Hwayi: A Monster Boy

Hwayi: A Monster Boy (2013) is a South Korean crime thriller you can watch online on iFILM. Five criminals snatch a small boy and raise him as their own, training him to kill. By the time Hwayi is a teenager, he's good at it.

A stray fragment of information starts him asking who he was before the kidnapping — and that question is enough to crack everything open. Director Jang Joon-hwan frames the film less as an action piece and more as a study in manufactured identity: can you build a person from scratch, and what happens when he stops believing in the version they gave him? Yeo Jin-goo plays Hwayi with an unsettling stillness that makes the eventual unraveling genuinely difficult to watch. Stream Hwayi online on iFILM.