Hansel and Gretel is one of the most eye-catching movies to come out of South Korea’s 2000s horror renaissance.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2024

An original take on an age-old story, Hansel & Gretel is a small but powerful addition to the Eastern horror genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2019

It's a very slow film, with a third act that might have benefitted from a little pruning, but it's worth the journey to understand the destination.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 26, 2018

Hardly innovative, but effective and handsomely produced, Hansel & Gretel puts the "grim" in Grimm while placing South Korean director Yim Phil-sung on the shortlist of Pan's Labyrinth emulators to trust.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2009

The story gets a bit convoluted as it rolls on, rushing through a few too many plot points and explanations, but slowly builds the layers of dread.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2009

It is a film that is just good enough to keep you hanging around to the end, at which point you leave the theatre feeling vaguely let down.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 27, 2009

Genuinely ghoulish and grim in the best Brothers Grimm tradition.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2009

Making up for a selection of recent Asian Horror disappointments, this lush, surreal and brilliantly dark fairy tale is an entertaining and deliciously unsettling experience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2009

The production design is terrific - the colour palette is as lurid as a plate of cupcakes. But the film loses its tension in a baggy final act that overexplains the secret of the house.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2009

Revenge by abandoned children on the treachery of grown-ups ought to be unsetting at the very least, if not spine-tingingly terrifying. But it's done so clumsily that nothing remotely spooky emerges.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 16, 2009

The director may unwisely opt for a lachrymose denouement that ruffles the carefully sustained mood, but this delightfully grim horror is worth seeking out - just follow the breadcrumb trail of positive reviews.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 16, 2009

Yim Pil-Sung's disturbingly kitsch adult fairy tale is an intriguing genre-bender and you'll definitely succumb toits enchantingly sinister art direction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2009