There are low budget South Korean films then there’s Teenage
Hooker Killing Machine - a film whose title is possible longer than the film. Teenage
Hooker Who Died and Became A Killing Machine (2000) is in fact a very
appropriate description of the film!
 |
| The Teenage Hooker |
A sadistic teacher discovers
one of his teenage students is a prostitute and blackmails her into becoming
his sex slave. When she becomes pregnant, he arranges her demise. His henchmen
murder her and chop her up. At this point a mysterious, sunglasses-wearing Dr
Frankenstein-like character intervenes and rebuilds the remains into a cyborg
(with the aid of a sewing machine). Now robotically revived, her memory comes
back during a fight, and she sets out to avenge herself, going after the
teacher and the three henchmen who committed the murder[1].
 |
| The teacher. |
Gee-woong Nam is a talented
man responsible for directing, the cinematography, the writing and the editing.
His impressive avant-garde camera work is very artistically done, as is his
handling of the cyberpunk surrealism and the soundtrack. The beautiful
schoolgirl Hooker is played by Lee So-Yun, with Dae-tong Kim as the teacher, a
rather nasty villain who obviously gets just recompenses. An artsy grindhouse
movie that’s certainly worth a look.
No comments:
Post a Comment