Train to Busan Director’s New Netflix Flick Drops Trailer

Train to Busan director Yeon Sang-ho has a new crime-thriller heading straight to Netflix, and it’s executive produced by Children of Men‘s Alfonso Cuarón. The streaming giant has dropped its final trailer shortly before its March 21 release date to get fans of Sang-Ho’s emotionally weighted action flicks hyped up.

Acolytes of Yeon Sang-ho’s filmography will be happy to note he both wrote the script and was behind the camera for Netflix‘s Revelations. Perhaps unsurprisingly given the title of the film, Revelations follows a pastor and a detective working angles on the same missing-person case. Fireworks are sure to follow and with names like Cuarón and Sang-ho behind it, cinephiles everywhere are waiting with bated breath over this one. They’ll certainly find lots to love about this project as this latest trailer promises a grisly treat for K-drama and Sang-ho fans.

Related

Train To Busan Director’s Next Horror Movie Is Premiering On Netflix In March

The man behind Train to Busan is releasing his next otherworldly horror, exclusively on Netflix, and Revelations is arriving later in March.

Unlike in his other works, Sang-ho desired to maintain realism in Revelations as much as possible. Instead of relying on less grounded themes like zombies on a high-speed train or other surreal/fantastical ideas, finding the more realistic madness in humans is what inspired Sang-ho to take this project on: “I wanted to depict psychological elements that can be found in reality, such as illusions, delusions, and traumas,” Sang-ho explains to Netflix’sTudum. By focusing on the psyches of Pastor Min-chan and Detective Lee Yoon-hui as they each try and crack a new missing person’s case—with Min-chan written as an egocentric reflection of Yoon-hui’s selfless persona on the force—Revelations promises to uncover how different personalities interact and engage with crises like missing-person reports.

Revelations Trailer Promises A Grueling Psychological Journey

It’s Safe To Say This Won’t Be The Happiest Film Around

Based on the comic of the same name written by Sang-ho and the film’s co-screenwriter Choi Gyu-Seok, Revelations also stars Shin Min-jae. With psychological torment at the forefront of Sang-ho’s newest production, the film’s leading trio each brings a unique deformity of sorts to their roles—Min-chan’s crippling narcissism oozes off him thanks to Jun-yeol’s magnetically insecure presence, for example. Regardless of its source material faithfulness, Revelations promises cutting characters enmeshed in a world of deep themes about losing the mind (or fighting hard to keep it) to inner evils. Plus, Sang-ho has adapted other comic-like creations of his own, like the webtoon The Bequeathed, into Netflix projects, assuaging doubts that he will go outlandishly far away from the Revelations comic.

Judging from Sang-ho’s promise of realism, Revelations promises to be one of the most distinctive works of the director’s career thus far. Aside from Train to Busan, Sang-ho has played with surreal elements and fantasy settings for years. From his time in the animated film world with The King of Pigs and The Fake to his live-action but still surreal films such as Psychokinesis, Sang-ho tackled various societal and cultural issues through supernatural powers, zombies, and more. Revelations thus looks to provide a refreshing spin on Sang-ho’s fantastical filmmaking style, sticking purely within the confines of the human imagination and the twisted consequences an unstable mind can harbor.

With only a few days before Yeon Sang-ho’s new crime drama drops, fans of his, the comic, and K-drama in general have plenty to look forward to. When Sang-ho creates original material (e.g., not Train to Busan prequels or sequels), he crafts compelling stories of wild plots that symbolize realistic societal issues. Revelations seems likely to continue that trend in a more grounded direction.

Related

9 Best Korean Horror Movies

Korean horror movies add their own unique spin on the genre. These frightening tales are perfect for any horror fan.

Source: Tudum