“Dead Camping the Live ” Poster
Director: Kim Hyun-woo
Cast: Nam Jihyun, Lee Jae-seok, Lee Pu Reum, Kim Jung Joo, Jo Myung-haeng, Jeong In-gi, Dong-Hyung Kim, Rim-Hoo Kim, Seung-Jae Won, Big Alex
Running Time: 72 min.
By Paul Bramhall
Ladened with the kind of grammatically challenged title that feels like it came straight out of 80’s or 90’s Hong Kong cinema, 2022’s Dead Camping the Live is a low budget entry in the rape-revenge genre, a kind of Korean spin on I Spit on Your Grave (and probably made for less) if you will. So, yes, it’s a very low budget entry in Korea’s largely invisible B-movie scene, home to the descendants of the taekwon-action genre, unfussy horror flicks, and softcore romps whose posters promise far more than they deliver. Not that low budgets are necessarily a negative, however in the Korean film industry there’s an assumed level of polish expected from their productions, an expectation that needs to be significantly dialled back once you enter its micro-budget underbelly.
The sophomore feature length production from director Kim Hyun-woo following 2021’s Memory: Manipulated Murder, it would appear he’s something of a jack of all trades in the film industry, having previously worked as a planner, producer, cinematographer, editor, and production designer. Prior to helming his feature length outings, Hyun-woo spent Continue reading →
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