ANN/THE KOREA HERALD – In Korea, horror films have conventionally premiered during the peak of summer, typically in July or August. However, a recent shift in strategy has emerged, with an emerging trend to launch them toward the conclusion of the summer season. The timing is chosen to avoid the intense competition posed by major […]
Horror films are traditionally released at the hottest time of the year in Korea July or August but there is a new trend to release them at the tail end of the summer, when there is usually less competition from massive blockbusters. A series low budget horror films open this month. Jason Yu’s “Sleep” is a 94-minute-long mystery thriller revolving around a sleep-walking husband and his wife, w.
As unusual as it may seem, the incident that leads an office worker to fall prey to a serial killer because she accused him of selling broken items through an online second-hand items market platform in “Target” is more realistic than one may think.
“Target,” a mystery thriller directed by Park Hee-gon, tells the story of Soo-hyun (Shin Hae-sun) who works at an interior design company and lives the ordinary life of an office-worker. Soo-hyun struggles to deal with her workload and nagging boss and looks to online secondhand marketplaces for some income on the side. One day, she buys a secondhand washing machine for 300,000 won ($224), but soon she fi.
According to Shin Hae-sun, the heroine of the 2020 hit drama “Mr. Queen” and the 2023 drama series “See You in My 19th Life,” her first-ever mystery thriller leading role in “Target” was the most “ordinary” role she has ever played. “Soo-hyun is a character without any superpowers, a character that is colorless and odorless compared to the characters I played prev.