The Red Shoes is a 2005

2005 in film

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 horror film

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 written and directed

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 by Kim Yong-gyun. Kim Yong-gyun was inspired by the fairy tale

Fairy tale

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 of the same name

The Red Shoes (fairy tale)

"The Red Shoes" is a fairy tale by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen first published by C.A. Reitzel in Copenhagen 7 April 1845 in New Fairy Tales. First Volume. Third Collection. 1845....

 by Hans Christian Andersen

Hans Christian Andersen

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, where a vain stepdaughter could not stop dancing in her enchanted red shoes.

Plot

Set in Seoul

Seoul

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, Sun-jae leaves her unfaithful husband and moves into an old apartment with her daughter, Tae-su. One night when Sun-jae is returning home, she finds a pair of red shoes in a subway car and takes them home, only to later discover that they are cursed. Her obsession grows, arousing envy and greed with mysterious, nightmarish visions. Even Sun-jae’s daughter and one of her friends, Kim-mi Hee, fall victim to the power of the shoes, resulting in hysteria and theft of the shoes. Soon after Kim-mi Hee takes them, she dies, but the shoes return to her daughter.

With help from her new boyfriend In-cheol, Sun-jae tries to discover the mystery behind the red shoes before it gets her and her daughter killed. She discovers that the old owner of the shoes escapes from harm but the person who takes them dies, and their feet are chopped off.

Cast

• Kim Hye-su
  Kim Hye-su
  -Career:Kim Hye-su debuted in the 1986 film Ggambo when she was a first year high school student. Over two decades she amassed a sizeable filmography of leading and supporting roles, notably in the TV dramas Did We Really Love? with Bae Yong Joon and Revenge and Passion with Ahn Jae Wook, as well...
  
  – Sun-jae
• Kim Sung-su– In-cheol, Sun-jae's boyfriend
• Park Yeon-ah– Tae-su, Sun-jae's daughter
• Go Soo-hee
  Go Soo-hee
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  – Kim Mi-hee, Sun-jae's friend
• Lee Eol– Sung-joon, Sun-jae's ex-husband

Reception

BloodyDisgusting.com's movie reviewer, Ryan Daley, said that the film is "occasionally poorly paced" but has "striking cinematography and plot machinations that are all over the map" which added to the story confusion. He also noted that The Red Shoes "solid and stylish" gore was a plus and that he "was dying to know how it all ended, even if [he] was a little overwhelmed by the ambiguous final twist."

External links

• Official site (dead link)
• The Red Shoes Movie Review