Bedevilled is a masterful piece of revenge cinema to come out of South Korea. First-time director Chul-soo Yang details how much one person can take before they lose grip of reality and snap. In this case we start off with a young apathetic woman, who decides to take a much-needed vacation from the city and return to the little island where she grew up. Home to less than a dozen people, some of the inhabitants in the island aren't too fond of her return, with the exception of her ecstatic friend, who greets her with open arms.

Though the flick starts out with the city girl, it's her island friend that's the actual lead of the movie, as we follow her throughout a majority of the film. Beneath that smile and open arms is a woman hurting and in dire need of an escape herself. Getting beaten by her husband and ridiculed by the locals is a regular occurrence for her. Having grown up on the island with nothing but physical and mental abuse from the people, a sense of worthlessness is all she's come to know. If it weren't for her daughter, she probably would have ended her life ages ago.

It's been a while since I last saw a decent slasher in a school setting and I was hoping F would finally turn things around. Unfortunately, due to a series of huge holes within the story, a lack of motivation behind the killings, and the incredibly abrupt and anti-climatic ending, the film falls flat, throwing any sort of potential it had from the start out the window.