By examining and interpreting skulls, Hyun-min reconstructs faces for the police but as his daughter's getting more and more sick and has to undergo a heart transplant, he decides to quit his job and instead take care of his daughter full time. The police are at the same time dealing with a series of murder cases were apparently all the victims seem to have had their flesh dissolved caused by acid. A girl named Sun-young seeks out Hyun-min with the skull of a victim and asks him to reconstruct the face. When leaving the skull in Hyun-min's house, his daughter suddenly starts to have visions of woman in a white robe and once finished the reconstructing of the face they find out that the vicitims all suffered from something called beta-allergy. Hyun-min later finds out that his daughter suffers the same condition and that she got her new heart by someone who also did.
I remember there was a lot of fuzz surrounding this movie before it was officially released and when it came out I was really excited to see it, but ended up a bit disapointed after viewing it since it wasn't that great of a horror film.
Some time later I decided to give the movie a go again and sat down to watch it and then I really appreciated it for what it was; a pretty good suspense thriller and not really the horror movie it claims to be.
It's actually really good for being a thriller but if you wanna get scared, then I would advise you to look somewhere else. It has elements of horror here and there but I wouldn't recommend it if you're just out for plain horror.
Face is not your average Asian ghost story and that is one thing that makes it feel refreshing. Other than that the movie offers great actors, a good score and an interesting suspense story.
Not too much to complain about here really, it's definitely recommended if you're into Asian horror flicks but wanna see something new and somewhat different for a change
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MOVIE YEAR: 2004
DIRECTOR: Sang-Gon Yoo
WRITING CREDITS: Hie-jae Kim, Cheol-hie Park
GENRE: Horror, Thriller
CAST: Yun-ah Song, Shin Hyun-jun, Seok-Hwan An
COUNTRY: South Korea
RUNTIME: 92 min
RATING: 7/10
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