Yim Phil-Sung reworks the Grimm fairy tale as a horror/tragedy, played out with the kids in charge of the “House of Happy Children” hidden deep in the forest. Into this artificially cheerful happy nuclear family wanders crash victim Eun-Soo (Cheon Jeong-myeong), a young man who wrecks his car while fleeing his pregnant girlfriend (and all the responsibility she represents) as fast as his wheels will take him and follows a literal red riding hood to the magical house. It’s like Jerome Bixby’s It’s a Good Life (made twice into Twilight Zone segments) reworked as a J-horror drama with a melancholy ending. Yim never quite gets beyond the surface set-up of damaged children distrustful of all adults yet desperate for parental love. Rather than mine the grim dimension and primal fears of the fairy tale mythos, he unleashes a new villain in the form of a serial-killing religious zealot who really digs the creepy magic of this candy house. But it’s utterly gorgeous in a way that Japanese horror never manages to be, saturated with storybook colors and unreal idealized settings and childish imagery tweaked just enough to be discomfortingly alien. All the portraits in this family home are paintings of anthropomorphized rabbits in human clothes, and they just get creepier and creepier every time we see another one. And there’s no fairy tale ending here. The evil that men do to helpless children, it seems, can never be healed in this world.Hansel and Gretel Neptune, 9:15 p.m. Wed, May 27. Egyptian, 3:30 p.m. Fri., May 29. Admiral, 9:30 p.m. Sun., June 7.