Seire (2021) User Reviews

Rotting Apples

[sloppypickle · 2/10 · 1 July 2023]

The trailer led me to watch this movie. This trailer featured ominous music (none of which was in the movie) and was cleverly edited to make you think you're watching some sort of possession movie or maybe a supernatural being is haunting a young couple. Nope...it's simply a drama about a couple struggling with the superstitious tradition of Seire after a baby is born.

This is merely 1 hour and 42 minutes of almost nothing happening. That is unless watching the occasional bowl of rotting apples or watching a dad make baby formula scares you senseless.

This is yet another attempt using a deceptive trailer to make us horror movie fans watch. As a drama I guess it was fair but as a horror movie it's a flat zero (thus my 2 star review). I just saved you 1 hour and 42 minutes of ZERO horror elements happening horror movie fans...you're welcome.

Dark Supernatural Horror

[thalassafischer · 8/10 · 23 August 2023]

I personally found this film genuinely spooky and believably creepy. A man begins to have nightmares, the first being that he steals fruit from a stranger's altar to ancestors in order to feed his pregnant wife apples, and when he cuts them open they're rotten inside and his wife eats the rotten funereal apples anyway.

It's all foreshadowing that he has betrayed the dead, his ex who was apparently a long-term serious girlfriend, commits suicide a year after their break-up. It becomes apparent throughout the film that it was his fault she miscarried, he brings his wife and his sister-in-law these Korean herbal tonics, and you hear the old couple who makes them talking about "miscarriage tonics" and you see that he brought these to his ex under the false pretense of giving her a healthier pregnancy.

So essentially he's committed murder, he made his ex miscarry, and she's dead now, and it's never really explained how he got married to another woman with a baby so quickly. One is left to assume that he was trying to fill an emptiness in his life left by the ex and the miscarriage, because after attending the ex's wake before her funeral, he seems conflicted: does he really even love his wife? He keeps fantasizing about his ex and staring at her twin sister even though his wife has warned him to stay away from funerals when they have a newborn.

But eerie things do happen, it seems the spirit of the dead woman causes the man's sister-in-law to miscarry late in her pregnancy, and suddenly his infant becomes seriously ill. I honestly didn't care about the man, I was actually kind of hoping his baby died because he really deserved it. I don't know if that was the impression I was supposed to get, but he was NOT a likable or sympathetic character at all. The scene near the end where he assaults the corpse in her coffin borders on the psychopathic.

And yet all of this symbolism and imagery really works to create a feeling of supernatural horror. I didn't particularly care for the very last scene, but this is definitely a film I would watch again and recommend to others.