Bedevilled ( Kim Bok-nam salinsageonui jeonmal ) Movie Information

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Overall Rank: 4627

Average Rating: 2.8/4

# of Ratings: 13

Theatrical Release Date: 09/02/2010

Blu-ray/DVD Release Date: 10/09/2012

Language: Korean

Genre: Crime, Drama

MPAA Rating: NR

Director: Chul-soo Jang

Actors: Yeong-hie Seo, Seong-won Ji, Min-ho Hwang, Ji-Eun Lee, Jeong-hak Park, Min Je

Plot: A successful woman in Seoul finds herself overburdened at work and caught up as an eyewitness to a murder, returns to a small island from her past for rest. Bok-nam has been living on the island since they were children, and despite numerous letters and pleas for help, has never managed to escape. As a lone young woman, with a daughter, the island is like a prison - the men are under the influence of a drug while the older women make her work all day. Bok-nam wants to escape, but when she is caught yet again, it results in tragedy - and she finally decides to fight back... -- Chris Kavan

Chris Kavan - wrote on 12/27/2012

You don't know how far you can push a human until they break - this a is a very bleak movie - and one doesn't like to imagine things like this go on, but I have a feeling it does. Not even revenge helps things along - make sure to have a pick-me-up ready after watching this one.

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Korean schizo flick

ikkegoemikke - wrote on 03/23/2015

My conclusion is that I was staring practically 90% of the movie to the bottom of the screen. My lack of knowledge of the Korean language made me look at the subtitles all that time. Something I almost never do while watching a movie.

The film itself wasn't that spectacular anyway. The story itself is filled with emotions. A psychologically and physically abused woman on an island with a retarded probably by inbred stricken family. A city girl who goes on a mandatory vacation and visits the island again. Her grandparents lived there and she met a girl called Bok-nam there in those days. She notices however that Bok-nam is a plaything in the hands of the men and a willing slave for the older women. The cry for help to get her out of that situation, stays unanswered. Hae-won reacts …

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Bedevilled

Jacob Zembower - wrote on 02/14/2013

This is a bleak and unpleasant film, but it's also darkly poetic, strange, and viscerally satisfying. It shows how one person, and on a deeper level a whole society, can only take so much abuse and mistreatment before they lash out in fury and take no prisoners. Beautifully filmed and extremely well acted, Bedevilled moves at a slow, yet engrossing, pace. It's certainly hard to watch, but by the last act the blood flows and transforms into something more than your basic revenge drama/horror film. Definitely don't let this get by you as it's available now on netflix streaming. I decided to watch it without knowing anything about it and I think that is definitely the best way to view it. (Bedevilled is Not Rated but it's the equivalent of an R for strong graphic violence, sexual …