South Korea kicks out another solid entry in the Murder-Mystery Genre.
This is a hard movie to talk about without giving too much of the story away. 'Hide and Seek' does a great job building up suspense and mystery, even if the finale is a bit overdone. Providing plenty of creepy set pieces, 'Hide and Seek' is a good choice for someone seeking a solid mystery and a few good thrills. Another above average movie coming out of South Korea, though certainly far from the best. And it is on Netflix!
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Hide and Seek
2013 [KOREAN]
Horror / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
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.
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Devilishly Creepy
A satisfying, creepy and intense thriller. It keeps you at razor edge
Korean Cinema has been consistently making one of the best thrillers; "Hide and Seek" is an addition to that list. Huh Jung's debut feature as a Writer/Director has every ingredient of a classy and creepy thriller and has been executed with precision. It keeps us at the razor edge for the entire run time; every scene will leave you contemplating with the supreme suspense. It leaves behind the clichés of slasher/horror movies and gives a new tone within the genre.
At the very start, a woman is chased by person dressed in all black, sporting a black motor cycle helmet, following young woman and you will instantaneously feel that it is going to be a sensational ride.
Sung-soo (Son Hyun-joo) is a wealthy entrepreneur, suffering from excessive cleaning and anxiety, living a mundane life with hidden secrets. With his wife and two children, he lives in an affluent life in a very high society and trying to keep the family happy. Until one day, when Sung-soo receives a call informing him his estranged brother has gone missing. This starts his hunt to find him and he is engulfed into the mysterious world. He is chasing the enigmatic black figure thinking that it is his brother. The revelations and symbols keep you startled as frames pass.
The screenplay has perfect timing of revelations, flashbacks and strikes an entertaining chase sequences. The character development and the subplots add values and sometime it jumps the genres. The editing has been done with utmost skill with sustaining the intensity through 107 minutes of decent run time.
"Hide and Seek" is a well-made and satisfying thriller, with good performances. Finally , we get an astonishing thriller with terror and horror.
A must watch for Thriller Genre.
MY Vote - 7.5/10.
A whole package of Suspense, thriller, and mystery
This movie is bit creepy but at the same time suspenseful. The movie started with a phone call about Seong-so's brother who has been missing for few days. To find out what happend to him, he goes to his brother's apartment where he finds a lady blubbering wrong things about his brother and absolutely no one wants to talk about him .
What really did his brother? Why has he been missing?
Then he started living in that room for while and attacked by someone. Later, he finds a secret passage through his room to a next door neighbour room and a dead body. So, the question arises, What he is up to? Why the lady is so afraid of him?
Don't read if you haven't watched it yet,
Spoilers,
I really love the concept but some points I really can't ignore, how a lady can be so strong enough to fight and run so fast while at some point she was shown so fragile and if she is the killer why the secret passage is in Seong-So's brother room. The main thing and the most funniest thing ;really! Corpse doesn't decompose in this movie. She is been hiding those corpse for long time, of course, not in a and freezer but still no smell is coming out at all.