Doomsday Book is an anthology film hailing from South Korea. It was originally conceived as a film bringing together three futuristic visions from three of Korea's top filmmakers. Unfortunately, that is not how it went down. Filming began in 2006 and two of the three segments were completed, but Han Jae-Rim's (
The Show Must Go On) segment fell through and he left the project. It was not until a few years later that funding was available to make a third segment, a role stepped into by Yim Pil-Sung, who had directed one of the other segments. Now, with a completed film it has now been unleashed upon the world.
This past summer, I had the opportunity to check out a new zombie film from South Korea, it had been garnering a lot of buzz and I was curious to see if it would live up to the hype. The movie is called Train to Busan and it more than lives up to the hype. The film turned out to be an amazingly executed zombie film that delivers the action and also carries a strong emotional hook. It ramps up a little slowly, but it gives us characters, characters that are interesting and make us invested in their survival, or lack thereof. 
When it came to revenge films, there was a time that you needed go no further than your local grindhouse. With films like Last House on the Left, I Spit on Your Grave, and Death Wish you really had no need to look elsewhere. With that said, the past decade has seen Korea has seemingly taken complete ownership of the revenge film with films like Oldboy, Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, and I Saw the Devil. Now we have Bedevilled from first timer Chul-soo Jang. No, it is not a perfect, but it is a rather intense look at friendship and the bigger idea of being complicit through complacency.