05 March 2011

No R.U.N.S., no hits, one error

Hanyo (The housemaid)

Crit
Firmly rooted in the tradition of East Asian horror films, this one has a difference: there's nothing supernatural. (Well, probably; a climatic event has no obvious rational explanation, but it can be explained without help from the spirit world, and I'm inclined to deem it natural.) The house is scary, some of the people are scary, one or two are even profoundly evil, but no one can spin her head in a circle.

This also seems a little Gatsby: wealthy people use and use up us lesser folk, barely feeling a breeze when we're destroyed.

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