Herapurple: Movie Review

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HERAPURPLE: DEVIL GODDESS

Freudian psychoanalysis, Greek mythology, contemporary Korean gender politics, a police procedural and graphic sex scenes combine (loosely) in writer-director Chung Gil-Chae’s Herapurple: Devil Goddess, which has "midnight-movie classic" written all over it. When a psychiatrist (Lee Ho-Sung) hypnotizes a nightmare-plagued housewife (Chung Kim), he doesn’t expect to discover a string of murders that begin with kinky sex and end with mutilation. As the shrink’s regression therapy reveals to the audience a string of gruesome crimes, an investigator (Lee Se-Chang) discovers the bodies and tries to make sense of the numbers carved into the victims. Could the serial killer be the living embodiment of the Greek goddess Hera? Apparently yes, though don’t bother wondering how. Heavily butchered before its release in Korea, Herapurple arrives in L.A. with raunchiness intact and plot largely an irrelevance. Chung eschews logic in favor of elaborately choreographed couplings in hot tubs, sports cars, a graveyard and a ring of fire in a snowstorm. While imparting a Korean flavor to the Kamasutra, Chung almost offers enough thought on shifting identity, repression and childhood trauma to make Herapurple provocative in its own right. The mysticism and numerology may go unexplained, but it’s the foot fetishism, penile amputation and hermaphroditic homosexuality that show just how trippy Herapurple can be. (Dan Fienberg)