Plot: The plot is somewhat conceptual, with an obvious deeper layer present, but it's also just about a mattress that harasses people. The mattress (or at least the mold within) seems sentient and feeds on the people who lie on top of it. Because its moldy exterior is quite gross the mattress gets to travel around quite a bit, finding different victims and nicking their titular fifth thoracic vertebrae (a bone which is part of the spine) to resurrect itself.
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February 18, 2024
I often complain that South Korea lacks the type of indie genre directors that make Japanese cinema such a wondrous industry, Park Sye-young is proving me wrong. He's a young director whose first feature film is an absolute dream. There are dashes of Tsukamoto in there, maybe a little Dupieux and Hellraiser too, but it's mostly just Park delivering a wholly unique experience. The plot's a little out there, but the presentation makes all the difference here. The cinematography and score are superb, creating a weird, uneasy yet beautiful atmosphere. A real find, and I couldn't be more grateful to the person who recommended it to me.
