Private Project

Semi-Basement 57

The moment the identity-shaken actress June spoke to the mold,
it had already begun overtaking her life—and was now spreading across the entire city.

  • Ho-seung Son
    Writer
  • Ri Yang
    Writer
  • Ho-seung Son
    Director
  • Ho-seung Son
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Short
  • Genres:
    Suspense Drama, Psychological Thriller
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 47 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    December 24, 2025
  • Production Budget:
    0 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    South Korea
  • Language:
    English
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Crimson Screen Horror Film Fest
    Columbia, SC
    May 11, 2025
    Finalist
  • Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival
    Bucheon, Korea
    May 15, 2025
    Part of BIFAN’s Project Spotlight Selection, KANTANA POST AWARD
  • Hollywood Horrorfest
    California United States
    September 20, 2025
    Official Selection
  • HorrorFest International
    St. George, Utah
    September 20, 2025
    Finalist
  • FilmQuest
    Utah, United States
    November 1, 2025
    Quarter-Finalist
  • The Vancouver Horror Show Film Festival
    Vancouver
    October 15, 2025
    Quarter-Finalist
  • LUSCA Fantastic Film Fest
    San Juan, Puerto Rico
    October 22, 2025
    Official Selection
  • HorrorHaus Film Festival
    Los Angeles, CA
    October 26, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Chicago Horror Film Festival
    Chicago
    September 29, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Hellifax Horror Fest
    Halifax, Nova Scotia
    Semi-Finalist Screenplay
  • FREAK SHOW Horror Film Festival
    Orlando, Florida
    Short Screenplay Honorable Mention
  • Shockfest Film Festival
    New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood
    Official Selection Screenplay
Director Biography - Ho-seung Son

Ho-seung Son is the CEO of Hongeo Films and a filmmaker and screenwriter whose genre work explores the fractures Korean social systems leave on the body and identity.

Working across short films, feature projects, and anthology works, he creates stories that translate repressed emotion into the language of the body and the senses. His work has been recognized with more than 100 official selections and over 50 awards and recognitions at international film festivals.

On January 23, 2026, KoBiz, the Korean Film Council’s global film business platform, spotlighted his work for its genre-based approach to transforming emotional truth into physical experience.

His short film Will You Come Up? was officially selected for 81 international film festivals, won 47 awards, and screened in 24 countries. UNDER was selected for the 2025 BIFAN Project Spotlight and received the Kantana Post Award.

His short films National Pension and Eumbok Restaurant: MSG were both selected for the 2026 Fantasporto Fantasy Short Film Official Selection.

His major works include Will You Come Up?, National Pension, Eumbok Restaurant: MSG, UNDER, and the feature films in development Soonjeongtang and Eumbok Restaurant.

손호승은 한국 사회 시스템이 신체와 정체성에 남기는 균열을 장르로 탐구하는 홍어필름 대표이자 영화감독·각본가이다.

억압된 감정을 신체와 감각의 언어로 번역하는 작업으로 단편·장편·앤솔로지 프로젝트를 통틀어 100회 이상 국제영화제 공식 선정, 50회 이상 수상 성과를 기록했다.

영진위 KoBiz는 2026년 1월 23일 기사에서 그의 작업을 감정의 진실을 신체적 경험으로 전환하는 장르 연출로 주목했다.

단편 〈윌유컴업?〉은 81개 국제영화제 공식 선정, 47개 수상, 24개국 상영을 기록했고, 〈UNDER〉는 2025년 BIFAN Project Spotlight 선정 및 Kantana Post Award를 수상했다.

단편 〈국민연금〉과 〈음복식당: MSG〉는 2026년 Fantasporto Fantasy Short Film Official Selection에 함께 선정됐다.

주요 작업은 〈윌유컴업?〉, 〈국민연금〉, 〈음복식당: MSG〉, 〈UNDER〉, 장편 개발작 〈순정탕〉, 〈음복식당〉이다.

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Director Statement

We all carry our own ‘basements’ within us—spaces burdened with social expectations, oppression, family wounds, and self-imposed isolation. For June, her basement is not just a physical place but a manifestation of her decaying psyche. And within the cracks of that decay, something takes root—Mia, the mold.

Mold is not merely a contaminant. It is the embodiment of June’s suppressed pain, a silent companion that soothes her, yet at the same time, an insidious force that seeks to consume her entirely. As an actress, June has been molded into a product, pressured to exist as a flawless performer under the industry’s relentless gaze. But as she embraces the mold, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery—one that mirrors our own struggles with identity in a world that demands perfection.

This film is a psychological drama and body horror where the terrifying expansion of mold is not just a horror device, but a metaphor for the way external pressures, expectations, and unresolved trauma gradually erode our sense of self. And at the story’s climax, June is left to ask:
What kind of life do I truly want? Who am I?

"Semi-Basement 57" is more than a horror film. It is a lens into the human subconscious, a visual manifestation of the darkness we must confront within ourselves. With its bold storytelling and visceral imagery, the script and direction of Basement 57 aim to leave audiences haunted by its themes and questioning the nature of their own realities.