![]() ![]() Just like a guy, ending civilization just to “prove I’m RIGHT.” The inciting incident in Tae-Hyung Kim’s film involves an archaeologist who tracks down the Western basket, and takes being called a “fraud” so poorly that he must have his revenge on the world. The black eye was tucked away for safe keeping, inside a capped stone urn inside a Sarira basket in the East. ![]() The red eye got buried in the West, in the desert on the Indian/Pakistani border, so the story goes. A fictional Buddhist legend separating the two eyes of The Evil One so that they can’t reunite and “turn the world into Hell” is the centerpiece of “The 8th Day,” a Korean horror thriller in which the hope of the world rests in the hands of (naturally) Korean monks and a Virgin Shaman.
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