The DMZ Documentary Film Festival - the first of its kind in Korea - will open in Paju Book City on October 22.
The opening ceremony for this event will be held on the outdoor stage, in front of Ichae Shopping Mall, with participation of celebrities including
Park Ye-jin,
Bae Soo-bin,
Lee Yeong-ja,
Jang Hyeon-seong,
Kim Ji-soo, ...
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By Lee Hyo-won
Staff Reporter
The intention of the horror movie-wannabe
"Yoga" seems sound enough. Misled desire for eternal beauty and youth leads a group of already perfectly gorgeous women to a sinister place where they all end up screaming and running for their lives.
But beauty has its price, and a horror movie that focuses only on looking good certainly forfeits its scare factor.
Director
Yoon Jae-yeon, who made a fantastic feature film debut with
"Wishing Stairs", the third in the blockbuster high school horror series, tries to create a "this could happen to you" scenario in an urban setting. But she thoroughly disappoints, delivering instead a pitiful B-movie spoof that may, at best, be granted a spot at a minor fantasty film festival.
Singer-turned-actress Eugene (
Yoo Jin) stars in the lead role as Hyo-jeong (a.k.a. the one who shrieks the most in the film). Hyo...
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Staff Reporters
Local broadcasters and the movie industry are preparing to help viewers kill the summer heat with horror programs and movies this month. Here is some of what's being offered.
Small Screen
MBC, which has had a successful history of horror dramas, including "M - Drama", starring popular actress
Shim Eun-ha in 1994, hopes to reprise that success with the drama " Possessed".
"'Possessed' ('
HON - Soul') is not based on `Korean Ghost Stories' nor is it a part of the movie series `Whispering Corridors'. We used the film `Let the Right One In', which is about a relationship between a vampire girl and young boy, as a model, and started working from there",
Kim Sang-ho, the producer, said at a press conference held at MBC, Ilsan, Monday.
`'Possessed' ('
HON - Soul')' revolves around a high school student, Ha-na (newcomer Lim Ju-eun), who can see dead people, and a profiler named Shin Ryu, played by
Lee Seo-jin ("
Yi San", 2008). When Shin meets Ha-na and discovers her ability, he uses her to pay back his enemy, only to find himself becoming the devil.
"If the story is too distant, viewers will feel lost, but if it's too much of a cliche, viewers will easily get bored. We wanted to show viewers that in the end, it's people who are scary, not the special effects, the makeup or sounds. In our drama, the ghosts mostly appear during the daytime", he said. Nevertheless, the drama is for viewers 19 years or older.
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The word beauty is often associated with nature, the arts and, of course, the female sex.
And many women spend a good deal of time trying to fit that description, spending an untold amount of money on expensive haircuts, slathering themselves in anti-wrinkle creams and buying high-end makeup, perfume and jewelry.
But the pursuit of beauty can easily become an obsession, which often leads to unintended consequences - especially in today's appearance-focused world. Just look to a number of celebrities who have taken plastic surgery and Botox a little bit too far, sometimes with frightening results.
So what better time for
"Yoga", a horror film that mixes the unending pursuit of beauty with a heavy dose of fear.
The movie, which is scheduled to be released next month, tells the story of five women who are locked up in a mysterious Yoga, which each had visited in the hopes of improving their looks.
"A woman's desire for beauty is universal, and I thought I could successf...
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There are eerie and horrific things that happen in this Yoga school. The film, "Yoga" has been presented before the press where the beauty stars have come.
