Remember writer/director Min-suk Kim’s 2010 thriller “Haunters?” The one about the guy can control your mind with his mind? Well, apparently Hideo Nakata thought Japan needed a remake of that flick. Because, you know, it was made so long ago. Enter “Monsterz,” a movie that features the weirdly ageless Tatsuya Fujiwara. I just saw this guy in “Straw of Shield” and was reminded why I love his work. Although I do have a soft spot for “Haunters,” I’m actually willing to give the Japanese remake a fair shake. I know, I know — how incredibly big and strong and dashing of me. I try. The premise is simple: A guy has the power to control the minds of others. Not surprisingly, he becomes obsessed with someone whose brain resists his powers. All sorts of stuff happens after that, as you may already have guessed. Anyway, here’s the official...
- 3/1/2014
- by Todd Rigney
- Beyond Hollywood
While The Last Stand didn’t make much of an impression on the box office, it still left many of us here at Sound On Sight praising director Jee-woon Kim’s effort. As the first Korean auteur to direct a large-scale Hollywood movie, Kim takes inspiration from classic American westerns, specifically Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo. Apart from classic westerns, there are a few cult movies that fans of The Last Stand should take interest in. Here are two, that I recommend.
****
1: Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom (The Good, The Bad, The Weird)
Directed by Jee-woon Kim
Screenplay by Jee-woon Kim and Min-suk Kim
2008, South Korea
A decade after making his incredible debut film, The Quiet Family (later remade by Takashi Miike as The Happiness of the Katakuris), Jee-woon Kim had established himself as one of South Korea’s most beloved directors. His hard work didn’t go unnoticed by studio execs,...
****
1: Joheunnom nabbeunnom isanghannom (The Good, The Bad, The Weird)
Directed by Jee-woon Kim
Screenplay by Jee-woon Kim and Min-suk Kim
2008, South Korea
A decade after making his incredible debut film, The Quiet Family (later remade by Takashi Miike as The Happiness of the Katakuris), Jee-woon Kim had established himself as one of South Korea’s most beloved directors. His hard work didn’t go unnoticed by studio execs,...
- 1/30/2013
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Fantastic Fest is one of the best film festivals in the states and the largest in the Us. Held in Austin Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse, the event screens nothing but the best in genre films. Sound On Sight contributors Emmett Duff and I will be in attendance to bring the best coverage we can possibly whip up. With the Toronto International Film Festival just ending, we are back in full swing and our coverage starts now. Here is a preview of some of the high profile films on display this year.
Here is a list of films our staff as already seen. He titles highlighted in red are must sees. We highly recommend not missing them.
1- A Lonely Place to Die – **** stars
Written by Will Gilbey and Julian Gilbey
Directed by Julian Gilbey
UK, 2011
A rare thriller that actually contains thrills, UK export A Lonely Place to Die...
Here is a list of films our staff as already seen. He titles highlighted in red are must sees. We highly recommend not missing them.
1- A Lonely Place to Die – **** stars
Written by Will Gilbey and Julian Gilbey
Directed by Julian Gilbey
UK, 2011
A rare thriller that actually contains thrills, UK export A Lonely Place to Die...
- 9/21/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Haunters aka Choneung Ryukja
Directed and Written by Min-suk Kim
South Korea, 2010
Fantasia imdb
The best superhero movie this year is not Captain America or Thor or Green Lantern or X-Men: First Class; it features no costumes, no secret origins and amazingly, no exposition.
The obvious comparison for this film is M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, but where that film ends Haunters begins, skipping the traditional secret origin and in fact any explanations for the super-powers on display.
Cho-In (Dong-won Kang) is your Mr. Glass analogue. Like Elijah Price he is crippled, but with a prosthetic leg instead of Osteogenesis Imperfecta. He has the strange ability to mentally control anyone that he can see. We get a very cursory introduction to Cho-In as a young boy, not to explain how he got his powers, but to show us his incredibly screwed up childhood: when Cho-In used his powers to save...
Directed and Written by Min-suk Kim
South Korea, 2010
Fantasia imdb
The best superhero movie this year is not Captain America or Thor or Green Lantern or X-Men: First Class; it features no costumes, no secret origins and amazingly, no exposition.
The obvious comparison for this film is M. Night Shyamalan’s Unbreakable, but where that film ends Haunters begins, skipping the traditional secret origin and in fact any explanations for the super-powers on display.
Cho-In (Dong-won Kang) is your Mr. Glass analogue. Like Elijah Price he is crippled, but with a prosthetic leg instead of Osteogenesis Imperfecta. He has the strange ability to mentally control anyone that he can see. We get a very cursory introduction to Cho-In as a young boy, not to explain how he got his powers, but to show us his incredibly screwed up childhood: when Cho-In used his powers to save...
- 8/6/2011
- by Michael Ryan
- SoundOnSight
Writer/director Min-suk Kim’s Haunters is a South Korean flick currently featured at the New York Asian Film Festival. The original Korean title of the film, Psychic, makes much more sense than what it eventually settled with, as Haunters really doesn’t have much to do with the plot line. Kim’s previous 2008 screenplay for The Good, The Bad, The Weird was pretty strong, but the same scope of work doesn’t shine through on Haunters.
After an abusive childhood of being imprisoned and blindfolded, Cho-in (Dong-won Kang) has to rely on a wooden prosthetic leg. Along with being physically abused, both his parents attempted to kill him. But Cho-in was born with an amazing supernatural gift. He can use mind control on anyone within his line of sight. After freeing himself from the binds of his parents, he survives the streets by using his powers of persuasion to...
After an abusive childhood of being imprisoned and blindfolded, Cho-in (Dong-won Kang) has to rely on a wooden prosthetic leg. Along with being physically abused, both his parents attempted to kill him. But Cho-in was born with an amazing supernatural gift. He can use mind control on anyone within his line of sight. After freeing himself from the binds of his parents, he survives the streets by using his powers of persuasion to...
- 7/16/2011
- by Joshua Blackburn
- The Film Stage
The New York Asian Film Festival has announced that its tenth anniversary edition will open on July 1 with the North American premiere of Yoshimasa Ishibashi's Milocrorze: A Love Story ("one solid slab of psychedelia," promises the festival; image above) and close on July 14 with the New York premiere of Na Hong-Jin's The Yellow Sea (aka The Murderer), which has just screened at Cannes in Un Certain Regard (see the roundup).
There'll be two Centerpiece Presentations, Benny Chan's Shaolin, with Andy Lau, Nic Tse and Jackie Chan, and Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids!!! — which, you may remember Danny Kasman caught in Cannes, and got quite a nice kick out of it, too. The festival will also be screening Miike's "director's cut" of 13 Assassins.
There'll be three special focuses. First off...
Wu Xia: Hong Kong's Flying Swordsmen
Tsui Hark's Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame...
There'll be two Centerpiece Presentations, Benny Chan's Shaolin, with Andy Lau, Nic Tse and Jackie Chan, and Takashi Miike's Ninja Kids!!! — which, you may remember Danny Kasman caught in Cannes, and got quite a nice kick out of it, too. The festival will also be screening Miike's "director's cut" of 13 Assassins.
There'll be three special focuses. First off...
Wu Xia: Hong Kong's Flying Swordsmen
Tsui Hark's Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame...
- 5/31/2011
- MUBI
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