A young woman’s reddish-brown hair, in close-up, dissolves into an overhead shot of wild reeds, eased this way and that by the wind. “Stoker” would be nothing without such flourishes. The film swims ...

Chan-wook Park is a wickedly assured visual storyteller. In fact, I’m not sure there’s anybody better at doing what he does. The South Korean director of “Oldboy” and “Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance” ...

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A spider crawls up the leg of 18-year-old India Stoker (Mia Wasikowska) early in Park Chan-wook’s English-language debut, “Stoker,” and she regards it passively, intrigued. There’s a creepy intruder ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. It’s a shame we won’t get to see what his riff on Raimi or le Carré would look like.

There is one particular visual metaphor in Stoker, South Korean director Park Chan-wook's opulently gruesome English-language debut, that indicates its intentions so bawdily that the audience, or my ...

The way the latest clip for Stoker plays out, you’d think the trailer out of the Sundance Film Festival was a promo for a quirky new teen drama — until the end. And that’s when things get creepy. But ...

Marking a solid Stateside debut for South Korean helmer Park Chan-wook, Fox Searchlight’s stylistic suspenser “Stoker” scored the best per-screen average over the March 1-3 frame, with $22,935 from ...

Last year, we told you how cinemagraphs — GIFs in which only a small part of a still photo is animated, creating an eerie effect — would become the hot new creative vehicle for advertisers. In March, ...