I Saw the Devil
I Saw the Devil is a 2010 South Korean action thriller film directed by Kim Jee-woon and written by Park Hoon-jung. Starring Lee Byung-hun and Choi Min-sik, the film follows NIS agent Kim Soo-hyun (Lee), who embarks on a quest for revenge when his wife is brutally murdered by the psychopathic serial killer Jang Kyung-chul (Choi).
Plot
A school-bus driver named Jang Kyung-chul encounters a woman named Jang Joo-yun and offers to fix her flat tire. After beating her unconscious and bringing her to his home, Kyung-chul methodically dismembers her, unaware of her ring dropping and getting stuck in the drain. Kyung-chul scatters the body parts into a local stream, where it is discovered, prompting the police to conduct a search led by Squad Chief Jang, Joo-yun's father. Her fiancé, Kim Soo-hyun, an NIS officer, vows to take revenge against the murderer.
More details
author | Park Hoon-jung |
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contentLocation | Seoul |
director | Kim Ji-woon |
editor | Nam Na-yeong |
events | revenge serial killer splatter film |
genre | action thriller |
keywords | abandon achilles tendon arrest beat body part cannibalism fall flat tire gps tracker guillotine hospital room kill learn makeshift guillotine national intelligence service ni search talk taxi tracker truck stop |
musicBy | Mowg |
producer | Kim Hyun-woo |
productionCompany | Finecut Peppermint & Company Softbank Ventures Korea |
recordedAt | Seoul |
theme | cannibal chase rape rape and revenge serial killer south korean splatter vigilante |