‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho Explores Human Fragility With Alfonso Cuarón-Backed Netflix Film ‘Revelations’: ‘Issues That Are Relevant in Korea Also Ring True for the Global Audience’

‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho Explores Human Fragility With Alfonso Cuarón-Backed Netflix Film ‘Revelations’: ‘Issues That Are Relevant in Korea Also Ring True for the Global Audience’

Korean filmmaker Yeon Sang-ho has traded zombies for psychological horror in his latest Netflix thriller, digging deeper into the darkness of human nature while keeping his signature moral complexity intact. In Yeon’s latest Netflix thriller “Revelations,” a pastor believes punishing the culprit behind a missing-person case is his divine mission, while a detective haunted by […]

‘Revelations’ Review: ‘Train to Busan’ Director Yeon Sang-ho Returns with a Glossy Netflix Thriller About a Pastor Who Sees God in All the Wrong Places

Effectively splitting the difference between the crude human drama of his animated work (e.g. “The King of Pigs,” “The Fake”) and the genre spectacle of the blockbuster fare that followed (“Train to Busan,” “Psychokinesis”), Korean director Yeon Sang-ho returns with a glossy psychological thriller about a church pastor who’s cucked so hard that he convinces himself it’s an act of God.  And yet, the real problem for Pastor Sung Min-chan (“A Taxi …