There's nothing like a splash of family-friendly fun, and this new red band trailer for I Saw The Devil is nothing like a splash of family-friendly fun. What it is, though, is a deliriously violent, stylish stab of Korean hack'n'slash mayhem and one of the most brilliantly visceral trailers we've clapped eyes on in some time.
The trailer offers a beautifully chopped-up glimpse at a Korean revenge thriller in the same mould as Park Chan-wook's **Vengeance **trilogy. Sure enough, there's Oldboy himself, Choi Min-sik, a serial killer who finds out the hard way that he's picked the wrong victim when he carjacks the daughter of a retired police chief.
Turns out she's also the girlfriend of elite agent Lee Byung-hyun, a man with a thirst for vengeance and a very particular set of skills. These, by the looks of things, include torture, kidnap and torture. Hey, he likes torture.
Directed by The Good, The Bad, The Weird's Kim Ji-woon, it promises to be one of the year's most brutal thrillers, exploring with gut-punch intensity two fast unravelling psyches and a man trying to reconcile his rage with his morality. Judging by this trailer, rage wins big. Find out when** I Saw The Devil **steams into cinemas on April 29.