Cinderella
(2006/Horror/Tartan/DTS)
Picture:
C Sound: C+ Extras: C Film: C+
Very
loosely based on the famous myth, Man-Dae Bong’s Cinderella (2006) tells the tale of a young girl who is alone,
wants to mutilate herself, is unhappy and may be the strange replacement for
another woman’s dead daughter! This is
done to an extent that could almost make this Science Fiction, but either way,
it is a very distant take.
Unfortunately,
it is also a mixed take with very familiar (and seemingly as old) conventions
from Horror films and the classic Cinderella tale, but it ultimately is another
formula Asian slasher flick with an upscale name slapped on it. I like some of what has been coming out of
Korean Horror Cinema, but this film never adds up. We get lots of screaming and jump-sounds, but
the script never goes anywhere we haven’t already been and this one turns into
a pumpkin by the second reel.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.85 X 1 image is very soft, weak and limited in color
and detail, little of which we can attribute to the style set by
cinematographer Hyun-Tae Kim. The sound
is not very pronounced or discrete, which is all the more obvious when you play
back the Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 mixes.
Extras include original trailers, a Tartan Asian Extreme trailer one
cannot forward and making of featurette.
- Nicholas Sheffo
