A Tale of Two Sisters (2003)
Directed by Kim Jee-woon
Two sisters return home after a stay in a mental institution, only to face disturbing events and a strained relationship with their stepmother. As eerie occurrences unfold, dark family secrets begin to surface, blurring the line between reality and nightmare.
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Peele’s homework for his sensational star, Lupita Nyong’o, included, according to Entertainment Weekly, “The Birds,” “The Shining,” “Dead Again,” the original “Funny Games,” “The Sixth Sense,” “A Tale of Two Sisters,” “Let the Right One In,” “The Babadook” and “It Follows.”
Before filming on Us began, Peele gave Nyong’o a list of 10 horror movies to watch to prepare for the role: Dead Again , The Shining , The Babadook , It Follows , A Tale of Two Sisters , The Birds , Funny Games , Martyrs , Let the Right One In , and The Sixth Sense .
Films Jordan Peele had his cast watch before making 'Us' “Dead Again” “The Shining” “The Babadook” “It Follows” “A Tale of Two Sisters” “The Birds” “Funny Games” "Martyrs” “Let the Right One In” “The Sixth Sense”…
Still, this is not fresh material, and it has been done better: everything about it plays like a very similar and less effective remake of A Tale of Two Sisters.
Director Kim Ji-woon, responsible for 2004's skin-crawling supernatural mystery "A Tale of Two Sisters" (remade for the U.S. in 2009 as " The Uninvited "), is aggressive and resourceful enough to play with expectations.
Director Kim Jee-woon (The Good, the Bad, the Weird and A Tale of Two Sisters) pays only lip service to logic throughout, with a bad guy that shifts between gibbering loon and Hannibal-level evil genius seemingly at whim.
Director Jee-woon Kim gave us the masterful "A Tale of Two Sisters," then a gleefully wacked spin on the spaghetti Western with "The Good, the Bad, the Weird."
That's because everything Kim Ji-Woon makes seems to be awesome. I didn't realize it at first, because his films have never been the "OMG, stop the presses!" moments of their respective years, but have instead just been consistently great. " A Tale Of Two Sisters " is a meticulously built horror film, where what you aren't told is just as important as what you are told, a brain-bender more than a gross-out. " A Bittersweet Life " seems at first glance to be a John Woo style story of men and honor and guns and the like, but he makes the genre feel brand new, like he invented it.…
As pointed out in the interview with the director elsewhere in this issue, the Kim seems to be working his way through the litany of film genres, most notably with the melodrama of A Tale of Two Sisters and his Eastern take on spaghetti Westerns The Good, the Bad and the Weird.
Director Kim Jee-woon, who made "A Tale of Two Sisters" and last year's crackling "kimchi western" "The Good, The Bad, The Weird," knows how to manipulate an audience.