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Tag Archives: Missing
The Weekend Away (2022) ☆☆(2/4): Her BFF is vanished…
Netflix film “The Weekend Away”, which was released a few days ago, is a run-of-the-mill thriller flick which will not surprise you much if you are a seasoned moviegoer. For example, we are supposed to be quite surprised at a … Continue reading
Evaporated (2019) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Since his daughter was vanished
South Korean documentary film “Evaporated” is shrouded in somber desperation and frustration right from the beginning. Closely observing a father’s longtime search for his vanished daughter, the documentary calmly and sensitively observes that overwhelming psychological burden on not only him … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Family, Father and daughter, Missing, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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Lost Girls (2020) ☆☆☆(3/4): Looking for her missing daughter
Netflix film “Lost Girls” is about the tenacious struggle of a woman determined to find out what really happened to her missing daughter. Although occasionally becoming a little melodramatic as expected, the movie mostly sticks to its dry but engaging … Continue reading
Bring Me Home (2019) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): Desperately looking for her missing son
Watching South Korean film “Bring Me Home” is an experience not only unpleasant but also stressful in many aspects. Relentlessly pushing the story and its increasingly desperate heroine into sheer cruelty and brutality from the beginning to the end, the … Continue reading
Searching (2018) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A smart, efficient digital era thriller
“Searching” is a lot better than you may expect. Sure, its small genre territory has been already explored by several recent notable films such as “Unfriended” (2014) and “Open Windows” (2014), but it is actually a very entertaining genre exercise … Continue reading
Missing Woman (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Her babysitter is missing…
South Korean film “Missing Woman” begins as a seemingly conventional mystery thriller and then reveals darker elements which later turn the story into a sort of social horror tale which is often frighteningly realistic to me and other South Korean … Continue reading
The Truth Beneath (2016) ☆☆☆(3/4): Gone daughter
I expected one thing before watching South Korean film “The Truth Beneath”, but the movie served me the other thing I did not expect at all. When it takes its first steps with a familiar thriller premise, you may think … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Missing, Mother and daughter, South Korean Film, Thriller
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Gone Girl (2014) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : What lies behind…
Something does not feel good right from the beginning of “Gone Girl”, a gripping top-notch thriller which gradually and chillingly reveals its nasty and insidious cards behind its back step by step with icy, merciless precision. Considering its dark, … Continue reading
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Tagged Brother and Sister, Crime, Husband and Wife, Missing, Thriller
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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (2010) ☆☆☆(3/4) : A little girl is terrified in the big house
The House with dangerous secret has been one of the most common subjects in horror movies. Its interior is usually decorated with lots of horror clichѐs we have encountered for at least hundred times. Regardless of whether the house looks … Continue reading
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Tagged Child, Fairy, Haunted House, Horror, Imaginary Friend, Missing
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The Vanishing (1988) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4) : A tale of two obsessions
“‘Will you walk into my parlor?’ said the Spider to the Fly.” – from the poem “The Spider and the Fly” by Mary Howitt The crucial moment in George Sluizer’s chilling psychological thriller “The Vanishing”(1988) can be summarized with that … Continue reading