Shortly after the Korean war, a father and a son are wandering through the country and make a stop in a remote village, where strange and dangerous happenings occur.
Sonnim, The guest, 客人, Крысолов. Древнее проклятие, Szczurołap, Гость, Fareli Köyün Kavalcısı, 意外来客, 笛聲, Người Thổi Sáo
South Korea15 South Korea 
Damn… he ain’t playing about revenge
First time director Kim Gwang-tae sets the pied piper of Hamelin in a remote post-war Korean village. Piper sees a father taking his son to Seoul for medical treatment, only to come across a small community with a serious rat problem. Everything about the locals’ behaviour is ominous, teasing a horrific reveal – only even after giving the audience a sinister backstory, the film becomes an origin itself.
There are moments of Piper that are whimsical – the removal of the rats is immensely charming. Even as a creature feature, the focus is always on human drama – and when we do see the rodents, the CGI is exceptionally well done, and the practical effects are enough to make one’s…
O filme não estabelece bem qual o tom da história. A parte da flauta e dos ratos remete mesmo a uma fábula, é cheia de momentos bobinhos e tem um ar de esperança. Já quando se tenta realizar uma transição pra um terror com acontecimentos terríveis e momentos super dramáticos, a atmosfera não bate muito.
Se acrescenta um fator de choque, mas não dá pra assimilar a situação direito. Em partes eu iria preferir que não houvesse essa mudança expressiva, ou idealmente que isso acontecesse de maneira mais sutil e menos forçada.
•Year you turned 13 (5/52)
🐀🐁🐀🐁 ➡️ Those who make horror adaptations of children's stories should learn from this South Korean film.
A loose adaptation of «The Pied Piper of Hamelin» that successfully blends drama and horror.
The living are judged, the dead pass sentence.
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🐀🐁🐀🐁 ➡️ Los que hacen adaptaciones de terror de cuentos infantiles deberían de aprender de esta cinta surcoreana.
Una adaptación libre de «The Pied Piper of Hamelin» que mezcla drama y horror satisfactoriamente.
Los vivos son juzgados, los muertos dan la sentencia.
Von Chihiro zu Romero?
Vater und Sohn befinden sich auf dem Weg Richtung Seoul um was gegen Sohnemanns schlimmen Husten zu tun. Doch nachts in einer Hütte einmal das falsche Eichhörnchen angeflötet und am nächsten Morgen den falschen Weg genommen... schon befindet man sich in einem mysteriösen Dorf außerhalb unserer normalen Welt.
Merkwürdiges Verhalten der Bewohner und böse Vorzeichen, aber unser unbedarft-sympathische Held mit dem Medizinmann- und Rattenfänger-Skill hat einen Plan um zu helfen...
Sehr tolle Darsteller liebens- und hassenswerter Figuren und eine eigentlich abenteuerlich-gelaunte Geschichte, die aber bald sehr (koreanisch) abdreht und emotional Komik, Romantik, Phantastisches, bösen Thriller und blutigen Horror vermengt.
"Scores must be settled."
Jung Kol-plimp vergibt 4 von 5 ⭐+🧡
PS: Hätte der Film nicht sowieso dieses Cover und den 'Horror'-Tag, würde ich ihn als echtes Überraschungsbonbon verkaufen.
the worst cgi rats
Sweet Jesus, now that's how you do a horror movie.
As a father and his sick son enter a small village, the buildup is absolutely wonderful. The father does his best to endear himself to the villagers, who slowly begin to accept him. There's great acting, beautiful cinematography and an overall feeling of goodwill. But there is something evil underfoot.
The lengthy, but never boring, peaceful beginning only makes the horror more powerful when it occurs. And what occurs is nightmare enducing.
I watched this immediately after watching Kuroneko (cats and rats!), and I couldn't think of a better double bill. Both films are immaculately made horror films with more than a touch of folklore and aren't afraid to ask the viewer to have patience for an even more rewarding experience.
Goddamn, talk about a movie Hollywood wouldn't dare make! 😮😆
This South Korean rendition of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend establishes a palpable sense of foreboding early on, though its tone mainly leans whimsical for a good portion of it.
If you go into this expecting a something that focuses on "horror" then you'll likely end up disappointed. This is more of a drama with mystery and horror elements, if that distinction makes sense.
The narrative focuses more on the struggle of a father (The Piper) and his son: particularly, the desperation of the father trying to survive and get treatment for his sickly son. The father stumbles upon a village and seeks refuge, and the story centers on…
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First-time director Kim Gwangtae delivers a fresh take on the “Pied Piper of Hamelin” with his visceral film The Piper. Set in the hinterlands of Korea in the war-torn 1950s, the film begins with a devoted father and son traversing the country in hopes of finding a cure for the boy’s tuberculosis. The pair (played wonderfully by Ryu Seungryong and the absolutely adorable Goo Seunghyeon) stumble upon a hidden village that knows no news of the outside world and eyes their new arrivals with unease. In an effort to ingratiate themselves with the locals, the father offers to rid the town of their rampant rat infestation.
In the early going, The Piper plays it light with goofy antics and the…
The Piper is unsurprisingly the South Korean take on the well-known fairy tale The Pied Piper of Hamelin, set shortly after the Korean war (which is a detail it indeed uses to its advantage and make its story more unique).
Ryoo Seung-ryong stars as the piper who roams the countryside with his ill son and encounters villagers who have a bit of a rat problem. He agrees to help them. Things turn grim.
What surprised me though was how long it takes to turn grim, as the mood in the beginning is fairly cheerful to a quite dorkish degree. But luckily that works and the slow shift to the dark and gritty take at the fairy tale I expected is…
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
I think what's most important to clarify right off the bat is that I don't see this as a horror movie. At all. There are elements of horror to be found within the minutes of this film, but I don't find the movie itself to be scary or frightening, or anything else I would traditionally associate with the genre. What I find this movie to be is haunting, and that almost deserves a category unto itself.
The tale set forth is a somewhat modernized retelling of the Pied Piper of Hamelin legend. In this telling we have a traveling musician and handyman with a bad leg who is slowly making his way to Seoul in the hopes he can procure…
