Dour student Young-gul crosses paths with an elderly book salesman obsessed with Hitler and Nietzsche, a two-thousand-year-old female corpse, and a mad scientist in this spectacular three-episode melange of paranoid fantasies. Young-gul wants to commit suicide but the book salesman insists the human will can even overcome biological death. Young-gul puts his theory to the test by trying to kill him. In the second story, the corpse comes to life in the hope that Young-gul will impregnate her. And the scientist's home is the usual middle-class house of horrors favored by Kim Ki-young. Forget the barely coherent narrative and focus on the sex scene with the rice cake machine, or the fetishized Western consumer objects looming gothically in the foreground.-Chris Berry