Memories Of Murder

Based on a string of unsolved murders that terrorized South Korea's rural Gyunggi Province in the late '80s, Bong Joon-Ho's second feature is produced with all the polish typical of recent Korean genre movies. It's also pretty frightening, but not in the way you might expect in a serial-killer thriller. What's really scary isn't that there's a strangler on the loose, but that the cops in charge of the investigation are sadistic thugs who aren't above fabricating evidence and torturing the mentally retarded in order to extract phony confessions. When the raped and strangled body of a young woman is found in a grassy meadow, local detective Park Doo-Man (Song Roe-Ho) a...