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ShareDirector Park Chan-wook doesn’t rise to the visual and emotional heights he achieved in Oldboy and Sympathy For Lady Vengeance, but he has fun overturning vampire movie conventions, playing with Christian values and mounting gruesome and magical effects sequences, including a comical and nasty rooftop chase.
A mysterious disease that afflicts missionaries turns a young priest into a vampire whose newly aroused senses propel him into an affair with the abused wife of a childhood friend. She’s hot for the powers of darkness and wants to sink her husband in the lake. He strives for restraint. Both suffer vivid and funny guilt pangs that wreck their sex life.
With his choirboy face and hangdog manner, Song Kang-ho comes across as an unwholesome innocent and a great foil to Kim Ok-vin’s working-class hottie. She’d be right at home in The Postman Always Rings Twice, which Park’s film resembles.
I’d have welcomed some comments from Park. He’s thoughtful and articulate.
EXTRAS Widescreen. Korean audio. English, French, Spanish subtitles.
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