10 Fantastic Asian Horror Films You Must See Before You Die

4. I Saw The Devil (2010)

i saw the devil Joo-yun gets a flat tire on a snowy night but has the misfortune of meeting Kyung-chul who dismembers her and scatters her body parts all over the show. Her fiance Soo-hyun is an intelligence agent and vows to get revenge. He is given a list of four suspects - including Kyung-chul. He searches The latter's belongings and find's Joo-yun's wedding ring. He knows Kyung-chul is the killer. Soo-hyun puts a tracking device on the school bus that the killer drives. He attacks Kyung-chul as he is sexually assaulting his next victim and implants a device into him so he can listen in to his conversations and track his every movement. When he wakes up Kyung-chul goes to a medical centre and sexually assaults a nurse - again Soo-hyun attacks him. Kyung-chul goes to his cannibal friend Tae-joo who has a freezer of bodies. They ponder over who is stalking Kyung-chul and come to the conclusion it is a relative of one of his victims. Meanwhile Soo-hyun arrives at the house and beats the crap out of the two killers and Tae-joo's girlfriend. The next day, they are all sent to the hospital and a half conscious Kyung-chul hears Soo-hyun talk about the tracking device to a trusted friend. Kyung-chul is able to defecate out the transmitter and give Soo-hyun the slip. Questioning of Tae-joo reveals Kyung-chul is going after Soo-hyun's father and sister. Soo-hyun is unable to stop Kyung-chul from killing his sister and blinding his father. He rigs it so Kyung-chul is decapitated in front of his horrified family. Entering the street, he begins to cry. The two male adversaries in the film make quite an impressive pair battling it out to see who comes out on top. Kyung-chul is such a horrible, nasty, worthless piece of crap, along with Tae-joo, his hideous cannibal friend, you will be cheering Soon-hyun to the rafters. It is a very bleak film and the violence while plentiful and gory, is surprisingly downbeat. There is no revelling in the main characters beating each other up and Kyung-chul's attacks on women and random people are just downright sleazy. The film will greatly please Asian horror fans and extreme horror fans in general, but I wouldn't use it as a first date movie. No Sirree Bob.
 
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My first film watched was Carrie aged 2 on my dad's knee. Educated at The University of St Andrews and Trinity College Dublin. Fan of Arthouse, Exploitation, Horror, Euro Trash, Giallo, New French Extremism. Weaned at the bosom of a Russ Meyer starlet. The bleaker, artier or sleazier the better!