Acacia

A couple that is desperately wishing for a child, but without success, meets the young boy Jin-seong and is immediately trapped by him. The boy is quiet, different and makes amazingly moody drawings of a tree. The couple adopts the boy, but when the woman becomes pregnant, Jin-seong changes from being different to strange, and eventually outright threatening towards his new baby brother. As Jin-seong suddenly disappears, all hell breaks loose.
Acacia makes use of the talent and sheer creepiness of its child actors and Oh Bin-mun as Jin-seong truly makes the viewer uneasy with his hateful expression. The Acacia tree
that the small boy obsesses over almost turns into a character itself, as it appears increasingly threatening as the story proceeds.
The new wave of Asian horror became the salvation for genre fans who were tired of the half-hearted Screams coming from the US. Park Ki-Hyung made Whispering Corridors in the same year that Hideo Nakata's Ringu was made. Now he is back with Acacia, a film blending the horrors of William Friedkin's The Guardian and Joseph Ruben's The Good Son. The film was awarded the Orient Express Section Grand Prize at the Fantasporto Festival this year.

JONATHAN ROZENKRANTZ

Premiärstatus
Nordisk premiär: Medverkande
Kim Jim Geun, Shim Hye Jim,Moon Woo-bin: Producent
Kim Dong-joo: Manus
Park Ki-hyung: Foto
Oh Hyeon-je: Musik
Man-sik Choi: Talat språk
Korean