Acacia

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caroline C After years of looking for this movie I finally managed to watch it, and I am not disappointed! I can see why it doesn't please everyone, usually sold as a horror flick, this is more of a slow paced, atmospheric psychological horror, typical of Korean 'horror' movies of the time. Not to everyone's taste, but right up my alley with its beautifully dark and creepy atmosphere! Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/24 Full Review Audience Member Not groundbreaking or boundary pushing, it was alright, and that's about it. Seemed to get off to a good start, but then just got a little silly. The 'twist' was neither expected nor was it terribly gripping. Not sad I watched it, but wouldn't be upset if I hadn't! Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/03/23 Full Review Audience Member When a married couple Choi Mi-sook (Shim Hye-jin) and Kim Do-il (Kim Jin-geun) are unable to produce offspring of their own, they decide to adopt a six-year-old boy named Lee Jin-seong (Oh-bin Mun) who has a peculiar obsession with trees and is constantly drawing them. Arriving at his new home, he is drawn to a barren acacia tree under the impression that it is his mother. Following a conflict with his foster mother, Jin-seong appears to run away and it subsequently becomes evident that there's more to the tree than meets the eye as an escalating number of bizarre incidents occur, all seeming to point back to the mysterious acacia and the missing boy. You can praise it all you like for its subtlety, but, in the long run, Acacia is nothing more than a film about an all-seeing killer tree at least twice as dull as it sounds. Actually managing to pull the creepy children card for its entire 103-minute duration, Acacia it gets old real fast and, like just about every other K-horror and J-horror flick before it, it ends with everyone either dead, insane, or both (in this case, both). I saw this movie after having heard positive things, but all I found was a by-the-numbers K-horror with precisely zero scares. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Slow Family-Drama, but I like it Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Below average Asian horror flick that tries so hard to be scary, but fails so miserably. When a young couple adopt a young boy all kinds of weird things start to happen namely relatives start to die. The film does have it's occasional good scare moments, but it gets forgotten quickly in the sea of boringness. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Acacia is a South Korean horror film about a Doctor and his wife seeking to adopt a child together. The wife is attracted to a little orphan boy's artistic talent (for drawing creepy looking pictures of trees), thinking he's got a high I.Q. When they get the boy home, strange things start happening. He has a strange fascination with insects and the acacia tree in their back yard. Soon, the mother gets pregnant and the couple have their own "real" child, and the adopted son gets jealous. It even seems as though he'll hurt the baby, and the couple start to discuss the real possibility of sending him back to the orphanage. He overhears this conversation though, and before running off into the night, he declares his mom is a "tree". Meanwhile, the dad, who is an ob/gyn, delivers a dead baby then rushes home. It was around the halfway mark I realized this movie wasn't very coherent, scary or even interesting. After the boy runs away, the tree grows leaves, and then there's a pointless rape scene. It's obvious the filmmakers were trying to take an artistic approach to making a horror movie, but in the end it is just about a "killer tree", and how scary can you possibly make such a thing? Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 01/26/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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