Whether or not this is indeed based loosely on the grotesque fairy tale of the same name, "The Red Shoes" is a bizarre offering, even for the Korean cinema.
After catching her husband in flagrante delicto, a woman walks out on him taking her precocious young daughter with her, who is being hot-housed in traditional Oriental fashion, attending dancing classes in this case.
Their new home is very downmarket, although she can afford an interior designer to spruce it up for her, and it isn't only her apartment he has designs for.
Then there is the little matter of the actual red shoes. Her daughter appears to be fascinated by them, and she isn't the only one, but they leave a trail of death and destruction wherever they walk.
As with not a few films in especially the horror genre, the use or rather the abuse of the dream sequence leaves much to be desired, but there is a twist, perhaps the shoes are not that significant at all? Its resolution somewhat reminiscent of "Angel Heart", and the heroine faces a similar fate, deservedly so, apparently.
After catching her husband in flagrante delicto, a woman walks out on him taking her precocious young daughter with her, who is being hot-housed in traditional Oriental fashion, attending dancing classes in this case.
Their new home is very downmarket, although she can afford an interior designer to spruce it up for her, and it isn't only her apartment he has designs for.
Then there is the little matter of the actual red shoes. Her daughter appears to be fascinated by them, and she isn't the only one, but they leave a trail of death and destruction wherever they walk.
As with not a few films in especially the horror genre, the use or rather the abuse of the dream sequence leaves much to be desired, but there is a twist, perhaps the shoes are not that significant at all? Its resolution somewhat reminiscent of "Angel Heart", and the heroine faces a similar fate, deservedly so, apparently.