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The Red Shoes

The Red Shoes

Horror · Mystery · Thriller · 2005

A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.

Movie details

The Red Shoes

“One size kills all.”

2005 Horror · Mystery · Thriller 1h 48m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

5.7 / 10

3.2K votes

TMDB

6.1 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

A woman who finds a pair of pink high heels on a subway platform soon realizes that jealousy, greed, and death follow them wherever they go.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Red Shoes?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Kim Yong-gyun

Written by

Hans Christian Andersen · Kim Yong-gyun · Ma Sang-ryeol

Kim Hye-soo

Kim Hye-soo

Sun-jae

Kim Sung-su

Kim Sung-su

In-cheol

Park Yeon-ah

Park Yeon-ah

Tae-su

Koh Soo-hee

Koh Soo-hee

Mi-hee

Lee Eol

Lee Eol

Sung-joon

K

Kim Ji-eun

Keiko

Sa Hyeon-jin

Sa Hyeon-jin

Jung-a

Court is in session

Put The Red Shoes on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Arthouse Gremlin

“Its refusal to behave is the point.”

The strange choices create the kind of friction that follows you out of the theatre and into the argument.

The prosecution The Popcorn Loyalist

“Oddness is not depth.”

A film can break every rule and still leave nothing behind but the memory of how hard it tried to be singular.