''Beautiful Vampire'' is a 2018 South Korean

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starring

Jung Yeon-joo Jung Yeon-joo (born 13 February 1990) is a South Korean actress and model. Jung is known for her roles in ''Queen of Mystery'', ''Chicago Typewriter (TV series), Chicago Typewriter''. Biography and career She graduated from the Korea National ...

and

Song Kang Song Kang (; born April 23, 1994) is a South Korean actor. He is known for starring in the dramas ''Love Alarm'' (2019–2021)'', Sweet Home (TV series), Sweet Home'' (2020–2024), ''Nevertheless (TV series), Nevertheless'' (2021), ''Forecasti ...

. This film is a re-release of the oksusu's

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with more cuts. It was released on October 8, 2018.

Plot

Ran is a 500-year-old

vampire A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead humanoid creatures that often visited loved ones and c ...

who chooses to live an ordinary life among human beings, despite having powers such as speed. She runs a make-up shop in the neighborhood of Mangwon in Seoul, but her life is still different compared to other women as she does not age and needs animal blood to survive. Things change when Lee So-nyeon, the new landlord's son, falls in love with Ran: her appetite for human blood comes back.

Cast

as Ran *

as Lee So-nyeon * Park Jun-myun as Kang Mool-joo * Lee Yong-nyeo as Ok-bun

Release

The film premiered at the 2018

Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival The Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival (), or BiFan, formerly known as Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival or PiFan, is an international film festival held annually in July in Bucheon, South Korea. Inaugurated in 1997, the fe ...

in the category Korean Fantastic: Features (Non-Competition) on July 13, 2018.

Critical reception

Pierce Conran of

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gave the following review: "Despite its appealing cocktail of quirk and genre conventions, ''Beautiful Vampire'' never quite goes beyond its modest ambitions as a light combination of popular genre conventions and lowbrow dramedy. Even at a svelte 72 minutes, it doesn't take long for the undemanding story and simplistic side characters to fall into repetitive patterns."

References

External links

* {{kmdb film, 17403 ok. 2018 films South Korean fantasy films South Korean romance films South Korean independent films 2010s Korean-language films Vampire films Films set in Seoul 2010s South Korean films