I SAW THE DEVIL Korean Poster Is Bloody & Abandons All Compassion!

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(Dan Balvin is an OWF reader turned writer, answering my recent call for more contributors)I Saw The Devil will be playing at Sundance in the coming days and Magnolia€™s genre arm Magnet have released this new blood-soaked poster to promote the Korean horror. The film reunites Kim Ji-woon and Lee Byung-hun as director and star respectively, the duo of The Good, The Bad, The Weird fame. The film€™s other lead is Choi Min-sik who fans will recognize as the protagonist of the classic 2003 film Oldboy. Min-sik plays a brutal serial killer who murders for pleasure and one night kills the pregnant fiancé of Byung-hun who sets out to track his wife€™s killer down, even if it means becoming a monster himself. Take a look at the poster below, which debuted at AICN; Ok, so this poster is my new desktop background. The poster serves as a great tease for a bloody revenge film where no one is innocent and it pairs well with the striking trailer...I am a huge fan of the South Korean film scene and these guys are the best in the business. A Se7en-esque film featuring them venturing on a no holds barred serial killer revenge hunt, featuring great character work, beautiful visuals, and gut wrenching violence (with a purpose)? I€™m there. No one does revenge films like these guys and whilst it€™s a plot we€™ve seen done and done well already, just like last year€™s The American, it€™s the unique touches you bring to the table that set your film apart. With the poster work for Hobo With A Shotgun and now I Saw The Devil, Magnet is doing a great job selling their excellent slate of films for this year. Both films play at Sundance, so it's going to be interesting to see how they play...