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Fantasia 2018 Review: THE WITCH: PART 1. THE SUBVERSION, Kickass Korean Science Fiction Action

We join director Park Hoon-jung's The Witch: Part 1. The Subversion in the middle of a massacre. The bloody corpses of children litter the ground in what appears to be a medical facility/prison in a cleansing at the behest of...

Review: V.I.P. Is D.O.A.

Following his period epic The Tiger, director Park Hoon-jung scales down his ambitions for the North Korea-themed investigative thriller V.I.P., a brooding procedural that lumbers its way through a serial killer tale mired in political intrigue. Much like his hit...

Review: THE TIGER, A Gory, Gorgeous Battle To The Death

Following the record-breaking success of Roaring Currents, Choi Min-sik returns to screens in another big-budget period epic, this time hunting down the last Korean tiger (as opposed to the last tiger in Korea, because this feline clearly has a national...

Choi Min-sik On The Hunt In THE TIGER: AN OLD HUNTER'S TALE Trailer

Last seen in Roaring Currents, the most successful Korean film of all time, and as the villain in Luc Besson's Lucy, Choi Min-sik returns to screens next month as a hunter tasked with taking down the last tiger on the...

Adam Wingard And Simon Barrett Will Remake Kim Jee-woon's I SAW THE DEVIL

Sure. The news about this came out yesterday, via The Wrap but if there is one readership that would have informed, if not passionate, opinions about this, it would have to be the ScreenAnarchy readers. Adam Wingard and Simon Barrett, the...

I SAW THE DEVIL Blu-ray Review

Magnet Releasing:I SAW THE DEVIL is a shockingly violent and stunningly accomplished tale of murder and revenge. The embodiment of pure evil, Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. On a freezing, snowy night, his latest victim is...

[WINNER!] Now You Can Say I SAW THE DEVIL On DVD With A Giveaway From Magnet Releasing!

[Congratulations to Duncan M!  He has been notified and will receive his prize shortly.  Thank you to everyone who entered, we had a big response, which hopefully means more of these giveaways!]Last Tuesday, May 10th, saw the release of Kim...

Magnet Blu-ray News: I SAW THE DEVIL, BLACK DEATH 5/10, CHAWZ & MUAY THAI GIANT 4/26

I've gotten a bunch of cool news from Magnet Releasing in the last couple of weeks and I just found the time to post it.  On April 26th, Magnet will release Thai action comedy Muay Thai Giant (AKA Somtum) starring...

I SAW THE DEVIL review

Once upon a time, Hank Williams sang "I Saw the Light". Today, filmmaker Jee-woon Kim gives us "I Saw the Devil". As a quick (and admittedly unlikely) exercise in compare and contrast, this shift from light to dark, from God...

I SAW THE DEVIL Review

Kim Jee-woon's latest flick continues his line in witty and intense takes on American genre pictures, this time with plenty of excess but ultimately less success. Having tackled the gangster movie with A Bittersweet Life and the western in The...

Weinberg Reviews I SAW THE DEVIL

My longtime colleague Drew McWeeny (previously of AICN, presently with HitFix.com) sold me on seeing this movie at Toronto last fall ... which proves why it's smart to have good friends on the festival circuit. The film went on...

Red-Band Brutality In New I SAW THE DEVIL Clip

With Kim Jee-woon's I Saw The Devil hitting these shores soon the lads over at Bloody Disgusting have landed themselves a new red-band clip from the film for your viewing pleasure. Well, not pleasure exactly. I wouldn't go that far....

Hey Canada! D Films Wants You To See I SAW THE DEVIL Early!

Live in Toronto or Vancouver and have a hankering to see Kim Jee-woon's I Saw The Devil? While fans in Toronto and Vancouver will have the chance to see the film when D Films releases it in theatres in those...

Hey NYC! Kim Jee-woon Retrospective starts Feb. 25th at BAM!

Over the last year or so there's been a whole lot of coverage in these here parts for Kim Jee-woon's latest blend of crackling genre goodness I Saw The Devil.And for those living in the NYC area, from Feb. 25th...

Sundance 2011: I SAW THE DEVIL Review

[With Kim Jee-woon's I Saw The Devil now screening at Sundance we revisit Kurt's previous review.]"Nothing will go wrong," is about the must amusing thing to ever hear in a Kim Ji Woon film. The director has made a...

New US One Sheet For I SAW THE DEVIL

We here at ScreenAnarchy have been somewhat divided over this film, but there is one thing we can agree on:  We are glad it appears to be getting a theatrical release in North America.  While we wait for further details...

Sitges 2010: I SAW THE DEVIL Review

[Thanks to Guillem Rosset for the following review.]Korean director Kim Jee-woon has build quite an impressive filmography. Films like A Tale of Two Sisters, A Bittersweet Life or The Good, The Bad, And The Weird achieved international success and gathered him a lot of fans and well...

Fantastic Fest 2010: I Saw The Devil Review

Revenge is a dish best served cold, someone once said. In Kim Jee-woon's I Saw The Devil, revenged is served so fucking cold it's like a block of ice smashed across your face. Kim Jee-woon takes the tried and...

Magnet Releasing Picks Up I SAW THE DEVIL For US Distribution!

Magnet Releasing, how do I love thee?  Ravenously right at this moment!  No sooner do I make it home from the local DVD shop with my very own copy of Bronson on Blu-ray than do I see some remarkable news: ...

I SAW THE DEVIL Trimmed By Seven Cuts, Not By Seven Minutes.

Just yesterday it was reported by The Korea Times that Kim Jee-woon had been forced to make seven minutes of cuts to his I Saw The Devil for the film to be cleared for wide release in Korea and very...