Michael Powell

Mark, obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face of the frightened, murders women and uses a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

Mark, obsessed with the effects of fear and how they are registered on the face of the frightened, murders women and uses a movie camera to film their dying expressions of terror.

After catching her husband cheating with another woman, Sun Jae takes her young daughter and moves into a dilapidated old apartment building to start a new life. Heading home from work one day she finds a strange pair of high-heeled red shoes and decides to take them. While the shoes provide her with some comfort, they also become objects of unhealthy obsession for her ballet-dancing daughter and her best friend. Soon, everyone who comes into contact with the shoes desperately craves them and a curse began hundreds of years ago will once again rear its ugly head.

The Hans Christian Andersen tale is given a modern setting in the story of Lisa, a little black girl, who learns the value of friendship with help from a pair of magic slippers.