Young family moves from the countryside to the city. They move into an apartment that they inherited from the husband’s mother. They already have a girl and the woman is pregnant with a second child. The family seems destined for happiness, but that quickly changes. The Pot is an effective horror thriller focusing on the psychology of the protagonists. It soon becomes clear that there’s something fishy about their apartment building and that strange and scary things have happened that the building hasn’t forgotten. Entirely according to the rules of the genre, the building is a kind of haunted house, but the film introduces new elements into that genre.
The little daughter seems the most sensitive to the strange things going on around her. She turns against her parents and seeks solace with an older woman who lives upstairs. That woman is of course not to be trusted. All the upstairs neighbours, who are fanatical Christians, interfere with the increasingly unhappy family and eventually have a suffocating effect on them.
Kim has actually only recently graduated, but The Pot is far from being a student film: it has been made with the greatest technical control and self-assurance. Even more important is that the maker managed to give his characters feeling and depth, an essential difference from many other horror-like films. (GjZ)
Film details
- Country of production
- South Korea
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 115"
- Medium/Format
- Betacam Digi PAL
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