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Stephanie J. Block, Do Ji-won, Shin Se-kyung, Yoo Da-in

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, 12 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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  • September 23, 2010
    This was okay. Not boring though. A bit scary. Nothing like the disney Cinderalla. Some scenes were hard to understand as it was way too dark. I did liked the story. But sometimes it was confusing. Not willing to watch it again though.
  • February 3, 2010
    There are some decent ideas being thrown around in here, but by the end they all feel like a gimmick and Cinderella amounts to little more than average genre fare. The confrontation of Korea's obsession with plastic surgery is always interesting, but Time did it far better, and f... read moreor this movie it just seems like a coat rack to hang some overbaked atmosphere and jump scares on. Good acting and occasional aesthetic surprises all seem counterbalanced by the fact that the movie is so fucking dark, you can never actually see what's going on. Most likely a budgetary constraint, Cinderella's already barely-coherent plot is further crippled by this lousy choice.

    Definitely skippable, unless Asian horror is your comfort food (as it is mine).
  • December 1, 2009
    This is the creepy version of Cinderalla. Very disturbing.
  • 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 moredull 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
  • 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.
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    This movie is sick, twisted, bizarre, disjointed, slow-moving and often confusing... and despite all that, I really enjoyed it. I don't find it so much scary as sad and disturbing, but I definitely think it's something that will haunt me for a while. This is definitely worth sitt... read moreing through the subtitles for.
  • November 27, 2010
    the only good thing is the mom is sooooooooooo prettttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. It is confusing which is good for a horror movie, but dos not offer more
  • October 1, 2007
    The plot was pretty interesting so it kept me hooked thru-out, but the movie falls prey to asian horror cliches and that's what ultimately hurts it. Tho honestly, you have to expect that if you're watching near any asian horror so you can't really knock it for it.
  • July 27, 2007
    The ending has me at a loss. Who's who and what the hell is going on? Other than that, it's not bad for a face surgeon kind of flick. Not scary. More drama if anything. A surgeon's daughter was in the car when it caught fire, she got badly burned and scarred, no hope of surviving... read more... The mother however won't let her baby girl go, so she has been secretly treating her and keeping her alive in a secret room. She made many skin masks for her daughter but they were temporary and requires constant change throughout the years. When a little orphan wandered to her door, she took the child in and used her face for her daughter's. As adults, the adopted daughter it seems lived in solitude in the secret room and was discovered late in the movie by the real daughter... hence confusion here, the line seemed to blur on which girl is the real daughter. A sad ending.

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