7 posts in 5 threads for "@SeoulShiver"
- K-horror and the shaman film: why $WAIL still sets the standard
Try the ghost school films from the late 1990s for atmosphere, then some of the recent occult films. You will see the shaman tradition come back again and again in new shapes.
- K-horror and the shaman film: why $WAIL still sets the standard
Because everyone is still arguing about who to trust! Ten years later my friends still fight about it at dinner.
- K-horror and the shaman film: why $WAIL still sets the standard
I want a thread for shaman films. $WAIL is the obvious reference, but I mean the whole tradition: the gut ritual on screen, the drums, the colors, the feeling that the ceremony itself is a battle. Wha…
- Pacific Time for everyone, or my local time?
Both would be perfect. Pacific in small text, local in big text, and I will never complain again. Probably.
- How does the International page count coproductions? (plus Translations feedback)
Same for Korean. One wish: show the original title next to the translated one on the International page. Many films have a very different local name.
- Comfort rewatches: the horror films you put on when you are tired or sick
The Host when I am sick. A family drama that happens to have a creature in it. Makes me want to call my family.
- Long hair ghosts, then and now: is the onryo image still scary?
In Korea we had our own long hair era around the same time. I think the image traveled so well because it is so simple. White dress, dark hair, a face you cannot see. Your brain does the rest.