Part of MKC's coverage of the 25th Busan International Film Festival. By Pierce Conran Two Korean masters of arthouse cinema join forces...

By Pierce Conran For his live-action debut Train to Busan , indie animation director Yeon Sang-ho, whose films The King of Pigs and T...

By Rex Baylon What the hell is it about boarding schools that make it such prime real estate for horror films? I doubt Lee Hae-young ...

By Patryk Czekaj At first glance, Horror Stories 2 looks like a more mature and self-conscious version of the original film. Though ...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 16th Puchon International Film Festival. Of the many genres out there available for our consumptio...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 3rd Korean Film Festival in Australia (previously published). One of the aspects of Korean cinema whic...

Part of  MKC's coverage  of the 16th Puchon International Film Festival. Omnibus horrors seem to be all the rage at this year&#...

Originally posted on New Korean Cinema on January 24th, 2012 Genre-blending is a very prevalent technique in Korean cinema, the...

Originally posted on New Korean Cinema  on January 24th, 2012 Once upon a time during a cold, wet winter’s night, my tattered shoes ...

Straight off the bat I can say that the most anticipated Korean blockbuster of 2011, aside from Christmas’ war epic My Way from Jang Je-gyu...

It wasn’t even a minute after turning on Hero that I realised I was truly scraping the bottom of the barrel.  Frankly, the only reason I wat...

To be honest, it's not very difficult for a film to give me a scare, or rather a bit of a jolt. However, unlike yesteryear's fil...