10 Horror Movies That Aren’t About What You Think
6. Piercing
For the first act of Piercing, you think you can sketch out where the story is going. In the very first scene the movie introduces you to Reed, a family man with a wife and newborn child. The thing is, the guy is a total psycho, and in this first scene is shown standing over his kid's crib with an ice pick.
From here the audience is quickly informed that he's a serial killer, and is using the cover of a business trip to rent a hotel room and indulge in his bloodlust by inviting over a sex worker. If you've seen American Psycho, it seems pretty cut and dry where this is going.
However, if you've ever read a book by Ryu Murakami - the author who provided the source material for this movie - you know to never expect a straightforward story.
Consequently, things take a turn when Jackie, the sex worker, turns up and understands exactly what he plans to do. It turns out she's a little twisted as well and the power dynamic is inverted, resulting in one of the strangest psychosexual horrors in recent memory.
Reed turns from the predator into the prey, and things only get weirder from there.
Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer this is not.