Funeral Home (1980)

REVIEWER RATING: 
4/10


This is the second film I've seen from director William Fruet, the first being the oddly-titled Blue Monkey, which I enjoyed to an extent. From the premise of this movie I expected a slasher, but instead, got some misplaced slow-paced mystery thriller. There's one killing about half way, then a few more towards the end to speed things up. The story revolves around a funeral home-turned bed and breakfast, where we follow a young woman who moves into the place to help her grandmother maintain things, but shortly after settling in guests start to either disappear or turn up dead. Who could be the killer? The fat old lady who whispers to herself late at night? Or maybe the mysterious caretaker with a seemingly dark agenda? Meh, who cares? I know I didn't.

As I said before, the film is pretty slow paced, and things didn't actually pick up until about an hour into it, when the killer starts getting desperate after people start poking around for answers about a few disappearances. The person doing most of that poking is a young officer who believes there's more to the story than what meets the surface, but his superiors seem to think otherwise. Either way, the bodies start piling up as more of the truth is revealed. This is one of those films where the most likely suspect ends up actually being the killer, no matter how ridiculous it may seem.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.
G.P. 506 (2008)

REVIEWER RATING: 
7/10


R-Point writer/director Su-chang Kong returns to the genre to deliver what I believe to be the first South Korean zombie film. Leave it to the Koreans to take a simple zombie story and turn it into a two-hour murder mystery. This is why I love Korean cinema -- they are great storytellers, from their romances, dramas, and even their horror. They know how to tell a story and tell it better than most of Hollywood.

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