Color me creeped-out by this freaky teaser for THE BUTCHER, a new Korean horror movie that will premiere later this month at the New York Asian Film Festival (for info about the fest, click it HERE). Looking like HOSTEL from the victim’s (literal) P.O.V., all you need to know is that, apparently, they will be providing barf bags at the screenings. Sure, that could be read as a William Castle-style “stunt”, but check out the video below and tell me it doesn’t make you just a little queasy. (It’s not particularly bloody, mind you. It’s just really quite disturbing.)
Here’s a little info on this nasty: Told entirely through two POV video cameras, THE BUTCHER throws viewers abruptly into the middle of chaos and death: a handful of people have been abducted and lie bloodied and bound on the floor of a rotting slaughterhouse. Nearby, a team of snuff film producers are discussing their gruesome handiwork: torturing their captives to death, one by one, and selling the tapes overseas to foreign audiences hungry for footage of Koreans murdering one another. Taking its cue from the recently-popular “torture porn” subgenre, THE BUTCHER is less HOSTEL than it is a twisted form of verite mockumentary, as Kim uses a distinctively non-cinematic aesthetic to directly implicate not only the viewer in the crimes and serial mayhem taking place onscreen, but the entire Korean film industry.
Click the image below to get hammered!
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