The Good, The Bad, The Weird is a terrific movie, a tremendous homage to spaghetti westerns with all the style and insane violence that we’ve come to expect from South Korean cinema. Its success (and appearance on Netflix Instant!) will hopefully turn you on to more of director Kim Jee-woon’s films, as he’s truly an exciting director. Besides mob flick A Bittersweet Life one of his greatest is A Tale of Two Sisters, which is simply one of the finest (and scariest) Asian horror films of all time.
Now he’s coming back to the genre with I Saw The Devil. First, check out this amazing poster.
The film stars Choi Min-sik (Oh Dae-su from Oldboy) as a serial killer who is hunted by Lee Byung-hun (The Bad of The Good, The Bad, The Weird) after his fiance is brutally murdered. The film is apparently so brutal that it was banned by the government, who forced the trimming of seven minutes from the film before they allowed it in theaters.
IGN just debuted the red band trailer for the film, which will only serve to make you more excited.
Now read our Fantastic Fest review to whip that excitement into a froth.
New Yorkers have a chance to see the film first at the Film Comment Selects program at Lincoln Center, where it will be playing this Sunday. Check here for tickets. If you miss that, BAM will be holding a retrospective of six Kim films kicking off with I Saw The Devil on February 25th.
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I don’t much like this guys films. A Tale Of Two Sisters is hands down one of the most overrated films I’ve ever seen. Just abysmal. I have sat through it tortuously (sp?) twice and boy, it’s just awful. That said, for some stupid reason I still watch his films. Why? I don’t know. Maybe I keep confusing him with Kim Ki-Duk.
Saw this at Sundance. Extremely brutal and entertaining flick. Enjoy!
I’m a substitute teacher, at a private school where a majority of the population is Korean, and the kids that went there would not stop talking about this movie. Whenever I was able to sub, I would always get a list of movies to watch that I didn’t know and movies that were coming out to look for. This as at the top of the list. Great kids, great kids. All it took was me talking about my love for “Oldboy” to get them started.
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