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Cinderella

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With her father long gone from her life, high school student Hyun-su (Shin Se-kyung) lives with her mother, Yoon-hee (Do Ji-won), a plastic surgeon. One by one, Hyun-su's vain circle of friends undergo face-lifts, eye-lifts and other procedures performed by Yoon-hee. Afterward, they all begin seeing ghosts and experiencing the urge to mutilate themselves. When her friends start to die, Hyun-su must delve into her mother's past to uncover a deadly secret.

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Tim Brayton Antagony & Ecstasy Though more of its component parts are effective than otherwise, the film doesn't succeed in bringing all of those components into a cohesive whole. Rated: 6/10 Mar 20, 2015 Full Review Read all reviews

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Ricardo d Não consigo entender o motivo do filme se chamar Shinderella? O roteiro tenta manter um suspense simples com tantas reviravoltas que não sabemos se é um filme de fantasma, slasher, médico louco ou um drama familiar. Temos algumas cenas bem construídas, como a cena inicial por exemplo. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 08/15/24 Full Review Audience Member Disturbing movie with a fresh concept! I really like the incorporation of plastic surgery into the horror elements. The mood was well-set, which created a genuinely creepy atmopshere. While the twists were at times confusing, they were understandable by the end. The acting was also very good and believable. They made the emotional scenes devastating, although I felt that they were dragged out towards the end. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/13/23 Full Review Audience Member I loved it wasn't want I would have imagined from Cinderella but it was awesome great job guys Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Bong Man-dae's Cinderella is one of the most criminally under appreciated horror movies of the 2000's. If you have any taste for horror, you will track down and watch this movie immediately. It takes much influence from the Giallo films of Italian directors like Dario Argento and Lucio Fulci, which emphasize gore, psychological trauma, and emotional impact over beat-by-beat storytelling. It liberally blends the real with the fantastic, often switching points of view to create an atmosphere of complete psychological damage. The setup is simple, a mother and plastic surgeon who is obsessed with her daughter's beauty performs several operations on her daughter's friends, who begin to die of seemingly self inflicted injuries. From that, you'd think you'd know where the film was going, but like a good Giallo film, the most obvious twist is really just the tip of the damn iceberg. The situation becoming more grizzly and horrific than you could possibly guess from the outset. The best part is, though there is a pretty definitive villain of the story, the real villain of the story is South Korea's (and indeed most of the civilized world's) obsession with physical beauty. If you like movies like Deep Red, Tenebrae, and Audition, you MUST see this movie. Rock on Fright Knights and keep the darkness scary. -Count Jackula Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/25/23 Full Review Audience Member Pensaba que este filme iba a ser muy bueno pero me decepcionó. La trama es muy lenta y tediosa. Hay muy pocos momentos de susto y no son muy originales. Además de que el climax es confuso. Otra cosa que me llamó la atención es que no tuviera un elenco muy virtuoso, ya que usualmente las producciones koreanas no importa el género siempre cuentan con un elenco talentoso, pero aquí las actuaciones son para salir del paso. Lástima, ya que la trama general tenía una buena idea pero fué plasmada pobremente. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/14/23 Full Review Audience Member This movie is sick, twisted, bizarre, disjointed, slow-moving and often confusing... and despite all that, I really enjoyed it. I don't find it so much scary as sad and disturbing, but I definitely think it's something that will haunt me for a while. This is definitely worth sitting through the subtitles for. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/16/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis With her father long gone from her life, high school student Hyun-su (Shin Se-kyung) lives with her mother, Yoon-hee (Do Ji-won), a plastic surgeon. One by one, Hyun-su's vain circle of friends undergo face-lifts, eye-lifts and other procedures performed by Yoon-hee. Afterward, they all begin seeing ghosts and experiencing the urge to mutilate themselves. When her friends start to die, Hyun-su must delve into her mother's past to uncover a deadly secret.
Director
Bong Man-dae
Producer
Park Minhui
Screenwriter
Son Kwang-soo
Production Co
Showbox Entertainment
Genre
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 17, 2007
Runtime
1h 39m