The Doll Master (2004) - Mainstream Korean Horror, Poster and Trailer
May 19, 2009 / 5092
The Doll Master (2004, South Korea, IMDB: Inhyeongsa)
Not all Korean horrors are gloomy, extreme, perplexing and non-linear. This is a good-looking mainstream horror full of good-looking actors. My only reservation is that while it doesn’t pull its punches, it should have been much, much creepier…
Plotwise, if Stuart Gordon had made Dolls (1987) in South East Asia, he’d probably have ended up with something very similar to this.
It’s also surprising that nothing similar has been made in Japan, where doll mania is regularly the rage. Life-size adult dolls with full wardrobes are on sale as companionship surrogates, highly sophisticated sex dolls can also be tailor-made, girls dress like dolls, people collect dolls, and then there’s the nation’s obsession with lifelike robots… Read more …
