Hansel and Gretel (2007 film)
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Initial DVD release April 1, 2009 (France) Duration | 7/10 Genre Drama, Fantasy, Horror Country South Korea | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date December 27, 2007 (2007-12-27) Writer Ji-hye Kim (adaptation), Min-sook Kim (story), Pil-sung Yim (screenplay) Initial release December 27, 2007 (South Korea) Cast Chun Jung Myung (Eun-Soo), (Soojeong), (Jung Soon), Kyeong-ik Kim (Youngsik), Park Hee-Soon (Deacon-byun), (Manbok)Similar movies , Maleficent , Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 4 , Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 3 , Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared II: Time , Don't Hug Me, I'm Scared Tagline Once upon a time in a dark, dark forest... |
Hansel and gretel 2007 trailer
Hansel and Gretel (Hangul: 헨젤과 그레텔) is a 2007 South Korean horror film directed by Yim Pil-sung.
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- Hansel and gretel 2007 trailer
- Hansel and gretel 2007 korean horror movie review
- Plot
- Cast and characters
- Trivia
- Festivals
- International release
- Reviews
- References
Hansel and gretel 2007 korean horror movie review
Plot

Eun-soo, a salesman, is driving his car along Highway 69 while talking on the phone with his pregnant girlfriend, Hae-young. They get into a fight, leading Eun-soo in a car-crash where he loses consciousness. He wakes up to find himself stranded in a dark forest. He sees light from a lantern carried by a young girl who introduces herself as Young-hee as they head for her house, in the middle of the forest called the "House of Happy Children".

Her parents, older brother Man-bok and younger sister Jung-soon are waiting on the porch when they arrive. The following day, Eun-soo finds the children following his every move; later, he makes a failed attempt to leave the house. As he tries again, he discovers that the parents are leaving, who tell him to take care of the kids.

He soon finds the mother hiding in the attic, who tells him that they are not the children's real parents. Their car broke down on Highway 69 too, and they met Jung-soon when they explored the woods. She tells him not to believe the children. As Eun-soo makes his way out again the next day, he sees Man-bok and a couple approaching the house. The man, Byun is a deacon who is seemingly amicable, unlike his wife. Eun-soo keeps looking for clues, finding that the meat they had consumed was actually the flesh of the missing 'father' while his wife had turned into a china doll. He also notices that Byun's wife had disappeared after accusing Jung-soon for stealing her ring. At night, he secretly follows Man-bok into the woods, making a trail of breadcrumbs so he wouldn't get lost. He realizes Byun's wife had turned into an oak tree.

Man-bok stops in front of a mysterious door to a room, putting down the notebook that the siblings have been working on throughout the movie. His face changes to an old man's face as he passes the door. When he leaves, Eun-soo enters the room and looks over the notebook's contents, and realizes that the children are over thirty years old. Suddenly Young-hee comes in, sleepwalking, and as they talk, Eun-soo notices her face which has become an old woman's and backs away in shock, hitting bookcases in the room and causing notes to fall off the shelves. As he reads the notes, the reason Man-bok wanted to get rid of the couple who used to be his 'parents' is revealed. The couple were in midst of a quarrel when Jung-soon accidentally stepped on shards of broken glass while playing, angering Man-bok who used his powers to almost force the husband's hand into a boiling pot of soup - this made the couple wary of their actions in fear of Man-bok's their lives.

Eun-soo sees more of the children's drawings in the notebook, like: a woman with mutilated limbs, a woman turned into an oak tree, a woman in a dress with red crayons splattered on her face and a man (who resembles Eun-soo) laying on the grass beside the red flowers he had seen on his way out, causing him to believe that the last depiction foretells his end and he becomes determined to stop the children before they murder him.

Meanwhile, Young-hee returns to the house upon hearing Byun singing. Eun-soo heads back too, to find out that Byun is a religious cult leader trying to kill the children, and he is holding Jung-soon hostage. He manages to knock Byun out and listens to the children's side of the story from Young-hee in the form of a flashback.

The kids used to live in an orphanage called the "House of Happy Children", where the abusive caretaker raped the girls and beat the boys. Man-bok failed to save his friend Seung-ho from being beaten for spilling food, who got locked up in a dark room. The sisters once tried to escape, and Young-hee ended up going into the caretaker's room to save Jung-soon from being raped.

One Christmas Eve, they wondered if Santa Claus would give them presents, because they thought they weren't good that year. This led to Man-bok activating his powers, which he only realized the next morning when Santa did come and told the siblings that their wishes could come true just by imagining it, and he gave them a Hansel and Gretel storybook. They believed they must reenact the story to all the dreadful adults. The three of them then witnessed Seung-ho being forced into a sack, where he was beaten to death. Man-bok felt that this must stop. They sneaked up to the room unlocked by Man-bok's imagination to give candy to their friends inside only to realize everyone in the room were dead. The caretaker found them and was about to burn them in the fireplace, but Man-bok screamed, bringing the story back to the present as he screams when Byun rises to kill Eun-soo, causing a whirlwind in both timelines, which throws the caretaker into the fireplace, and at the same time, Byun is stabbed to death.
The winds stop and the children ask Eun-soo to stay with them. Eun-soo on the other hand wishes to reunite with his loved ones and offers instead to take the children outside with him. They refuse, saying adults will always be bad, against which Eun-soo argues that if they continued their doings, they would end up to be the same. Young-hee suddenly whispers, "Burn the notebook, so you can get out of here." He does so before Man-bok can stop him, and Eun-soo glances at the crying children as the book burns.
Eun-soo wakes up in the location where he first met Young-hee. He walks up to the road and sees the police, who tell him the tragic stories of Highway 69, and that they are amazed at his survival.
A year later on Christmas, Eun-soo has married Hae-young, and they have a baby boy. As he goes out to buy milk, he wonders if his encounter was real or if it was a dream. His collection of news clippings of Deacon Byun (now revealed to be a serial killer and religious cult leader) who is apparently missing suggests that it was real. He comes across the same notebook that the children used and browses it. The pages are blank until the last page, which shows three children dressed like Man-bok, Young-hee, and Jung-soon all holding hands and smiling. The children had given up and realized that they didn't need parents to be a family. Eun-soo looks out the window and outside in the snow, Man-bok, Young-hee, and Jung-soon turn around and make their way back into the woods.
Cast and characters
Trivia
Festivals
International release
Reviews
References
Hansel and Gretel (2007 film) WikipediaHansel and Gretel (2007 film) IMDb Hansel and Gretel (2007 film) themoviedb.org