Seire

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Seire

2022

1h 42m

Horror

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In Korean folk traditions, "seire" is the twenty-one days after a baby is born in which they're uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses -- even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby's life, and new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend's funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued by terrible nightmares, the skeptical Woo-jin gradually begins to understand the seire custom, as he is forced to unravel the mystery of what is haunting him and his family in Kang Park's "chilling indie horror debut" (Screen Anarchy) heralding the arrival of a fresh new voice in Korean genre cinema.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

06/16/2023

What results is a down-to-earth kind of horror movie, about the common feelings of despair... [Full review in Spanish]

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Robin Clifford

Reeling Reviews

06/13/2023

B

First-time helmer and scribe, Kang Park, casts a decided gauntlet that he is an up and coming talent in the K-horror pantheon of filmmakers, Let us see what happens next.

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Laura Clifford

Reeling Reviews

06/13/2023

B+

Writer/director Park Kang makes his feature debut with the creepiest fear of fatherhood movie since David Lynch’s “Eraserhead.”

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

06/12/2023

4/5

A slow burn of a film which disturbs and unsettles, recalling insomniac night and too-bright mornings, a familiar world where everything seems slightly askew.

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Guillem Martinez Oya

Cinematismo

11/14/2022

4/5

A story about sympathetic magic works nowadays in Korea. A reflexión on our contemporary beliefs. [Full review in Spanish]

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Pierce Conran

ScreenAnarchy

09/01/2022

Steeped in old customs and tensely pitched between the extremes of birth and death, Seire unfolds as an absorbing mystery.

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Stephen G.

@patient1 Dec 11

Our intro is eerie and at the same time, it's kinda sweet. The premise of our story seems to revolve around an embedded tale and superstition in the culture, and I'm excited to see how it plays out after the intro. Oh the film doesn't disappoint, things are already our finally getting weirder than the intro. As magnificent as the things wrong happening, it's the heartbreaking moments that are seeing the tempo carry the weight. There is getting away from the fact that the superstitious element is mentally as disturbing and detrimental as is the physicality of it, and yet it a very interesting take on the superstition as of yet seen.

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Daniel M

@RT49365737 10/21/2023

Super snoozer. Was excited seeing this was a 100% tomato meter. Wow. So boring. What movie did you people watch?

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Emily C

@Evilyn 07/21/2023

Guilt is Hell. You think you can just forget it and "start fresh"?

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brad p

@Bradster69 02/21/2023

Seire is a haunting, austere ghost story.

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In Korean folk traditions, "seire" is the twenty-one days after a baby is born in which they're uniquely vulnerable to bad luck, curses -- even evil spirits. Many superstitions surround these first three weeks in a baby's life, and new mother Hae-mi carefully follows every one of them. Father Woo-jin is reluctantly willing to play along, but when he attends an ex-girlfriend's funeral, he unwittingly opens the door to to dark supernatural dangers. Plagued by terrible nightmares, the skeptical Woo-jin gradually begins to understand the seire custom, as he is forced to unravel the mystery of what is haunting him and his family in Kang Park's "chilling indie horror debut" (Screen Anarchy) heralding the arrival of a fresh new voice in Korean genre cinema.

Director: Kang Park
Producer: Rhee Yoon-joo
Screenwriter: Kang Park
Distributor: Film Movement
Genre: Horror
Original Language: Korean
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 4, 2022, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Jun 16, 2023
Runtime: 1h 42m