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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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A Flower of Evil (1961)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.