2016 [upd] - Bedevilled

As Min-ji spends more time on the island, she becomes trapped in a cat-and-mouse game with Hye-ram, who seems to be manipulating her for her own twisted purposes. The lines between reality and fantasy begin to blur, and Min-ji's grip on sanity starts to slip.

Bedeviled premiered at Screamfest LA on October 22, 2016, before seeing a limited theatrical and digital release in 2017. Information Abel Vang, Burlee Vang Starring Saxon Sharbino, Mitchell Edwards, Brandon Soo Hoo Genre Supernatural Horror / Techno-horror Runtime 91-98 Minutes Rating R (for terror, language, and sexual material) bedevilled 2016

Unlike other revenge films that focus on the gore, Bedevilled focuses on the tragedy. You cheer for the violence because the film has spent two hours making you complicit in the abuse. By the time the knife comes out, you aren't just watching a slasher; you are watching a woman reclaiming her humanity in the only way the world allowed her to. As Min-ji spends more time on the island,

She first noticed it in the way mirrors held her gaze a second too long. Then in the flicker of streetlights that followed her home. Her phone autocorrected "hope" to "hopeless." Her dog growled at empty corners. Friends canceled plans with excuses that sounded rehearsed. By summer, she stopped sleeping. The ceiling above her bed seemed to breathe. Information Abel Vang, Burlee Vang Starring Saxon Sharbino,

The year had started like any other—resolutions scribbled on napkins, the slow thaw of January's gray. But by spring, something had curdled in the air. Not politics alone, though the news cycle was a fever dream of outrage and absurdity. No, it was quieter than that. A personal haunting.