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A pair of high-heeled shoes are abandoned on a subway platform. When a young woman discovers them she feels compelled to take them, not knowing that they are cursed. She has just split up with her husband and plans to raise her daughter on her own. However, the shoes take possession of her. Equally, they enchant her ballet-obsessed daughter, family and friends with murderous consequences. When she investigates further, she discovers that a malevolent spirit is seeking revenge beyond the grave. Mother and daughter become obsessive rivals for ownership of the cursed shoes, but who will find themselves taking the final walk to their grave?

Director Yong-Gyun Kim has devised a devilishly captivating film in The Red Shoes, released by Tartan Video Asia Extreme on 25th June 2007, which combines the familiar fairy tale - most memorably realised in the Powell-Pressburger movie classic - with Korean horror traditions. It themes of vengeful spirits echo other Korean films such as The Phone and Into The Mirror.

It's an atmospheric horror film filled with stylistically claustrophobic camerawork and tinged with modern Gothic scenery. Equally, it's an intensive study of one woman's psychological state of mind, her deeper, unfulfilled desires. The Red Shoes is a toe-curling chiller that takes you for a walk on the fearside.