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She’s a good singer but her gimmick is that she also does “magic” during her act.

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“Stop playing with those cows and watch TV for once, bitch!” Her best friend Myung-hee (Go Min-si) – who she humorously bickers with – convinces her she could make money by auditioning for an American Idol style singing show she’s never heard of. She doesn’t seem to remember whatever her traumatic past was, but frequently has migraines, and worries about her parents’ financial troubles and her mom’s symptoms of Alzheimer’s. I hope 15 years from now if people use these colors on posters again it’s considered an homage to the JOHN WICK era of action movies.Ī middle aged couple (Choi Jung-woo and Oh Mi-hee ) find the girl on their farm, get her medical attention, and ten years later they’re raising her as their daughter Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi). Choi (Park Hee-soon, THE AGE OF SHADOWS). Baek (Jo Min-su, PIETÀ) and her gum-chewing head of security Mr. She’s covered in blood too, as is the little boy her age who apparently tried to stop her, only to fail and be criticized by the adults in charge, Dr. style (pursued by men with dogs and flashlights). Apparently this was done by an 8-year-old girl who is fleeing into the woods E.T.

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type movie – teen melodrama X-MEN – except, like so many of the other South Korean movies I’ve seen, it gets horrifically violent at times.įor example in the opening scene in a laboratory where everything – the walls, the floors, the security guards, a child’s teddy bear, a body under a tarp – are slathered in blood. Some melodrama, some sci-fi, some carnage. I did initially assume it would be horror, then I heard it was action, but it turns out to be something harder to categorize. I wish I could tell you this was a crass DTV sequel to THE VVITCH. For this one Park Hoon-jung is also the director, as he’s done with several other films I haven’t seen, including the gangster movie NEW WORLD (2013). But I don’t think you can judge it fairly until we see Part 2, or however many films we get to complete the story.I watched THE WITCH: SUBVERSION after I heard a few good things and read that it’s from the guy who wrote the incredibly upsetting but badass I SAW THE DEVIL. It’s not bad, it just takes its time to get going but when it does it becomes a pretty good action film. While it has the feel of something based on a book, or comic-book or manga perhaps, and you can see ideas and elements taken from other films and stories, The Witch: Part 1 – The Subversion blends them well for the most part, however you are left at the, slightly frustrating ending it has to be said, waiting to see where the story goes next. Starting off as a typical teen girl, before developing into one hell of a heroine.

The cast are terrific, with a standout performance from Da-mi Kim as Ja-yoon, the girl at the heart of the story. Certainly as director, Hoon-jung Park stages it very well indeed.

It’s probably closer to something like The Villainess than The Raid films, but whichever way you look at it, it is exciting, brutal and has moments of humour too which was a pleasant surprise. We never see the opening massacre, We see some moments of violence, but really it’s not until the second hour the action kicks in.Īnd what impressive action it is. As a result for the first hour of the film there is little action. There are a number of scenes, where people are simply talking, setting things up to pay off at a later point, possibly in a future film. With ‘Part 1’ in the title and the way this film ends, it certainty that we’ll get at least one more, but with that being the case, this film has to do a lot of exposition, perhaps too much. The IMDB suggests it’s the first of a potential trilogy.

This film is a completely different thing.īut the problem with it, is that we won’t know really what it is until the final film comes out.

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It’s written and directed by Hoon-jung Park, probably best known to western audiences as the screenwriter of ‘I Saw The Devil.’ That film involved a serial killer and was certainly encroaching into horror territory. Now we have The Witch: Part 1 – The Subversion. We’ve had the outstanding Raid films, the stunning Train To Busan and the superb film, The Villainess. Years later, the girl, who can’t remember her past, enters a talent contest, which leads those looking for her to find her…and in doing so, she finds out who she really is…Īsian cinema is on a bit of a roll recently. A young girl escapes a facility after a massacre of children there.

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