Storyline

After finding that her husband is unfaithful and cheats her with a lover, Sun-jae moves to a decadent cheap apartment at Goksung Station with her daughter Han Tae-soo. While traveling home in the subway, Sun-jae finds a pair of red shoes and brings them home. Tae-soo becomes fascinated by the shoes, which brings greed and jealousy to whoever sees them, while Sun-jae has visions and nightmares with ghosts and blood. When her friend Kim-mi Hee steals the shoes, she has an accident and dies. Meanwhile, the architect decorator Cho-in Choi that is dating Sun-jae, researches and discloses that the mystery is related to a picture of 1944. His further investigation unravels the tragic fate of the original owner of the shoes.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords

shoes, curse, 1940s, year 1944, ghost, jealousy, subway, hysterical woman, revenge, implied sex, caught cheating, cheating on wife, unfaithful husband, eyepatch, apartment building, flat, broken glass, crashing through a window, dress, murder of friend

Short Review

The Red Shoes is actually a film that takes this rather hokey premise and spins it into a rather classy psychological horror tale.

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Streaming Service

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