The Red SHoes

I really liked this movie.  If you're looking for a decent Korean horror movie, this might be the one for you.

That said, the shoes are fuschia.  Which wouldn't be that big a deal, except people wear them with red clothes and red lipstick, so it sort of sticks out that they're not red in the slightest.

The premise of the movie is kind of a riff on the Hans Christian Andersen story of the same name - it centers on a pair of shoes with which people become obsessed, to horrifying ends.  The main character is a woman leaves her cheating husband, taking her small daughter to an apartment.  Then things get crazay!  Just kidding.  Only not really.

Anyway, I don't want to spoil it for you - but it's good!

Availability: DVD only
Released: 2005
Added to queue: 2/11/2008
Reason added to queue: Added with all those other Asian horror movies, which had been getting on my nerves, but this one was good.

Three...Extremes II

I really liked the first one, so I figured the second would be good.  And it was decent.

It's three vignettes, each directed by a different Asian director:

• In "Memories", a woman keeps trying to get home.  Based on experience with other movies, you will ultimately begin to wonder whether she's actually alive or a ghost.
• In "The Wheel", a Thai village is haunted by creepy ceremonial puppets.
• In "Going Home", which I found to be the most interesting and worth watching, a man is held captive while his neighbor prepares for the resurrection of his dead wife.

 Far and away the most disturbing of the vignettes is in Part I, though.  The first one on the the first disc is seriously disturbing.

Watch it, don't watch it.

Availability: DVD only
Released: 2002
Added to my queue: 2/11/2008
Reason: This is when I added all the Asian horror movies to my queue, so I assume I was on some kind of tear.