By Pierce Conran Korean horror isn't what it used to be. But it was never any one thing to begin with. For many years it was unfairly...

By Pierce Conran Four years after his strong debut Hide and Seek , director Huh Jung returns to a mid-August release date with his fol...

Part of MKC's coverage of the 19th Busan International Film Festival By Pierce Conran Found footage horror and digital age s...

By Pierce Conran Korean horror has been in the midst of a rough streak for the past half decade. Relying on worn out themes, new works b...

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

By Pierce Conran I’m glad that I’m not a particularly big horror buff, because if I was, Korean cinema would seem like a real letdown...

Part of MKC's  Revenge Week  (July 8-14, 2013). Every summer, Korea pumps out a handful of horror films for people looking to catc...

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

The summer of 2011 produced three major K-horrors.  I’ve already had a chance to see and review the interesting but butchered White: The Cur...

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...

I don’t frequently get excited about horror films but White: The Melody of the Curse was somewhat of an exception. I had consistently heard...

As I have previously examined with Whispering Corridors (1998), the schoolgirl ghost horror film is a prevalent and perhaps necessary form ...

Science fiction is a genre that hasn’t gotten too much play in South Korean cinema, outside of monster movies ( The Host , 2006), and disast...

I have not seen a great deal of Korean horror films and this is something I very much want to amend as out of what I've seen, there are ...

News this week mainly focused around titles acquired for distribution and film festivals. No trailers but a few videos and the box office re...

Production values add to the atmosphere Along with Moss and Bedevilled , Bestseller is one last year’s rural-set films where local vi...

High school girls are punished in class Whispering Corridors ( Yeogo geodam , 1998) was released during a key time in the modernization...

Possessed (also known as Living Death or Disbelief Hell ) is the first feature from former architect Lee Yong-ju. It is a supernatural hor...