{"id":6283,"date":"2026-04-03T14:03:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T12:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/?p=6283"},"modified":"2026-04-04T23:38:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:38:48","slug":"stoker-by-park-chan-wook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/03\/stoker-by-park-chan-wook\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Stoker<\/em> by Park Chan-wook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2705 in contrast to <a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/2025\/01\/12\/micro-reviews-2025\/#mickey17\" target=\"somethingUnique\">others<\/a> I could mention, Park Chan-wook\u2019s English-language debut is excellent.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Glass\u2019s Duet is thrilling, and the scene around it among the most memorable.<\/p>\n<p>\u2705 Southern Gothic classic\u2014atmospheric, mysterious, suspenseful with hyperstylish cinematography and sound, yet suffused with a sense of ever-present invisible blades.<\/p>\n<p>Upon realizing it wasn\u2019t South-Korean I felt slightly disappointed at first, but the opening credits already sucked me in.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"important\">Addendum<\/span><br \/>\nFrom the more thoughtful and well-written reviews out there, I think <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brightwalldarkroom.com\/2018\/10\/25\/horror-growing-up-stoker-2013\/\" target=\"somethingUnique\">Kat Mildner<\/a>\u2019s is the best.<\/p>\n<div class=\"spacer20\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ruler\"><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"epigraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stoker_(film)\" target=\"somethingUnique\"><em>Stoker<\/em><\/a> by Park Chan-wook, 2013.<br \/>\nWatched at the Bambi theater on March 31, 2026, in its original language.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/2026\/04\/03\/stoker-by-park-chan-wook\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Stoker by Park Chan-wook\"><p>\ud83c\udfac What runs in the family.<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6283","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-archive","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6283"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6394,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6283\/revisions\/6394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/betweendrafts.com\/justdrafts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}