Ah-yung Ahn, Gyu-ryun Ahn, So-min Jeon

The daughter of successful female plastic surgeon, the teenage Hyun-soo (Se-kyeong Shin) is the envy of her art school friends, who all want the perfect face. But after her friends go under the knife ...( read more  read more... )and start dying mysterious deaths, Hyun-soo must investigate her mother's darkest secrets. This suspenseful -- and gruesome -- horror film is South Korean director Man-dae Bong's second feature.

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G, 1 hr. 16 min.

Directed by: Man-dae Bong

Release Date: August 17, 2006

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DVD Release Date: April 10, 2007

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  • February 9, 2009
    Rather than tackle the subject of plastic surgery and using the horror as a subtle commentary Cinderella is the same Asian horror movie we've come to expect. What starts out promising, with more naturalistic performances than most similar films, soon descends into a familiar and ...( read more)dull mystery horror. The twists are predictable and the connection between the story and Cinderella could have been so much more. The mother split between daughters is quite an interesting character on paper, but she is simply played and written as a stereotypical antagonist.
  • August 11, 2009
    Loved this suspense horror/thriller movie! Story is original and I was intrigued throughout the whole movie. Loved it! Got to see it for yourself! :P
  • November 15, 2009
    Again, strange and disturbing.
  • September 4, 2009
    Rather strange and perhaps slightly crazy this is definitely one for K-horror fans. Goes from one twist to another which makes the story interesting but I wished it had focused more on the "Cinderella" and her experiences and the impact of her mothers betrayal. Also a slight comm...( read more)entary on South Korea's obsession with beauty but again it could have been explored further. Overall an interesting watch that had alot bigger potential. It seems that alot of K-horror films get caught in Asian horror cliches rather than exploring more original images.
  • August 23, 2009
    Weird how Korean horror disappoints me again and again. Tacky, slow, and a climax that is not even a climax. Pass this.
  • June 30, 2009
    Not the enchanted Disney flick we all know and love, but a horror story of something alike with a twist that makes it as sadly as the Cartoonish fairytale itsellf.

    Synopsis: One of the best plastic surgeons (Da-in Yu) does wonders for teenage girls who want to look their best,...( read more) but after surgery is over; the teens begin to have strange visions of a ghostly righter of wrongs. The surgeons daughter (Se-Kyeong Shin) attempts to uncover the truth behind her mothers surgery's but what she finds is far more then what she had anticipated.

    Watching this film at first made me think of John Woo's "Face Off" and then gradually I thought it would carry on to elements that of Eric Red's "Body Parts", but that wasn't it at all. As the real story begins to unfold that Director Man-dae Bong (Sweet sex and love) intended to be starts to take its affect you get a complete and total twist that can't seem to be solved until the film is over. It was quite difficult to catch which person was who during the climatic finish, but once it has been understood you'll realize how great of a film you just saw.

    Unfortunately the scares are not as strong as its plot elements, but some of its gory scene's made up for the lack of fright.
  • April 22, 2009
    This might have been a little more frightening had I not seen similar effects in Ringu, Shutter, and Juon. The story itself was ok but a little confusing as to who was who.
  • March 27, 2009
    I had to watch this twice to like it. Not bad...
  • March 21, 2009
    A totally lame movie as threats from a plastic surgery curse that will keep M Jacko interested.
  • March 20, 2009
    It started off okay, kind of scary, mostly because of the medical stuff as apposed to the horror stuff. Then it just got predictable, stupid and slow. I'm not too sure what it has to do with Cinderella, except that there happened to be an ugly sister and a privelaged pretty one. ...( read more)A stupid one on top of it! "You only see dead people becuse you are upset by the fact all your friends are turning up dead!" "Well then! It must be okay! I'm cured, even though the thing tried to rip off my face last night!" The last half hour is the longest and the dumbest, and really I don't even know how it concluded- it was that hard to get! Which is another thing, do all the actresses have to look the same?! I couldn't tell who was who!

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January 1, 2000
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

When those little mice bust a gut trying to drag that key up hundreds of stairs in order to free Cinderella, I don't care how many Kubrick pictures you've seen, it's still exciting. full review

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