Influenza

From the Academy Award winning director of PARASITE, Bong Joon-ho's INFLUENZA is a startling short film that marks a singular achievement in the filmmaker's thrilling body of work. Such an impression is clear from the very first image - a security-camera perspective through which he'll orchestrate his characteristic tensions, twists, and brutal acts of violence - and grows stronger the deeper we wade into his nightmare vision. Bong's typical instances of levity are few and far between, and an extreme austerity only heightens the mystery, the shock of what unfolds. By film's end you'll be asking yourself, more than with any of his works, "What did I even see?" Completed between MEMORIES OF MURDER and THE HOST but never before released, INFLUENZA demonstrates a young filmmaker reaching the height of his powers.