YMMV / Strangers From Hell

• Epileptic Trees: The Mind Screw-y nature of the ending has prompted many, many fan theories about what actually happened. The most widely-accepted one is Moon-jo survived and Jong-woo only imagined killing him.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Oh so much between Moon-jo and Jong-woo. Moon-jo calls Jong-woo handsome, films him because he looks nice, says he'll be anything Jong-woo wants... He even kills Jae-ho for annoying Jong-woo and explains it by saying, "Jong-woo is very special to me." And as he dies Moon-jo tells Jong-woo, "Honey, now you and I will be together forever."
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • With Psychopath Diary, another South Korean series about serial killers that aired in 2019. Some fans have jokingly suggested the shows are part of a shared universe and Seo Moon-jo and Seo In-woo are brothers (because they share a surname and are both serial killers).
  • With The Merciless, Beyond Evil, and The Devil Judge. Some Tumblr users have nicknamed the shared fandom for all four "Merciless Evil Devil From Hell".
  • With Hannibal, another series about a cannibalistic serial killer.
  • With Bad and Crazy, another series starring Lee Dong-wook.
• He Really Can Act: Before the series aired very few people thought Lee Dong-wook could convincingly play a serial killer. Not only does he pull it off, he makes Moon-jo the most horrifying character in the whole series.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Three years before this series Lee Dong-wook played Wang Yeo in Guardian: The Lonely and Great God. Several viewers couldn't resist making the obvious joke about the Grim Reaper becoming a serial killer.
  • Two years later Hyun Bong-sik (Hee-joong) appeared in Mouse (2021), another show about serial killers.
• Mind Game Ship: Jong-woo/Moon-jo. Moon-jo spies on Jong-woo, stalks him everywhere, drives him insane, and possibly turns him into a serial killer, all while calling him "honey" and acting like a Stalker with a Crush.
• Narm: The way knives are blurred out is very distracting. The violence isn't censored and the human meat isn't censored, but knives are. And even then only knives used as weapons are blurred out. When Ms. Eom takes a knife from a knife rack, none of the knives are censored except the one she uses.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: "Jongmoon" for Jong-woo/Moon-jo.
• Retroactive Recognition: Anupam Tripathi has a minor role as Kumail, one of the murder victims. Two years later he became famous for playing Abdul Ali in Squid Game.
• Ships That Pass in the Night: Seok-yoon/Gi-hyeok. Not only do they never meet, Gi-hyeok is dead by the time Seok-yoon arrives in Eden.

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