Academy Museum Screens Korean Horror and Thriller Films... Spotlight on Director Park Chan-wook

Introduction of 'Oldboy', 'The Host', 'R-Point', etc.
Director Park Chan-wook invited as 'Special Guest'
"Show a new kind of horror narrative"

Representative Korean horror and thriller films will be showcased at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in the United States.

According to an announcement from the Academy Museum on the 26th (local time), a special screening titled "Monstrous: The Dark Side of New Korean Cinema" will be held from the 1st to the 29th of next month. Eight Korean horror and thriller films released in the 2000s will be presented. These include Park Chan-wook's "Oldboy (2003)" and "Thirst (2009)," Gong Soo-chang's "R-Point (2004)," Bong Joon-ho's "The Host (2006)," Jang Cheol-soo's "The Truth Beneath (2010)," Na Hong-jin's "The Chaser (2008)," Jung Bum-sik and Jung Sik's "Gidae (2007)," and Kim Jee-woon’s "I Saw the Devil (2010)."

The Academy Museum planned this screening in collaboration with the Korea Foundation (KF) Los Angeles (LA) office to coincide with the Halloween season in October. This is the first Korean film exhibition held at the museum, which opened last September. The museum explained, "In the early 2000s, a new generation of Korean directors expanded the boundaries of filmmaking and explored new types of storytelling and artistic visions."

They identified Park Chan-wook as a representative director leading this new generation. "Oldboy" and "Thirst" were placed as the opening and closing films of the event, and Park was invited as a "special guest" on the final day of the screening, the 29th of next month. The museum evaluated, "Through films like 'Oldboy,' he created a new form of Korean horror cinema," adding, "He moved away from traditional Korean horror films centered on family revenge stories featuring sobok ghosts and presented a new kind of horror narrative."

Park Chan-wook received the Best Director award at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in May for his melodrama thriller "Decision to Leave." Last month, the Korean Film Council selected this film as South Korea's submission for the International Feature Film category at the 95th Academy Awards, to be held in March next year.

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