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A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

It is not deep, but it is fun to watch. It does have a bit more of an edge to it than other similar films.

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Despite its extremely exploitative sounding title, which suggests to me a purely trashy revenge flick packed with gratuitous titillation and graphic violence, Teenage Hooker Becomes A Killing Machine is less Tarantino and more Tsukamoto, as director Gee-woong adopts an unfathomable art-house approach loaded with tired cyberpunk pretencions to go along with his gore and boobs.I guess the film can't really be accused of misleading with its title, for the basic plot does indeed feature a teenage hooker (played by Korean cutie So-yun Lee) who becomes a killing machine, but there's much more to this weird effort than a simple revenge tale. Before the high-school prostitute turns deadly, viewers must endure a whacked-out romance between the girl and her freaky teacher (who sports Bo-selecta style prosthetic make-up), impromptu dancing, a foetus suspended at the end of a twenty foot umbilical cord, and a pair of extremely irritating giggling maniacs, all of which is shot with a cheap SOV aesthetic (ie., terrible quality image and lots of experimental lighting). This all sounds rather cool, but is actually pretty dreary, making this one strictly for fans of confusing avant-garde/surreal nonsense.

This is a curious little film by Korean director Gee-woong Nam, basically an underground low budget feature, that combines surreal and cyberpunk imagery with the classic revenge plot. There are some interesting decisions in the visual aspect of the film which could be described as either good or bad depending on your taste, however it suffers from poor pacing and an unsynchronized soundtrack and you get this feeling that maybe the film makers should have spend a bit more time in the editing room.The story is about, well, the story is about exactly what the title implies. A young schoolgirl turns hooker in the night, playing around with customers in some rather perverse scenarios, date rape, she calls it. Basically the customer pays to, chase, confront and have sexual intercourse with the girl, unfortunately when that moment occurs in the film they begin to... do their thing nearby the house of a lady who later turns out to be the mother of our unlucky heroine's schoolteacher. The teacher confronts the girl, the girl strikes a bargain, followed by a weird dance scene, followed by the date rape thing again, followed by a scene where the girl says to the teacher that she loves him and then it gets interesting. I won't spoil that much, put from that point on the film picks the pace, gets pleasantly weirder, more interesting and outright violent. The ending was a bit random though.Visually the film is impressive considering its budgetary limitations Gee-woong pulls quite a few rabbits out of the hat and succeeds in making the film feel, if not by much, at least a little artistic. The shootout scenes are handled well enough showing of some impressive camera work, during the last few scenes. Some use of light, and wonderful design concepts further strengthen the film's appeal. The score on the other hand, like that ending felt random, tracks from different genres and time periods interwine and while that is hardly a minus, what bothered me was that these tracks, most of the times, hardly felt right. Just didn't fit the mood in the specific scene.It's a short little film with a long title and you can't really hate it, knowing how hard it must have been for these people to write, shoot and edit the footage into an enjoyable if a bit forgettable 60 minute surreal/cyberpunk/revenge film.

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.

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