Keiler - The man eater

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Movie
German title Keiler - The man eater
Original title Chaw
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2009
length 117 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Shin Jeong-won
script Shin Jeong-won,
Kim Yung-chul
production Chin Wonsunk ,
Yom Dong Bok
camera Barry Stone
cut Cho Jae-gun
occupation

Keiler - The man eater (original title: Chaw , 차우 ) is an animal horror film released in South Korea in 2009 by director Shin Jeong-won . The black humor independent film is about a mutated killer boar that terrorizes a mountain village.

action

No crime has happened in the small mountain village of Sameri for years. But suddenly, horribly mutilated body parts appear. The police are in the dark, but there are rumors that it is an animal perpetrator. At the same time, urban policeman Kim is assigned to Sameri after arresting a prosecutor for being drunk. Kim moves to the small mountain village with his pregnant wife and his mother with dementia and is directly assigned to the case.

The hermit and former hunter Cheon Il-man has a theory. He thinks his granddaughter was the victim of a genetically mutated wild boar. The mayor instructs the big game hunter Baek Man-bae, a former student of Il-man, and his team to put an end to the boar hustle and bustle. But Baek Man-bae only takes care of the female. The catch should be presented to the public for appeasement. The lavish party is disturbed by the boar, which terrifies the guests. Some villagers were killed and others seriously injured in the attack.

A team is now being put together, including Kim, Il-man and Baek Man-bae. There is also a young researcher who wants to investigate the nature of the wild boar and whose friend was seriously injured in the attack. Together they devise various plans in a mountain hut to kill the wild boar, which is as good as bulletproof. While they are laying their traps, they come across the wild boar's nest in a cave. They kill all of his offspring except for one piglet, with which they leave. When all the traps fail, Kim and the researcher are sent down into the valley as bait with the piglet. The two are pursued by the boar and end up in an abandoned factory. There you can put an end to the wild boar for good.

In the credits you can see a surviving piglet that looks threateningly at the viewer. You can also see Baek Man-bae being tortured by a crazy woman.

background

Shin Jeong-won put Keiler - The ogre as a typical B-movie and Creature Feature with environmental issues in American tradition. He was inspired by the success of the South Korean The Host (2006). Soo Jak Films was responsible for production, while the South Korean independent film company Fine Cut took over the worldwide distribution rights.

The film itself was shot with the help of the US company Polygon Entertainment , which was responsible for the special effects. The shoot first took place in South Korea, but the collaboration with the Americans made a follow-up shoot in San Francisco inevitable. All scenes with special effects were filmed there in 40 days. The wild boar itself is computer animated and comes from the US crew. During the filming, according to the director, the recordings were made difficult by cultural differences. The film also has a black humor typical of South Korea that is difficult for western viewers to understand. The Americans could therefore not fully understand the script and applied different nuances than the director wanted. However, the shooting came to an amicable conclusion and the film opened in South Korean cinemas in July 2009.

Around 1.25 million viewers saw the film in South Korean cinemas within three weeks. It was sold to 15 countries. In Germany, it was shown to an interested audience for the first time on October 30, 2009 at the Asia Filmfest . A DVD / Blu-Ray release took place on December 10th of the same year via Ascot Elite.

reception

The lexicon of international films praises the film for its design:

"Impressive equipped animal horror film according to Western templates that dramatically close to Spielberg himself Jaws inspired, but seasons the action by ironic swipes and black humor."

- Lexicon of international film

Andreas Neuenkirchen, on the other hand, described the film as bad on the Manifest - Das Filmmagazin website :

“Unfortunately, however, the film pretends to be far too many of its characters. They are mostly eccentric, but unfortunately not of the lovable kind, but of the annoying one. Quite a few of them have absolutely nothing to do with the plot, but are still dragged along for two hours. If the boar makes sacrifices, these are always figures that were only introduced seconds beforehand for the purpose of feeding. Tension and drama are different. And so KEILER is a disappointment. He fails because of himself, not RAZORBACK , and not because this world is too small for two films about killer boars. To paraphrase Ed Wood : The next one will be better. "

- Andreas Neuenkirchen : Manifest - The film magazine

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Korean sales outfit picks up black comedy. Variety , September 7, 2008, accessed October 17, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Yang Sung-jin: Koreas' new B-movie star: a CGI pig. The Korea Herald , March 30, 2010, accessed October 17, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Boar. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed October 11, 2018 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  4. ↑ Andreas Neuenkirchen: BOAR - THE PEOPLE EATER (Korea 2009). Manifest - Das Filmmagazin, December 10, 2009, accessed October 17, 2016 .