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The Red Shoes (2005)

The Red Shoes poster
Original title
분홍신
Directed by
Kim Yong-gyun
Genre
horror film, fantasy film
Country
South Korea
Runtime
1h 43m
Rated
15
Rating
6.1 of 10 from 94 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman inherits a pair of red shoes that have a supernatural hold on anyone who wears them. The shoes bring out dangerous obsessions and tragic consequences in the people around her.

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What happens

The Red Shoes (Korean: 분홍신; RR: Bunhongsin) is a 2005 South Korean supernatural horror film co-written and directed by Kim Yong-gyun, based on the 1845 fairy tale of same name by Hans Christian Andersen. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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