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Leofwine_draca Despite the one-of-a-kind title, TEENAGE HOOKER BECOMES A KILLING MACHINE is one of the worst ever films I've watched. It's by far the worst South Korean movie I've sat through, and this is a country normally noted for the calibre of its productions. It's amateur hour throughout, a pointless, senseless waste of time for all involved, not least the viewer.Although the running time is only an hour long (and ten minutes of this is padded out with endless credits, half of which feel made up), this is a movie which drags on and on and on. A teenage hooker is killed by a client, then her body is turned into an android by a trio of random laughing guys who show up, then she goes and kills a bunch of people. There's nothing more to it than that, except lots of the dud camera angles and effects that student filmmakers always put into their movies to try to disguise a lack of storyline. The whole thing feels like it was shot in the street with a camcorder on a single evening, with no script either.The only, and I mean only, interesting thing about this production is that it predates the current Japanese wave of ultra low budget gore flicks in which high school girls have machine parts attached to their bodies and fight off OTT enemies with body parts flying across the screen, a la MACHINE GIRL. It probably served to inspire them, but as it stands it's a complete dud.

morrison-dylan-fan Due to a new Cash Converters having recently opened near by me,I decided to go and have a look to see what DVDs they have in stock.Looking down the shelves,I was very disappointed to see that almost all of the DVD section was filled with very cheap and grotty looking DVDs.Happily,as I started to look at the last row,I suddenly noticed a title which,sounded like a film that would be a fun,gritty revenge movie.Sadly,when I eventually watched the film,I discovered that it was, (even with a running time of 56 minutes)one of the most slow-moving,un-engaging dull movies that I have ever seen.The plot:With being caught giving "full service" outside the house of her teachers grandmother,a young prostitute decides to offer herself to the teacher,hoping that he will accept and not go to the police.Due to fining it almost impossible to say no,the teacher accepts the offer.Sadly,things don't go according to plan,when the teacher gets the prostitute pregnant.Not wanting this to ruin his chance for a promotion,the teacher gets hold of a gun,and kills the prostitute and her unborn child.Wanting her to disappear,he next pays four gangsters to chop her body up,and throw all of the pieces away.After secretly watching the gangsters bin the body parts,a scientist appears,who plans to use the body parts to bring the girl back to life as a cyborg,so she can at last get revenge on everyone that tried to make her disappear.View on the film:As the six minute long opening credits scene began,which features the unnamed prostitute walking down a street,A through suddenly began to enter my head,that even with a short running time,this was going to be a very drawn out film.For the visuals,writer/director Nam Ki-Woong makes the movie look as if he has turned the brightness up on a TV to 11,with the transformation of the girl into a cyborg,,looking like Ki-Woong has just chucked a few cans of paint over the actress.Whilst the outline of the plot should give plenty of opportunities for the movie to have tons of great,gritty action scenes and a fast pace.Ki-woong sadly,completely destroys any chance of that happening,due to making all the scenes be about three minutes too long,and not building up any sense of anticipation for the girl to get her revenge.Final view on the film:A terrible screenplay,which is screeched to death,and embarrassingly bad directing from writer/director Nam Ki-Woong.

massaster760 It seems that Director Nam Ki-Woong must have been watching Tsukamoto's Tetsuo films when he wrote and directed Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine. Which plays as a low-budget homage to Shinya's 1989 Cyber-punk classic with a bit of the famous Korean revenge style type flicks mixed in. Just as in Tetsuo, Nam opts more for visuals and atmosphere than a coherent plot line. Which is not necessarily a bad thing though... you don't watch films named "Teenage Hooker Became a Killing Machine" for the plot.But the plot goes something like this (as best I could tell). So-Yun Lee plays a teenage hooker who is mentored by her teacher (Dae-tong Kim). Their relationship is not a platonic one, and after long her teacher impregnates the nameless high school girl. In order to avoid controversy, the Teacher kills the girl's baby and then enlists his brothers for a immensely disturbing murder scene involving a double-handled saw! Anyway, Teenage Hooker is then rebuilt (by whom is unclear) into a mechanical Killing Machine. After her first mission, the girl goes on a revenge spree going after her murderers and the sadistic Teacher.As mentioned, the plot is truly insignificant. The real reason you watch films like this is for the brilliant visuals and the exploitational aspects. Both of which Teenage Hooker has plenty of. Shot in a multitude of grainy hues, the film seems to straddle the line between art and trash. Some scenes are exquisitely crafted, which is quite an accomplishment considering the extremely low-budget nature of the film. It seems to be shot on digital video, but what it lacks in production values it makes up for in imagination.While I enjoyed the film on various levels, mostly for the visual nature and the shear ambition of Director Nam Ki-Woong's vision, the film has one crucial flaw. It's not long enough. At it's 60 minute run time, including a very long-and bizarre-opening credit roll, Teenage Hooker doesn't have enough time to expand on the theme's it produces. Some scenes seem a bit rushed and I wished the filmmaker would have lengthened the film a bit in order to let the revenge storyline gel in the viewer's brain.Teenage Hooker is what it is though and maybe I was expecting to much. But what it is, is a fun, trashy, and visually arresting flick worthy of a view. Especially if you take into factor the low production value's (most other director's wouldn't have done half as good a job with twice the money) Director Ki-Woong did a good deed bringing this bizarre vision to life.

Polaris_DiB This is an "experimental video" by Korean director Gee-woong Nam, which is barely feature length and rather absurd. It's mostly a very dark comedy about a teenage prostitute that becomes a "killing machine" after her murder by the hands of her teacher. The murder is kind of confusing because it seems as if the teacher and his lackeys are murdering two people, but I think the point is that it's only her.The imagery is pretty unique. It's definitely video, and the lighting and saturation of the image makes everything burn feverishly. It's kind of hard to see sometimes, and other times it's hard to tell what exactly the videomakers are trying to do. Some of the more stand-out moments include when the teacher and prostitute are dancing in the street and when the killing machine jumps onto the car (probably the most brilliant moment in editing and visuals in the movie).This movie seems to be inspired by video games, anime, and Eurotrash features, and I really wouldn't recommend this movie to anybody who doesn't enjoy those kinds of things and doesn't have a twisted sense of humor.--PolarisDiB