The Quiet Family1998
“The ruthless comedy.”
Directed by Kim Jee-woon
🏆 3 wins & 6 nominations total
The premise
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the bad publicity. But their luck gets worse, the bodies start piling up, and the family becomes frantic to rectify the situation.
Horror Vault's take
When a South Korean family opens a remote mountain lodge, their dreams of a fresh start unravel spectacularly after an unexpected death leaves them with an impossible secret to keep. What begins as a desperate act of self-preservation quickly spirals into a darkly comic nightmare as the bodies — and the family's panic — refuse to stop multiplying. Director Kim Jee-woon balances pitch-black humour with genuine dread, squeezing tension from the family's increasingly frantic attempts to maintain a façade of normalcy. A sharp and wickedly entertaining debut that helped pave the way for Korean genre cinema on the world stage.
Content: Dark Themes Around Suicide, Violence, Gore, Black Comedy Treatment Of Death
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