2013 · thriller · horror · korean
Hide and Seek
Directed by Huh Jung1h 47m2013
Sung-soo has everything a man could want: a beautiful wife and children, a comfortable home and luxury car, and plenty of money in the bank. When he learns that his estranged brother, Sung-chul, has gone missing, haunting memories of their troubled past urge him to visit his brother’s apartment in search of answers.
Our read: Hide and Seek (2013) reads as a heavy, breathless, grounded thriller · horror · korean entry — extreme in intensity, intimate in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, breathless, extreme thriller / horror, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, intimate, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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