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oooh, looks intersting:
The Horse Hospital, The Collonnade, Behind Russell Square Tube, London.
Bookings 0207 833 3644
Doors 7.30 Tickets £6 /£5 concessions
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Volcano High / Whasango (2001) Dir Tae-gyun Kim
A telekinetic, live action collision between Grange Hill and The Matrix,
Volcano High has been a massive hit both in its native South Korea, and at
festival showings world wide, though it's yet to be picked for UK or US
distribution.
Kim Kyeong-su has been expelled out of one school too many - his bad
attitude, along with his potent psi-powers, make him too much for any
teacher to tolerate. So he's packed off to Whasango High - a last stop
borstal where the teachers are just as powerful as the kids and ultraviolent
gangs rule the corridors.
There's some plot nonsense about the search for a secret scroll, but really
Whasango will wow you with its hyperactive CGI psi-battles, and charm you
with its lowbrow slapstick and sophisticated visual gags.
PLUS
Attack the Gas Station! (Juyuso seubgyuksageun) (1999) Dir Sang-Jin Kim
Why? Because it's fun!
A gang of disaffected Seoul youths decide to curtail their boredom by
robbing a petrol station. Then they decide to do it again. This time the
station master is waiting for them and all the money is hidden away. So the
kids decide to run the station themselves, kidnapping anybody who disagrees
with them until the back room is populated with a spectrum of trussed-up,
hopping mad, South Korean stereotypes.
Joyously amoral, Attack the Gas Station is South Korea's live-action answer
to Beavis & Butthead. While some of the humour will remain enigmatic to
anybody who hasn't grown up an SK teen, its unrelenting slapstick stupidity
should endear it to everybody who's ever laughed at someone being hit
repeatedly over the head with a big stick.
The Horse Hospital, The Collonnade, Behind Russell Square Tube, London.
Bookings 0207 833 3644
Doors 7.30 Tickets £6 /£5 concessions
-----
Volcano High / Whasango (2001) Dir Tae-gyun Kim
A telekinetic, live action collision between Grange Hill and The Matrix,
Volcano High has been a massive hit both in its native South Korea, and at
festival showings world wide, though it's yet to be picked for UK or US
distribution.
Kim Kyeong-su has been expelled out of one school too many - his bad
attitude, along with his potent psi-powers, make him too much for any
teacher to tolerate. So he's packed off to Whasango High - a last stop
borstal where the teachers are just as powerful as the kids and ultraviolent
gangs rule the corridors.
There's some plot nonsense about the search for a secret scroll, but really
Whasango will wow you with its hyperactive CGI psi-battles, and charm you
with its lowbrow slapstick and sophisticated visual gags.
PLUS
Attack the Gas Station! (Juyuso seubgyuksageun) (1999) Dir Sang-Jin Kim
Why? Because it's fun!
A gang of disaffected Seoul youths decide to curtail their boredom by
robbing a petrol station. Then they decide to do it again. This time the
station master is waiting for them and all the money is hidden away. So the
kids decide to run the station themselves, kidnapping anybody who disagrees
with them until the back room is populated with a spectrum of trussed-up,
hopping mad, South Korean stereotypes.
Joyously amoral, Attack the Gas Station is South Korea's live-action answer
to Beavis & Butthead. While some of the humour will remain enigmatic to
anybody who hasn't grown up an SK teen, its unrelenting slapstick stupidity
should endear it to everybody who's ever laughed at someone being hit
repeatedly over the head with a big stick.