The last film I saw at Sundance 2011 was Kim Ji-woon‘s I Saw the Devil. The Good, The Bad, and The Weird director weaves a violent, unrelenting tale of revenge and obsession. While it isn’t an instant classic like Oldboy, it is a refreshing to see a untamed story make it to screens. One can check out our Sundance review of the film here and IGN recently premiered the first red-band trailer. Watch it below along with a new poster.
Synopsis: Kyung-chul (Min-sik) is a maniacal serial killer who drives a yellow school bus and preys on young women. He captures and kills his victims, but their deaths are not the end of his madness. While the police have been aware of his actions for some time, they have never been able to put a name or face to his crimes. When the corpse of a retired police chief’s pregnant daughter surfaces, things change gears and the hunter quickly becomes the hunted. Yet it is not the girl’s father who swears vengeance, but rather her secret agent fiancé, Joo-yeon (Byung-Hyun), who decides to track down the perpetrator himself. Anyone with even the remotest information on the killer’s whereabouts is in for a bloody beating. But when his mission starts to come together, Joo-yeon morphs into quite a disturbing monster himself.
I Saw The Devil will hit limited release on March 4th, 2011.
What do you think of the trailer?