This is a carefully structured film about grief and guilt, as well as horror. They don't resolve every disturbing moment or confusing element: they leave some questions hauntingly unanswered.
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01/17/06
A Tale Of Two Sisters (2003)
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Reviews Counted:52
Fresh:45
Rotten:7
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Restrained but disturbing, A Tale of Two Sisters is a creepily effective, if at times confusing, horror movie.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
US Box Office: $0
Synopsis: Something strange is happening when Su-mi and her younger sister Su-yeon come home to their father's large, but dark and somewhat foreboding house after a stay in the hospital. Their dad is... [More]
Starring: Su-jeong Lim, Geun-yeong Mun, Jung-ah Yum, Kap-su Kim
Director: Ji-woon Kim
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04/29/09
Kim Ji-woon's psychological skin-chiller painstakingly teases apart the traumas that bind a widower, his teen daughters... and his high-strung second wife in a suffocating web of guilt, suspicion and fear. The American remake, The Uninvited (2009), pales
03/01/09
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10/18/08
Kim Jee-Woon's serious approach has its merits, but it also creates some problems that mar, without ruining, the film's effectiveness.
07/09/08
A very tasty exercise in supernatural and psychological horror.
09/26/07
Despite its third-act problems, A Tale of Two Sisters easily passes the scare test.
03/01/07
The atmosphere of mounting dread is matched by just-right performances, design and camerawork.
06/24/06
I like what it's trying to do -- use a ghost story surface to tell a tale of guilt, blame, and madness -- but was disappointed in the conventional tactics it used.
01/13/06
The film feels haunted by the relationship between Im and Moon, who cling to each other in the face of a hostile hostess, even though that may not be their best option.
09/26/05
This movie scared the hell out of me!
04/12/05
...yet another pointless, interminably paced Asian horror flick that's inexplicably garnered heaps of praise and adulation...
03/28/05
There’s more rank dread and inscrutable mystery in any one scene of this South Korean psychological thriller than in all the American horror films of the past 10 years.
03/13/05
Well-tread territory.
03/09/05
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02/26/05
There's a reason why Hollywood has been so busy in recent years remaking Asian horror movies. Scare for scare, they're generally better.
02/25/05
Even though its components may be familiar, it is made with precision and sophistication and is, by default, better than any original American horror film of the past few years.
02/22/05
Writer/director Ji-woon Kim leaps to the forefront of Asian horror with this brilliantly executed psychological nightmare.
02/20/05
May move a bit slowly for American tastes, and the inexplicable bits may occasionally frustrate, but you slip into the rhythms of the film almost despite yourself.
02/04/05
It may not be a pretty picture, but A Tale of Two Sisters is definitely a satisfying piece of less-is-more cinematic horror.
01/30/05
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