The 12th Korean Film Festival Canada held in Montreal will be wrapping up 7June2025.
“Hole”, a 2023 K Short by Hyein Hwang, screened on 24May2025 but it surely and deservedly must pop-up in the festival circuit.
Kafkaesque initially gradually transcending into absolute horror and I am not referencing the Borror genre of horror with slashing, spewing guts and predictable violence. This is pure thinking person’s horror triggered by suspense and curiosity that may kill the cat. The horror is psychological.
Jeong-mi is a junior child welfare officer in Seoul under the tutelage of her boss who leaves her to finish off the day’s tasks to attend his wedding anniversary party.
Two young children on her “list” have not been attending school for months so the situation must be investigated. Are the parting words of her boss indicative of child welfare authorities in South Korea; “Children lie a lot so don’t believe everything they say.”
Jeong-mi attends the home of the two children who take her to a room with a manhole cover over a deep hole where the children say they can hear their parents’ voices coming from below. These children are to be believed. There are voices and noises coming from the bottom of this deep hole. At this point your curiosity may be quickly transformed into terror of a menacing nature.
Bone chilling and delightfully discrete! High class horror!
RKS 2025 Film Rating 94/100.
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