STRANGERS FROM HELL is a new Netflix series from South Korea. It’s based on a webtoon (org. title Taineun Jiokida) and also known as Hell Is Other People. The official genres for the series are horror, mystery, and romance. Read our Strangers from Hell season 1 review here!
Is a new Netflix horror series. Actually, the official genres also include mystery and romance, but this is first and foremost a horror production. You’ll know this from watching episode 1.
. This alone sounds like a good premise for a horror movie. After all, whether we’re dealing with zombies or some other apocalypse, the real danger in horror movies is usually other people.
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) which is always a good thing in our book. Production quality and character development are always prevalent in Korean productions. This is always a very good starting point!
In general, I love Korean movies while series from South Korea aren’t always my cup of tea. Well, except for (of course!) the zombie period piece Kingdom and the very recent
Also, I should say that there are more decent series from South Korea that just didn’t really rock my world. I did really enjoy the concept of
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On Netflix. It’s probably due to this series having been aired on Korean television first. And yes, we have seen this on other South Korean productions, but still, I expected them to unblur these things for the Netflix version.
Still, the creepiness of this series is just spot on anyway. Everything is kind of dirty and just weird. And yes, this goes even though we seem to be getting a somewhat censored version, where knives are blurred as well as other unsavory objects (such as things related to death).
First, I have to mention Lee Jeong-eun, who plays the landlady at the creepy boardinghouse. She is very pleasant (or appears to be at first, anyway) and seemed familiar immediately. That’s probably because Lee Jeong-eun was in
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The main character in this new Netflix series is Yoon Jong-woo. He is portrayed by Im Si-wan (or just Siwan). He’s from K-pop fame as a member of the South Korean boyband ZE:A. However, he’s no stranger to acting either. He won awards for his role in
is Lee Dong-wook. I wasn’t familiar with Lee Dong-wook prior to watching him in this Netflix series, but I certainly hope to see him again. He would be perfect in a horror movie!
On Netflix now. Season 1 has 10 episodes that each have a runtime of around one hour. By the end of episode 1, you’ll get the first nice twist… just to get you hungry for more of this craziness.
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Plot Unpleasant events disturb the life of an aspiring crime fiction writer when he becomes a resident of an apartment building teeming with shady neighbors.
I write reviews and recaps on Heaven of Horror. And yes, it does happen that I find myself screaming, when watching a good horror movie. I love psychological horror, survival horror and kick-ass women. Also, I have a huge soft spot for a good horror-comedy. Oh yeah, and I absolutely HATE when animals are harmed in movies, so I will immediately think less of any movie, where animals are harmed for entertainment (even if the animals are just really good actors). Fortunately, horror doesn't use this nearly as much as comedy. And people assume horror lovers are the messed up ones. Go figure!also known as Hell is Other People or Others are Hell (타인은 옥이다) starring Im Si-wan, Lee Dong-wook, Lee Jung-eun, and many more prominent actors. Adapted from a webtoon with the same title by Kim Yong-ki, this South Korean drama aired from August 31, 2019, to October 6, 2019, on OCN, every Saturday and Sunday. The drama spanned over 10 episodes with the duration of each episode being 60 mins.
After watching the drama what absolutely stunned me was the plot of the drama. Yoon Jong-woo (Im Shi-wan) a young guy in his 20s moves from the countryside to Seoul after getting a job offer. Not being from a rich household, he looks for a cheap place to rent and stumbles upon Eden Studio, a hostel that shares its kitchen and bathroom with other problematic and abnormal residents. He is not happy about his residence but decides to put up with it for 6 months until he saves enough money to move out. But when disturbing events start taking place in the hostel, he soon realizes that he unknowingly got trapped in a nightmare.
Hell Is Other People (tv Series 2019)
The drama honestly creeps me out with its dingy and gloomy atmosphere, and the close-ups of the giggling faces of the housemates while they carry out grotesque tasks. The eerie expressions paired with the tension amongst each character of the studio will make you feel uncomfortable and frightened. With each episode, we see the protagonist slowly lose his sanity and derail into madness, and along with him so do the viewers. Each episode leaves you teetering at the edge of your bed as you get sucked into their world of insanity and manipulation, which will leave you with nightmares. From the point of view of the plot, all the characters have engaging personalities, and it will make you curious about their background. The drama uses a literary masterpiece named The Metamorphosis, a novella by Franz Kafka , as a symbolic reference. The characters Jong-woo and Moon-jo (Lee Dong-wook) are often seen reading or discussing the book, which is essential to the plot because it shows the transformation of the protagonist’s psyche and physical body. Similarly, the book’s appearance at the beginning foreshadows the fate Yoon Jong-woo will go through.
The cinematography of the drama is something that needs to be talked about because personally, the cinematography of a drama matters to me a lot. The drama was shot in low-budget settings to accommodate the story but the transitions were absolutely beautiful and a whole masterpiece. Through the transitions we see the protagonist’s gradual change in character, as he shows us his violent side, only to bring us back to reality where he is calm and collected. These transitions make us realize that he has a lot of suppressed anger and frustration which is slowly getting out of hand as the other characters keep provoking him. We, human beings often think about doing and wishing terrible things when it comes to people we don’t like or cannot stand but most often than not we hold ourselves back because we are in control of it. The drama shows us what happens when we lose control; it is a scary reality check.
The cast did a tremendous job in executing their characters, especially Im Shi-wan and Lee Dong-wook. Shi-wan played the character of Yoon Jong-woo and he did it effortlessly, from portraying his distress, to his encounters with other deranged characters, every little action was quite detailed and perfect. It was Lee Dong-wook that surprised me the most, his acting showed his versatility; he played the character of Seo Moon-jo, a charismatic dentist who seems squeaky clean at the very beginning but that’s just his disguise. Usually, I have seen him in dramas where he is portrayed as a romantic hero, so seeing him in this drama just proved that his skills are not limited to certain roles.
Review Korean Drama Strangers From Hell
Strangers from Hell is like a study of the human mind and the literal portrayal of our intense and repressed negative thoughts and emotions coming alive. It tells us what we should be scared of is not the outside forces, but human beings themselves.
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