Category: SEOUL INHERITANCE: KIDS IN K-HORROR

Confession of an American Moviegoer

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Image of train car full of zombies

|MH Rowe| In the pantheon of suspected or perhaps nonexistent genres of film, one of my favorites is the foreign film that has the copy-pasted soul of a Hollywood blockbuster but feels strangely fresh and new. Such films relieve me of the burden of familiar movie stars. They relieve me temporarily of the peculiarities… Continue reading

Tragic, Gothic, and Domestic: Classical Horror in Kim Jee-woon’s A Tale of Two Sisters

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A low shot from the vantage point of under a piece of furniture, which frames the view, two men are seen cradling the flailing body of a woman, whose back is arched and looking out and above the lens. Dishes and pills are scattered on the burnt orange floor, where there is also a lace-covered table in the background, a velour-covered table in the middle ground, and a blue-gray Persian rug in the foreground.

|Chris Polley| For many who have endured a ninth grade and/or AP literature class, Shakespeare brings to mind big emotions and melodramatic ideas: forbidden romance, corrupt monarchs, or mistaken identity. An underrated aspect of a good chunk of his work, however, is its exploration of the horrors of the great beyond… Continue reading

Diabolical Vilification & the Transformative Power of Xenophobia in The Wailing (곡성군): An Outsider’s Perspective

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The Outsider, an old Japanese man, sits apart from others on a city bus with four black chickens tied together near his feet.

|Chris Ryba-Tures| When my parents first met, my dad was a Jesuit priest and my mom was studying to be a Catholic nun. While I may have started life as a “Child of the Cloth” I’ve since become an outsider to the Catholic Church. Still, I’m Culturally Catholic (which my wife insists is “not a thing”). … Continue reading