Right here’s a trailer for a creepy supernatural horror brief movie titled Koreatown Ghost Story. The story relies on a Korean ritual and follows a girl who entertains a macabre supply that will let her pursue her goals, for higher or for a lot a lot worse.
The movie was written and directed by Minsun Park and Teddy Tenenbaum and it stars Margaret Cho and Lyrica Okano.
This trailer is shared in collaboration with the FilmQuest Movie Competition, the place we need to expose a few of the superior indie style movies and shorts that filmmakers are creating. We additionally included an interview with the administrators beneath.
With out spoilers, inform us what your movie is about, its characters, and its themes. Is it a proof of idea, or a standalone story?
On this supernatural horror story primarily based on a Korean ritual starring Margaret Cho and Lyrica Okano, a girl entertains a macabre marriage supply that will let her pursue her goals, for higher or for a lot a lot worse. Koreatown Ghost Story is a brief movie that we offered to Paramount Photos in a deal to make the function movie model.
What was the inspiration to your movie? How did you give you the concept?
Minsun Park is a Korean-American filmmaker who drew upon a private story as inspiration for this movie. When an adolescent of marriageable age dies in Korea (and plenty of different Asian international locations), it is seen as an awesome tragedy that the deceased wasn’t capable of marry earlier than dying, and can be alone within the afterlife.
In some circumstances, the households of useless single folks might name upon a non secular particular person to marry the ghosts to one another in order that they have companionship within the subsequent world. However what would occur if a dwelling lady had been requested to the bride of a ghost?
Koreatown Ghost Story places that concept right into a horror setting whereas exploring the themes of immigration and the technology of People caught between the traditions of the nation of their elders and the stress to evolve to mainstream American (white) tradition.
Inform us about your self. What’s your background? How lengthy have you ever been a filmmaker?
Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum are a writing/directing crew with mixed expertise in options and tv, together with pilot gross sales, employees writing, function spec gross sales, and have and tv assignments. They’ve written individually and collectively, and presently write each as a crew and as solo writers.
They concentrate on style writing, together with horror, thriller, and motion, usually with a humorous edge. They most lately wrote and directed an episode of Hulu’s Chew Measurement Halloween. With Minsun’s background as an Asian-American lady born in Korea and Teddy’s expertise as a white dude from Ohio, they cowl a whole lot of bases
What evokes you to work inside style cinema and inform these type of tales?
We discover that horror movies are the very best Computer virus for exploring fashionable social and political themes whereas nonetheless entertaining the viewers. We really feel horror acts as a method for audiences to securely discover the very actual horrors of contemporary society.
What was your favourite a part of the filmmaking course of for this challenge?
Working with the sensible Margaret Cho was a profession dream of ours, and having the ability to watch Lyrica Okano create a wealthy three-dimensional character from phrases on a web page was an exciting expertise. In filmmaking, there’s nothing as rewarding as having an unbelievable solid and crew use their artwork to take a narrative and make it actual.
What are you most happy with with this movie?
The creativeness and expertise of our solid and crew make us immensely proud to be related to them.
What’s a favourite story or second from the making of the movie you’d prefer to share?
We shot Koreatown Ghost Story in a historic home that was as soon as a part of a convent. In actual fact, the home subsequent door, the well-known American Horror Story Homicide Home, was a part of the identical advanced owned by the nuns.
Throughout one shot, most of the crew noticed somebody on movie who was not imagined to be within the shot. However in reviewing the footage, we weren’t capable of finding the particular person. Many of the crew is satisfied we had a ghostly visitation.
What was your most difficult second or expertise you had whereas making your movie?
Cramming 15 pages and two set items right into a 3 day shoot is a superb journey we do not notably wish to expertise once more.
Who had been a few of your collaborators and actors on the movie? How did you begin working with one another?
We had Margaret Cho in thoughts after we wrote the character of Mrs. Moon. We contacted her agent and supervisor, despatched her the script, requested her to affix us as producers, and had been extremely fortunate that she wished to be a part of Koreatown Ghost Story. From there, everybody we wished to work with, from the wonderful actress Lyrica Okano to the sensible cinematographer Jon Keng was desperate to signal on.
What’s the greatest recommendation you have ever obtained as a filmmaker and what would you prefer to say to new filmmakers?
If you’re a author, attempt your hand at directing. Writing is designing a home, and directing is constructing it. When you can design a home, you possibly can rent the very best folks that can assist you construct it.
What are your plans to your profession and what do you hope this movie does for it? What sort of tales would you want to inform shifting ahead?
We love the horror style, though we additionally write thrillers and science fiction. We’re presently creating an animated sci-fi/motion present for a online game and movie manufacturing firm, and persevering with to jot down new horror function movies. However from right here on in, we hope to direct them, not simply write them.
The place can we discover extra of your work and the place can events contact you? Do you’ve a web site or YouTube/Vimeo channel? Social media handles?
Our episode of Chew Measurement Halloween is titled Trip or Die and is the finale of Season Three on Hulu. Koreatown Ghost Story has not been accessible to the general public as a consequence of our contract with Paramount, however we imagine we’ve labored that out and hope to be streaming Koreatown Ghost Story on a public web site VERY quickly. You may as well observe us at: IG: EctoplasmEnt IG: NotSoSunnyPark IG: TeddyTbaum TikTok: TeddyTbaum
Bonus Query #1: What’s your all-time favourite movie?
Rosemary’s Child is our all-time favourite horror movie. Fingers down.
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