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Hansel and Gretel is a 2007 South Korean horror film directed by Yim Pil-sung.
Plot[]
Eun-soo, a salesman, is driving his car along Highway 69 while on the phone with his pregnant girlfriend, Hae-young. They get into an argument, leading him into a car-crash. He wakes up in a dark forest and meets a young girl, Young-hee, who takes him to her house called the "House of Happy Children". There, he meets her parents, older brother Man-bok, and younger sister Jung-soon. He notices the children following his every move and makes a failed attempt to leave. The parents leave, telling him to take care of the kids.
However, he finds the mother hiding in the attic; she tells him that they are not the children's real parents. Their car broke down on Highway 69 and they met Jung-soon the same way. She tells him not to believe the children. Man-bok brings a couple to the house: the man, Byun is a friendly deacon. Eun-soo discovers that the meat they'd eaten was actually the flesh of the missing father while his wife had been turned into a china doll. He also notices that Byun's wife disappeared after accusing Jung-soon of stealing her ring. He secretly follows Man-bok into the woods, making a trail of breadcrumbs so he won't get lost. He discovers Byun's wife has been turned into an oak tree.
Man-bok stops in front of a mysterious door and his face changes to an old man's face. When he leaves, Eun-soo enters the room and looks over the notebook that the siblings have been working on throughout the film, realizing that the children are over thirty years old. He learns that Man-bok has the power of telekinesis and can make people do things by imagining the actions: he is the one who turned the earlier women into a china doll and oak tree. Eun-soo sees his own drawing in the notebook and becomes determined to stop the children before they murder him. Back at the house, he discovers that Byun is actually a religious cult leader trying to kill the children. He knocks Byun out and listens to the children's side of the story from Young-hee.
The kids used to live in an orphanage called the "House of Happy Children", where the abusive caretaker raped the girls and beat the boys. Man-bok discovered his powers during Christmas, when he made Santa Claus arrive. Santa told the siblings of their powers and gave them a Hansel and Gretel storybook. After they witnessed their friend Seung-ho being beaten to death, they wished to stop the caretaker, only to find everyone dead and the caretaker about to burn them in the fireplace. Man-bok used his power to kill the caretaker. In the present, the children use their powers to make Byun kill himself when he rises to kill Eun-soo.
The children ask Eun-soo to stay with them. Eun-soo however wishes to reunite with his loved ones and offers instead to take them with him. They refuse, believing adults will always be bad. Eun-soo argues that if they continue their doings, they will end up the same. Young-hee tells him to burn the notebook so he can leave and he does so before Man-bok can stop him. Eun-soo then wakes up where he first met Young-hee. He walks to the road and sees the police, who are amazed at his survival and tell him the tragic stories of Highway 69.
A year later on Christmas, Eun-soo has married Hae-young and they have a baby boy. As he goes out to buy milk, he wonders if his encounter was a dream. His collection of news clippings of Byun (revealed to be a serial killer), who is missing, suggests it was real. He comes across the children's notebook. The pages are all blank except the last one, which shows the three children holding hands and smiling. They have given up and realized that they don't need parents to be a family. Eun-soo looks out the window and outside in the snow, Man-bok, Young-hee, and Jung-soon go back into the woods.