The Closet

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Movie
German title The Closet
Original title Closet ( 클로 젯 )
Country of production South Korea
original language Korean
Publishing year 2020
length 98 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Kim Kwang-bin
script Kim Kwang-bin
music Jo Yeong-wook
camera Choi Chan-mi
cut Kim Sang-beom
occupation

The Closet is a horror film of South Korean director Kim Kwang-bin from the year 2020 . In German-speaking countries, the film will be available on video-on-demand platforms from August 7th and will appear directly on DVD and Blu-ray on August 14th, 2020.

action

After his wife's death, Sang-won tries to reconcile his career as an architect and his role as a father. His daughter Ina seems calm and distant, she hardly speaks to her father. Your doctor advises that you move to the country. That would help Ina. Sang-won has been looking in vain for a babysitter for a month. Because he has to be on site for his work.

Shortly after moving, Ina's personality changes rapidly after seeing a ghost. Sang-won doesn't know about it. But he keeps hearing strange noises in the house and is amazed at Ina's change. Suddenly she is playing with an old soft toy that she claims to have found in the closet. She is also extroverted and hostile to him when he says he has to go to work and found a babysitter. However, she plays pranks on the babysitter, so seriously that the babysitter leaves the house. Ina disappears that day.

The media report on the case of the missing Ina and portray Sang-won as a suspect. But Kyung-hoon sees the broadcast and suspects something else. Kyung-hoon wants to help Sang-won. He tells him that in twenty years several children will have disappeared in the closet.

reception

The Closet opened in South Korean cinemas on February 5, 2020 and reached almost 1.3 million visitors. Cinema Escapist's Richard Yu describes the film as a horror film about a father-daughter relationship. Even if the film initially looks like a classic horror film, the focus is on a human relationship. Yu compares the passionate search for the missing daughter to the American thriller Searching . For Yu, it's the humanity in The Closet that makes it a great movie. It is a journey that Sang-won will take to become a better father. The film is especially for lovers of the occult .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Release for The Closet . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF). Template: FSK / maintenance / type not set and Par. 1 longer than 4 characters
  2. ^ The Closet (2020). In: Korean Film Biz Zone. KOFIC , accessed on July 20, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Richard Yu: Review: Ha Jung-woo's “The Closet” Offers Surprisingly Heart-Warming Horror. Starring Ha Jung-woo, Korean film “The Closet” blends horror with father-daughter bonding. In: Cinema Escapist. February 14, 2020, accessed on July 22, 2020 .