Load of rubbish!!

Better than most people think

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties.

The Quiet Family is Kim Jiwoon's debut feature. Having had much appreciation for his later works, I thought I'd track down his earliest one to see if he had it from the start. Crafting a somewhat black comedy about a family that runs a struggling lodge in the woods, I have to say that he largely succeeded.The story is about the titular family, who have yet to have a guest. Of course, as it turns out, their first few guests happen to have a habit of perishing. A series of increasingly trouble cover-ups and escalations occur until all hell breaks loose. And sure, that sounds pretty vague, but while the film isn't terribly laugh out loud, I do have to admit I was well engaged and amused during the majority of it. I think the strength of the films lies in its suspense: we empathize with the family and despite their bad decisions leading to some of their troubles, their mostly hard luck cases and so we struggle with them as they try to keep their inn running amidst the increasing body count.I think there is a weakness and it's that the epilogue, although amusing, is a bit logically distorted. It's like a twist that was aborted, leading to a rather nonsensical sense. Sort of takes the air out of the film.Actor's all do an impressive job, really, and their chemistry with each other is great. Their ability to deliver the rather straight-faced brand of humor necessary for this kind of comedy helps keep the edge in the blackness of the comedy and lend to the believability of the story. Production values are a little weak, being a film shot before the industry burst open in Corea, however, the direction and art of the film is unmistakably strong and helps give the film an air of aesthetic strength that it might not have had otherwise.Kim's film is rather entertaining and while it won't please those who don't like black comedies, it's otherwise a sometimes suspenseful, mostly amusing and surprisingly engaging piece. Like Kim's other films, it doesn't aim at art cinema, but rather appears to be a strong distillation and synthesis of the dark/horror-comedy genre. And for that, I can recommend it. 8/10.

This is probably one of the reasons why the new wave of Korean cinema got so popular, it is funny and the production values are high, it is also quite bizarre.A family buys a lodging facility in the mountains, but are struck with bad luck and bad business. A depressed man comes and suicides in the room, and when they don't find his wallet they decide, to not be suspected themselves of killing him, to just bury him. Wise choice. Soon problems heap up way over what they can handle.Choi Min-shik definitely matured from this and on to 'Failan', but all actors does a reasonably good job here.

The storyline: A Korean family bought a lodging hotel for bargain basement prices in a desolated location. Hotel guests were hard to come by but when the first guest finally arrived, he committed suicide. More guests started to show up... but things did not turn out the way they were hoping... A classic case of be careful what you wish for, because it may actually come true in unexpected ways...Think of this as Korean version of the "Addams Family". This movie is a showcase of dark humor while several parallel subplots are going on. I especially like the acting of the youngest daughter Mi-na, her looks and mannerism epitomize the dark humor of the entire movie.Not the funniest movie to come out from the Korea movie industry in recent years, but nonetheless quite enjoyable for those who like dark humor movies like Beetlejuice or Addams Family.

First they have no customers, than they all die. And how to get rid of them when you are not used to it? In the end, the family which runs a hotel in the woods is threatened by itself. For some, those funny and horrifying events are just too much. From the distributor of THE SOUL GUARDIANS, a clear must for all phantasy genre fans and friends of SCREAM(s). I saw the movie on Mailand's MIFED (the film fair), my colleague Ivo was quite interested to buy it for the German DVD-market. Besides, we were both attached by Ilshin Investment Co.'s female representative Lady Suh who taught me how to hand over a business card correctly: with both hands. Believe me, the killing in THE QUIET FAMILY was much more western style ;-)