The ongoing international expansion of Disney Plus has opened the doors to a lot of surprising content being made available to subscribers the world over, and we can add RV: Resurrected Victims to the list after the R-rated supernatural murder mystery became the latest unexpected smash hit on the family-friendly streaming service.
Per FlixPatrol, writer and director Kwak Kyung-taek’s fascinating genre-bender has taken up residency on the platform’s global most-watched charts, and it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary to suggest that it doesn’t exactly jive with the typical feature films and TV shows you tend to see hovering around the upper echelons of the Mouse House’s worldwide rankings.
Kim Rae-won stars as a prosecutor determined to track down the person responsible for the murder of his mother seven years previously, before he gets the fright of his life when she returns from the dead and tries to attack him. Meanwhile, an unexplainable global phenomenon indicates that he’s not dealing with an isolated incident, but the fact the resurrected are making a point of going straight for their killers establishes him as the number one suspect in the cold case he’s trying to crack.
It’s an attention-grabbing premise with no shortage of potential to combine the tropes of the procedural with ghostly goings-on, and while your mileage may vary on whether or not RV: Resurrected Victims manages to live up to it or not, it’s clear that Disney Plus users are intent on unraveling the otherworldly conspiracy for themselves in huge numbers.