Capital Celluloid 2024 — Day 336: Mon Dec 9

A Bloodthirsty Killer (Lee Yong-min, 1965): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 8.40pm

This film is part of the Golden Age of Korean Films season and also screens on December 14th. Full details here. Tonight's screening will be introduced by Professor Jinhee Choi, King’s College London.

BFI introduction:
A murdered daughter-in-law returns as a vengeful spirit. While the film adheres to the classic Korean horror tropes, it also absorbs influences from Hollywood and Japanese horror. Lee Yong-min’s distinctive style deftly captures the tension between Western modernity and pre-modern Korean traditions, coexisting and interacting in the shifting space of a rapidly changing society.

Here (and above) is an extract.

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