2007 · horror · korean
Epitaph
Directed by Jung Bum-shik, Jung Sik1h 42m2007
A series of terrifying events unfold in a Korean hospital in the 1940s.
Our read: Epitaph (2007) reads as a sombre, measured, inventive horror · korean entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured horror / korean, inventive in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- measured
- intense
- bleak
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