A Tale of Two Sisters (2004)
Sometimes the horror community confuses me. There's all that ink being spilled on mediocre timewasters like The Eye and Ju-On and all that, but nobody says boo about this freaky little fucker? What gives? This top-notch genre offering from Korea shares with its Japanese counterparts a tendency towards the non-linear and the ambiguous, but it's fashioned like a fairy tale gone very wrong. In telling a tale both grim and Grimm, director Ji-woon Kim (best known in America for the raucous wrestling comedy The Foul King) creates a delicate, careful film that nonetheless can snap your spine with shivers whenever it damn well pleases. The question remains: Is it a ghost story, or is it something else? (And whose ghost, for that matter?) Either way, it's a stunner. Best of all: no water imagery!
Grade: B+
Sometimes the horror community confuses me. There's all that ink being spilled on mediocre timewasters like The Eye and Ju-On and all that, but nobody says boo about this freaky little fucker? What gives? This top-notch genre offering from Korea shares with its Japanese counterparts a tendency towards the non-linear and the ambiguous, but it's fashioned like a fairy tale gone very wrong. In telling a tale both grim and Grimm, director Ji-woon Kim (best known in America for the raucous wrestling comedy The Foul King) creates a delicate, careful film that nonetheless can snap your spine with shivers whenever it damn well pleases. The question remains: Is it a ghost story, or is it something else? (And whose ghost, for that matter?) Either way, it's a stunner. Best of all: no water imagery!
Grade: B+
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