The director of ‘Train to Busan’ signs this Korean thriller in Netflix that is among the most sinister of the platform

There is much talk about ‘adolescence’ in Netflix, but the platform catalog is overflowing with very different options from each other. This same weekend It has been released This stimulating ‘Revelation‘, which guarantees a good time of thriller in the purest Korean style: it is a morbid, intriguing, sinister and turning movie.

In it we will meet a pastor of deep faith and believe together in divine revelations, which makes him suspect that a very specific person is responsible for a kidnapping case. To solve the case you will have to collaborate with a detectivewho lives tormented by his past: his dead sister’s ghost, which appears in chilling visions.

Those responsible for ‘Revelation’ are not precisely unknown: Yeon Sang-Ho, director and coguionist, gained international fame with ‘Train to Busan’ and his sequelae, and has collaborated with Netflix previously with the fantastic and delusional ‘course to hell’, among others. Much eye for his animation films, especially the extraordinary ‘The Fake’, whose atmosphere in a small tent in which sermons are offered tremendously remembers one of the key spaces of ‘Revelation’.

Korean cinema has become one of the most watched out of Asia, especially for the impact of its romantic series. But as the most cinephile sector knows, it all started with films such as ‘Old Boy’ or the foundational ‘Memories of Murder’, with which ‘revelation’ has some point in common. Especially that dark atmosphere of the rural Korea Where we are already used to the fact that, under a layer of apparent normality, the most heinous crimes take place.

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