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Plot Summary
After a car accident, Eun-soo finds himself wandering through a lush green forest, until he comes across a colorful little cottage that is every child's dream - countless toys, and no food but candy and cake. The family inside seems similarly perfect, but they're strangely reluctant to let Eun-soo go - and soon the parents vanish, leaving Eun-soo to watch the three eerie kids. Whenever poor Eun-soo tries to walk back to civilization, the forest itself swamps him with snow and darkness. Stuck with the kids (and a pair of increasingly creepy yuppies who are also stranded), Eun-soo begins to realize that this house isn't just creepy because of the "children's fantasy" theme; there's something dark and weepy in the attic. The children start to demonstrate darker facets - and mysterious powers that are keeping him trapped. Porcelain doll-women, people swallowed by trees, magical picture books, an endless forest littered with toys, and a house where children's wishes come true. In the last quarter the story suddenly twists back on itself, revealing a gruesome and traumatic back history for the children.
Rotten Tomatoes Movie Reviews
TOMATOMETER
73%- Reviews Counted: 11
- Fresh: 8
- Rotten: 3
- Average Rating: 6.4/10
Top Critics' Reviews
Fresh: Hardly innovative, but effective and handsomely produced, Hansel & Gretel puts the "grim" in Grimm while placing South Korean director Yim Phil-sung on the shortlist of Pan's Labyrinth emulators to trust.
Rotten: It is a film that is just good enough to keep you hanging around to the end, at which point you leave the theatre feeling vaguely let down.
Fresh: Genuinely ghoulish and grim in the best Brothers Grimm tradition.
Fresh: It's inconsistent: too predictable and simplistic for adults, too disturbing and bloody for their offspring. It's hard to know who it's for.
Customer Reviews
More sad than scary
This has an eerie element to it but this is far from what I’d call horror. The Cons of this movie is that it drags and drags and drags along. I really wasn’t that interested in the story line until it got to the end. I also think the title, although referenced in the plot several times, could have been more original or better thought out. The good things about this movie is that it was an “unusual” ghost story. I would love to see a remake of this- keep the concept and the haunted tenderness but add more scary or better execute the horror.
I would not recommend this movie for die hard horror fans even though the concept (or last bit of the story) had the better substance. If you are easily scared and easily creeped out and you don’t mind a movie that drags its feet- then this might be for you. I just wish it was executed better.
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