LKFF presents a widely and feverishly appreciated genre, rooted in psychological and emotional reality, with its After Dark: K-Horror strand.
Park Kang’s intense, ambiguous feature Seire (the 3 week confinement period for mother and newborn)is a subtle, serious, slow-burn exposé of one man’s inner psyche, both waking and dreaming.
Drawing liberally (if dynamically) on both Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining and Kim Jee-woon’s A Tale Of Two Sisters, Contorted by Kang Dong-hun places a child in harrowing peril and concerns a house and a family both haunted where mental illness and domestic history merge into one.
Set in a community centre where a mass murder took place, Guimoon: The Lightless Door involves a paranormal investigator who discovers a door to another world in a wild, bewildering and increasing frantic ghost train of a ride by Sim Deok-geun.
The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra by Park Sye-young is a melancholic, monstrous, experimental horror dealing with a creature’s need to feed but also sets human drama and dreams against an irrational canvas of nature.
Park’s short film Cashbag is programmed alongside and follows a man in a series of nocturnal transactions ending always in a similar waterside location.
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