Full Movie Reviews
Rating of
1/4
Korean schizo flick
ikkegoemikke - wrote on 03/23/2015
My conclusion is that I was staring practically 90% of the movie to the bottom of the screen. My lack of knowledge of the Korean language made me look at the subtitles all that time. Something I almost never do while watching a movie.
The film itself wasn't that spectacular anyway. The story itself is filled with emotions. A psychologically and physically abused woman on an island with a retarded probably by inbred stricken family. A city girl who goes on a mandatory vacation and visits the island again. Her grandparents lived there and she met a girl called Bok-nam there in those days. She notices however that Bok-nam is a plaything in the hands of the men and a willing slave for the older women. The cry for help to get her out of that situation, stays unanswered. Hae-won reacts …
Rating of
3.5/4
Bedevilled
Jacob Zembower - wrote on 02/14/2013
This is a bleak and unpleasant film, but it's also darkly poetic, strange, and viscerally satisfying. It shows how one person, and on a deeper level a whole society, can only take so much abuse and mistreatment before they lash out in fury and take no prisoners. Beautifully filmed and extremely well acted, Bedevilled moves at a slow, yet engrossing, pace. It's certainly hard to watch, but by the last act the blood flows and transforms into something more than your basic revenge drama/horror film. Definitely don't let this get by you as it's available now on netflix streaming. I decided to watch it without knowing anything about it and I think that is definitely the best way to view it. (Bedevilled is Not Rated but it's the equivalent of an R for strong graphic violence, sexual …
