Let me start off by saying Hansel & Gretel is not a horror movie - although it is marketed as one - nor is it a fairytale. It falls somewhere in between.
Hansel & Gretel is a Korean film directed by Yim Pil-Sung. The movie starts out well, gripping the viewers attention right from the start. The movie's protagonist Eunsu, meets with an accident on a deserted highway. When he regains consiousness a pretty girl named Younghee invites him to her house - a beautiful cottage in the middle of a forest - where she stays with her parents and two siblings. The cottage is every child's dream come true. Everything seems too perfect at first, but then he starts noticing little kinks in the perfection - the parents seem fidgety & nervous, one of the kids-Manbok seems to have a terrible temper & no matter how much he tries to get out of the forest, he keeps coming back to the cottege.
Things spiral downward when he wakes up one day to find a letter from the parents asking him to take care of the kids till they come back. The movie is visually stunning with great acting. It's a great take on the Hansel & Gretel story by the Grimm Brothers.
Viewers expecting a typical Asian Horror will be disappointed.
Stars : ***/5
you and Surabhi are good at reviewing :) ! I'd surely watch this. :)
ReplyDeleteThnx Rafi :)
ReplyDeleteOh! And to think I thought it'd be an animated flick! Nice one :)
ReplyDeleteThnx Surabhi :)
ReplyDelete#TitlesCanBeMisleading ;)