The greatest movie ever!

That was an excellent one.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

'The Quiet Family's' concept is better known in Miike's remake which is a shame because while the Japanese counterpart is a masterpiece in its own right the original movie needs not be compared; it stands as a pearl of dark comedy. The mood is full of suspense as the Kang family is visited by misfortune upon misfortune. Morbid humor sets the tone of a very tight story and some typical comic tropes are adapted to fit the overall feeling of stress as things get out of control. The cinematography is understated but highly competent with an emphasis on indoor scenes that add to the claustrophobia of the situation.Off beat and tense, the movie's aesthetics are close to the noir genre. It never degenerates into nonsense territory and much of its entertainment value resides on how believable the characters' reactions are. This quiet family systematically makes the wrong choice that of course leads to further complications but the entire insanity is understandable and made more hilarious for that. A grim fatalism pervades everything as if for all their mistakes the Kangs are indeed cursed.On top of the freak deaths, the scrambling for hiding dead bodies, the crossing the line into crime, the movie is true to its title: a portrait of a family that would rather live in peace. Their struggle for keeping their both their livelihood and quiet walks a very thin line as far as morals go but the family unit is so tightly knit that somehow overrides this. The finale brings this home in a simple and effective manner. Cleverly plotted and with solid performances all around, 'The Quiet Family' should be seen by anyone willing to be amused by something different.

Death, in some form, was always going to worm its way to the secluded motel the Kang family run in 1998 South Korean film The Quiet Family. Where bloody situational comedy rules the roost for the best part of about an hour or so in Ji-woon Kim's film about a luckless family, stylised neo noir takes over, shoving the film onto a higher realm of cause and effect whilst effectively further involving an even larger number of parties, when the inclusion of hit men and organised killings on those staying at said place of rest. The film treads a fine line between effective black comedy and grossly misguided misfire, the crucial difference being that the deaths are not the focal point of whatever laughs you'll garner out of it; rather, the resulting actions that the innocents caught up in the middle of it all undertake, in order to try and rectify said situations. Importantly, we're on the Kang family's side; a large group of people running a new motel in a secluded woodland area trying to get by in their new business venture and succeed at a sort of American Dream. When tenants turn up, and more often than not need to be carried out rather than anything else, the film has fun with its premise of this rag tag bunch of people completely ill attuned to death or murder, just wanting to get by with this new business acquisition being plunged into a scenario far grimmer.Mi-Soo (Lee Yoon-Seong) appears to be out guide, beginning as our narrator as the figure of her lounging on a sofa the subject of the first instance of an eerie, swooping camera composition which will periodically litter the rest of the film. She's restless of the Americanised hip-hop music that plays, informs us of the supposedly cursed rest place the lodge is and ever so fleetingly glances at the camera in a slight instance of the fourth wall being broken. The rest of the Kangs wait impatiently for a lodger of any kind to christen the place of business; and when a hiker arrives, they fawn over the signing of his name in the register in a close to all but eerily leering manner. The discovery of his dead body the following morning as a result of a suicide kicks off a string of deaths of guests which leave the family floundering as to what they ought to do and why what's happening to them is happening.In what would be seen as quite daft in most other films, but here delivered with a knowing nod, a wondering and rambling elderly woman claims to be able to see a sort of angel of death figure perched on the roof of the lodging premises, invisible, of course, to everyone else. The angel of death claim provides a mythical and unseen element to proceedings, the film's reoccurring use of that long; tracking composition might be seen as this supposed angel's perspective, an escalated point of view on proceedings which allows an outsider to observe what is happening to the Kang family whilst remaining entirely invisible, mirroring the audience's own point of spectatorship on the happenings. Indeed, a while into the piece a number of characters set up a camp fire beside a tree; the camera slowly coming back down from an oddly positioned angle on a tree branch down to ground level so as to form a more normalised composition on the ground, and cover the ensuing chaos that is born out of the result of this camp fire exchange. As if a strange casting of a spell on those involved in the scene has been completed and then a moving down to ground level so as to observe the chaos, as perpetrated by this so called angel, which then plays out.Oddly, most of the early deaths are linked in some shape or form to sexual escapades. Certainly, of those that die so early on are in some form linked to sexual encounters. There is a couple whom stay there and make love before killing themselves by way of pills and later on, an attempted rape on Mi-Soo is thwarted by a family member resulting in the death of the perpetrator. Much has been written of sexual escapades in certain films of the horror genre ultimately leading to a character's demise in what is an almost ritualistic procession of skin and flesh followed by blood and guts. Here, Kim has a couple that make love prior to killing themselves but it sees him render the sex itself the ritualistic act – a final action in each of their lives before a death they brought upon themselves.From here, the imprisonment of the rapist's travelling partner takes the idea of being lumbered with the body of somebody you don't want, and spins it so that the person this time is still alive, but unable to alert the authorities, thus effectively escalating the chaos without veering too far away from its foundations. There can be little doubt that the writer/director Kim realises running the film on the off beat premise isn't enough, and suddenly decides to throw in a plot to do with the organised murdering of someone which would greatly benefit a certain Mr. Park, the lodge benefactor, within the field of insurance. The tale to do with an assassin; a police officer and a case of mistaken identity isn't exactly of the Coen brothers mould, but it isn't far off. This, as a nearby construction site allows the film to further inflict pain on its leads as it forces the family to reverse the agonising process of burying the dead bodies in excavating them so as not to allow the builders to find them. From its early tale of extraordinary things happening to ordinary people to its comedic content running on a catalyst of mistaken identity, The Quiet Family is a rare off-beat film which doesn't annoy nor outstay its welcome.

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.

A very amusing and very black comedy, that plays on the failings of different family members, all trying to run a lodge in the middle of nowhere. A good amount of suspense is combined with the laughs, the film mixing a comedy of errors with slapstick and (many) bloody corpses. Wicked fun definitely not for the whole family.