"Of all the recent gobsmacking developments in Korean cinema, the arrival of this worse-than-perverse indie feature must be the most alarming. (The Korean title translates as The high-school student who got chopped up while selling herself in Daehakno is still in Daehakno .) A schoolgirl prostituting herself for pocket-money on the streets of Seoul inadvertantly runs foul of her teacher, a monstrous ogre who buys her services, makes her pregnant, kills her and hires three gibbering 'brothers' to cut up the body. A mysterious onlooker takes away the pieces and reconstructs the girl as a cyborg ?the ultimate phallic killing machine. But a desire for revenge still burns in the now-mechanical brain. A riot of bizarre, fevered images set to a Saint-Saens-meets-acid-techno soundtrack, Nam's film stands in relation to Korean indie cinema exactly as Tsukamoto's Tetsuo once stood in relation to Japan's. The dance sequence, on the other hand, is very nice"

-Tony Rayns, 45th London Film Festival –

"This is marvellously unhinghed maverick movie-making" --- Bizarre Magazine

FESTIVALS/AWARDS

1st HK Korean Film Festival (2004, Hong Kong)
5th Wisconsin Film Festival (2003, USA)
29th Flanders Int'l Film Festival (2002, Belgium)
Dig.it: 2nd Digital Media Festival (2002, USA)
22nd Atlantic Film Festival (2002, Canada)
9th Chicago Underground Film Festival (2002, USA)
Spotlight, 51st Melbourne Int’l Film Festival (2002, Australia)
Asia Pacific, 11th Brisbane Int’l Film Festival (2002, Australia)
Midnight, 28th Seattle Int’l Film Festival (2002, USA)
4th Buenos Aires Int’l Festival of Independent Cinema (2002, Argentina)
11th Philadelphia Festival of World Cinema (2002, USA)
9th NY Underground Film Festival (2002, USA)
Critics' Choice, 31st Int’l Film Festival Rotterdam (2002, The Netherlands)
4th Bangkok Film Festival (2001, Thailand)
45th London Film Festival (2001, UK)
Special Mention, Dragons and Tigers, 20th Vancouver Int’l Film Festival (2001, Canada)
Asia Panorama, 15th Singapore Int’l Film Festival (2001, Singapore)
Best Fiction Film, 26th Korean Indie & Short Film Festival (2000, Korea)
Closing Film, Resfest, "Seoul Mix" (2000, Korea)
"Forbidden Zone", 4th Puchon Int'l Fantastic Film Festival (2000, Puchon, Korea)
First Screening : IndieForum, Korean Independent Film & Video Makers' Forum (2000, Korea)
Digital Feature Film Distribution Support by KOFIC (Korean Film Commission)

Other screenings
SouthWest Film Center (2003, USA)
CineAsia Film Festival (Germany)