It’s been a long time coming, but Song Hye-gyo’s U.S.-Korean co-production Make Yourself At Home — the new title for the project known for a while as Fetish — will finally be released for a theatrical run at home in Korea, two years after it was produced. (It first screened at the Pusan International Film Festival in 2008.)
Though initially touted by Korean media as Song’s “Hollywood debut,” Song herself stated that that’s an exaggeration; she was merely drawn to the interesting concept and character, and thought it would be a good experience.
The plot has Song Hye-gyo playing a woman who marries into a Korean-American family and moves to New Jersey, where she seems restrained and bullied by her mother-in-law. After her husband dies, she connects with her neighbors, an attractive Caucasian couple, John and Julie. Based on the trailer, which you can watch below, it looks like the result is that Julie gets (so to speak) Single White Female-d by Song — or, given the ethnicities at play, I guess you could call it Asian Fetish-ed. (Groan. It pains me to realize that the “Fetish” of the title is not some metaphorical or philosophical allusion but a literal usage.) The copy on the Korean poster reads, “…Can I really borrow this?”
The movie incorporates a supernatural element (Song’s descended from shamans) in an effort to take this thriller premise to another level. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to have done that terribly successfully; Hollywood trade rag Variety called it “initially intriguing,” but “pretentious” with “stilted” performances and a tepid narrative.
But Korean viewers will get a chance to see it in theaters on November 25.
Immediately below is the trailer for the movie. Below that is Song Hye-gyo talking about her role (sorry, it’s unsubtitled) at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival.
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Well, that’s… weird.
Finally…….It gets a release date….I guess it got a weird plot but horror films nowadays has weird plot so i guess it will be fun to watch….oh well gotta watch it since my fave actress is in it….;)
Yey!!!!finally….a chance to see SHG…miss her so much…looking forward to this….
look great. can’t wait
“moves to New Jersey”
The horror, the horror
ha ha XD
why am i not surprised by “stilted” performances? hmmm…
miss her. hope can watch this movie.
“stilted” performances seem very appropriate for SHK acting.
I rate her acting on par with KTH. ha..ha..
she is better than KTH.
I’m sorry, but that bright, red lip stick looks ridiculous on her… which is weird because I would’ve thought she could pull it off.
Who’s imitating who? Looking forward to a twisted plot. Is there such a fetish in Korea to fantasize as an American, or vice versa? Maybe this film will dissolve several hungry appetites.
That looks really good actually….
It’s a horror film? >__<
yayyy finally
It will be interesting to see how it will do at the box office in Korea. It seems like her films don’t do too well? Isn’t Hyun Bin’s movie with Tang Wei opening on the same day? also, Ghost as well. The poster looks awful, and the subject matter…blech! I wish her success, though. Anticipating her other film more.
SHK always beautiful I love that
I’m kinda confused at what this movie is trying to do, but oh well. I won’t be watching it, so I guess it doesn’t matter too much.
new question… Is this is Korean or English? LOL.
It looks kinda good but I’ve got a prejudice against international collabs AND the summary of the plot is just too weird.
Vaguely recalls Tale of Two Sisters, except that one of the sisters looks like a hipster. This movie will be frightening, but ironically so.
Asian girls for hire!
Er, I was hoping the theme wasn’t that fetish. Bummer!
Btw, that house, isn’t it the same one where Never forever with Ha Jeong-woo and Vera Farminga was filmed? Maybe not. Umm. It kinda looks like it? Ok, no, I’m probably hallucinating
Urgh.
I cringed when reading that “Fetish” would be taken literally.
it looks scary, but yes…i’ve seen something similar before.
Yay!
Even U.S.-Korean co-productions are getting into the Hollywood Asian stereotype game.
And gee, SHG looks horrible in the poster (which is hard to do).
Any word from someone who saw this movie on how it was????
watched this few days ago. in short, this indie movie misses its mark. horror-thriller but not exactly that. i think it’s supposed to be gripping but it’s not. anyhow i watched it for SHK. lets say that imho she improves slightly.