However more than anything, ‘Bedevilled’ feels like the most damning indictment of Confucianism ever comitted to screen. Sure other Korean thrillers have used the rural setting that still values the Confucian society structure (‘Moss’, also from 2010, springs to mind) as a backdrop, however none have been so unflinchingly focussed on the way such a structure places women at the bottom as we see in ‘Bedevilled’. It’s not the island that creates the suffocating environment, its the inhabitants of it, with the elders whose authority can never be questioned and the men who dictate the womens lives, frequently with their fists.

Kim Bok-nam (which is also the Korean title) is a protagonist who is put through the wringer both emotionally and physically, and when she’s pushed too far, it feels as cathartic for the audience as it does for the character we’re watching onscreen. A great movie from a decade when Korean cinema felt like it could do no wrong.