Stoker was released in 2013, directed by acclaimed South Korean Park Chan-wook in his first foray into English language cinema. Whilst the filmmaker has enjoyed a lot of critical success with his ...

Outside of an appreciation for the freeze frame nature of the picturesque visuals, there’s little else to appreciate when it comes to Chan-wook Park‘s English-language debut, Stoker. An infatuation ...

Brian Brooks is a Deadline contributor. Fox Searchlight’s Stoker just may bring some fresh air into a specialty field that’s been monopolized in 2013 on the money side by two titles, Quartet and Amour ...

Korean director Park Chan-wook, perhaps best known in the West for his “Vengeance” trilogy, makes his English-language debut with Stoker, from a 2010 “Black List” script by Wentworth Miller. The film ...

There is one particular visual metaphor in Stoker, South Korean director Park Chan-wook's opulently gruesome English-language debut, that indicates its intentions so bawdily that the audience, or my ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s a shame we won’t get to see what his riff on Raimi or le Carré would look like.

Director Park Chan-wook's first movie in English may be more conventional than his earlier films, but it's still a sleek, nasty thriller. This being Park, of course, the screenplay (by Prison Break's ...

Last year, we told you how cinemagraphs — GIFs in which only a small part of a still photo is animated, creating an eerie effect — would become the hot new creative vehicle for advertisers. In March, ...

Park Chan-Wook is one of the most exciting filmmakers we have. While usually tending to stick to brutal subject matters, Park also loves challenging himself, as experienced in his short film Night ...

A few months ago, I wrote a review complaining about how Hollywood horror movies are nowadays typically regulated to B-fare. STOKER is the cure for this problem, as it’s a sophisticated, layered piece ...