Io Island (Iodo)

Io Island is one of the best Korean films ever made, not to mention how overlooked it often is, and one of the most misunderstood. This is NOT the Korean Wicker Man. This is a vision of humanity at its most animalistic; as if the world truly was an absurdist dystopia and…

Knox Morris

South Korean folk horror that weaves an intricate mystery taking in themes of community, environmentalism and family curses. Kim Ki-young's Ieoh Island sees a businessmen head off to an island populated by female divers after he gets the blame for the death of a journalist.…

Slig001

Io Island was lightyears ahead of its time — maybe even lightyears ahead of us — in its warnings of pollution and, even more profoundly, lucid parallel structure that renders both modern and primitive societies as masquerades of delusion. In Io Island, everyone is evil,…

Knox Morris

the nature of folklore and storytelling ~ the anxiety of environmental collapse; the ocean's call, she beckons you back to the primordial beach from which you came millions of years ago, your body serves as sacrifice for the damage you have done to her dialogue scenes…

_Jack_

The cinema of Kim Ki-young sees a world without bifurcation into reality and fiction, for the world of Kim is already irreconcilably fractured. Beyond evident idiosyncracies, this seems the core difference to other contemporaneous Korean directors, such as Kim So-yong,…

seb

Most Kim Ki-young e-thrillers leave you wanting the male lead to suffer serious genital trauma......... and then there's Ieoh Island. South Korea Marathon

Geoffrey Broomer

Does a real good job of sustaining its haunting, disquieting, mysterious atmosphere and it's full of great images but overall it goes around in circles somewhat so eventually it didn't amount to much. I'd still move to this island but that penis scene, oh my god. Also NOT…

Avirup

very dissapointing to say that this was just a drag and i was more so thinking to myself about further learning korean after this again. not the worst thing but i don't think the shots or camera movements are interesting nor is the script. some of its performances are good…

Mandy(Nicolas Cage Fan Nr.1) nicolas kim coppola

Feels like it's incredibly prescient in a manner that I don't think I've seen from Kim Ki-young's films - because this whole movie is built around the clashes of the modern and traditional worlds. But I'm also very enamoured with the manner in which this film jumps back…

Jaime Rebanal 🇵🇸