For the second remake of The Housemaid, the first being a 1971 film called Woman of Fire, Kim Ki-young moves the setting to a chicken farm run by the wife. This gives a new animal horror to add to his trademark rats, not the least because the chickens are partial to blood and meat protein. He also gives the philandering husband a clock fetish. Before he has sex with the maid for the first time, he winds up a wall of elaborate Western-style clocks. These chime the hour in a cacophonous crescendo that matches the pace of their sexual passion. Once again, most of the characters are murdered or commit suicide, including the children.-Chris Berry