The motley residence of Paradise Villa include: a building owner who cheated on his wife with an autistic teenage girl, his son and one of his friends like to place cameras in other people apartment to tape their sexual habits and sell these tapes to other of their friends, a lady who is so obsessed and desperate to sell his water purification system that she forgets her own family and friends, a salary man having an affair with another tenant lady, and a woman who really look like a famous porn star is having issues with the fact that this porn star is more popular and beautiful than her. When our young Online RPG addict stepped into the building, he seemed to be the most normal guy out of all of them, that is, until he completely flips out. Unable to find Viagra and pissed off by the people's uncooperative attitude, he pushes himself to go on an unstoppable killing rampage.

Review: I really like Korean cinema. Since my pique of interest in Korean cinema, most of the movies I have seen were very pleasant. However, not every Korean movie can give us the familiar pleasant experience. This film is perhaps nothing but a waste of time (well depending, of course, on your personal taste). I personally thought that I lost my precious time with Paradise Villa. Perhaps my opinion is biased in the fact that I don't enjoy the slasher-film genre so much. Then again, this movie could just be plain horrible.

First, the story has some problems. It's a bit hard to understand the motivation of the characters. The reasons to justify their actions lacked any sort of logic. Although, perhaps I was looking too hard for a coherent plot. The beginning of the movie is really rushed and the ending leaves much to be desired. There are a few unpredictable surprises in the story, but it just wasn't enough to pull this film out of the "uninteresting" category. If the movie wanted to pass a social message by saying that obsession with a material item is damaging, the message wasn't conveyed very well at all. The storyline felt more like an excuse to display the grotesque and violent images we see.

Since there are so many characters, the story focuses only on a few individuals. It's ironic that the one positive attribute of the movie was also the negative. Some of the characters are very unique and colorful, but in the end they are just plain boring. There was no real connection with them and their second-rate acting didn't help much (Oh well, they die anyways). The only time that any true deep emotions emerged was when the father and his sick daughter are looking for the mother. But even that scene lacked the full capacity of emotions that could've been so easily done. This problem plagued the movie the most. The lack of any TRULY interesting and attaching characters just destroyed the whole purpose of the movie.

Slasher films are so abundant, the only way for any of them to stand out is to have original ways to kill off characters. If a slasher film doesn't offer anything new to the audience, it will ultimately fail. Aside from 2 or 3 murders that are quite ironiques and originals, most of the kills in this movie fall into the "been-done" category. Don't expect gruesome gore or any extreme shocks, because the violence in this movie stays true to real life as possible. I think that gorehounds will get a good kick out of this movie. Aside from the violence, sex in this film is the next shock event done wrong. The fact that there were so many and every one of them was uncomfortable to watch doesn't exactly help this film out (example being that the camera shots were done to match those of amateur voyeurs trying to catch a piece of the action).