Edinburgh International Film Festival

The South Korean Film Cadaver is directed by Derek Son and stars Han Ji-min, On Ju-wan, and Oh Tae-kyung.  It is a horror film that revolves around a group of medical students doing autopsies for their first time.  It’s full of thrills, chills, and twists to keep the audience guessing right up until the end.

            I personally found Cadaver to be a pretty entertaining film that was a pretty basic movie for the horror genre.  The cinematography was done quite well, shooting mostly in low light with somber colors that helped to set the mood and add to the suspense.  The acting was adequate with all the characters being fairly believable.  The movie itself was pretty good but there were times that it was rather hard to follow.  There were a couple of scenes, such as when a van wrecks and spills a lot of cadavers, which I found to be unnecessary to the movie.  The plot almost takes to many twists and gets confusing to the point of leaving the audience with a since of missing something.  It seemed almost as if they couldn’t quite decide how they wanted to go with the movie.  Overall I will give the movie three and a half stars.  With a little more refinement it could be an excellent horror film.