Cult Classics
I Saw the Devil
On a dark road, taxi driver Kyung-chul comes across a scared female motorist stranded in a broken-down vehicle. He pulls over — but not to help her. When the woman’s head is discovered in a local river, her devastated fiancé, Kim Soo-hyeon, a trained secret agent, becomes obsessed with hunting down her killer. Once he finds Kyung-chul, things get twisted. After brutally beating the murderer, Kim lets him go free, and a demented game of cat and mouse begins.
2010, 140 Minutes, In Korean with English subtitles, Directed by Kim Jee-woon
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"This is the stuff of nightmares, where even the good guy is bad, and as shock cinema goes, it packs a punch."
- Tom Long, DETROIT NEWS -
"I Saw the Devil deviates from pure scare tactics with its integration of cops-and-robbers style espionage and thrilling hand-to-hand combat."
- Eric Kohn, INDIEWIRE -
"It's anchored by two fantastic performances. Seeing these two men go head-to-head psychologically and physically is enthralling"
- Chris Stuckmann, CHRISSTUCKMANN.COM