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TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME KILLING MACHINE IN DAEHAKROH
Well I’ve finally seen TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME KILLING MACHINE IN DAEHAKROH,(Daehakno-yeseo maechoon-hadaka tomaksalhae danghan yeogosaeng ajik Daehakno-ye Issda)life is nearly complete, yet not entirely satisfied.
All I knew about this film from Korea was that it was about a teenage hooker dressed like a Sailor Moon Fetish doll that fucks for money, ends up doing her teacher who cuts her up into pieces… Someone sews her together again and programs her to become the ultimate killing machine. There was supposed to be hardcore gore and very very real nudity. It had all the makings of the GREATEST MOVIE OF ALL TIME, but then I saw it.
Early this morning I received a knock at my front door here in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I open it to find a hopping hand sewn to a foot at the door signing happily to see me… It was.. CARTUNA!!! He apparently has escaped some Penal Colony to come see this private screening of TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME KILLING MACHINE IN DAEHAKROH. He began signing in American Sign Language quickly at me, but with a Canuck accent… very odd, every sentence ended in the sign language for "Let’s throw back a beer!" symbol. Anyway he was hoppingly excited to see TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME KILLING MACHINE IN DAEHAKROH. Oh man… So was I!
The film was made in 2000, but I still hadn’t seen it, ever since those reviews from Seattle I’ve been dying. Then when my Doppelganger saw it a couple of nights ago at its regular Atlantic Film Festival screening, pure unadulterated jealousy racked through my bloated carcass… MUST SEE FILM!
It had all the earmarks of a great cult film. A movie of certain brilliance.
We entered the screening room which resulted in air vapor radiating from our skin… Our body temperature was so much warmer than the air in this deep freeze of a room, that we steamed like shit on a North Texas pasture in January. Once our limbs went numb the movie started.
What a disappointment!
Ok, sure maybe my expectations were too high… Sure it had all the elements that my second paragraph describes, but what wasted potential. It shamelessly rip-offs directly scenes from LA FEMME NIKITA and attempts to spoof that film, while sacrificing the only potential brilliance of its own concept for the cheap and easy way. Because of the Besson references all I could think of, is what this exact movie would be like if directed by Besson with Natalie Portman in the role. DEAR GOD THE MIND REELS…
In fact watching this sort of half-assed style over substance hour long music video, all it does is make you hunger for the material to be done right. You’ll stare at the screen and imagine what folks like Peter Jackson or Quentin Tarantino or Luc Besson or hell… Even Roger Corman or any of the directors that worked for him would have or could have done with the same premise.
Now you do have some shocking images, but the film is so badly put together that it makes nearly no sense when you find yourself at a blown out teenage belly with an umbilical cord with a floating fetus at one end in a bathroom… suddenly flashing to a bad guy and his two effeminate mates in a swing while the girl in the vision is laying naked on an electrical bed. Now ordinarily this would not faze me as wrong except that it was handled just terribly.
A lot of my problems could be one of those cultural things… where it is just the difference between Western story-telling and that of South Korea, but the film had such desires in terms of exploitation, but the production just couldn’t live up to it. Director/Writer/Producer Gee-Woong Nam has made a film with all the desire to be a COFFY or SWITCHBLADE SISTERS, but none of the actual ability to deliver upon that. Is it painful to watch? Not really, just boring and long… and it is only 60 minutes long, but it still feels long. That’s a major problem.
How hot is the girl playing the Teenage Hooker? Well So-Yun Lee is very hot, but there is really no character there and the over-saturation and bleeding of colors ruins what performance is there and distorts the nudity that is shown. The teacher by Dae-tong Kim is just a freak show of terrible acting and is that makeup he’s wearing or what the hell is wrong with that face? I don’t know, but it is just strange.
There is some fun stuff here, but ultimately it was built up to be a better more complete work of exploitation for me. Check it out, it does have some fun in it, but don’t expect much, then you may get more than you bargain for, but go in expecting the moon and you’ll come out like me… disappointed and let down. You have been warned, I wish I had been…
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Sep 21, 2002 4:38:16 PM CDT
Or "I Could Never Have Sex With A Man Who Has So Little Respect
by rawshark
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Sep 21, 2002 5:41:11 PM CDT
FINALLY he saw it! Now we can decide whether or not to invade I
by jrcash
Thank goodness.
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It sounds like a flick I once saw called Frankenhooker.
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Yep.
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it's a french film starring two french porn stars, the actings pretty good, and they kill people, so i was entertained, especialy since there's real fucking in it, this i think, will leave me dry, but i'll watch, i'll cry, i'll whack off half way through and go to sleep...
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Sep 22, 2002 1:12:50 PM CDT
Weird... I never thought that ANY movie could leave me so... ind
by modern_achilles
I neither like it or dislike it. Its like watching an Enya video.
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Sep 22, 2002 6:17:32 PM CDT
Harry didn't like it? What a surprise. Even the title is a j
by cooldan989
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I can review this movie in one word: BORING! This is the most boring film I have ever seen. The sceens go on and on with nothing happening, the 'nudity' is non existent, the action is dull, The humor, well I'm not even sure there was any humor attempted in it. I wasn't expecting The Godfather, but I was expecting a cheesy B-grade good time. The synops IS the plot. Nothing happens in this film, just horrid color work and never ending scenes. It makes Tomb Raider look like pure gold.
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Bad acting, lousy plot, unrealistic situations, lame attempts to lampoon other movies...
it's just live action anime, then. -
i still don't get why this movie, out of so many other korean movies, got the attention of harry. this movie opened in 2000 in korea, and i'd be surprised if more than a dozen koreans have actualy seen the film. -
Means Rape Me, right? Anyway, SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I CAN GET A COPY OF IT! It seems really cool, like what THELMA AND LOUISE shoulda been, what BADLANDS coulda been. So if anyone knows where I can get it, please let me know! Thanks!
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Then we should pity them. What waste of film. And I thought that Korean Godzilla-wannabe Reptilian was putrid.
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"So Harry recently wrote a review about a film called TEENAGE HOOKER BECAME KILLING MACHINE IN DAEHAKROH. Anyways, because we're all in the know, we are aware that this film came from South Korea. Now in his review, he wrote that it was from SINGAPORE... I'm guess[ing] because IMDB has listed the SINGAPORE running time, but I posted that it was from South Korea to fix his review, and lo and behold, he erases my post and fixes his review! Pat on the back for me, that guy stole my credit! AICN punked me, ha. I'm not a bitter man, I just wanted me geek love and my nerd embracings." -- from a forum on kfccinema.
just say it ain't so, harry! we fuck-ups gotta stay together. none of this sneaky infighting crap! be proud!! -
It was shot on Betacam with almost no money. Complaining about the technical deficiencies in a no-budget indie film is a bit pointless. ----- To me this was a one joke film, but the interesting thing was the hyper-unreal style. I was actually quite impressed by the crazy color look they got, but it did remind me of early 80s music videos. ----- It's only 60 minutes of your life, and shows you that Koreans want to do freaky-ass movies too. I think they're being heavily influenced by all the anime they've been sweatshopping for the Japanese.
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no, koreans have not even heard of the film except for a handful of diehard film buffs, but even then their reviews weren't that good.
this is a bad movie, in korea and abroad, and should not be regarded as a "representative" korean movie. -
The Machine Girl uses the same concept more successfully.
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