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Police (Yum Jung-ah, Ji Jin-hee) investigate brutal murders that mimic those of a serial killer (Cho Seung-woo) on death row.

Critics Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews Suffers from cheesy production values, the clumsy manner of the storytelling, ill-conceived characters and crude acting. Rated: C- Apr 21, 2006 Full Review Christopher Null Filmcritic.com H nonetheless has enough bright spots and well-done moments (though not for the squeamish) that it merits a cautious recommendation. Rated: 3/5 Jun 10, 2005 Full Review David Cornelius eFilmCritic.com With H, we get the thrills and the twists, yes, but we also get the down time, a space where clich and human nature collide. Rated: 4/5 May 31, 2005 Full Review Joshua Tanzer Offoffoff H sets up its enigmatic premise with a gruesome style and intensity, and finally ties up the mystery with ... well, nothing a little suspension of disbelief can't fix. Rated: 3/4 Aug 18, 2004 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member This Korean thriller with a tricky name borrows some ideas from "Silence of the Lambs", but takes the story into its own territory, adding unexpected twists and turns. Despite poor English subtitles adding guesswork on the viewer's part, it's still a compelling story that keeps you guessing until the end. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member More potential then exicution. not a good ending at all. dull camera work and a real slow pacing, never really felt the intensity Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/18/23 Full Review Audience Member H (Jong-hyuk Lee, 2002) Se7en Meets Silence of the Lambs! crows the cover art, obviously written for an American audience, that adorns this movie at Netflix. I read a review on IMDB from a person who mentions that overseas box art compares the film to Tellmisseomding. All of these comparisons have teeth, but as this movie progressed, I found myself thinking more and more of Kyua, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's immensely entertaining supernatural take on ...Lambs. H is not as good a movie as any of the above, but its problems are relatively minor and if you're looking for a fun locked-room murder mystery, this will fill the bill nicely. Shin-hyun (Marathon's Seung-woo Cho), a serial killer, turns himself in and is locked up. Everything seems great...until a year later, when two recent crimes are uncovered that bear the marks of being Shin-hyun's work. The only problem is that he was in prison when they occurred. So the two detectives who were originally assigned to the case, Mi-yun Kim (Tellmisseomding's Jung-ah Yum) and Tae-hyun Kang (Perhaps Love's Jin-hee Ji in her first screen appearance), hit the bricks to see if they can figure out whether they've got a copycat on their hands, or whether Shin-hyun is masterminding what could be an entire network of serial killers from behind bars. Or whether the answer is something even weirder... It's quite a slick little film that wears its influences on its sleeve maybe a little too much; it tries to make up for this by coming up with a bang-up plot twist, and for what it's worth, they did a good job at it. The Big Reveal(TM) here is an interesting take on a couple of stock plot twists, but I don't think I've ever seen them combined in quite this way before (though I can identify three or four things that might have been direct influences). That's ultimately not enough to balance the weight of the movie's derivative nature, but as long as you're willing to put that to the side, it's a well-acted, well-presented little movie, and you won't feel you've wasted two hours after watching it. *** Rated 3 out of 5 stars 02/11/23 Full Review Audience Member H is a gruesome Korean thriller, which "borrows" many ideas from Silence of the Lambs. A man who commits brutal murders of pregnant women is imprisoned, the murders keep happening. The detectives of the case then constantly interview the man trying to solve the puzzle. If SOtL never existed, this would be much more appreciated. I did predict the ending early on, and much of the acting was overdone, but something about this film touched me. I think the uniqueness was the tension between detectives, the back to backs got almost as brutal as the crime. The film was gory from the start, and not for people with a weak stomach. I wouldn't confuse this for anything good, but it was a worthy watch. The rating is generous, but I can't go lower. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Audience Member so twisted... but give credit to the acting. Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 02/16/23 Full Review Audience Member H tries too hard to copy the tropes of the average American detective thriller, but the acting is flat and the ending is both predictable and ridiculous. Its only redeeming quality is the gore, even though the gore more or less ends within the first 20 minutes. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/27/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis Police (Yum Jung-ah, Ji Jin-hee) investigate brutal murders that mimic those of a serial killer (Cho Seung-woo) on death row.
Director
Lee Jong-hyeok
Production Co
Bom Film Productions
Rating
R (Language|Strong Bloody Violence)
Genre
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Original Language
Korean
Release Date (Streaming)
Feb 13, 2015
Runtime
1h 46m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital