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EVIL SPIRIT : VIY

  • Director
    PARK Jin-sung
  • Year
    2010
  • Nationality
    Korea
  • Genre
    Psycho horror
  • Status
    Release(March 4, 2010)
  • Starring
    JUNG Seung-kil, LIM Ji-young
  • Running Time
    110min
  • Festival & Review
    • 2008 Pusan International Film Festival 2009 FantAsia Film Festival


  • Three different stories, a single slot based on a short novel < VIY > by Nikolai Gogol.

    • SYNOPSIS
      Chapter 1: A strange woman A young film director 'P', trying to make a film based on a short story < VIY > by Nikolai Gogol, meets a mysterious actress in an audition. Her overwhelming talent however, being obvious to everyone including 'P' himself, increasingly gets on his nerves in an ominous way. Chapter 2: VIY A young priest is ordered to preside over the wake of witch in a small old wooden church of a remote village. This means spending three nights alone with the corpse with only his faith to protect him. Chapter 3: A curtain call A blind musician Henri PARK meets a group of marionette artists, preparing a play based on < VIY >. Working with them as a Music Director, he is happy for the first time in his life as an artist. His suspicious roommate follows him one night, just to find out that Henri is playing the piano for ghosts in an abandoned church.
    • DIRECTOR INFO
      • PARK Jin-sung Born in 1969, Pusan, KOREA BA in Geology, Seoul National University,1994. BA, MA in Photography, Brooks Institute of Photography (CA, US),1998. Freelance Photographer, San Francisco, 1997-2000. Freelance Producer, Screenplay writer, Director, 2001 - 2007 Filmography 2001 : < Jang sunwoo Variation > a Tony Rayns documentary / Line Producer 2002 : < Fantasy > the making documentary of / director, cameraman 2004 : < New wave > short film / director 2006 : < My brother from the future > short film / director 2007 : < Gidam > feature film / original screen play 2008 : < VIY > feature film / screenplay, director
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