2011 · horror · comedy · fantasy
Spellbound
Directed by Hwang In-ho1h 54m2011
A magician meets a weird girl and offers her to work together in his magic show. It's only until a year later that he starts to know her personally and develops a feeling towards her despite her own problems.
Our read: Spellbound (2011) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive horror · comedy · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured horror / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, intimate, tender.
- warm
- brisk
- redemptive
- tender
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