Trailer: Mystery & the Supernatural Lie at the Center of THE CLOSET
If Parasite‘s stunning wins at the Oscars has you craving more horror out of South Korea, you’ll definitely want to check out the trailer for The Closet, embedded at the top of the article. The film, written and directed by newcomer KIM Kwang-bin, will open at CGV Los Angeles and CGV Buena Park on February 14th. A wider release will follow.
Horror aficionados will detect echos of Poltergeist and The Twilight Zone!
Synopsis:
When a tragic accident leaves Sang-won (HA Jung-woo) and his daughter Ina (HEO Yul) without their wife and mother, he moves to a new home to restore his relationship with his daughter. Despite all his efforts, nothing he does seems to work but she makes a new friend who makes her laugh. This moment of peace doesn’t last long, as strange noises trickle out of their closet and Ina begins displaying strange behaviors. A few days after Sang-won starts having eerie nightmares, Ina disappears without a trace. While searching for her, Sang-won comes across enigmatic Kyung-hoon (KIM Nam-gil), who seems to know where Ina has disappeared to: the closet. Kyung-hoon tells Sang-won that he’s been looking for whereabouts of missing children for the past 10 years and believes that the key to finding Sang-won’s daughter is inside the closet. Desperate to find his daughter, Sang-won reaches out to open the forbidden closet…
The Closet stars HA Jung-woo, KIM Nam-gil, and HEO Yul.
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