second half. [Read More]
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]