![]() She gets lost in the forest, hearing her mother's voice calling her. In the present day, a girl nicknamed Ark 1 escapes from a secret laboratory after killing all soldiers and scientists there. Baek and her twin reassure her, knowing that she is pregnant with fraternal twins, they say that her pregnancy will be mysteriously important. A team abducts the young woman who wakes up on a stretcher, seeing that the bus incident was faked to look like an accident. Gas is thrown into the bus, causing everyone inside the vehicle to lose consciousness. Years ago, a female teenager is taking a bus ride with her friend when they mysteriously change routes. The Witch: Part 2 is the seventh highest-grossing Korean film of 2022 with a gross of US$23.4 million and over 2.8 million viewers. The film opened at number one at South Korean box offices and surpassed one million admissions after four days, and two million after eleven days of release. The film was released on J by Next Entertainment World. The Subversion, it stars Shin Si-ah, Park Eun-bin and Jo Min-su. A sequel to the 2018 film The Witch: Part 1. The Other One RR: Manyeo) is a 2022 South Korean science fiction action horror film written and directed by Park Hoon-jung. The Witch: Part 2 is released on 28 November on digital platforms.The Witch: Part 2. But satire is much less the point than good old-fashioned ass-kicking and special effects, all smoothly executed and doled out in bite-size scenes. He brushes off the compliment, saying it’s only genetics, and indeed nearly everyone’s looks and powers are “only genetic” in this world. For example, when tough tracker girl Jo-hyeon (Seo Eun-soo) is flatteringly described as having “rebel eyes” by a rival (Lee Jong-suk), she, in turn, praises his lovely skin, which is indeed cosmetic-advert perfect. In the film’s more comic moments it explicitly links the biologically altered transhumans to the developed world’s fetishisation of beauty. (Bear in mind: the film is extremely gory and has deservedly been given an 18 certificate.) They’re all ridiculously good looking and super-cool, like the members of competing K-pop bands but with extremely murderous instincts. ![]() Writer-director Park Hoon-jung has also grafted on a subplot reminiscent of Orphan Black that involves a bunch of telekinetic young people in rival gangs who are connected to the story. If you grasped all that without having seen Part 1, you’ll notice that the plot is a bit like a Korean version of Stranger Things, with Ark 1 as The Witch’s version of Eleven, the lab-reared victim-prodigy with extraordinary psionic powers. (In relatable fashion, she loves the food samples in supermarkets.) The farmers are being menaced by an uncle (Jin Goo) who wants to forcibly seize their farm, but like almost all the men in this film, the gangsters profoundly underestimate the power of slight young women such as Ark 1, Kyung-hee or, indeed, Ja-yoon herself. But Ark 1 was never socialised like Ja-yoon, the latter having been adopted by kindly if elderly normie farmers at a young age, so a lot of the time is spent watching Ark 1 adapt to regular life after she is taken in by young farmer Kyung-hee (Park Eun-bin) and Kyung-hee’s brother Dae-gil (Sung Yoo-bin). However, Part 2’s heroine Ark 1 (Shin Sia-ah) is, from the off, able to throw whole cars around and beat people up psychically, having been raised in a secret facility where her superpowers were genetically implanted from birth. The first film’s central figure Ja-yoon (Kim Da-mi, briefly returning here) began to exercise her telekinetic powers only two-thirds of the way into Part 1’s narrative. This expansive but absorbing sequel to the 2018 sci-fi horror feature The Witch: Part 1 presents, as its extra subtitle The Other One, which might suggest a narrative centred on another young “witch”.
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