Epitaph (film)
Epitaph Hangul hanja RRGidam is a 2007 South Korean film directed by brothers Jung Sik and Jung Bumshik. The film is a horror film set primarily in 1942, while South Korea was under the colonial rule of Japan. It is framed by scenes set in 1979.
Whilst Epitaph has not been widely reviewed in the Englishspeaking press, the few critics who have reviewed it have criticized it as derivative, and for incorporating numerous formulaic genre tactics from more famous films, such as the dissociative identity disorder plot twist in A Tale of Two Sisters, and the threeepisode structure from Three... Extremes and other similar examples. Slant Magazine reviewer Nick Schager wrote that the genre cannibalizes itself until theres nothing left except the tattered remains of onceeffective conventions and the rapidly fading memories of superior scares gone by. Schager also called attention to Epitaphs convoluted plot, characterized by jumbled chronology, dull repetitions, corny otherworldly melodrama.Nonetheless, the cinematography, directing and acting by Khorror mainstays Kim Eungsoo and Ye Soojeong have earned the film praise as visually as well as intellectually impressive, with some gorgeous cinematography and wonderfully composed shots, and a significant contribution to rehabilitating Khorrors international reputation. ........
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