The Housemaid (1960)

Original title

하녀

Directed by

Kim Ki-young

Genre

psychological horror fiction

Country

South Korea

Runtime

1h 51m

Rated

19

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 195 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An upper-middle-class family hires a housemaid who slowly disrupts their household with seductive and manipulative behavior. This leads to psychological turmoil and destructive consequences for everyone involved.

tenseunsettlingclaustrophobicslow-burnbleakmanipulativepsychologically intense

What happens

The Housemaid (Korean: 하녀; RR: Hanyeo) is a 1960 South Korean film, produced, written and directed by Kim Ki-young. It stars Lee Eun-shim, Ju Jeung-nyeo and Kim Jin-kyu. It has been described in Koreanfilm.org as a "consensus pick as one of the top three Korean films of all time". It is the first film in Kim's Housemaid trilogy followed by Woman of Fire and Woman of Fire '82. The film was remade in 2010 by Im Sang-soo. The film is a domestic horror, following the story of an upper-middle-class family falling into destruction due to the introduction of a sexually predatory femme fatale housemaid into the household. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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