Lee Eun-Soo, a callow young man with an oddly feminine name, is driving along a forest road and on the phone to his pregnant girlfriend when he swerves to avoid roadkill and crashes. Dazed, he’s rescued by a mysteriously serene girl who brings him to the “House of Happy Children” in the heart of the forest. He’s made very welcome for the night by the owners (an adult couple and their three children), and is only mildly disconcerted that his cellphone doesn’t connect and that the house phone is out of order. Next day, though, when he tries to find his way back to his car, he finds himself trapped in a heavily wooded version of the Bermuda Triangle...
This was the inaugural production of new film company Barunson, which went on to make
The Good The Bad The Weird. Second-time director Yim Phil-Sung--he’s a friend of Bong Joon-Ho and played a small role in
The Host--delivers a grown-up re-reading of fairy tales to rival Angela Carter’s, complete with childish tantrums that have demonic consequences. There are several horror-movie shocks, but the film’s great strength is Yim’s ability to render conceptual mysteries in haunting, dream-like images. Sudden snowfall has never been creepier.
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