Director: Han Dong-seok
What starts as a student film shoot spirals into a shamanistic nightmare in The Sin, a 2024 South Korean horror feature directed by Han Dong-seok.
What is The Sin about?
A group of dance students set out to make an experimental short, using movement and choreography to explore ideas they can't fully articulate in words. The shoot is going smoothly enough until a crew member who died suddenly reappears among them, unannounced and unexplained. Rather than treating the return as impossible and moving on, the group folds it into their project, using interpretive dance to process what's happening around them through a shamanistic lens rooted in ritual and possession. The camera keeps rolling as the line between performance and something genuinely supernatural starts to dissolve, and the students find that their artistic exercise has opened a door they can't easily close. The film's 103-minute runtime builds around ritual imagery and mounting dread rather than conventional scares, using dance as both narrative device and unsettling visual language throughout.
Cast & crew
The ensemble is led by Kim Yoon-hye, Song Yi-jae, Park Ji-hoon, and Lee Sang-ah, playing the dance students whose experimental project draws them into the film's central mystery.
Context & significance
Directed by Han Dong-seok, The Sin comes out of South Korea's active contemporary horror scene, one known for blending folklore and shamanistic tradition with modern settings rather than relying purely on Western genre conventions. The film currently holds an IMDb user rating of 5.3, placing it among mid-tier genre releases that draw a dedicated audience even without wide crossover recognition. Its choice to frame supernatural horror through choreography and dance performance sets it apart from more conventional found-footage or slasher approaches within the same genre space.
Where & how to watch
The Sin can be streamed on K-Time with a free account login; browsing the film's page requires no sign-in at all. K-Time's Farsi-language interface and search make it straightforward for Persian-speaking audiences to discover South Korean horror titles like this one alongside the platform's broader catalog.