![]() ![]() The film opens up with a viciously brutal scene with a mysterious group of people absolutely murdering an unknown set of victims. Luckily the film was conceived as a two parter, with the original title being The Witch Part 1: Subversion, and due to the financial success of the first film, the sequel is planned to start production later this year (lets just hope that it doesn’t take the same amount of time between release date overseas and domestic release for the sequel as it did for this one), so fans will luckily be able to take part of the obvious “two parter” nature of The Witch: Subversion. There’s just too much story and not enough time. At 2 hours and 6 minutes long it feels like it needs another 30 minutes to flesh some points out. The only major negative that I can think of is the fact that the story is a bit overstuffed. The movie is a total blast and just about everything I could have hoped fore. Luckily Well Go USA (my favorite source of Asian cinema) was able to get rights the film finally and release it for us domestically. shores, mostly due to (from what I’ve HEARD on the grapevine) to rights issues with Warner Brothers. The film was finished back in 2017 and shown early 2018 in South Korea, but it has languished for 2 years before finally coming to U.S. ![]() I’ve been waiting for The Witch: Subversion ( Manyeo in overseas markets) for quite some time as I’ve heard nothing but good reports on it from trusted friends and fellow sources of Asian cinema. ![]()
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