Lee Jong-Hyeok's H: Murmur (DVD)

Description: Genre: Thriller / Production Year: 2002 / Three gruesome murders have been discovered around town, and all three share ... more

Lee Jong-Hyeok's H: Murmur (DVD) ... distinct similarities. All of them involve the killing of pregnant women with the foetus removed from their belly, but each killing was executed in a different fashion. What really worries Kim Mi-yun - a cop working on these cases - is that these three murders share the exact pattern of a group of murders committed in the past. The past murderer, Shin Hyun, has already surrendered to the police and is now in prison awaiting his execution, so there is no chance that the murderer can be the same.

Newest Review: ... in conflict. Eventually there is a breakthrough in the case, and Kang follows a potential suspect to a nightclub, only to ... more

... watch him kill a girl in cold blood. It seems like the killer has been caught, yet the killings continue. Can Detectives Kim and Kang solve the mystery of the murdered women before it is too late? The actors/characters Yum Jung-Ah plays Kim Mi Yun. I have never in my life seen such a wooden-faced actress. I know that she was supposed to be suffering from the loss of her lover and that she was struggling to work with her new partner, but honestly, her face hardly moved throughout the whole film! The odd time there w...more

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Lee Jong-Hyeok's H: Murmur (DVD): A Korean Silence of the Lambs? (790 words)
by - written on 08/06/06 (Very useful, 68 readings)
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Introduction I’ve read a number of good reviews about Korean films in the crime fiction genre, so was pleased to pick this up from the sadly lacking foreign film section of my local DVD store. Lauded as a cross between Silence of the Lambs and Seven on the box, I was expecting great stuff. Directed by Jong-hyuk Lee, it wasn’t terrible, but it certainly didn’t meet up to expectations. The storyline Serial killer Shin Hyun is finally in prison awaiting the death penalty when suddenly a spate of copycat killings occur. Only someone who had direct contact with Shin Hyun could have known the details that the new killer has shown in the murders, all of ... Read the complete review

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