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Squid Game tends to be the go-to when you think of Korean torture thrillers based on a game, allowing others in the same niche to go criminally unnoticed, including Night Has Come. Unlike the juggernaut that dominates the sub-genre, Night Has Come focuses only on one recognizable game and turns it into a brutal survival fest. The K-drama operates on a more intimate and personal scale with a smaller cast and an explicitly enclosed arena that traps the mounting tension with each savage round of the game "Mafia." It achieves this through the series' masterfully executed whodunit plot, allowing fractured relationships, betrayals, and apprehension to grow in the mystery's wake.

This Halloween season, Rakuten Viki has decided to give its viewers a special treat – a collection full of the platform’s scariest and suspenseful titles.“Spooki Viki” is the platform’s premier horror collection featuring nail-biting titles from the popular horror favorite Exhuma (2024) to zombie-filled title Train to Busan (2016). Other popular titles on the playlist …

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Paolo Tizón’s documentary Night Has Come takes viewers on an arduous journey into rigorous military training. Released in 2020, the film follows a group of young Peruvian recruits as they prepare to serve in dangerous anti-drug missions. Tizón spent ten months embedded with this unit, granting unprecedented access. Through his intensive style, we experience the recruits’ evolution virtually firsthand.

Tizón favored an observational approach over traditional interviews. His handheld camera places us amid the recruits, close enough to hear their labored breathing during drills. We learn about their backgrounds through natural conversations rather than overt exposition. Some just want to prove themselves, while personal issues like strained family ties also drive others. Overall, Tizón humanizes these men so we understand their motivations beyond solely their profession.

Night Has Come immerses us in this training like no other film. Tizón’s authentic captures of punishing physical tests convey their toll. His...

Dive into other K-dramas like Alchemy of Souls and Kingdom while waiting for All of Us Are Dead season 2. Duty After School is another must-see survival story involving aliens fighting high school students. Consider Revenge of Others for a thrilling bullying narrative filled with intensity.

The wait for All of Us Are Dead season 2 doesn't seem to be getting any shorter, but there are plenty of other K-dramas to help pass the time before its release date is finally revealed. Starring Park Ji-hu, Yoon Chan-young, Lomon, and Cho Yi-hyun, All of Us Are Dead joins the likes of The Glory and Squid Game as one of Netflix's best K-dramas, thanks to its depiction of high school students caught up in a zombie invasion. All of Us Are Dead has received critical acclaim for its intense first season, and its next installment promises to continue its success.

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Mark Cousins’ portrait of a British modernist painter, “A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things,” took the Karlovy Vary Film Festival top prize Saturday, winning over a jury that included Christine Vachon and Geoffrey Rush with its perceptive take on art and seeing.

Cousins said the film’s subject, painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, “lived completely, truly and utterly – let’s try to do that.”

Norwegian divorce story “Loveable” won the Crystal Globe jury prize, as well as three other awards categories, taking home the Fipresci, ecumenical and Europa Cinemas Label prizes with its nuanced look at a woman morphing into a new life.

Director Lilja Ingolfsdottir scored big with her first feature-length drama with “Loveable,” telling the audience at the Hotel Thermal Grand Hall the story helped her “find barriers we have built against connections.”

The directing prize went to Nelicia Low for the Singapore/Taiwan/Poland production “Pierce,” an intricate account...

A Sudden Glimpse to Deeper Things, Mark Cousins‘ documentary essay about Scottish artist Wilhelmina Barns-Graham and her neurodiversity, including diary passages narrated by Tilda Swinton, won the Grand Prix – Crystal Globe, the top award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) on Saturday. Clive Owen was honored with a Kviff award at the closing ceremony.

A Sudden Glimpse is “exploring the pivotal 1949 experience atop Switzerland’s Grindelwald glacier that reshaped British modernist painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s artistic perspective for decades to come.” The Crystal Globe comes with a $25,000 prize. “I did not expect this in a million years,” Cousins said in accepting the honor. About Barns-Graham, he said: “She didn’t change the world. But she lived completely, fully and utterly. Let’s try to do that.”

The 58th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival‘s closing ceremony also honored the Norwegian marital drama Loveable, directed by Lilja Ingolfsdottir, with its special jury prize,...

UK director Mark Cousins’s A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things has won the top prize, the Crystal Globe, at this year’s Karlovy Vary Film Festival, while Loveable by Norwegian director Lilja Ingolfsdottir won five awards in total including the special jury prize and best actress award for Helga Guren.

Cousins‘ A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things is a documentary portrait of British painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a leading figure in the modernist St Ives group of artists. Screen’s review said that Cousins brought “his distinctively poetic and enquiring approach to this elegiac cine-essay“ to the film. Conic acquired...

You’ll probably be exhausted by the end of Paolo Tizon’s documentary observing young men, many of them teenagers, participating in a highly rigorous training program conducted by the Peruvian military. The filmmaker spent ten months embedded with the recruits hoping to serve as soldiers in the region known as Vraem, where much of the country’s coca plants are grown and drug trafficking takes place. Night Has Come, receiving its world premiere at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, immerses you in the recruits’ training so thoroughly that you come away feeling as if you’ve gone through it yourself.

Eschewing narration or intertitles, the documentary offers a fly-on-the-wall perspective of the young recruits as they go through their paces, beginning with a parachute jump. Every part of their bodies is measured, as if they were prize stallions. They’re shown talking about their lives in highly personal terms,...

It’s that time of year again in Europe! With the start of the official summer holiday season looming, movie fans, film industry folks, party seekers, and global stars are ready to congregate at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Kviff) in the Czech Republic.

The Czech spa town has earned the reputation as one of the biggest summer celebrations of film in Central Europe, putting the spotlight on new releases from the region and far beyond, along with highlights of the film festival circuit from the past year.

This year’s 58th edition runs June 28-July 6. Karel Och, who has been serving as the artistic director of the festival since 2010, and his team have touted 15 directorial or feature-directorial debuts in the official selection, along with a slew of world premieres.

Star power is also guaranteed again this year. After all, Viggo Mortenson, Daniel Brühl, and Clive Owen will receive Kviff honors,...

Peruvian director Paolo Tizón’s documentary “Night Has Come,” which has its world premiere Sunday in the Proxima competition section at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, has debuted its trailer (below).

The film centers on a group of young men, many of them teenagers, who sign up for one of the most challenging military training courses in Latin America. The objective is to turn them into fearsome fighters operating in the dangerous Vraem region, an area plagued by various armed groups, guarding their coca plants and engaged in narcotics trafficking.

“In his absorbing look at the hermetically sealed world of the army, debut director Paolo Tizón paints a portrait of one institution while depicting individual human stories and reflecting on male identity, the potential for self-determination, and a fragile masculinity that stands in striking contrast to the brutal training. Sensitivity alongside violence, beauty alongside vulnerability,” festival programmer Vojtěch Kočárník states in his description.

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival has unveiled the official selection for its 58th edition, including new features by Mark Cousins, Noaz Deshe, Oleg Sentsov and Beata Parkanova.

The festival, which runs from June 28-July 6 in the Czech spa town, has selected 34 films for its official selection, which spans the main Crystal Globe Competition, the Proxima Competition and Special Screenings.

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There are 11 world premieres and one international premiere in the Crystal Globe Competition. UK director Cousins world premieres A Sudden Glimpse To Deeper Things, a documentary portrait of British painter Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a leading figure in...

The thrilling high school drama Night Has Come has finally come to an end after 12 brutal episodes of gore and bloodshed. The Viki original series revolves around a bunch of high school students who visit a youth center. Before they know it, there’s a crisis, and the students are left all by themselves inside the center. This is when things start to get really strange, as the students have to play a harmless game of mafia that quickly turns sinister. With students dying every night and no way to escape the game, the remaining participants try to identify the mafia until there’s a winner. Yoon-Seo is the only student who sees the ghost of a girl named Se-Eun, who is apparently haunting the center and might have some connection to the game. In the last episode of Night Has Come, we finally get to know what really happened...

At the end of last year, Netflix gave us The Glory: Part 1, a bleak show about school bullying and its awful repercussions. Similarly, Night Has Come drapes a dark veil over the theme that is so commonly seen in the Korean entertainment industry. I suppose it does stem from reality, but there’s only so much one can bear to watch, especially when it involves students or kids. Night Has Come is a gruesome show that crosses all boundaries when it comes to gore, especially for a show about high schoolers. The juxtaposition between the cute kids and the hate inside of them is quite disturbing, so for that, I must give credit where it’s due. But does that make this a good show? I’m not quite sure. Personally, it didn’t quite sit well with me, but if you’re a casual watcher and in it for the gory details,...

Night Has Come is nearing its end, and we’re finally getting some answers to what might really be going on. The show explores the subject of school bullying in the form of a brutal game of “Mafia,” where students actually end up losing their lives while playing. To add to the strangeness of it all, there’s something supernatural taking place as well, which means some sort of ghost is involved in this thrilling game of mafia. In the last few episodes, we learned who the mafias are and that the bully So-Mi was a part of the group.

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What Happens In Episode 9?

Episode 9 takes off right where episode 8 ended, with Da-Beom planning on murdering Kyung-Jun. Da-Beom finally gets his revenge by stabbing his bully to death. Kyung-Jun knew that Da-Beom was a mafia member, so this was his safety net; however, now everyone knows that Kyung-Jun was a civilian.

Considering Night Has Come is nearing its end, the show has intensified in gore and deaths. In episode 6, we saw Jun-Hee, a very popular main character, pretend he’s the mafia so that the other kids could survive. It’s later revealed that he was in fact not a part of the mafia team, but to nobody’s surprise, Kim So-Mi, the vice president, is. At the end of episode 6, it appears as if she’s going to kill Yoon-Seo before the credits roll in. Episode 7 begins right where we left off, with So-Mi standing over Yoon-Seo with an axe in hand.

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What Happens In Episode 7?

Episode 7 of Night Has Come establishes that the mafia group has always known each other. At night, when the citizens sleep, they’ll be woken up and forced to kill a citizen, or one of them will die instead. The first mafia...

The high school thriller drama Night Has Come is the latest to join the list of extreme school dramas like Extracurricular and All of Us Are Dead. In the first week of its release, we got four 30-minute episodes all at once. The show follows a group of high school students who go on a school retreat and find themselves in a realistic game of “mafia” in the absence of adult supervision. With no escape, the students have no option but to play the game or be eliminated. By the end of the fourth episode, there are a handful of survivors left in comparison to the beginning of the show. It’s not quite certain who is making them play this game, but to add to the mess, there also seem to be some supernatural elements at play.

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What Happens In Episode 5?

Yoon-Seo tries to get back out...

If you were to do a crossover between All of Us Are Dead and Squid Game, you’d probably get something like Night Has Come. The high school drama is about a second-year high school student whose school retreat goes horribly wrong when they’re forced to play a game of deadly “mafia” with no way to escape it. But to add to the mix of horrifying things, there’s a dead girl in school haunting the protagonist, Yoon-Seo, too! Will they be able to figure out who the ringmaster is? What’s the story behind the ghost? And will Yoon-Seo be able to save her friends? (at least those remaining), let’s find out in Night Has Come.

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What Is Mafia?

Night Has Come Episodes 1 to 4, Recap & Ending, Explained Yoon Seo begins with a frightening scene where a young girl finds a dead girl in the bed...