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Bunhongsin

  • 2005
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 43m
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5.7/10
3.3K
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Bunhongsin (2005)
HorrorMysteryThriller

A woman stumbles upon a pair of pink high heels while walking down a subway platform. She picks them up and takes them home only to find out that they are cursed and can ruin her life.A woman stumbles upon a pair of pink high heels while walking down a subway platform. She picks them up and takes them home only to find out that they are cursed and can ruin her life.A woman stumbles upon a pair of pink high heels while walking down a subway platform. She picks them up and takes them home only to find out that they are cursed and can ruin her life.

  • Director
    • Yong-gyun Kim
  • Writers
    • Hans Christian Andersen
    • Yong-gyun Kim
    • Ma Sang-Ryeol
  • Stars
    • Kim Hye-su
    • Kim Seong-su
    • Yeon-ah Park
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  • IMDb RATING
    5.7/10
    3.3K
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    • Director
      • Yong-gyun Kim
    • Writers
      • Hans Christian Andersen
      • Yong-gyun Kim
      • Ma Sang-Ryeol
    • Stars
      • Kim Hye-su
      • Kim Seong-su
      • Yeon-ah Park
    • 36User reviews
    • 54Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 1 nomination total

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    Kim Hye-su
    Kim Hye-su
    • Sun-jae
    Kim Seong-su
    Kim Seong-su
    • In-cheol
    Yeon-ah Park
    • Tae-su
    Lee Eol
    Lee Eol
    Kim Ji-Eun
    • Keiko
    Dae-hyeon Lee
    Hyeon-jin Sa
    Go Su-hee
    • Kim Mi-hee
    • Director
      • Yong-gyun Kim
    • Writers
      • Hans Christian Andersen
      • Yong-gyun Kim
      • Ma Sang-Ryeol
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    6GoregirlsDungeon

    Nice looking, some decent moments but ultimately a let down

    'THE RED SHOES' is a supernatural tale with its center revolving around a pretty typical plot involving a mother alone with her daughter, struggling in the world. The reoccurring images you see in far too many Korean ghost stories are present here. There are pale faced girls with long black hair hanging in their face and cursed artifacts that bring misfortune to those that possess them. But there are enough unique touches paired with an intriguing performance by the lead actress that helps to elevate its status.

    Sun-Jae unexpectedly goes home in the middle of the day to find her husband banging some other woman. She moves out on her own with her young daughter Han Tae-su to an inexpensive apartment near Goksung Station. She meets handsome young architect, In-cheol who is designing her eye clinic and the two embark on a relationship. On the subway on her way home Sun-Jae sees a seemingly abandoned pair of shoes she cannot resist picking up. The shoes bring the worst out in people, including her daughter who becomes obsessed with them on sight. When a friend is found dead and her daughters behavior becomes more severe, Sun-Jae and In-cheol will need to solve the mystery behind the cursed footwear before it's too late.

    Bloody death scenes filmed in sterile white environments can be extremely effective. The opening scene of 'THE RED SHOES' is an outstanding example of this. There are some cherry props also. The main character is obsessed with shoes. The depth of the obsession is shown with a massive glass store display prop. The stacked glass boxes showcases each individual pair of shoes. The visuals are strong throughout. There are some respectable moments of suspense, but not nearly enough of them. Violence and gore is slim but I enjoyed what there was of it. The performances were strong and there is some interesting character development. I found the lead actress, Hye-su Kim fascinating. The love interest, In-cheol is very easy on the eyes. The problem is, that I liked the films individual pieces more than the completed work. I had a serious issue with certain "spooky" images. One in particular stood out because it is a carbon copy of something I've seen in at least two other films and seemed completely irrelevant to the story. Obviously added in for mood, it was totally ineffective. There are some predictable plot twists that also bog it down. The story is uneven and trips over its own feet, but ultimately for a ghost story it just isn't very scary. That said, I still think this is a really nice looking film with strong performances and enough special touches that it's worth a watch.
    4paul_m_haakonsen

    Nothing extraordinary to be found here...

    First of all I must say that I am puzzled about the statement on the DVD cover; 'genuinely creepy' and 'ghostly disturbing, violent and bloody' The Red Shoes is one of the year's must-see horror films'. I just wonder if I actually watched the same movie as whomever had written that.

    The story is about a pair of haunted red shoes - yeah, exactly. Enough said! The storyline was a tad too silly for me and the entire movie was just lacking a proper red line throughout the entire storyline.

    The movie wasn't spooky or scary, and it managed to stay afloat and pass as semi-watchable because of the acting performances put on by the cast. But the performances couldn't really manage to lift up the movie because the story was lacking the all-important spice. And as such, this movie was a below average experience.

    South Korea do manage to put some really great horror movies out there, but "The Red Shoes" (aka "Bunhongsin") just wasn't one such occurrence.
    5aronharde

    Nothing ordinary but still decent

    The Red Shoes (2005), not to be confused with the 1948 drama romance movie is a brutal South-Korean horror flick about a pair of high heels who's owner is followed by jealousy, greed and death. Unlike the title should suggests these red shoes are in fact pink high heels but that could be seen as a metaphor for all the blood it is responsible for. You see our protagonist spiraling down into madness while people around her try to claim these shoes are getting punished with a brutal death.

    It's your typical run of the mill haunted item horror movie with nothing too spectacular or special to differentiate the movie from others. Even though its stylish and definitely has some brutal scenes with great makeup effects the movie overall ended up to be very average. We have seen similar movies before and this movie definitely will find its audience somewhere but overall I don't think it's a movie to be remembered. Still a decent watch for you if you enjoy creepy Asian supernatural horror movies. [5,2/10]
    7wkduffy

    It's a Big Cliché, But It's Still Damn Good!

    I'm in a quandary over this film. Like many other reviewers have amply illustrated here, this film is like a Korean Klone in lots of ways. It borrows moves from the Ringu play-book, the Dark Water play-book, the Ju-On play-book, The Eye play-book...please stop me. It's got a daughter and mother all alone in the world facing supernatural evil. It's got hunched-over, black-haired teens with bad attitudes and osteoporosis floating around upside-down and showing up in elevators. It's got the cheating hubby, the young love interest, the entrepreneurial "young Asian professional female" slowly losing her mind. Most importantly, it's got the requisite cursed artifact (not a wig, not a videotape, not a pair of transplanted corneas, but a swanky set of pink stilettos that a particular ghost doesn't want any mortal wearing).

    BUT GOSH DARN IT, I LIKED THIS FILM! I guess it says something if I feel compelled to excuse myself for this fact, but I really did care for the characters and the serious situation they are hopelessly trapped in. Indeed, I was hooked by the grue--people getting their feet forcibly removed gets my attention. The cinematography is colorful, and artful, and top notch--as we have come to expect from Korean directors. (Did you catch those cool on-purpose-out-of-focus shots? Fuzzy weirdness...) The music is actually pretty unique--the low-key guitar ditty that recurs off and on is melodic, and personal, and not overwrought. Yes, the plot "twists and turns" in terribly predictable ways: Could our protagonist really be the guilty one? Is it possible that we might find the answer to the horrible mystery by rifling through old newspaper copy in the library? Even though we've "properly buried" the red shoes with their owner, is it possible the evil will return nevertheless to wreak ultimate revenge? When we get to the end, will the decidedly downbeat narrative actually make very little sense? Yes, you've seen--and come to expect--it all.

    But, darn it, this flick is done with such panache in a very gutsy way. The characters are carefully drawn, the direction is solid. And when you get right down to it, America simply does not make films like this. I don't think America ever will again. We used to make great, sad, horror films, but not anymore. We real horror fans have got to rely on films like "Bunhongsin" to get our fix. In fact, that's precisely why I give this film the benefit of the doubt.
    4MovieGuy01

    Not too bad Korean horror film....

    I have just watched the Korean horror film The Red Shoes, and i thought that it was not too bad, but i have seen much better Asian horror films. It is about a woman called Sun-jae, whose husband is unfaithful and cheats on her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a cheap apartment at Goksung Station, with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While she is travelling back home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of pink shoes and brings them home with her. Her daughter Han Tae-soo starts to become fascinated by the shoes, that her mother has bought. but they bring greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, Sun-jae starts to have visions and nightmares about ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. She finds out that the of pink shoes that she found on a subway platform seems to bring a curse on whoever wears them. And rips them from the owners feet and taking the owners feet with them. Sun-jae tries to find out what is causing the curse to happen. i found this horror film to be not to bad to watch 4/10

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    • Trivia
      Italian censorship visa # 99509 delivered on 15 December 2005.
    • Goofs
      The colour of the shoes in the modern day moments of the film are a purplish pink, however during the moments where it was presumably the Japanese occupation of Korea at that time, the shoes are a reddish pink, perhaps due to the fact that the shoes have been worn for a very long period of time.
    • Quotes

      Sun-jae: [Angry] Mommy loves Tae-soo very much... But mommy really hates when Tae-soo lies.

      Tae-su: [Crying] It's not a lie! Daddy really came! He said he's too cold and to take him out!

      Sun-jae: [Angry] Don't lie to me!... I told you that daddy couldn't come here. How can he? I told you he can't come here, so how could he? How can he?... Why did you lie? Why did you lie?

      Tae-su: [Crying] Mommy. Mommy.

      Sun-jae: [Sun-jae realizes what she had done to her daughter and hugs her]

      [Crying]

      Sun-jae: Tae-soo. Tae-soo... Tae-soo, I'm sorry. Mommy was wrong... Tae-soo. Tae-soo... Tae-soo, mommy was wrong. I was wrong. Mommy was wrong...

      [Sun-jae becomes obsessed by the red shoes again and grabs her daughter's hair angrily]

      Sun-jae: [Angry] But mommy... Really hates when Tae-soo lies.

    • Crazy credits
      After Taesoo, who is covered in thick makeup and wears a black top and white tutu while dancing and looking at her reflection in the mirror, part of the beginning of the credits show. However before they get past the second actor in the cast list, the screen shakes and the text turns red as if there is a technical problem, before it reverts to a scene of people walking in the park. The pink shoes can be seen again in the park, and a girl with roller blades leans down to pick them up. After her hand covers the camera, the credits roll normally.
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    • Release date
      • June 30, 2005 (South Korea)
    • Country of origin
      • South Korea
    • Language
      • Korean
    • Also known as
      • The Red Shoes
    • Filming locations
      • Seoul, South Korea
    • Production company
      • Generation Blue Films
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    • Gross worldwide
      • $7,853,740
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    • Runtime
      1 hour 43 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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