Street No. 4

Director's Statement

Watching great horror films is terrifying and I love it! The jump scares and the thrill of being chased by something unknown put you on the edge. Ever since I watched ‘The Conjuring’, I became a huge fan of James Wan’s movies. His paranormal horror films are brilliant and amazingly terrifying! I really wanted to be able to give the same chills to the audience through my own horror films. As a creator, I had to face my own fears to bring the story that only Lark Lee can tell. I find that the scariest horror stories are ghost stories. When I was growing up in Korea, I heard so many folktales that scared me so much that I couldn't visit the bathroom at night. I wanted to bring those chills to the Australian film world which I call home now. The biggest fear in my life is if anything happens to my daughter ever since I became a mother. What if something unknown (A Korean ghost) is chasing after your baby in a place where you feel alone? That would terrify me. A lot of the sound effects that you hear in this film were created using a traditional Korean string instrument called a haegeum. It still gives me goosebumps when I hear it! Fortunately, Logan City Council, Arts Queensland and Australia Korea Foundation saw the vision of this story and supported this project financially. Thanks to them I could bring the production value higher than I ever could on my own. Within the fund, I’ve also been developing/writing the feature film story of ‘Street No. 4’ with Koji Steven Sakai (writer of ‘Skeletons in the Closet’). In the feature-length story, we introduce the Korean shaman (a moo-dang) and explore a mother's love for her children, a woman's (a chonyoguishin’s) jealousy which stems from the fact that she couldn't get married, and a toxic relationship wherein you have to prove your own worth to your partner, based on my own experience. I hope the audience enjoys the chills brought about by our powerful Korean ghost.