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However, all this little moment has truly done is brought her true self to light, bringing back her past at a frightening speed, and signaling those who sought to harm her all those years ago to her presence in the deadliest of ways.įrom Hoon-jung Park, the writer of I Saw The Devil, comes The Witch Part 1: The Subversion, a tense and thrilling spin on the slow and bleak witch trope that’s been happening as of late. Once she starts singing and showing off her seemingly god-given magical powers onscreen, easily winning over the location competition for the television program ‘Price of a Star’, this high school junior believes that she has done good, because now, finally, with the promised cash prize, her parents will be able to survive the crippling falling price of cattle, and perhaps even slow down the speedily sweeping Alzheimer’s that has violently been claiming her mother’s sanity as of late. They’re dead set on keeping her safe, on keeping her oblivious from her dark backstory, the one that led her on that bloody path to this place, all those years ago – that is, until she decides to enter the talent contest.

She won’t remember any of this ten years from now when she’s living peacefully on a farm out in the middle of nowhere with adoptive parents who shelter her from any possible threat of revival of her past. Her father was the man who lay slain on the ground back there, but no matter.

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Clearly, someone has gotten away, someone young, and this casually cavalier femme fatale is not too happy about it.Ĭut to a tiny girl covered in blood crying and sprinting full speed through a dark field, alone and on the run.

“Always shoot the head,” she tells her comrades, who are currently busy beating the life out of their latest victim laid strewn nearly lifeless on the floor before them. She bends down, picks up a small teddy bear painted crimson, looking bored.

An elegant woman dressed entirely in black slowly saunters into a blood-streaked room, her tall heels clicking the path to destruction every step of the way.