: A middle-class music teacher and his wife hire a housemaid to help with the workload in their new two-story home. The maid eventually seduces the husband, leading to a "femme fatale" scenario that descends into madness, murder, and obsession.
Bong Joon-ho famously paid homage to The Housemaid in Parasite . The sequence where the housekeeper returns in the rain, descending into the bunker-like basement, echoes the terrifying return of Lee Eun-shim’s character. Both films utilize the "stairs" as a metaphor for class divide and both films center on the idea that the household is a battlefield.