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What's the Story, Mornin' Glory?
H
(2002)
On February 10th, a worker finds a body in a landfill. When the detectives arrive they search the area and stumble across a newly born baby, who’s dead. Four days later a bus driver tries to wake a woman up when they reach the end of the line, but finds her dead and her baby’s foot hanging out of her stomach. These murders have the same M.O. as those of Shin Hyun (Seung-woo Cho) who had confessed to six similar murders committed in the same fashion. The problem is he’s been in jail for a year. Knowing it couldn’t be him the detectives ask him to cooperate in finding his copycat. After a lot of psychobabble and vague talk about abysses they try to figure it out on their own. When they think they’ve captured the copycat, the gruesome murders continue, leading them to believe there’s more than one copycat killer, but how can that be? Who is killing all these women, what does he have against pregnant women and fetuses, and why does the trail keep leading back to Hyun even though he’s in jail?
You Learn Something New Everyday...
 If you fall asleep on a bus you must be drunk.
Never wear gloves at the crime scene.
Zing!
"Fucking smart serial killers! What the fuck! Fucking dumb detectives! What the fuck!" -Kang
Survey SAYS...
If you were to mix a dash of Law and Order: SVU, a pinch of CSI, a cup and a half of Se7en, and a cup of Silence of the Lambs, and throw in some fetus hating for flavor you’d get H. In fact, the movie is so much like Silence of the Lambs and Se7en that is says so on the box. Really, they shouldn’t have said anything because then the similarities wouldn’t have been so obvious. It would’ve been more like, “Heeeeey, y’know what this movie reminds me of?” and not so blatantly obvious where you could match up the scenes.
In H they had the following similar Se7en scenes: the rookie breaking into a sealed crime scene to look for new evidence, the murders are based on the killer’s sense of morality, when they think they’ve found the killer they have the SWAT team storm the apartment with rifles, and taunting the detective who’s loved one he had a hand in killing to try to get them to kill him. Really, those are all main points in Se7en. Also, the ending of H was almost a duplicate of the alternate ending of Se7en. The similarities to Silence of the Lamb are fewer. Only two, a rookie cop is talking to a psycho killer to figure out why the other killer is killing and what their next move will be.
H had a lot of potential. It could’ve been a real disturbing gore fest. I think I was expecting a movie more like Audition or any other movie that Takashi Miike could think up. So, maybe that’s why it was sort of a let down. The biggest problem this movie had was all the plot twists. Every 10 minutes there’s a plot twist and it leaves you confused. Normally that’s a good thing, but eventually it got tiresome and it felt like they were just trying to drag the movie out to 2 hours. It wasn’t really a long movie, but by the end it started to feel like I had been watching it for 4 hours instead of two. I’m also a dunce and was completely confused by the ending. Like, it’s obvious and explained, but I don’t see how it works. I get the hypnosis part, but how does the ring tone factor in? How did the guy know his ring tone? Why didn’t he kill every time the phone rang? Were the other people hypnotized with their ring tones? How was he able to kill from beyond the grave? How can a fetus remember being almost aborted? Who actually uses a hanger to abort a baby? Right. Anyway, in all, it was a pretty decent movie, but it had SO much potential to be way cool and disturbing. That’s what’s really disappointing. Spend less time filming people running on the beach with no sound and more time thinking about how to make fetus killers scary. So, if you like...killers who kill on a menstruation cycle, revenge on fetus killers, severed ears, obscene amounts of plot twists, self abortions, cell phone hypnosis, and E-ed up lesbians in techno club then this is the flick for you. As for us...we give H
That Wasn't so Bad Was It?
I was left Feeling: Confused
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