Mother takes revenge with a sickle in Bedevilled!

By Eric Walkuski

Posted 16 years ago

Last Updated on July 23, 2021

One should never come between a mother and her child – especially if she’s ready to pick up a sickle and slice your throat for getting in her way. That’s the lesson at the heart of BEDEVILLED, a Korean thriller from director Jang Cheol-soo. The flick screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival and should be seeing more release dates later in the year…

Read on for a full plot description, although all you really need to know is: Mom gets angry, mom is ready to kill.

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Hae-won is a beautiful single woman in her thirties who works at a bank in the Seoul city. She leads a busy life until she becomes a witness to an attempted murder case, and at the same time, things get complicated at work. When things get out of hand she is forced to take a vacation so she heads for ‘Moodo’, a small undeveloped island, where she had once visited to see her grandparents. And where she had befriended a girl named Bok-nam who stills writes to Hae-won asking her to visit despite the fact that Hae-won never bothered to reply. Upon arriving at the island, Hae-won is shocked to see everyone treating Bok-nam like a slave. As practically the only young woman on the island, she is a plaything for all the men and a free labourer for the women. Sick of all the inhumane treatment, Bok-nam had tried to escape the island several times in the past but had failed each time. She begs Hae-won to help her escape, but Hae-won remains indifferent not wanting to be involved in complicated situations. When Bok-nam realizes that her own daughter will follow her footsteps, she tries to escape the island with her daughter. But her daughter gets killed in the process. And when she loses the only thing that had kept her going – because of Hae-won’s negligence – Bok-nam takes a sickle in her hand to exact bloody revenge.

Might we be lucky enough to be treated to something along the lines of SYMPATHY FOR LADY VENGEANCE? It’s nice to dream, isn’t it? For now though, check out some images from BEDEVILLED below, and keep an eye here as we try to find out when this sucker’s coming out.

Source: 24 FPS

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