한국 공포영화의 특징과 여귀 분장 연구

A Study on of characteristics of Korean horror movie and female ghost make up style

The horror movie has become the most popular genre of the Korean film(movie) history since the 1950’s. Since the 1960’s, it began to include ‘vengeance’as one of its themes and enjoyed its own renaissance. Moreover, it also put the emotion of ‘malice’ or ‘enmity’in it as a way to secure its identity as a Korean movie and spectaclized it on the screen successfully. Therefore, this study considers how this kind of Korean unique emotion is combined with ‘female vengeance’and reorganized in the horror movies and examines the features of female ghost characters which have created Korean horror movies. Particularly to look into the grotesque make-up styles of traditional female ghosts typically characterized by white clothes and tangled hair, this article studied director Lee Yong-min’s movie of 1965, <A Devilish Homicide>, and director Kwon Cheol-hui’s movie of 1967, <The Public Cemetery of Wolha>. Since researches on the female ghost characters of Korean horror movies, which best characterize them have been hardly performed up to now, the make-up styles of the female ghost characters in the two movies have been repetitively used in various ways in many Korean horror movies since the 1960’s.