#홍련

[yuryeongseon]

얘들아 홍련 꼭 봐 진짜 잘 만든 극이야ㅠㅠ

[rye-views]

A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) dir. Kim Jee Woon. 장화, 홍련 (2003) dir. 김지운. 7.4/10

I wouldn't recommend this movie to my friends. I wouldn't rewatch this movie.

I don't like when there is shouting. We are so angry up in here. I feel like so many of us are so dramatic.

I feel like there is a mix of too much noise that doesn't add to the scare and then just the right amount of noise to build fear and anticipation. Basically a hit or miss when it comes to building fear.

I'm not understanding the part when Eunjoo is putting Suyeon in the closet. When is that actually happening? I don't think I fully understand when it's just dad and Eunjoo, what is real and when this is happening. Honestly, why did Eun Joo walk away from dying Suyeon?

The poor bird.

[pmasaojack]

[프라모델] 클럽G 코드기어스 HG 1/35 홍련 성천팔극식 리뷰 / Code Geass HG 1/35 GUREN Type-08 ...

[possession1981-moving]

A TALE OF TWO SISTERS dir. Kim Jee-woon, 2003

[kaipanzero]

A Tale of Two Sisters

장화, 홍련 (2003)

[horror-aesthete]

A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련), 2003, dir. Kim Jee-woon

[onion-souls]

I found the 2003 Korean horror film 장화, 홍련/A Tale of Two Sisters on Youtube with English subs. The visual quality is a little on the low side, but that can add to a bit of the lo-fi horror feel.

[deeppink-man]

장화,홍련 영화 포스터 패러디 Parody of poster 'A Tale of Two Sisters'

[littleragondin]

On Repeat Tag Game

I was tagged by @bengiyo and @troubled-mind to put my repeat playlist on Spotify on shuffle and list the first 10 songs. Thank you both! ⸜( *ˊᵕˋ* )⸝

As always it's a little bit all over the place, but here are my 10!

aeseaes - Carrion Comfort

I have liked all aeseaes songs I have heard so far. This one I heard for the first time as I was re-reading Abarat by Clive Barker, where the villain (who fascinated me as a teen) is called Christopher Carrion, and the song has been haunting me since. Also I can't resist some cannibalism imagery.

Luther Vandross - Your Secret Love

Haha okay, so maybe I listened to this one on loop while I was working on my Love in Translation's gifset. I just really, really like this song - I am a sucker for love songs, and he is so, so good at it. Plus, what a voice...

안예은 Ahn Ye Eun - 홍련 (紅蓮) HONGRYEON

Alright, I discovered Ahn Ye Eun (kinda) literally two days ago thanks to @petrichoraline and I already have three songs of hers in the on repeat (the other 2 are Trumpet Creeper and Changgwi). She has an incredible voice, her instrumentals are so rich, and I adore how she plays around with horror themes and traditional myths. I am a little obsessed. (I'd recommend going down the comms a little, someone translated the lyrics and gave a few notes)

Debout sur le zinc - La déclaration

That's my favorite song of theirs and one of my favorite love song period. It's very sweet, but my favorite is the ending verse where he says. "It's a bit of a declaration [of love] even if I know that you're not/ the remedy nor the solution, just a splint on my arm/that small thing linking us to others when we don't do well/an ultimate language of survival that put the world back on its axis" - recognizing that love won't heal him entirely but is still necessary for him to survive.

Jonathan Hultén - Where Devils Weep

I cannot for the life of me remember how I found this one, but the sorrowful music with those, in the end, hopeful lyrics have been a pick me up the past week.

Déportivo - Les Bières Aujourd'hui S'ouvrent Manuellement

Deportivo is a french rock band from my teen years, so this cover is a bit of a throwback. This is a quietly sad song about a man realizing that his long term relationship has run its course - "It will always be a mystery to me/how the body get used to it/when love dies slowly". It talk about the very mundane things (his partner turning their back at him when they go to bed, the clicking of their spoon the only sound between them as they dine) that made him realize they are not in love anymore.

The Real Zebos – Puttin' On the Ritz

Tons of covers of this song exist (I do love Taco's version from like 1982 I think). This one came up in the spotify recs and it clicked for me. Love the singer's voice, and it feels fresh without losing it's original vibe.

Simon & Garfunkel - America

I have slowly been working my way through Simon & Garfunkel's discography over the last few months -because all their songs I grew up with I love. But since I discovered this one, it's a go to when I feel down and I need something for comfort (there is something that makes me feel heard in "Katie I'm lost I said though I knew she was sleeping. I'm empty and aching and I don't know why").

เงา (SHADOW) - LAZYLOXY

Guess what show I'm excited for!!!!! Joke aside, I put Lazyloxy's opening for Rakdiao on loop for weeks when I watched that show, so the moment this came out spotify stuffed it under my nose and I really like it!

Elisabeth (2005) - Marktplatz in Wien (Milch)

Like last year, October somehow means I start putting the 2005 live recording in Vienna of Elisabeth on repeat. I love musicals, and I have a special relationship to this one (it's the musical that got me into Takarazuka and my first German musical). This song always scratches the itch perfectly so I listen to it even more than the rest of the album (all songs with Lucheni are top tiers for me)

If you feel like doing it, I will tag @petrichoraline, @sparklyeyedhimbo, @scienceoftheidiot, @howdydowdy, and @iguessitsjustme !

[everyfilmisaw]

장화, 홍련 (A Tale Of Two Sisters) by Kim Jee-woon, 2003

[sloshed-cinema]

A Tale of Two Sisters [장화, 홍련] (2003)

A bed often feels like a cozy cocoon and place of comfort. But when in the middle of the night a strange noise or the suggestion of movement disturbs the sleep, it becomes all too apparent just how thin and flimsy that bedsheet is in terms of offering protection. Several sequences in this take on a Korean fairy tale are almost perfectly pants-shittingly terrifying in their execution, capturing the catatonic fear of awakening and feeling suddenly vulnerable. The excruciatingly slow and deliberate pacing as Su-mi sees a shape just past the foot of the bed revels in not hiding the frightening entity but rather maintaining a focus on it as it is gradually revealed. Likewise, Su-yeon’s earlier encounter of something opening the door, fingers wrapping around the side, and getting into bed with her has a dreadful inevitability to it which is befitting of these night terror like experiences. The effect is diluted slightly by indulging in sudden jerky movements toward the camera, but nonetheless it’s delightfully creepy fare.

Sound design enhances every facet of this horror story. In an old house which everyone admits to be strange, every creaky floorboard or clattering window shutter is enough to prompt a nervous glance over the shoulder. Heavy breathing pervades the horror sequences, characters wide-eyed and fearful but still drawn onward by that same inevitability which earlier kept them rooted to the spot. The song which Su-mi and Su-yeon’s mother loved gets woven throughout, whistled by the girls in defiant memoriam or plunked out on instruments as the stepmother stalks through the house. The specter who haunts the house has its own compliment of unusual sounds to set it apart from the more domestic drama of the family. While the camera has a fluid, dynamic language, it’s really the sound which sets this apart stylistically.

While the psychotic stepmother deserves an entire essay herself, the standout moment is perhaps the supremely awkward dinner party. Her relentless bullying “jokes” from the past unfold as a hyperactive assault. Truly the only way to get out of that is to have a full-on Isabelle Adjani in the subway scene in Possession reaction, convulsing on the ground. Time to normalize this behavior when the hosts need to be put in check.

THE RULES

PICK ONE

Select either SU-MI or SU-YEON and sip whenever the opposite sister says her name.

SIP

Strange nocturnal noises.

A sister is in a terrifying situation but she COULD JUST OPEN THE DRAPES IT'S DAYLIGHT OUTSIDE

The bio-mom is mentioned.

Bangs over the eye(s).

BIG DRINK

A door opens on its own.

Someone is reflected in a mirror.

[pmasaojack]

[프라모델] 클럽G 한정 HG 1/35 홍련 성천팔극식 언박싱 / HG 1/35 GUREN Type-08 Elements "SEI...

[leeyunceo]

김지운 ・ 장화, 홍련 (2003)

“정말로 무서운 것은 평생을 따라다닐 후회와 죄책감. 그 유령같은 불가항력”

[pressedwallflower]

A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련), 2003

Dir. Kim Jee-woon

favorite horror movies (69): a tale of two sisters (2003)

"Do you know what's really scary? You want to forget something... but you never can... and it follows you around like a ghost."

[c6smic-angel]

a tale of two sisters ll 장화, 홍련 (2003) directed by kim jee-woon

[horror-aesthete]

A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련), 2003, dir. Kim Jee-woon