A respected priest volunteers for an experimental procedure that may lead to a cure for a deadly virus. He gets infected and dies, but a blood transfusion of unknown origin brings him back to life. Now, he’s torn between faith and bloodlust, and has a newfound desire for the wife of a childhood friend.
Direction
Park Chan-wook's operatic violence never looked this hungry.
Acting
Song Kang-ho suffers so beautifully you'll feel guilty watching.
Cinematography
Every frame looks like it's sweating through its own skin.
Director
Park Chan-wook
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Song Kang-ho reportedly ate real blood capsules for authenticity, then immediately regretted it.
Park adapted Émile Zola's 'Thérèse Raquin' but replaced Victorian repression with Korean Catholic guilt—arguably more suffocating.
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