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Pierce Conran (koreanfilm.or.kr, Screen Anarchy, Modern Cinema)
Get ready! Korean horror movie buffs discuss the must-watch Korean horror films of all time. And they tackle the question, is “Parasite” a horror film?
Korean Horror Watch List
Memento Mori (여고괴담 두번째 이야기, 1999)
A Tale of Two Sisters (장화, 홍련, 2003)
Possessed (불신지옥, 2009)
The Wailing
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Shawn’s Complete International Horror List
The list includes my three favourite types of horror films: gothic horror, folk horror, and revisionist horror, as well as psychological horror, sci-fi horror, monster films (i.e. kaiju, creature features, etc.), suspense, slasher films, gore films, exploitation, New French Extremity, survival horror, and horror comedy. I’ve included a few films whose premise focuses more on atmospheric mystery and suspense. A title with * next to it is considered key viewing, essential to the history of the genre. A title with + next to it signals my absolute favourite films on the list.
1890s
*Le Manoir du diable (The Haunted Castle)
La Caverne maudite (The Cave of the Demons)
1900s
The Haunted Curiosity Shop
The Infernal Cauldron
*Satán se divierte (Satan at Play)
La Maison Ensorcelée (The House of Ghosts)
1910s
*Frankenstein (from Edison Studios)
Le masque d’horreur
*Der Golem (1915 version, partially lost film)
*+Nächte des Grauens (A Night of Horror)
1920s
*+The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (John Barrymore version)
The Phantom Carriage
*Häxan
*+Nosferatu
*The Hunchback of Notre Dame
*Orlacs Hände
*+The Phantom of the Opera
The Magician
London After Midnight (technically a lost film, but there is a restored version using stills from the film)
Wolf Blood
La Chute de la maison Usher (1928 French adaptation of The Fall of the House of Usher)
Somnambul
1930s
*+Dracula (Universal Studios English language version)
+Drácula (Universal Studios Spanish language version shot simultaneously with the English version starring Bela Lugosi)
*Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
Svengali
*+Frankenstein
*Freaks
Island of Lost Souls
*+The Mummy
*+The Old Dark House
*+Vampyr
*+White Zombie
The Ghoul
*+The Invisible Man
*+King Kong
+The Black Cat
+El fantasma del convent (The Phantom of the Convent)
+Supernatural
*+Bride of Frankenstein
+Werewolf of London
The Crime of Dr. Crespi
Mark of the Vampire
Dracula’s Daughter
The Walking Dead
The Face at the Window
*+Son of Frankenstein
1940s
+The Invisible Man Returns
Black Friday
The Devil Bat
*+The Wolf Man
The Undying Monster
The Phantom of the Opera
*+Cat People
The Lodger
The Ghost of Frankenstein
I Walked with a Zombie
+The Body Snatcher
The Corpse Vanishes
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
*+The Uninvited
+The Spiral Staircase
Cry of the Werewolf
*+Dead of Night
1950s
The Thing from Another World
*+House of Wax
The Black Castle
Les Diaboliques
*+Creature from the Black Lagoon
The Mad Magician
*The Quatermass Xperiment (US title: The Creeping Unknown)
*+The Night of the Hunter
*The Bad Seed
The Abominable Snowman of the Himalaya
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
*+The Curse of Frankenstein
Night of the Demon
I Was a Teenage Werewolf
I Vampiri
*+Dracula (1958 Hammer Studios; US title: Horror of Dracula)
+The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Blob
*The Fly
Blood of the Vampire
Fiend Without a Face
The Screaming Skull
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman
*A Bucket of Blood
*+House on Haunted Hill
*+The Mummy (1959 Hammer Studios)
Terror is a Man
+The Ghost of Yotsuya
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959 Hammer Studios)
Plan 9 from Outer Space
1960s
+The Brides of Dracula
*+Black Sunday
*Peeping Tom
*Les Yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face)
13 Ghosts
*+Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
*+The City of the Dead
*+House of Usher
Jigoku
*+Psycho
Village of the Damned
+The Curse of the Werewolf
*+The Innocents
*+Carnival of Souls
The Premature Burial
*+Burn Witch Burn
Repulsion
+Tomb of Ligeia
*+À Meia-Noite Levarei Sua Alma (At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul)
+Black Sabbath
*The Haunting
*+Blood and Black Lace
Kwaidan
The Raven
*+Onibaba
*+The Last Man on Earth
The Skull
+Dracula: Prince of Darkness
*+The Plague of the Zombies
The Witches
*+Viy
*+The Devil Rides Out
+Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
*+Vargtimmen (Hour of the Wolf)
+La Marca del Hombre Lobo (The Mark of the Wolfman)
*+Night of the Living Dead
Le Viol du Vampire (The Rape of the Vampire)
*Rosemary’s Baby
*+Witchfinder General
1970s
Taste the Blood of Dracula
House of Dark Shadows
Ghosts of Chosun
+La Noche de Walpurgis (Walpurgis Night)
+Twins of Evil
+Daughters of Darkness
*+The Blood on Satan’s Claw
Cry of the Banshee
Hexen bis aufs Blut gequält (Mark of the Devil)
*+The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Asylum
+Tales from the Crypt
And Now the Screaming Starts!
*+The Exorcist
*+Don’t Look Now
From Beyond the Grave
*+The Legend of Hell House
Vault of Horror
*+The Wicker Man
+Tombs of the Blind Dead
Janghwa Hongryeon Jeon (The Story of Janghwa & Hongryeon)
The Beast Must Die
*Black Christmas
+Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter
*+The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
*+Jaws
Shivers
Trilogy of Terror
*Carrie
*The Omen
+Madhouse
To the Devil a Daughter
*Eraserhead
*+Suspiria
Rabid
*+Dawn of the Dead
*+Halloween
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
*+Martin
*+Alien
The Brood
+Nosferatu the Vampyre
Phantasm
1980s
*Altered States
+The Changeling
The Fog
The Beyond
*+Friday the 13th
Inferno
*The Shining
Possession
+The House by the Cemetery
Wolfen
*+An American Werewolf in London
*+The Evil Dead
+The Howling
Basket Case
Videodrome
+Creepshow
Cujo
*Poltergeist
*+The Dead Zone
*+The Thing
Nightmares (Joseph Sargent film)
*+The Company of Wolves
*+A Nightmare on Elm Street
Demons (Lamberto Bava film)
Day of the Dead
Fright Night
+Re-Animator
The Return of the Living Dead
Silver Bullet
Night of the Creeps
*+The Fly
*+Evil Dead II
*Hellraiser
The Lost Boys
+The Monster Squad
Near Dark
*Child’s Play
Pumpkinhead
Pet Sematary
Nekromantik
+Tetsuo: The Iron Man
1990s
Begotten
Tales from the Darkside
Two Evil Eyes
*+Tremors
The Exorcist III
*Jacob’s Ladder
*+Misery
*+The Silence of the Lambs
The People Under the Stairs
+Bram Stoker’s Dracula
Braindead
Candyman
*+Cronos
+Cemetery Man
Wes Craven’s New Nightmare
In the Mouth of Madness
+El dia de la Bestia (The Day of the Beast)
From Dusk till Dawn
*Scream
The Frighteners
Event Horizon
Ring
*Blair Witch Project
Stir of Echoes
Audition
The Sixth Sense
2000s
*+Ginger Snaps
28 Days Later
*+El espinazo del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone)
*Shadow of the Vampire (Note: Watch Nosferatu [from 1922] first)
Pulse
*+The Others
*+Dog Soldiers
Gozu
A Tale of Two Sisters
Saw
*+Shaun of the Dead
+The Descent
+The Mist
Cloverfield
*+The Orphanage
Paranormal Activity
REC
30 Days of Night
*+Trick r’ Treat
Pontypool
*Martyrs (2008 French-Canadian original version)
*+Let the Right One In
Dread
Antichrist (2009 Lars von Trier film)
+Drag Me to Hell
Dead Snow
*+Sennentuntschi
2010s
+Frozen (no, not that Frozen…)
*+Let Me In
Stake Land
The Cabin in the Woods
Rare Exports
Tucker & Dale vs Evil
+Lobos de Arga (Game of Werewolves)
John Dies at the End
*+Kill List
+The Woman in Black (2012 version by Hammer Films)
*+A Field in England
Wolfcop
Goodnight Mommy
*+A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
A Christmas Horror Story
Oculus
Crimson Peak
Maggie
*+What We Do in the Shadows
We Are Still Here
*+The Witch
*+Bone Tomahawk
*+The Invitation
+Hellions
+Los Parecidos (The Similars)
Don’t Breathe
+The Love Witch
Raw (2016 French-Belgian film)
*+The Wailing
10 Cloverfield Lane
I am the Pretty Thing that Lives in the House
*+Under the Shadow
*+Get Out
*+A Dark Song
The Ritual
Mother!
The Killing of a Sacred Deer
*+Les Affamés (Ravenous)
Gerald’s Game
It Comes at Night
The Autopsy of Jane Doe
*+Hagazussa
*+Hereditary
Us
Midsommar
[/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]OUR NOTES
Timeline
Recap
- Bak Jeong-chol (Park Jeong-chol)
- Died (Jan 14, 1987)
- Information suppressed by the government
- Hwang Jeok-jun performed the autopsy
- Pressured by police to say he died from “shock in the heart”
- Refused and said he “suffocated due to neck pressure”
- Choi Hwan (prosecutor) was told by police to immediately cremate the body to hide evidence
- Could instantly tell he was tortured
- Refused to comply
- Hwang Jeok-jun performed the autopsy
- Somehow this information landed in the hands of Rep. Lee Bu-yong, who was in jail for leading an anti-government rally in May 1986
- Wrote a letter disclosing the scheme
- Two prison guards helped him get it out
- Passed to a third guard
- Landed in the hands of the Korean Catholic Church two months after the death
- Read aloud in May 1987 by Father Kim Seung-hun during a ceremony commemorating the Gwangju Uprising
- Korean Catholic church had historically been more democratic, which was one reason it was suppressed in the Joseon era
- Prosecutor Lee Hong-kyu leaked info to SSH
- JoonAng Ilbo reporter Shin Sung-ho (SSH)
- Slept in a motel near his office to evade authorities
- Catholic Priests Association for Justice (CPAJ) with a doctor (Oh Yeon-sang), prosecutor, and the JoongAng Ilbo (Shin Sung-ho) exhumed the cover-up on May 18
- Inflamed the public
- Planned a demonstration on June 10
This Episode
- During the street protests, Chun Doo-hwan’s (CDH) press people were claiming that the opposition was against democracy because they took their protests to the streets and not the ballot box
- “The opposition has taken this undemocratic decision. But we hope that they will return to the table.” – Foreign Press Secretary
- Lee Han-yeol
- The demonstrations started out only in the core groups
- (June 9) Yonsei University students demonstrated
- Tear gas grenade penetrated his skull
- Became the symbol of the protests from then forward
- (July 5) died
- Over 1.6 million participated in his funeral (July 9th)
- Buried at the May 18th National Cemetery
- (June 10) Jamsil Arena – CDH’s Democratic Justice Party nominated his hand picked successor, Roh Tae-woo (RTW)
- Major demonstrations around country (~240,000 people in 22 cities)
- Grew beyond the core
- (June 18) Rally against tear gas grenades
- 1.5 million, 16 cities
- White collar workers joined, throwing rolls of toilet paper
- (June 19) CDH mobilized the army
- Feared another Gwangju Massacre
- Recalled the army a few hours later
- (June 26) Great National March of Peace
- Over 1 million, 34 cities
- 3.467 detained
- (June 29) CDH – June 29th Declaration Special Declaration for Grand National Harmony and Progress Towards a Great Nation 국민들의 민주화와 직선제 개헌요구를 받아들여 발표한 특별선언
- Speech by RTW
- Promised concessions to the opposition
- Eight points
- amend the constitution to provide for the direct election of the president;
- revise the presidential election law to ensure free candidature and genuinely competitive elections;
- grant amnesty to political prisoners, including Kim Dae-jung;
- protect human dignity and extend the right of habeas corpus;
- abolish the Basic Press Law and restore the freedom of the press;
- strengthen local and educational autonomy;
- move the political climate towards dialogue and compromise; and
- achieve substantial social reform.
Aftermath
- Korea’s labor unions were mostly borne from this (Hyundai Engine Trade Union, July 3, 1987)
- 1,060 new labor unions, 3,456 (July – September)
- (Dec 1987) first elections in 15 years
- RTW was still elected president
- Opposition divided between the Two Kims – KYS and KJD
- Likely would have defeated RTW if united
- RTW 36.6%
- KYS 28%
- KJD 27%
- 89.2% turnout
- Bombing of Korean Air Flight 858 the day before the election by a North Korean agent
- Roh continued some of the authoritarian practices of CDH
- Opposition divided between the Two Kims – KYS and KJD
- 30 years later
- (2005) National Intelligence Service busted for bugging phones of 1,800 lawmakers and journalists (1998-2002)
- (2011) NIS got psychological warfare agents to sabotage internet conversations
- PGH’s blacklist at the Ministry of Culture, Sports, and Tourism of 9,473 artists for liberal views
- The building where Park Jong-chol and others were tortured has become the Democratic Human Rights Memorial Hall https://dhrm.or.kr/
- Quote from Manjeok