Acacia
2003
An obstetrician and his wife are unable to have a child and decide to adopt... Later the couple fall pregnant and have a baby of their own. Meanwhile their adopted son grows jealous and runs away. In his absence a dead tree in the garden, where he used to play, mysteriously comes to life and fills the house with a heavy scent..... Read more
| Starring | Hye-Jin Shim, Jin-Geun Kim, Oh-Bin Mun, Na-Yoon Jeong |
|---|---|
| Director | Ki-Hyung Park |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
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Acacia
An obstetrician and his wife are unable to have a child and decide to adopt... Later the couple fall pregnant and have a baby of their own. Meanwhile their adopted son grows jealous and runs away. In his absence a dead tree in the garden, where he used to play, mysteriously comes to life and fills the house with a heavy scent... Korean dialogue with subtitles.
| Starring | Hye-Jin Shim, Jin-Geun Kim, Oh-Bin Mun, Na-Yoon Jeong |
|---|---|
| Director | Ki-Hyung Park |
| Studio | PALISADES TARTAN |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 41 mins |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Horror, World Cinema |
| Language | DVD: Korean |
| Subtitles | DVD: English |
| Released | DVD: 27 Jun 2005 Production year: 2003 |
| Format | DVD |
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Understated creeper of a ghost story
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Tree's company.
Another Korean horror movie hits the shelves and it's fair to say that this particular Eastern delight shares more in common with ‘A Tale Of Two Sisters’ then with ‘The Grudge’.
Coming on more like a human drama with horror elements thrown in, ‘Acacia’ brings with it some fine performances and a well structured story which may be too laboured in its approach for some.
‘Acacia’ certainly takes its time and the jump factor is incredibly low, it just isn't that kind of movie. It did get under my skin however, and the final act was for me the icing on the blood stained knife.
Korean horror always comes across as the smarter, more intelligent cousin of Hollywood horror and ‘Acacia’, while not as good as its sibling, is another worthy addition to the Eastern cinema rollercoaster. Slow, thoughtful and creepy to boot. -
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
The stupidest film I think I've ever seen
Korean films usaully tend to be fairly bad but this one takes the biscuit. Although I didn't find films such as Ju-on (The Grudge) scary, they tend to be very amusing and briefly entertaining because of this. Acacia isn't even funny, it's very very slow and the plot seems to disappear half way through the movie as if they'd completely run out of ideas. The jumpy bits aren't jumpy, there are random parts of the film which strangely have no relevence to the rest of the movie, and the ending is probably the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I defy you not to laugh, although it's hard to smile when you've just wated 101 minutes on this steaming turd.
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