Seire

Released Nov 4, 2022

1h 42m

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In Korean folk traditions, "seire" is the twenty-one days after a baby is born in which they're uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses -- even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby's life, and new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend's funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued by terrible nightmares, the skeptical Woo-jin gradually begins to understand the seire custom, as he is forced to unravel the mystery of what is haunting him and his family in Kang Park's "chilling indie horror debut" (Screen Anarchy) heralding the arrival of a fresh new voice in Korean genre cinema.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

What results is a down-to-earth kind of horror movie, about the common feelings of despair... [Full review in Spanish]

Jun 16, 2023

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

First-time helmer and scribe, Kang Park, casts a decided gauntlet that he is an up and coming talent in the K-horror pantheon of filmmakers, Let us see what happens next.

Rated: B

Jun 13, 2023

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

Writer/director Park Kang makes his feature debut with the creepiest fear of fatherhood movie since David Lynch’s “Eraserhead.”

Rated: B+

Jun 13, 2023

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

A slow burn of a film which disturbs and unsettles, recalling insomniac night and too-bright mornings, a familiar world where everything seems slightly askew.

Rated: 4/5

Jun 12, 2023

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

A story about sympathetic magic works nowadays in Korea. A reflexión on our contemporary beliefs. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 4/5

Nov 14, 2022

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Anton Bitel

Projected Figures

Fatherhood is frightening in Park Kang’s sinuous, slippery feature, where a newborn’s arrival engenders superstition, paranoia & guilt

Nov 11, 2022

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In Korean folk traditions, "seire" is the twenty-one days after a baby is born in which they're uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses -- even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby's life, and new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend's funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued by terrible nightmares, the skeptical Woo-jin gradually begins to understand the seire custom, as he is forced to unravel the mystery of what is haunting him and his family in Kang Park's "chilling indie horror debut" (Screen Anarchy) heralding the arrival of a fresh new voice in Korean genre cinema.

Director: Kang Park
Producer: Rhee Yoon-joo
Screenwriter: Kang Park
Distributor: Film Movement
Genre: Horror
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 4, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 16, 2023
Runtime: 1h 42m

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