Things have been pretty strange lately for Dong-hwan (Park Jeong-min). After a lifetime of assuming his mother had abandoned him in childhood, her carcass suddenly gets excavated from deep within the mountains, revealing a potentially violent death some 40 years prior. Buried with her bones is an old work badge from her time spent at a garment factory, and a cascade of questions Dong-hwan may not want answered.

As its name might imply, The Ugly is a nihilistic and frequently mean-spirited investigative thriller . Written and directed b y Train to Busan filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho, its central mystery wraps around the purported hideousness of Dong-hwan's deceased mother, Jung Young-hee (Shin Hyun-been, who is only ever shown from behind or else through the curtain of her bangs, thus nev

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