Film Review – Stoker

“Stoker” is Korean director Park Chan-wook’s English language debut. A
master of the macabre, Park’s previous ventures include “Oldboy,”
“Sympathy for Lady Vengeance,” and “Thirst,” solidifying his taste for
the violent and the extreme, though he’s a very patient filmmaker,
interested in manipulating his audience with baroque visual elements and
suffocating emotional weight. Refusing to go Hollywood, Park retains
his personality with “Stoker,” a vicious head-rattler of a feature that
blends horror and raw psychological exposure, while inspecting a most
diseased family tree. Unpredictable and enchantingly outlandish, the
movie is often extraordinarily composed. Perhaps it’s far from perfect,
but the atmosphere is deliciously thick with psychosis and the
characters ideally unraveled.
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