Eun-Kyung Yoon's The Tenants reflects South Korean hardships that are universally traumatic. It's fringe horror, nodding to existential absurdism and black-and-white interpretations of Kafkaesque illusions, but terrifying nonetheless. Yoon examines the drab reality of middle-class workers who only exist to uphold any city's ecosystem: corrupt capitalism built on the backs of its forgotten contributors. Storytelling doesn't lack eerie imagery of crawlspace dwellers or sleep paralysis encounters, yet Yoon avoids traditional genre formulas. Don't expect the shared-space suspense of Two Pigeons or the cuckoo slasher violence of Dream Home — The Tenants plays more like artisan science fiction with slinking discomfort.
Shin-dong (Kim Dae-geon) is your typical slave to the grind. He crunches corporate numbers for Happy Meat, an artificial meat company that barely pays him enough to afford rent. That won't matter much longer because Shin-dong's child-aged landlord giddily reveals that his struggling tenant will soon be homeless due to building renovations.
Shin-dong (Kim Dae-geon) is your typical slave to the grind. He crunches corporate numbers for Happy Meat, an artificial meat company that barely pays him enough to afford rent. That won't matter much longer because Shin-dong's child-aged landlord giddily reveals that his struggling tenant will soon be homeless due to building renovations.
- 8/6/2024
- by Matt Donato
- DailyDead
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