Hollywood likes its action movies fast and furious, their plot lines reducible to a phrase.
Kim Tae Kyun's horror thriller "Higanjima" would thus seem to be the ultimate Hollywood remake material. It barely pauses for breath from action scene to action scene while its appeal to its target audience — teenage boys — can be summed up in two words: "island" and "vampires."
The island is no paradise of white sand and palm trees but rather a forbidding rock in the middle of a stormy sea, while the resident vampires are, not the sensitive heartthrobs of "Twilight," but vicious, ravenous types who revel in terror and torture (though their leader engages in the traditional vampire pleasure of seduction).