Oldboy

Oldboy (Hangul: 올드보이, the phonetic transliteration of "old boy") while not exactly a horror movie it is a spectacular tale of revenge from Korea. The 2003 Korean film was directed by Park Chan-wook and has won 17 awards as well as 10 nominations. The movie Oldboy is loosely based on the Japanese manga Old Boy which was originally written by Nobuaki Minegishi and Garon Tsuchiya. Oldboy follows the story of the seemingly average Oh Dae-Su, who is kidnapped and locked in a hotel room for 15 years without so much as a word to why he has been imprisoned. One day Dae Su is released but why? He finds himself trapped in a web of conspiracy and violence on his quest for vengeance.

Oldboy is the second installment of The Vengeance Trilogy, preceded by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance and followed by Sympathy for Lady Vengeance.

The film won the Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival) at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival and high praise from the President of the Jury, director Quentin Tarantino. Critically, the movie has been well received in the United States, with an 81% "Certified Fresh" rating at Rottentomatoes.com. Film critic Roger Ebert has claimed Oldboy to be a "...powerful film not because of what it depicts, but because of the depths of the human heart which it strips bare". In 2008, voters on CNN named it one of the ten best Asian cinema ever made.