Hellbound is a South Korean series aired on Netflix. It’s a dystopic story, that seems to follow the hype, which was created in September by the Squid Game.
Let’s find out more about the “Hellbound”, that recently premiered on Netflix!
- Hellbound is a South Korean streaming television series.
- It was directed by Yeon Sang-ho.
- It is based on his own webtoon of the same name.
- The first work in the Jiok was an 11 minutes short animation directed by Yeon Sang-ho in 2002.
- The series is an original Netflix release.
- It premiered on Netflix on Friday 19th of November 2021.
- Hellbound was co-created by director Yeon Sang Ho and illustrator Choi Gyu Seok.
- The story was published on Naver and created a lot of buzz and popularity from the get-go.
- The series’ synopsis is about supernatural angels appearing out of nowhere to condemn people to hell.
- Yoo Ah-in, Kim Hyun-joo, Park Jeong-min, Won Jin-ah and Yang Ik-june star in the series.
- The pilot of series premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival in the Primetime program of TV series on September 9, 2021.
- It became the first Korean drama to make it to the festival..
- Hellbound made it to top ten Netflix drama contents in one day of its release.
- It has its Asia premiere at 26th Busan International Film Festival in newly created On Screen section in October.
- It was invited to the LFF series thrill section at the 65th BFI London Film Festival in October 2021.
- In April 2020, Netflix approved production of an original series based upon the webtoon Hell, written and drawn by Yeon Sang-ho. Yeon signed on direct the series.\
- In late July, Yoo Ah-in, Park Jeong-min, Kim Hyun-joo, Won Jin-ah, Yang Ik-jun, Kim Shin-rok, Ryu Kyung-soo and Lee Re were confirmed to play various roles in the series.
- On February 25, 2021, the director and the cast of the Hellbound introduced the TV series in Netflix content roadshow.
- The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 100% approval rating, based on 13 reviews with an average rating of 7.80/10.
- The site’s critical consensus reads, “Summoned by the devilish imagination of writer-director Yeon Sang-ho, Hellbound leverages its terrifying concept to thoughtfully explore human fallibility.”
- Parasite‘s Bong Joon Ho praised the webtoon.
- As shared by The Hollywood Reporter, Academy Award-winning film director, producer, and screenwriter Bong Joon Ho shared, “Choi Gyu Seok’s sharp and keen drawing style goes well beyond depicting the modern Korean’s physique, expression, and wrinkles.” The Parasite director adds on, “It reaches a genius-level where we can feel the character’s anxiety and fear. A truly overwhelming world of fear that cannot be explained with words like ‘God’s prank’ or ‘grand nonsense.’ We are already burning in the center of the hell that Yeon Sang-ho and Choi Gyu Seok are portraying.”
- Within 4 days since its release on Netflix, Hellbound is trending in 24 countries.
- The Netflix series is filmed entirely in South Korea.
- There is also a movie that was released back in 1992 under the same title. There is no relevance between the movie and the Netflix series.
