Director: Jeong-won Shin
Writers: Jeong-won Shin, Kim Yong-Cheol
Stars: Tae-woong Eom, Seong-kwang Ha, Yoo-i Ha
Run Time: 2 Hour, 1 Minute
Amazon Link: https://amzn.to/2wmbKqq
Synopsis
We are told through news reports (as credits roll) that wild animals are being abused and hunted by poachers. A man falls down a ravine and finds a dead body. He pulls a gold ring off the man’s finger and is then attacked and eaten himself.
The next morning, the police are on the scene. The dead body was just buried two days ago, but someone dug him up and moved him.
This is Officer Kim’s last week in Seoul. He has been transferred to a small country station. At dinner, he finds a pig tooth in his dinner, and we see just how big that tooth really is. A girl runs her bicycle off the road. She hears the monster and runs away– into the path of an oncoming truck. The drunk drivers of the truck throw her not-quite-dead-yet body down the hill, and she wakes up as the creature drags her away.
The chief of the police in the new town takes an immediate liking to Kim’s senile mother, and he meets his crazy neighbors. They find the girl’s body, half-eaten, and the autopsy says it was a large animal. The girl’s grandfather is an experienced hunter, and he thinks it’s an enormous animal. Then the tourist buses arrive for the big. festival What could go wrong?
It doesn’t take long until we find out. Could it be a giant boar that has developed a taste for human meat? A squad of hired mercenary hunters arrive, and things go about like you’d expect…
Commentary
There’s a lot of humor here: the cops repeatedly falling down the hill, the fish in the pot that wouldn’t die, the hand that wouldn’t let go of the magazine, and all that as just in the first twenty minutes.
The story has strong parallels to “Jaws” (“Chawz”) as the village elders try to cover up the deaths just as the tourist season starts. It’s all brightly lit, clear, and very funny– the humor comes through really clearly, even with the subtitles. This is really very good; the horror aspects of the film are all done completely seriously, but there is just a huge amount of silliness going on in the background of most scenes.