Suddenly In Dark Night (DP Series) – Blu-ray Unboxing

DVD Prime to release Korean 80's psychological horror as next entry!

Suddenly in Dark Night

깊은 밤 갑자기 (1981)

Directed by: Ko Young-nam (고영남)

Starring: Kim Young-ae (김영애), Yun Il-bong (윤일봉), Lee Ki-seon

The Film: Psychological and Supernatural drama/horror. Wife is suspecting husband’s infidelity since arrival of their young housekeeper who carries a mysterious wooden doll with herself. – (IMDB)

Publisher: DVD Prime / WeET Collection

Purchase: Kimchi DVD

 

 


DVD Prime, the largest online DVD and Blu-ray community in Korea, will release Suddenly in Dark Night (1981) as their 22nd entry in their DP Series. Korea does not have a rich film history of midnight or “cult” cinema, so Suddenly in Dark Night is a very interesting selection and comes as a surprise to many.

Having come out at a time when Koreans did not particularly have an appetite for horror, possibly reflecting the sociopolitical situation at that time, the film was largely unknown until when more recently selected by Bong Joon-ho as one of the original defining Korean films that showed cult movie characteristics. With this release we now get a chance to look back on the film with a fresh perspective and can appreciate it for not only its unique part of Korean film history, but also for the direction of Ko Young-nam who is apparently the most prolific filmmaker in Korea with 105 films.

Essay about the film (in Korean with spoilers) by Jung Sung-il (Film Critic)


Korean Film Archive Digital Remastering


 

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Tyler is a passionate fan of East Asian cinema, especially South Korean films which he has followed closely for nearly two decades. He started one of the Pacific Northwest's first Korean Cinema Clubs out of the University of Idaho in 2004, where he also spent a year abroad studying Japanese at Nagasaki University of Foreign Languages. Since 2011, Tyler has been living and working in Seoul, South Korea as a freelance English teacher and writer. He also spent one year studying at Sogang University's well-known Korean Language program.
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