Not that amazing.
I am torn, the story begins as the synopsis indicates and that a young man - Yoon Jong‑woo - will live in a residence where his neighbors are more than suspicious.The problem is that there are only 10 episodes, and they could have made more use of them.
We practically have to wait for episode 3 to have a first interaction between our two protagonists, and it is neither memorable nor long. The build-up is slow, not much happens except the fact that we know from episode 1 what kind of people are his neighbors, it's a shame that it's not a surprise or a revelation for later, it would have been nice for the audience to wonder who is who.
So basically, until episode 7, the plot is slow - which is not a problem in other series - but here the interactions between our two characters are rare, there are no surprises and major revelations. Seems more like it's the build-up to why Yoon Jong‑woo freaks out and gets violent.
I agree with a review that says the show is all about insanity. The story isn't that amazing and it's really focused on our main protagonist going from normal young man to giving a free ride to his violence, the series has build-up only that.
I would have liked more, more between our characters who have a certain chemistry, that we understand more the motives of these characters since they are not mysterious.
All we have are two twins who giggle and are murderous, an equally murderous perv, the manager who seems just as crazy, and Seo Moon‑jo the creepy dentist. It feels more like these characters are here for the grand finale and when people will inevitably have to die.
I would say otherwise that the atmosphere and the tones of the series are well created, it's more or less scary, dark and horrifying. The overall production is good - but there are plot holes - and the actors, all without exception, fit into their roles perfectly, but none of the characters marked me personally.
Like I said already, the two protagonists interact very little, and suddenly Seo Moon‑jo decides that Yoon Jong‑woo is very special to him, without there being a tangible relationship between the two, except Seo Moon‑jo being creepy since the beginning and stalking Yoon Jong‑woo.
It's really the relationship that pops up, out of the blue, which is why I wish I had more episodes or else had them interact earlier so it doesn't seem so sudden.
The very end - the last ten minutes - is really the exciting part of the show, that ending is open ended, our character is inevitably changed, and there's a last minute twist, which leaves us with a possibility for a season 2 - even if I doubt it - and the return of a character.
But it's a nice crime series overall, it's not the scariest of the lot, nor the best scripted, but it's nice for those who like the genre, not a lot of mysteries though, it's more into the impact of scenes that are made to be scary and made us feel for Yoon Jong‑woo, but hey without suspense, it's hard to keep an interest.
The characters play their roles well even if I would have hoped for more, even coming from our two protagonists whose performance is good but nothing more.
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نبتدي من القصه اللي مظبوطه قوي ومحبوكه جدا لدرجه انك عمرك ما هتستنتج النهايه لاخر ثواني حرفيا !! وحتي عمرك ما هتستنتج ايه اللي هيحصل الحلقه اللي جايه من كوارث !!! انا استمتعت جدا بالقصه وشدتني لاخر ثواني يعني حقيقي شابو
التمثيل !!! ياربي مفيش حد فيهم مأبدعش حرفيا خصوصا
Lee Dong Wook ايه اللي بيعمله ده !!!! انا حرفيا اقتنعت انه مجنون رسمي من فرط تقمصه للشخصيه !! وسامته كلها راحت اقسم بالله وشكله الطبيعي اتنسي وبقيت حرفيا بخاف منه ومن شكله خصوصا ضحكته بجد ازعجتني جدااااااا ووترتني !!! لمعه عينه والحياه اللي بترد فيها لما يكون بيقتل حد ولا بياخد منه سنانه وهو في قمه وجعه لا لا لا لا مش طبيعي بجد !!! دور عمره وابدع فيه بجدااااااااره والله شابو بجد
Lee Jung Eun الست دي خلتني اخاف من اي ست ممكن تكون موجوده في حياتي او حتي اقابلها صدفه اقسم بالله !!!!! كميه الطيبه اللي بتبقي ع وشها وفجاه النور يطفي خالص ومفيش اي حياه وتقلب شيطان كده وبكميه نشوه غير طبيعيه قتلتني والمصحف !!! شابو ع تمثيلها الخرافي !!
الموسيقي 10\10 في محلها ووترتني جدا في اماكن كتير والله المسلسل مش رعب بس حقيقي خوفني ورعبني جدا !!
صعب اتفرج عليه تاني الحقيقه فيه كميه دماويه غير عاديه وحوار انهم بياكلوا لحم البشر ده كان قالب كياني بس المسلسل يستحق ان الناس تشوفه بجد !!!
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Amazing plot, great actors, awesome soundtracks and a rewatch value of 100%
So this is actually the first time i am writing a review but after watching this drama i just haad to write a review and praise this it. That being said, lets jump straight into the review. The plot of the drama was very well stocked, it started out pretty normally and slow so that you can get into the story step by step and then it adds to the intensity episode by episode. Every and i am saying every character was amazingly acted out by the wonderful actors/actresses and i want to praise one the most, which was the mentally disabled twins. That actor played his character so well i couldn't believe how he can keep up his role that well all the time. The scenery was greatly shot and i loved every moment of it. As soon as he entered the "Eden" Studio, that atmosphere of real creepiness instantly kicked in. The soundtracks backed up everything that was going on in the drama, they were just really filling that plot with creepiness. ONE THING and only this one thing that i missed in this drama was the background stories of every character living there, like i would have liked to know a bit more about them. I mean they tell how it got to that point and stuff but yeah more developed background stories would have been great. But maybe its more developed in the webtoon so yeah. All in all it's rewatchable and i will rewatch it for all the details i missed at the beginning of the drama when i didn't really know where it was going yet. So great work, hope to see more dramas like this!Esta resenha foi útil para você?
Purtroppo non mantiene fino in fondo quello che promette all’inizio
Devo ammetterlo: i primi episodi mi hanno scioccato e irrimediabilmente catturato.
L’atmosfera cupa, pesante, claustrofobica, ossessiva e sporca incatena lo spettatore che non decida di scappare subito a game levate. Perché sì, la tentazione in principio c’è stata, quando ho temuto che mi si stesse guidando verso territori dove non avrei voluto andare. Ma, superato il momento, la storia si dipana ineluttabile e allo spettatore ignaro o preavvisato non resta che assistervi.
L’inferno è l’assenza del diavolo che ci aveva tentati, avrei detto io, probabilmente sbagliando. La tesi che propugna questa serie è che l’inferno siano gli altri, intesi come il nostro prossimo che ci rende la vita un inferno, o il cui sguardo ci costringe entro una gabbia in cui non avremmo mai creduto di voler e poter entrare. E rimanere. I riferimenti letterari, a partire dalle Metamorfosi di Kafka, si sprecano e diventano motivo e pretesto per il pesante sotto testo psicologico che, più delle scene sanguinolente, forma l’ossatura di questo drama.
Il giovane campagnolo Jong Woo viene a Seul, dove un vecchio compagno di scuola gli ha trovato un lavoretto alle sue dipendenze. La vita è molto più cara che a casa e il nostro troverà alloggio solo in un ostello semi fatiscente di periferia, abitato da una serie di inquietanti personaggi, la maggior parte dei quali pare afflitta da tare o turbe mentali. Date a un animale una tana in cui sentirsi al sicuro e non proverà stress. Ma quando quella casa, oltre a essere sporca all’inverosimile e priva di comodità, è teatro di circostanze via via sempre più inquietanti e minacciose, dove potrà il nostro protagonista distogliere la mente dai suoi problemi? E non sono pochi: a casa è rimasto un fratello malato con la madre, la sua ragazza è talmente impegnata col lavoro da non avere tempo per lui, e in più non riconosce il disagio che la nuova sistemazione gli procura, il suo nuovo capo lo disprezza e non glielo manda a dire, e anche chi dovrebbe insegnargli il lavoro fa di tutto per ostacolarlo. Vogliamo dire che la sua vita è un inferno? E siamo appena agli inizi, perché presto diverse persone cominceranno a sparire dalla sua vista, ma non dalla nostra, che verrà resa immediatamente edotta della fine che han fatto.
La storia si svolge per la maggior parte nell’edificio cadente di cui sopra, dove gli inquilini vengono identificati col numero della stanza, e questo ostello di nome Eden (!) è terribilmente buio, vecchio e lurido. Le stanze sono minuscole, lerce, senza aerazione e con pochissima luce, e gli spazi comuni non sono molto meglio. In questa atmosfera opprimente si intuisce un fetore di umanità non solo sporca, ma anche malata, un fermentare di malvagità e perversioni assortite che ammorba il nuovo inquilino e lo spettatore afferrandolo fermamente alla gola. E in questo inferno Jong Woo si dibatterà come un pesce nella rete, incapace di fuggire o far prendere sul serio gli allarmi che lancia sulle stranezze del luogo. Solo una poliziotta di basso grado gli crederà, ma dovrà fare i conti coi ranghi superiori che rifiutano di indagare su quelle che credono sciocchezze.
L’atmosfera è solo una parte di ciò che rende questo drama indimenticabile. La parte del leone la fanno sicuramente gli attori.
Im Si Wan è decisamente il migliore nell’interpretare il protagonista principale Jong Woo. La sua è forse la parte più complessa, perché descrive la sua progressiva discesa all’inferno sia esteriore che interiore. Lo vediamo cambiare letteralmente di minuto in minuto, man mano che la pazzia che lo circonda pare avvolgerlo e risucchiarlo, mentre il viso e gli occhi riflettono irritazione, paura, paranoia, furia, lucida follia.
Lee Dong Wook interpreta Moon Jo, un inquietante dentista che pare sin da subito attirato dal protagonista il quale, dietro le sue attenzioni, non tarderà a discendere in una spirale di demenza sempre più stretta. Siamo abituati a vedere questo talentuoso attore in parti da commedia romantica, ma possiamo tranquillamente dire che ha superato l’esame anche per i ruoli da malvagio.
Gli attori che interpretano gli abitanti dell’ostello sono bravissimi nelle loro parti che descrivono una dis-umanità particolarmente sgradevole. Menzione particolare per la padrona di casa, apparentemente un’ottima cuoca, ma di cui è sconsigliato provare i piatti. Poliziotti, colleghi, tutti hanno fatto un lavoro egregio, che ha contribuito molto alla riuscita del titolo, in questo aiutati anche dalle musiche, per la maggior parte non particolarmente gradevoli, perché terribilmente affini alle scene che commentano. Ci sono però quattro belle canzoni e alcuni pezzi con cori decisamente disturbanti.
E’ un bene che la performance degli attori sia così valida, perché purtroppo la storia presenta diverse pecche ineludibili, a partire dalla scarsa credibilità che le vicende siano fatte proseguire fino alle estreme conseguenze, con pochissima ingerenza da parte delle autorità. Si ha la netta impressione che nessuno intervenga solo per poter lasciare agire indisturbati gli assassini, ci sono diverse circostanze non spiegate, ma questo sarebbe anche tollerabile se la storia procedesse con piglio deciso dal principio alla fine. Invece, come spesso accade, i tempi si dilatano a dismisura, le situazioni diventano ripetitive e ridondanti. Vero che i tempi lunghi contribuiscono a giustificare la discesa agli inferi del protagonista, ma comunque alcune puntate in meno – almeno due, o anche tre – sarebbero andate a beneficio della fruibilità. L’atmosfera e gli accadimenti sono già cupi e opprimenti, se ci si aggiunge lentezza sopraggiunge la noia. Sì, ci sono state alcune puntate di noia per saturazione che a un certo punto mi han fatto quasi lasciare la visione, ma fortunatamente ho perseverato e sono giunta fino alla fine, e ben contenta di averlo fatto.
E’ un drama con diverse pecche, come detto, ma un drama che lascia il segno. Riesce a farti sentire sporco dentro perché sposa la tesi che il diavolo sia già dentro di noi e che basti relativamente poco a farlo affiorare. E agire.
In chiusura, un amichevole avvertimento: se avete lo stomaco delicato, non guardatelo mangiando o dopo aver mangiato. Mi ringrazierete.
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disappointed
Well, the drama is very slow pace and it gets quite boring. It has high rating so I was expecting much more from it but I was disappointed. It only has 10 episodes but it felt like never ending story.The only thing I liked is the acting and OST. Its shame as the story was good if they just executed in better way.
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Mind-blowing and Fantastic
Strangers from Hell was unlike anything I had seen before. Im Siwan's rent must have been due because he bodied JongU. The acting, especially Siwan's was impeccable. Lee Dongwook is my favorite acter and watching this after seeing him as Lee Yeon in Tale of the Nine-Tailed was crazy. The twists and turns in Strangers from Hell we're just twisty and turny enough to make it mind-blowing but not completely unbelievable. Strangers from Hell had one of the craziest endings in anything I'd ever seen. When I finished it for the first time, I was completely shocked by it. Watching JongU's sanity deteriorate was fascinating yet heartbreaking. Strangers from Hell is truly one of, not only Kdramas, but piece of media I've ever seen.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
Very underwhelming and boring
First of all let me say Si Wan was the only reason this show was kind of entertaining. If he wasn't here this would've been a DRAG. I truly don't understand why y'all gave this show its flowers when it was in fact not deserved in the slightest. This was only 10 episodes long (I thought it was at least 16 episodes) but somehow went by so slow. 9/10 of the show was very repetitive for literally no reason and just wasn't needed? Like what's the point of being secretive about what's going on when we know damn well?? Like just get to the point please. The last episode is when things finally get going but by then it's way too late. The last couple of scenes were good though. The show wants to be creepy so bad but it only works in the first episode because of its subtleness. After that it just gets tiring. There was just no story here. The actors did the best they could with what they were given which wasn't much. Definitely wouldn't rewatch.Esta resenha foi útil para você?
Great premise but painfully ableist
I started watching the first episode and I was very happy with it. I loved the main character instantly and it had very good dry humor. As far as I understood the premise of the story was basic but that doesn't mean anything, I'm sure they made something great out of it.What wasn't great was that carricature of a disabled person. I was in physical discomfort seeing the actor act like that. The character is a harmful stereotype of disabled people being stupid, strange and - what I found worst - dangerous. Of course disabled people can be bad people, but the drama implied he's bad because of his disability. It would have been very easy to come up with a different character, just saying.
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