Doctor: Surgical Insanity

The pursuit of beauty: Who has it worse? The cosmetic surgeon or the patient compelled to go under the knife? In Kim Sung-hong's Doctor, the craziness for perfection definitely goes in both directions: For the scalpel-wielding maniac (Kim Chang-wan) — I mean medic, the drive for perfection can send him into a rage whether he's choosing which tie to wear or catching his wife (Bae So-eun) in the midst of an affair. Admittedly, that last indiscretion could lead many to see red. But you can't blame her for straying. Her gym trainer (Seo Gun-woo) is hot; her controlling husband is not. Plus she's maxed out on all the physical upgrades her physician-esthetician might provide.

Once she's set her husband off, however, no one is safe: not her mom, not her lover, not the homeless man in the street. Even the nursing staff at his clinic is going to have a tough time escaping his bloody bedside manner which includes bludgeoning, throat-slitting, hammer-weilding, and poisonous injections. Oddly, the scariest part of Doctor didn't involve him going after any of his victims with a tool of torture. For me, it was the scene in which he preps to perform eyelid surgery on a woman using only local anesthetic. I didn't know this was even possible. Now I'm thoroughly scared.